Weather Worksheet: Match the Weather to the Number!
This matching activity asks children ages 3-5 to connect weather pictures — sun, rain, clouds, snow — to numbered labels, combining early reading of weather vocabulary with number-symbol association. Recognizing that a picture, a word, and a number can all represent the same idea builds the kind of flexible symbolic thinking children will later use in reading and math alike. Weather is also a topic children experience daily, which makes the vocabulary immediately meaningful rather than abstract.
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Month 10: Learning & Development | Ages 6-7Curriculum
How to use this worksheet
Look at each weather picture together and say its name out loud — sunny, rainy, cloudy, snowy. Find the matching numbered picture and figure out which weather word it corresponds to. Write the correct number next to the matching weather word in the list. Continue until every weather picture has been matched to its word.
Materials needed
- Pencil
- Eraser
Extension activities
- •Draw your favorite type of weather and label it with the correct word.
- •Go outside and observe today's weather, then find the matching word from the worksheet.
- •Create a simple weekly weather chart and record the weather each day.
- •Act out different weather types with movements, like wiggling fingers for rain.
- •Sort picture cards of clothing by which weather they'd be worn in.
Tips for parents and teachers
Encourage your child to describe the weather in their own words before matching it to the number, which builds vocabulary beyond just the worksheet terms. Discuss the different types of weather and what they mean for daily activities, like needing an umbrella or a coat. If your child confuses similar-looking weather icons, like cloudy and rainy, point out the specific visual clues that tell them apart.
Written by
Hemsweta Jain · Teacher Cheena
MBA and Early Childhood Educator, teaching since 2014 · Founder of RaisoActive, Mumbai
Every RaisoActive worksheet is designed and checked by the founder before publishing.
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