Weather

by Anne Piper

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.

96 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2002

About the author

ANNE PIPER was born in Llan-daff near Cardiff in 1920. She spent the next eleven years in Edinburgh where her father, Professor Richmond, taught Latin at the University. She was educated at an English boarding school, at Newnham College, Cambridge, and at the Sorbonne. From 1942 to 1944 she worked in the Ministry of Information in London, and was sent to India by them in 1944. She married in 1945 and now lives on the Thames at Hammersmith with her husband and three daughters. Her other books published with Endeavour Press include Cuckoo and Love on the Make.