Home Geography for Primary Grades · Lesson XIII · Unit 4: Water, air and weather
13. Rain, wind and snow (poem)
Goal: Your child tells one use of rain, of wind and of snow, from the poem and from their own experience.
You'll need
- The book open to the poem
- A window on a rainy, windy or snowy day if possible
- A geography notebook (any notebook kept just for these lessons) and a pencil
What's in the book
A poem in four verses: the rain that makes the grass grow, the wind that turns windmills and sends ships along, the snow that keeps the earth from frost, and a closing verse about work. Then three questions: of what use is rain, snow and wind?
The lesson, step by step
Pick the right day
If you can, save this lesson for a rainy, windy or snowy day, as the book's note to teachers suggests. Look out of the window together first.
Read the poem
Read the poem aloud. Your child joins in on a second reading. It begins:
Do you see the dropping rain,
Pitter-patter on the pane?
Find the "but"
Each verse tells something unpleasant, then says "But" and tells something good. Find each "But" together.
But it blows the windmills strong,
And it sends big ships along.
The three questions
Ask the book's questions: Of what use is rain? Of what use is snow? Of what use is wind? Your child answers from the poem first, then adds ideas of their own.
Draw
Your child draws three small pictures: rain on grass, wind turning a windmill or filling a sail, and snow covering the ground.
Answers to the book's problems
Rain makes the green grass grow and fills the little streams. Snow covers the ground and keeps the earth from frost and cold. Wind blows the windmills and sends big ships along. Children may add: rain gives us drinking water, wind dries the washing, snow is fun for sledding and melts into water in spring.
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