Create a weather board for ESL kids lessons
How to make a weather board to use in your ESL kids lessons?
This is a wonderful tool that you can use in the warm up section of each lesson. Get your students to tell you about the weather each week – also with the added bonus of saying the days of the week and the day’s date.
What’s included:
- video showing instructions on how to make the board (please like, subscribe and comment!)
- download the weather pictures and cut out texts here.
What you need to make the board (see video for full details):
- a board (cardboard, wood or an art canvas)
- felt (to cover the board)
- velcro sticky tape
- weather pictures printed onto card
- scissors
- a stapler
Additional materials
- Song: we have a great song to go with this, called The weather song.
- Worksheets: check out our weather-themed worksheets here.
- Crafts: we have some cut-and-paste weather crafts here.
- Reader: we have a great reader called What weather do you like?.
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