DEVELOPMENTAL DOMAIN CONCEPT MAP
PHYSICAL: Fine Motor
- Playdough weather mats
- Threading washers onto
windchimes
- Drawing/tracing/finger painting
what the weather looks like
outside
- Nature collage
- Sensory tub with weather theme
- Using an eye dropper to drip
water into cotton balls
- Using scissors to cut out raindrops
- Shaving foam cloud using an eye
drop
- Chalk drawings
PERSONAL / SOCIAL /
EMOTIONAL
- Shop in the home corner with
essentials for different types of
weather- eg. hats, umbrellas,
jackets, etc.
- Discussions about “My favourite
weather …”
- Puppets
- Whole class weather journal
- Dress ups in the home corner to
include different clothing needed for
different weather types
- Gardening- planting vegetables
CREATIVE / AESTHETIC
- Weather collage using natural materials
- Painting/drawing rainbows PHYSICAL: Gross Motor
- Creating trees in different weather (leaves on, - Water play- children can run
off) through the sprinklers
- Clay flower vases - Sand pit play- mimic the beach
- Shaving foam cloud using blue food colouring - Gardening- planting flowers
- Paper plate weather crafts—flowers, sun, - Obstacle course
clouds - Dancing/music- ‘what weather do
you think of when you hear this
music?’
- Scavenger hunt
Concept: Earth and Space Sciences- Weather
- Chalk drawings
Term: 4 Weeks: 1-2 - Puddle jumping
COGNITIVE / LANGUAGE
- Home corner shop and dress up activities SPIRITUAL / MORAL
- Gardening- planting flowers and vegetables - Washer windchimes
- Block corner - Make your own rain sticks
- Vocab wall- different weather words, types of - Dancing/music
weather, science vocabulary - Stories from the book corner
- Weather wall- photos of the children playing in - Learning about Indigenous
different weather seasons
- Book corner- children’s weather-based literature - Songs
- Measuring rain- keep a bucket outside when it - Indigenous stories- Rainbow
rains Serpent
- Cloud in a jar- use vocab to explain
- Songs
- Questions and discussions