Year 1 Seasons: how does the weather change through the year? worksheet

“Weather all around us” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 1 geography unit “Seasons: how does the weather change through the year?”, for children aged 5 to 6, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 19 to 25 of the year, 7 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Weather all around us

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 1 · Geography · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can describe weather and temperature, and name the tools that measure them.

A Look back3 min

1.
The top letter on this compass is missing. Which direction is the top? Circle the right one.
NorthSouthEastWest
2.
Sort these map features. Write each one in the right column.
hillpondhouseshop
Physical feature Human feature
3.
The tree is on the left of the map. From the tree, which way is the house? Circle the right one.
EastWest

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ola reads a thermometer one morning. It shows the temperature in degrees Celsius. What kind of day is it?

Watch me

The thermometer shows 15 degrees Celsius.

Around 5 degrees is cold, 15 is mild and 25 is hot.

So this is a mild day.

Now you

1.
The thermometer shows 25 degrees Celsius. Is the day cold, mild or hot?
coldmildhot

C Your turn6 min

Read each question. Then pick cold, mild or hot.

1.
The thermometer shows 5 degrees Celsius. Is the day cold, mild or hot?
coldmildhot
2.
It is snowing and there is ice on the pond. Is the day cold, mild or hot?
coldmildhot
3.
The thermometer shows 25 degrees Celsius. Is the day cold, mild or hot?
coldmildhot
4.
On another day, the thermometer shows 30 degrees Celsius. Is the day cold, mild or hot?
coldmildhot

Say it out loud: Which clue helped you choose, the number or the weather?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A roof with a weather vane shaped like an arrow, against a blue sky

Sam says: “A weather vane tells us how hot it is outside.”

1.
Which one does a weather vane really show? Circle the right one.
How hot it isWhich way the wind blows fromHow much rain falls

E Think deeper3 min

A small back garden on a sunny day with a watering can on the grass

1.
Write one sentence that uses a weather word from today. Then say why you would need a coat or a hat.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Weather all around us · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. North your child may have picked the bottom direction. Point to the top of the compass and ask which way the arrow points on a map.

2. Human feature: house, shop · Physical feature: hill, pond your child may have put the house with the hill because both are on land. Ask: did people build this, or did nature make it?

3. East your child may have said west, which is the way the tree is from the house. Ask: which way do you walk from the tree to reach the house?

B

1. hot your child may have said mild because it is close to 15. Ask: which word did we use for a day that is about 25 degrees?

C

1. cold your child may have said mild. Ask: which word did we use for a cold day?

2. cold

3. hot your child may have said mild. Ask: is 25 closer to the cold day number or the hot day number?

4. hot

D

1. Which way the wind blows from your child has mixed up the weather vane with a thermometer. Ask: which tool measures degrees Celsius?

E

1. Look for: A sentence with a weather word such as cold, mild, hot, sunny or windy, linked to a coat, hat or umbrella.

Words to use

Say“Look at the thermometer. Is that cold, mild or hot? What would you wear today?”

Instead of“Tell them the answer straight away, before they have looked at the picture.”

After the sheet

Look out of a window with your child. Each say one weather word, guess whether it is cold, mild or hot outside, then check with a thermometer if you have one.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

6 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Reading the weather tools(with a plan)
Earth spins and orbits(with a plan)
Spring is here(with a plan)
Summer signs and sunshine(with a plan)
Signs of autumn(with a plan)
Winter in the UK(with a plan)

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