Printable packs · 🌦 Week 11 of 52

Weather Watchers — printable activity pack

The one topic on this calendar a child can check by walking to a window. A weather unit turns up in nearly every elementary classroom, and what changes between the levels is how technical the vocabulary gets: one-syllable weather at ages 3⁠–⁠5, the language of a forecast at ages 9⁠–⁠12.

Four levels of the same theme — ages 3⁠–⁠5, 6⁠–⁠8, 9⁠–⁠12 and a harder grown-up level — so a mixed-age class or family works on the same puzzles, each at their own level. 11 pages, US Letter PDF, ready to print at home or in a classroom.

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Pay as a guest — no account needed. You get the Weather Watchers pack at the level you pick, as a PDF, straight after checkout, and you can print it as often as you like for your own family or class.

Three pages from this pack

Word search from the Weather Watchers pack for ages 6⁠–⁠8: a square grid of capital letters, with the six words to find printed underneath — cloud, rainbow, thunder, stormy, breeze, shower.Mini crossword from the Weather Watchers pack for ages 6⁠–⁠8: an empty criss-cross grid of numbered squares, with the ages 6⁠–⁠8 word list printed underneath as the clue list — all six of them: cloud, rainbow, thunder, stormy, breeze, shower.Dot-to-dot page from the Weather Watchers pack: twelve numbered dots on an otherwise empty page, joining up into a sun.

Rendered from the Weather Watchers PDF itself, at ages 6⁠–⁠8. The puzzles are generated, so your copy’s grids and maze won’t be these exact ones.

From a window to a forecast

TEMPERATURE is eleven letters, the longest word in this pack, and it shares a crossword with DROUGHT and BLIZZARD — words a child meets in a weather unit and almost nowhere else. The youngest level goes the other way, and short words interlock badly: only three of its six reach the crossword grid, and the other three wait in the word search. The dot-to-dot is a sun of twelve dots, which is a minute’s work rather than an afternoon’s — worth knowing before you print it as the quiet activity.

Try the Weather Watchers pack free

The free sample is this theme: a 6-page Weather Watchers PDF with the cover, a mini sudoku, the word search, the maze and a coloring page, plus a page about the full pack. No account, no email.

What’s in the Weather Watchers pack

  1. Cover, with the theme and the level on it
  2. Mini sudoku, sized for the level
  3. Themed word search
  4. Word scramble
  5. Mini crossword
  6. Maze
  7. Dot-to-dot
  8. Coloring page
  9. Trace-and-write practice
  10. Answer key: the sudoku, the word search, the word scramble and the crossword
  11. A last page about the weekly subscription, with a discount code

11 pages, US Letter PDF, ready to print at home or in a classroom.

The answer key solves the sudoku, the word search, the word scramble and the crossword. The maze doesn’t have an answer — a maze doesn’t need one.

The words your child will be hunting for

These are the words each level’s puzzles are built from: the word search grid is filled with them and prints them under it as the list to find, the scramble jumbles up to seven of them one per line, and the crossword interlocks as many as will fit. Same theme at every level, different words — that’s what makes a mixed-age table work.

Ages 3⁠–⁠5
preschool–kindergarten
SUN · RAIN · WIND · HOT · FOG · ICE
Ages 6⁠–⁠8
about grades 1⁠–⁠3
CLOUD · RAINBOW · THUNDER · STORMY · BREEZE · SHOWER
Ages 9⁠–⁠12
about grades 4⁠–⁠7
LIGHTNING · FORECAST · TEMPERATURE · HURRICANE · BLIZZARD · DROUGHT
Grown-ups
the hardest level
TEMPERATURE · LIGHTNING · HURRICANE · FORECAST · BLIZZARD · DROUGHT · RAINBOW · THUNDER

The grown-up level isn’t written separately: it’s the longest words from the 6⁠–⁠8 and 9⁠–⁠12 lists, on a bigger grid and a harder sudoku.

Where it sits in the year

Week 11 of the 52-week calendar, so it lands in the second week of March. Subscribers get it that week as part of the weekly pack; on this page you can buy it on any day of the year, and the free sample above is always this theme.

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