Grade 3 Weather and Seasons Lesson Plan

Learning Objectives

• Students will be able to name 8 weather words and 4 season names.
• Students will be able to ask and answer "What's the weather like today?"
• Students will be able to describe typical weather in a season using "In the ___ season, it is/it rains ___."
• Students will be able to give a short spoken weather report to the class.

Lesson Procedure

• Read through the full sequence before class and gather the materials listed (PowerPoint, Flashcards, one worksheet per student, and the Speaking Activity handout). Follow the timed stages in order: Warm-Up, Presentation, Guided Practice, Independent Practice, Production, and Wrap-Up. Each stage includes the exact language to model for students, not just a general description, so a teacher who is less confident with classroom English can follow it closely. Adjust timing to fit your own class length; the Teacher Notes section gives a ready-made two-day split.

Assessment

Use the Weather and Seasons Quiz as a short formal check either at the end of this lesson or the start of the next one. To assess the Speaking Activity itself, use the Weather and Seasons Grading Rubric while circulating during Production, or collect the Speaking Activity handouts afterward as a quick completion check.

Differentiation

SUPPORT: Keep a word bank with pictures visible on the board throughout the lesson. Let students point to flashcards instead of speaking at first, and accept single-word answers ("rainy") before requiring the full sentence.
ON-LEVEL: Students use the full question-and-answer pattern and the season sentence frame independently during guided and independent practice.
CHALLENGE: Ask students to add a second detail to their weather report ("It's rainy and windy today. Bring an umbrella!") or to compare two seasons ("The hot season is hotter than the cool season.") during the Speaking Activity.

Classroom Activity Ideas

• Turn the Wrap-Up round into a quick "class forecast" chant: point out the window (or a weather picture if the real weather doesn't match a target word) and have the whole class respond together in a full sentence. Repeat with two or three different pictures so students hear the pattern several more times before the lesson ends.

Teacher Tips

During the Weather Mime warm-up, exaggerate your own actions more than you think you need to — shivering hard for "cool," fanning yourself for "hot" — since students copy the teacher's energy level. A flat demonstration tends to produce a flat, half-hearted class response.

What's Included

• 2-page lesson plan
• Editable DOCX version
• Print-ready PDF version

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