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This 57-slide PowerPoint takes KS1 children through the seasons, starting with summer.

• Learn what changes to look out for across the four seasons
• Learn that days get shorter and longer throughout the year
• How this affects the weather
• How the seasons/weather affect us: what we wear/what we do
• How the seasons affect plants and animals

Bright photos and simple explanation makes it accessible to all abilities in the class and will engage even reluctant learners.

Simple text for children to read on each slide. More information is provided for the teacher to read, if desired, in PDF form or under each slide.

Simply click when ready to progress to the next slide. All animations occur automatically.

Why not follow it with our Light and Dark PowerPoint? Light and Dark PowerPoint: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12761117

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All you need for a great Weather project in KS1 - plenty of differentiated ideas, Including: **Weather topic ideas** for your science and geography lessons **Supporting worksheets **and puzzles to help the development of vocabulary. **Our mini-clouds project** can be incorporated into your Weather Project, providing differentiated activities for Science, Geography, English and Art with supporting resources. **Clouds Powerpoint** 29 slides to help children learn about clouds and how they are formed **The Seasons and Weather PowerPoint ** 57 slides taking pupils through the seasons thinking about the weather and how it affects the things that happen **The Weather Word Mat ** will be great to help children write up their observations. **25 vocabulary flashcards**, phonetically coded to help young learners Covers all of the KS1 weather components of both the Geography and Science curricula.

The Seasons and Light and Dark PowerPoints

Two PowerPoints suitable for use when teaching about Seasons/weather/changing levels of light through the year. Covers many areas of science: Seasons: Learn what changes to look out for across the four seasons Learn that days get shorter and longer throughout the year How this affects the weather How the seasons affect us: what we wear/what we do How the seasons affect plants and animals Light and Dark Darkness is the absence of light The sun is the main source of light on Planet Earth Reminds pupils never to look directly at the sun The sun provides warmth too - or Earth would be very cold Why plants need the sun: to make food to help them reproduce Creatures of the day (the need for survival) Shadows - how they are formed Plants and animals that prefer the shade and why (the need for survival) Creatures of the night Nocturnal (the need for survival) Both with full narration notes plus notes under slides for use in Presenter View.

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Weather and seasons. London Allen ETPT 2020; 005. Weather and seasons. 1 st graders Science, Language Arts LA - Interactions within Habitats ELA- Key Ideas

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Weather and seasons London Allen ETPT 2020; 005

Weather and seasons • 1st graders • Science, Language Arts • LA-Interactions within Habitats • ELA- Key Ideas • Students will learn the seasons and weather that comes along with them. At the end of the lesson there will be a review worksheet to see what information the students learned.

Weather • The state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness, moisture, pressure, etc. • The main types of weather we will discuss; rain, snow, sunny, cloudy, and cold

Video • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnGKfOX5bVQ

Summer • The warmest season of the year, in the northern hemisphere summer last from June to August • In the summer its very hot • We also don’t have school in the summer, we have summer break instead • Summer is where we have hot humid days next

Things we do in summer • Ride our bikes • Go swimming • Go get ice cream • Set up lemonade stands • Go to the park • Have garage sales

What to wear in summer?

Autumn • The third season of the year, when crops and fruits are gathered and leaves fall, in the northern hemisphere fall last from September to November • We also call autumn, fall. Autumn is when we have warm days, not too cold not too hot

Autumn holidays • Labor Day • Grandparents Day • Patriot Day • Equinox • Columbus Day  • Halloween • Daylight Savings Time Ends  • Election Day • Veterans Day • Remembrance Day  • Thanksgiving

Winter • The coldest season of the year, in the northern hemisphere it last from December to February  • During winter is when the snow starts.

Things to do in winter • Sit around fire place • Play in the snow • Drink hot coco • Go sledding

Winter animals

What animals do in winter • Hibernate-Hibernation is like a very deep sleep. Animals hide away in a den or burrow. Their body temperature and heart rate slow down. This helps them to save their energy. Hibernating animals wake up in spring when the weather is nicer and there is more food around. • Migrate- That's what migrating animals do. When the weather starts to get cold migrating animals fly or swim to a warmer place where they can find food. • Adapt-Animals that adapt to the cold weather often change their appearance. They grow warmer fur or feathers and sometimes change color. Some animals change color to camouflage themselves against the snow. These animals can find food in winter, even though there isn't much food around.

What to wear in winter?

Spring • The season after winter and before summer, in which vegetation begins to appear, in the northern hemisphere spring goes from March to May • Spring is the season that we have rainy days and beautiful flowers

Things to do in spring • Plant flowers • Play in the rain • Play outside

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Season games • http://www.primarygames.com/seasons/seasons.htm

References • Google • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnGKfOX5bVQ • http://www.planet-science.com/categories/under-11s/our-world/2011/10/what-do-animals-do-in-winter.aspx • http://www.topmarks.co.uk/spring/WhatIsSpring.aspx • http://www.primarygames.com/seasons/seasons.htm

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Does PayPal have your credit or bank information on file where someone could charge on it? I get these fake invoices a lot, but since PayPal has no way to charge me for anything, I ignore them. but you were right to send this to the FTC. They need to know.

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