Weather and Mood Journal
20 minutes
Social-Emotional
Explore how different weather makes us feel and create a personal weather mood journal.
Learning Objectives
- Recognize connections between weather and emotions
- Develop emotional vocabulary and self-awareness
- Practice expressing feelings through words and pictures
- Understand that different people may feel differently about the same weather
Activity Instructions
- 1Begin by discussing how weather can affect how we feel
- 2Show students different weather pictures and ask how each makes them feel
- 3Introduce feeling words: happy, sad, excited, cozy, energetic, calm, worried
- 4Give each student a weather mood journal
- 5Help students create their first journal entry about current weather
- 6Use emotion stickers and drawings to express weather feelings
- 7Discuss how the same weather might make different people feel differently
- 8Practice using feeling words to describe weather responses
- 9Plan to continue journaling throughout the weather unit
Assessment Criteria
- Students can identify how weather affects their feelings
- Students use feeling words to describe weather responses
- Students create weather mood journal entries
- Students understand that people may feel differently about weather
Materials Needed
- Small journals or booklets
- Emotion face stickers
- Crayons and colored pencils
- Weather stickers
- Small mirrors
- Feeling words chart
Preparation Steps
- Prepare small journals with weather and mood pages
- Set up emotion face stickers and feeling words chart
- Create sample journal entry to show students
- Arrange mirrors for self-reflection activities
Teaching Tips
- Validate all weather feelings as normal and acceptable
- Use simple feeling words appropriate for kindergarten
- Encourage students to express feelings through multiple modalities
- Connect weather moods to self-care and coping strategies
Extension Activities
- Continue daily weather mood journaling
- Create class weather mood charts
- Connect weather moods to art and music activities
- Share weather mood experiences with families