Seasons lesson plans for preschoolers: Activities for Exploring the Four Seasons

Free Seasons Preschool Lesson Plans

Spring, summer, fall, and winter, no matter your favorite, we’ve got you covered! In this post, you’ll find plenty of ideas for a season’s preschool theme, including free seasons’ preschool lesson plans. We’ve included art and sensory exploration activities, math and science fun, plus book ideas and social-emotional learning. You’ll find the whole bundle of ideas at the end of this post in a free download of preschool lesson plans.

Free Seasons Activities for Preschool Including Free Preschool Lesson Plans

With over 15 seasonal activities, this set of free seasons preschool lesson plans is sure to help plan your seasons unit!

Learning about the seasons can be so much fun! It’s fun to experience all the seasons “all at once” with these interactive season activity ideas.

We live in FL where we pretty much live through one season, ‘hot’. So when I work with preschoolers and we learn about the magic of seasons, it can be a pretty abstract concept for young children to understand and comprehend if you live in an area with minuscule climate changes and seasonal events.

These seasonal lesson plans give preschoolers a glimpse into life in all the seasons, what happens to nature and the weather, as well as, how to dress accordingly. Plus, they are so engaging and hands-on!

FAQ About a Seasons Preschool Theme

You may have a few questions about teaching this preschool theme! Check out these frequently asked questions for how to teach your preschoolers about the seasons.

How do you teach preschoolers about seasons?

Learning about the seasons is such a fun topic and one that children begin to grasp very quickly. Winter clothing vs. summer clothing sorting, weather, and trees throughout the season are fun and engaging ways to help children visualize the physical change in the world around us. Discuss seasonal fruits and vegetables and do a taste test of the in-season fruits available where you live!

Why should preschoolers learn about the seasons?

Learning about the seasons helps children understand how time passes as well as teaches them about cycles and change. Plus, younger children have a chance to learn about Earth’s journey around the Sun and how that journey affects the weather, temperature, and climate during each season.

What other themes tie into a four seasons preschool theme?

It is so easy to tie into weather with this theme since the climate and temperature change from season to season. Plus each season comes with specific holidays so it’s always fun to learn more about holidays during your seasons unit.

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Important Info about these Seasons Lesson Plans

These lesson plans for preschoolers are just one theme in a set of over 40 that will become a part of my free Learn At Home Preschool Lesson Plans.

The Learn at Home Preschool Lesson Plans are a set of free lesson plans you can use to teach your preschooler at home.

Each set of lesson plans is centered around a weekly theme and includes a minimum of 16 activities that can be done throughout the week. They are designed to be done at home with parents, but many preschool teachers are using these lesson plans, too!

Just glance over the lessons each day, gather the very few materials needed, and you’re ready to go!

All the preschool learning activities are quick and easy to set up, requiring very little (if any at all) prep and only require the most basic of household materials. This makes them especially easy for parents to implement…and this makes preschool teachers happy, too!

These activities also work wonderfully in the classroom, and if you’re a preschool teacher who is remotely teaching you can send these lesson plans to your student’s parents.

Scroll down to the bottom of the post for your free seasons preschool lesson plans!

Engaging Preschool Activities for a Seasons Theme

No matter the season, we’ve got you covered! Enjoy these 15+ seasonal activities with your preschoolers and give yourself a lighter planning session with these done-for-you seasons preschool activities.

Literacy Activities for a Seasons Preschool Theme

My Seasons Book – Print out the My Seasons Book. After assembling and stapling, read it together with your preschooler. Invite your preschooler to share what else they know about certain seasons. Help them make connections to personal events, like their birthday or a favorite holiday, and determine what season they are in. Encourage your preschooler to fill in the blank on the back of the book, ”My favorite season is ______.” Invite them to draw seasonal items and share why that is their favorite season. Label their drawings with the first sound of each word.

The Four Seasons Paper Bag Book – This fun and engaging handmade book is a great way to get kids thinking about the seasons. Using stickers or cutouts from magazines, invite your preschoolers to sort their items based on the season. Label each item with the first sound.

Don’t Forget Picture Books!

One of the best ways to teach preschoolers about any theme is by hand-selecting the highest-quality picture books! This is a book list of our best-loved picture books for a season’s theme.

Math and Science Activities for a Seasons Theme in Preschool

Season Discovery Bottles – Grab an empty plastic water bottle and invite your preschooler to choose a season. Fill that bottle up with items that represent the season. Count each flower, or acorn, or leaf that makes it into the bottle!

Four Seasons Sorting Activity – Invite your preschooler to sort each image under the correct season. Invite them to explain their thinking. How many images were there to sort?

Seasons of a Tree – What do trees look like in different seasons? Create your own artistic trees for each season with a bit of paint, glitter, glue, and cotton balls. Go to YouTube and watch how Arnold’s apple tree changes throughout the year.

Playful Preschool Learning Activities for a Seasons Theme

Write Some Cards – Grab some beautifully printed cards or better yet, make your own! Invite your preschooler to make random cards with bright images and positive messages. Drop them off around the community for a special someone to find and enjoy.

Pretend Play Shop – Using play money, invite your preschooler to set up a shop. Let them decide what kind of shop and what items to “sell”. Grab some shopping bags and bag up the fun items. Play over and over!

Hide and Seek – Play the classic game of hide and seek, indoors or out! Play with a twist and hide a special object too! Invite them to find that object at every turn.

These free seasonal preschool lesson plans have activities for math, science, literacy, art and more!

Social-Emotional Activities for a Seasons Preschool Theme

Giving Thanks in the Fall – During the season of fall, we celebrate a time of thankfulness for our family, friends, and loved ones. Go to YouTube and read the story, I am Thankful by Sheri Wall. After listening, ask your preschooler: “What are some fall activities that the family did in this story (visit a pumpkin patch, bake fresh pies, watch a parade, etc. )? We often consider the fall season a time to be thankful. What are some ways that you can show thankfulness to your family and friends?

Trying New Things in the Summer – Go to YouTube and read the story, Llama llama learns to swim by Anna Dewdney. Llama llama is feeling pretty uneasy about a day at the beach so his mama gives him a swimming lesson which helps him feel so much better. Invite your preschooler to make a list of things that they want to learn how to do; it might include riding a bike without training wheels, writing their name, or even cooking in the kitchen. All suggestions are welcome and valid! Then work together to cross off items on that list over the next few months.

Just Plain Fun Seasons Activities for Preschoolers

Four Seasons Art Project – This finger-paint art project is such a fun and beautiful way to represent the seasons! This art activity can be messy but the finished product is lovely and really spotlights the beauty of the seasons.

Summer and Winter Clothing Sort – Invite your preschooler to think about the different ways we dress for each season. This clothing sort invites conversation around different clothing and their purpose. Invite your preschooler to print and cut to develop those scissor skills too!

Winter Art Project – This winter art project is the perfect way to celebrate the winter season! This process art encourages preschoolers to mix mediums like shaving cream, paint, and glue to create a marbled effect on winter trees. Plus a little glitter really sets the scene!

Grab your free seasonal preschool lesson plans below!

Get Online Activities for a Seasons Theme

Online Story – Go to YouTube and listen to the story, A Book of Seasons by Alice and Martin Provenson. After reading about each season, invite your preschooler to dive into the illustrations. “What do they see? How are the people dressed? How do the seasons affect the different activities people do? Which season looks like the most fun to you?”

The Four Seasons on Sesame Street – Learn all about the four seasons with Elmo!

The Four Seasons song – This catchy song about the four seasons will have your preschooler tapping along and learning about what each season offers.

Make Your Seasons Theme Even Better!

My preschoolers love puzzles and interactive items and so I ‘try’ to incorporate some new and exciting items with each new theme. These are some of our favorite season toys and activity kits I like to use with my preschoolers. Just click on each image below for more details!

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Lauren Vaughan

I am an educator, book enthusiast, and a stay at home momma to two precious and long-awaited littles. My degree is in Early Childhood Education and Curriculum and Instruction and I have spent the last 15 years working with young children. I feel very fortunate to have this time to watch my babies grow and I can’t wait to share my passion for learning and reading with you!

Seasons Lesson Plan For Kids

In this seasons lesson plan, students will learn the names of the seasons and related vocabulary while singing songs, playing games, and completing a worksheet. This lesson plan is ideal for kids and beginner English language learners and comes complete with all the necessary resources.

Seasons Telepathy Game

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Seasons Lesson Plan

1. Warm Up – Seasons Song

Kids love to sing and dance and a great way to start your seasons lesson is to sing a fun seasons song. There are many songs on YouTube but we particularly like this song by Jack Hartman. Play the song and ask students to guess what they will learn today. Then play the song again and ask students what words they can remember.

2. Teach The Four Seasons

Using these flashcards, teach the names of the four seasons. Show the flashcards to students and have them repeat after you. Next, ask students to say each word on their own. Once students have practiced the names of the four seasons enough, place them on the board.

Next, teach the words hot, cold, cool, and warm using the flashcards above. Then, ask students which of these words describes summer, winter, etc. Place each of the flashcards under the corresponding season and then say “It’s hot in summer.“, “It’s cold in winter.“, etc, and have students repeat after you.

3. Find Your Partner

Next, it’s time to play a fun game. Download and print several sets of these smaller flashcards (enough so each student has one card). Cut them up and give one card to each student.

Tell students not to show their cards to anyone else. Students must then walk around the class and ‘find their partner’. Students with ‘summer’ must find someone with ‘hot’, students with ‘winter’ must find ‘cold’, etc. Once students find their partner, they should go to the teacher and together say the target expression (For example, “It’s hot in summer.”).

4. Four Seasons Corner Game

This next activity is perfect for any lesson teaching the four seasons and kids absolutely love playing this game.

To play, first, place one season flashcard in each of the four corners of the classroom. Next, choose one student to be ‘it’ and ask them up to the front of the class and tell them to close their eyes. Then, give students 5 seconds to choose a season and run to that corner of the classroom.

After the 5 seconds, ask the student who is ‘it’ “What is your favorite season?“, to which he/she should answer, “My favorite season is (spring). ” Any student that is in the ‘spring’ corner is out and must sit down. Play again and again until only one student is left standing. This student is the winner and gets to be ‘it’ in the next round.

5. Review – Worksheet

This final activity is a worksheet for reviewing the names of the four seasons along with words to describe the seasons. Download and print this worksheet and give one to each student. To complete the worksheet, students must look at the pictures, find the correct word in the box, and then write the word in the blank space.

Related Resources

Thanks for reading. I hope you found this seasons lesson plan useful. Before you go, check out these related resources which were not used in this lesson:

Seasons Worksheets
Seasons PowerPoint
Seasons Game For Kids
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Universal lesson plan

06/15/2022

If you want to conduct an interesting and useful lesson, you should draw up a detailed plan. How to do this and what is important not to forget when planning – they asked Digital Education Ambassadors: computer science teacher Tatyana Russkikh and English teacher Yulia Emelyanova.

Find motivation

It is important to answer the question “Why does the student need these classes?” . So you will understand how to interest him in a particular topic.

For example, just learning new English words is not as exciting as learning to understand what pop group Imagine Dragons, popular among schoolchildren, sings about in their songs.

Set a goal

First determine the result that the children should achieve by the end of the lesson. Then decide how to help them get there.

For example, students must learn to determine the correct ending for English words depending on time. To understand what they already know, conduct a quiz before the lesson – for example, ask at what tense the ending -ed should be added to the verb, and offer several answers. Also, such mechanics will help students understand the purpose of the lesson.

Prepare instructions for the lesson

Students must immediately understand what will be required of them in the lesson, what knowledge and skills they will receive by the end of the lesson. Tell them what awaits them – you can create and print a lesson route or a lesson plan, checklists for self-tests. So the students will not get lost and will come to the goal.

Assemble the core of the lesson

Compose the lecture and individual and group assignments subject to the previous paragraphs . Decide whether you will show a presentation, photos or videos. It is important that they help you reach the goal of the lesson.

Consider whether you can use engagement tools in the lesson. So students can be “accomplices” of the lesson, influence its course, understand what and why they are doing. A quiz or quiz is suitable for this, as well as digital tools – for example, Lino it – for collaborating on a project.

Use non-standard criteria to evaluate

You can get away from the standard five-point scale and evaluate the efforts of each student in a new way. Mark creativity, bright ideas, interesting questions.

And don’t forget the digital tools, class dojo makes it easy to grade students with gamification. During the lesson, each child can get or lose points with different wordings – “actively worked in a group”, “generated ideas”, “helped classmates” or “did not hand in a notebook”, “noisy while working in a group”, “did not participate in group discussion.” At the same time, only the child and parents see these cards, they can track the dynamics in learning and attitudes towards learning.

Prepare interesting homework

Students remember information best when strong emotions are experienced. Therefore, you can surprise them with unusual formats of homework.

English teacher Yulia Emelyanova shared that she offered her students to record a video of the speech of Queen Elizabeth II or their favorite actor at the Oscars using the “lipsink” technique.

Summarize the lesson

After the lesson, students can evaluate their own work and the level of knowledge gained. Give them the opportunity to ask questions and reflect on what they have learned in 45 minutes. And so that you can get feedback – ask the child to write a positive moment of the lesson, a negative one and a question on the topic.

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all about the simple future of the future

We we often talk about our plans for the future: about dreams, about what we will do this weekend, what we will cook for dinner, or where we will go on vacation next year. Plans are great, you want to share them with friends and write them down in a diary. But how to talk about them in English?

Our goal for the near future is to deal with Future Simple tense once and for all. In this article, we will talk about how Future Simple is formed and when it is used, what rules for the formation of Future Simple you need to know and in what cases to use it.

What is Future Simple Tense?

Future Simple Tense (or simply Future Simple) is a simple future tense in English.

We use the Future Simple to make assumptions about the future or about events that will definitely happen and over which we have no control. And also, for promises, threats, warnings and warnings.

There are many ways to express your future actions in English, and the Future Simple is one of the easiest and most common ways to do this. Although this time is not as easy as it seems at first glance.

How is Future Simple formed?

Future Simple is formed with one auxiliary verb will. It is used with all numbers and persons. It does not matter whether we are talking about the 1st person singular (I), the 3rd person singular (She / He / It) or all the plural persons (We / You / They) – in all cases we use the auxiliary will verb.

IMPORTANT: Sometimes in British English the verb shall is used with the subjects I and We.

Despite the fact that today in ordinary speech such a construction is used extremely rarely, it should be remembered that the transformation of the verb will into shall in the Future Simple tense can be found in the text. Especially in fiction.

I shall go for a walk

The verb shall can be used interrogatively to express an intention and a suggestion to do something.

Shall we dance? – Shall we dance?

Shall we eat this lunch? Are we going to eat this dinner?

Statement

In order to make an affirmative sentence in the Future Simple, you need to add the verb will (shall) after the subject, but before the semantic verb without the particle to.

I / She / He / It / We / You / They + will (shall) + V

I will read an interesting book – I will read an interesting book

You will buy a new dress

He will play tennis

We will dream of better days – We will dream of better days

Abbreviation

Will / Shall = ‘ll

He’ll drive this road

We’ll do this better

Negative

The Future Simple is formed by adding not after the auxiliary verb will (shall).

I / She / He / It / We / You / They + will not (shall not) + V

I will not take your bag

We will not find the hotel tomorrow

My friend will not play guitar with us – My friend will not play guitar with us

They will not present the project this Friday

Abbreviation

Will not = won’t

Shall not = shan’t (rarely used)

I shan’t go for a walk today

He won’t clean his room till Sunday

Question

In an interrogative construction, the auxiliary verb will (shall) is moved to the beginning of the sentence, followed by the subject and the semantic verb without the to particle.

Will (Shall) + I / She / He / It / We / You / They + V

Shall I make the reservation? — Will I make a reservation?

Will you buy that blue car? Will you buy that blue car?

Will she call me back? Will she call me back?

Will they win this match? Will they win this match?

Question words (QW) are used to request more detailed information. For example, how long (how long), what (what), where (where) and others. The structure then takes the following form:

QW + will (shall) + I / She / He / It / We / You / They + V

Where will I go next weekend? Where will I go next weekend?

When will we buy this house? When will we buy this house?

How long will she keep your stuff? How long will she keep your things?

What will my sister buy for me? What will my sister buy for me?

Also, interrogative-negative sentences that begin with won’t can often be found in speech. In Russian, we would begin this question with the words “is it” or “really.”

Won’t she give you a hand? “Won’t she help you?”

Won’t you go to the bar with me? “Won’t you go to the bar with me?”

The verb to be in the Future Simple

The special verb to be (am / is / are) in the future simple becomes will be. In questions, the subject, as it were, “breaks” this form:

Will your boss be at the office tomorrow? Will your boss be in the office tomorrow?

Will our team be the champions next season? – Will our team be the champion next season?

When is the Future Simple used?

Consider the main cases with examples when the simple future tense will be used in the sentence:

Common future

When we talk about single or repeated actions in the future, we can use the Future Simple.

I will swim every weekend next summer – Next summer I will swim every weekend

They will go to the concert and listen to good music next Friday

Speculation about the future

In this case, Future Simple is often used with Present Simple verbs. For example: think (think), be sure (be sure), believe (believe) and others. Also, adverbs certainly (certainly), perhaps (probably), probably (possibly) and others are often used in sentences.

Probably I will find a better way to resolve this issue

I think she will get this job in the marketing department

Hope, promises and fears

When we want to express our attitude towards the future, we use the Future Simple, especially with words like hope (hope), afraid (fear), promise (promise), swear (swear) and others .

I promise we will go to Iceland next autumn

We hope she will be okay

Forecasts for the future

Often the Future Simple tense is used to describe some events in the future that we cannot influence in any way. For example, the weather and natural phenomena or the inevitable actions of other people.

Heavy rain will be tomorrow – It will be heavy rain tomorrow

Anyway he will go away next morning

Spontaneous decisions

When we want to emphasize the spontaneity of a decision or a special emotional moment, a sudden impulse, we also use the Future Simple tense.