Oso bajo el sol: Weather Wheel (Poppins Book Nook – Weather)

Oso bajo el sol by Stella Blackstone and Debbie Harter is a board book from the Barefoot books Spanish and English bilingual books collection. Oso (an adorable, personable bear) loves to play in all kinds of weather. He plays in the sunshine, sings in the rain, and flies his kite when it’s windy. He also learns a little bit about which weather is most likely to occur in each season.

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We created a simple weather wheel craft to compliment this book. We identified common weather scenarios and their Spanish translations.  Building on the Spanish activity included in the Little Learners Preschool Weather Pack I got to create for Enchanted Home Schooling Mom, we added clip art and Spanish phrasing to our wheel.  The wheel now hangs by our door for use when we go outside in the morning.  We turn the arrow to the weather we see outside and then practice the appropriate Spanish weather phase.  It’s a great way to repeat and practice our new phrases!    

 

Materials List:

Sturdy Paper Plate
Blue Construction Paper
Sturdy Arrow (we used light weight cardboard, cardstock would work well too)
1 Paper Fastener
Little Learners Preschool Weather Pack
************you will also need a pencil, glue, a marker, and scissors

 I placed a sturdy paper plate on top of a piece of light blue construction paper.  Using a pencil, I traced the base of the paper plate and then cut out the resulting circle.  Ladybug (2.5 years) glued the blue circle into the center of the paper plate.  I used a straight edge (seriously, could not find a ruler anywhere in the house) to draw four equal parts. We then used the Spanish activity cards from the Little Learners Preschool Weather Pack to populate each section.  Ladybug is a big fan of glue, so she was happy to paste on the pictures.  I then read each Spanish phrase and had her point to the corresponding image.  She then helped glue the phrases, also cut from the Spanish activity cards, onto the appropriate place on the paper plate.  

I sketched a small arrow on some brightly colored cardboard from a shoe box and cut out the arrow.  I used the scissors to make a small puncture in the center of the wheel and helped Ladybug insert the paper fastener through the end of the arrow, construction paper, and paper plate.  We then read through the book and identified scenarios in the book that matched our weather wheel.  Hace viento (it’s windy), is shown in the image below.   

There are more than four different weather conditions listed in the book.  When we tried to use the wheel to describe the weather outside, Ladybug wanted to use “Está nublado,” or it’s cloudy, which of course was not included in our initial weather wheel.  So, we went back to the drawing board and recreated the blue construction paper circle and divided it into 6 parts instead of only 4.  We still used images from the Little Learners Preschool Weather Pack, but I simply wrote in the following weather conditions for this wheel.      

• Está lloviendo. – It’s raining.  
• Hace sol. – It’s sunny.
• Hace frío. – It is cold.
• Está nevando. – It’s snowing.
• Está nublado. – It’s cloudy.
• Hace viento. – It is windy. 

 This activity is part of Poppins Book Nook with Enchanted Home Schooling Mom!  Be sure to scroll down to enter the giveaway and see all the other wonderful books and activities included in this kid’s virtual book club!  Did you complete a weather themed activity for Poppins Book Nook?  Be sure to link up – I’m excited to see what you and yours have been doing 🙂   

 

 

 

 

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Kid’s Meteorologist in the Making Bundle Giveaway! Every month the Poppins Book Nook group will be offering readers a chance to win a brand new storybook or product that ties in with our theme for the month. This month one lucky entrant will win the Kid’s Meteorologist In The Making Bundle. The winner will enjoy two fun weather themed learning items. The two items that they will win is the Weather Tracker and National Geographic’s Kid’s Everything Weather (*kindly note that these are affiliate links and your purchase helps to run this book club). These two wondrous weather items can bring your children a fun weather activity or two.

Entrants must be 18 years or older and reside in a country that receives U.S. Postal mail. This giveaway is brought to you by the company Enchanted Homeschooling Mom who is owner and founder of the Poppins Book Nook. By entering this giveaway you are also acknowledging that you have read and agree to all of the PromoSimple terms & conditions as well as Enchanted Homeschooling Mom’s disclosures found here {http://enchantedhomeschoolingmom.org/disclosures/}.  

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