Weather

Themes

Fog

• Feel your way
• Bump into things
• How does the fog make you feel?
  • Sad
  • Gloomy
  • Cold
  • Lonely
• Start high and gradually move down to the ground using different body parts to lead the movement (like the fog coming down), low crawling movements, roll, slow, dawdle, linger, sustain
• Quiet
• Surprise as things come into view

Wind

• Windmill
  • Turn, rotate, follow my leader in a large circle
• Drying washing
  • Stretch out, heavy and wet. Flap in the wind, getting lighter/dryer to eventually stiffer movements. Hold hands to make a washing line, follow the leader drying in the line
• Kite Flying
  • Graceful, smooth, floating, suspend, hovering, slowly, move up and down, over and under, sudden jerks, tension in the strings, fixed to a point
• Leaves blowing in the wind
  • Glide, skip, tumble, spin, roll, leap, tiptoe, float, drift, whirl, sway, swing, fly, tumble, spin, twist, flutter
• Gales
  • Blow around, whisk up, rise, suddenly, sharply, plunge, dive, lose control, floppy
• Breeze
  • Light, gentle, calm, glide, smoothly

Rain

• Sounds
  • Patter
    • Rhythmical beats: hands, hands and body parts, hands on floor, feet on floor
  • Patter
    • Quick tapping sounds, light steps, repetitive
    • Plip
    • Plop
• How does this make you feel?
  • Miserable
  • Happy
  • Looking out of the window
  • How do you feel?
  • Glad to be inside
  • Miserable at being stuck in
  • Wet feeling on face
• Raindrops
  • Bounce off the road
  • Run down the window
• Puddles
  • Splash in
  • Jump over
  • Jump in
  • Travel around
• Patterns
  • Zigzag pathways, lilt, see-saw, then sudden quick drops to the floor
• Raindrops joining together
  • Merge, collide, join, then work together as a pair to travel down window

Weather forecast

• Listen to today’s weather forecast
  • Create a phrase: this morning it will be … changing to … by midday and watch out for … later on
• Forecast for the week

Sun

Raindance

Snow

Icicles

Freak weather conditions

Hail

Media