A series of books providing ready-made collections of early years stories, songs, rhymes and information text all based around popular themes. The books are more than just anthologies, however, as each poem, story or rhyme is photocopiable and is accompanied by activity ideas showing how it can be used as a springboard for activities across the curriculum. All the ideas are carefully linked to the requirements of the new Early Learning Goals. The "Weather" book introduces young children to many types of weather that we experience and the effects that such weather can have. The activities in the book cover, rainy days, rainbows, sunny days, windy days, cold days and foggy days. There are also ideas for looking at weather in different countries, wearing the right clothes for the weather and how we record the weather.

 

This book is part of a book series called Early Years Wishing Well .

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Scholastic .

Louise Gardner graduated from Wolverhampton University with a BA Honours degree in Visual Communication. She has been an illustrator ever since, and her worked has appeared on children's nightwear, mugs, soft toys, food packaging, tents and sleeping bags, as well as in children's books. As a child, Louise was always armed with a felt tip pen - in fact, she once had to go to hospital to have a pen lid removed from her nose! And when she was 7 years old she gave one of her drawings to the Queen at a Silver Jubilee celebration. Louise once had a pet rabbit called Socks and her favourite childhood toy was a rabbit called Susan! She lives in Somerset in a converted church beside a canal.