Learn with Emilia · Story 8
About “What's the Weather?”
- Ages: 2-5
- Length: 5 min
- Season: Learn with Emilia, story 8
Every morning Emilia runs to her window to see the weather, and gets ready for it: a sunhat for sunny, cloud shapes for cloudy, a hat-chase for windy, boots and an umbrella for rainy, mittens and a snowman for snowy.
A morning habit holds this story together. From Monday through Friday Emilia runs to the same window, the narrator asks what the weather is, and waits for an answer before the view outside changes. Then she gets dressed for it, which ties each weather word to a real choice: a sunhat, rain boots with an umbrella, mittens with a coat. The windy day is the silliest, with her hat blown away and Pip clutching his own ears. Saturday mixes sun and rain into a rainbow, and Sunday ends with a question for your child about a favorite kind of day.
- weather
- dressing for the weather
- days of the week
- looking closely
This story is coming to YouTube soon. You can read it below and print its coloring page now.
What Emilia learns
- sunny
- cloudy
- windy
- rainy
- snowy
Tips for grown-ups
- Start a window check of your own each morning: look outside together and name the weather before getting dressed.
- Lay out two choices, like rain boots or sandals, and ask which one Emilia would pick today.
- Use the days of the week from the story as you go: Monday was sunny, Tuesday was cloudy.
- On a cloudy day, look for shapes in the clouds, the way Emilia spots a bunny, a boat and a pie.
- If it snows, catch a flake on a dark mitten or sleeve and look closely, since the story mentions a snowflake's six little points.
- Ask the Sunday question at the end of your own week: what was your favorite weather?
Talk about it
After watching, ask:
- What did Emilia wear on the sunny day?
- What did the wind blow away?
- What keeps her toes dry in the rain?
- What did she build in the snow?
- What came when the sun and rain were together?
- What's the weather today?
Try this together
Make a simple weather chart with a box for each day of the week. Every morning, after looking out the window, your child draws a sun, a cloud, raindrops, wind lines or a snowflake in that day's box.
Free coloring page
Emilia's Rainy Day: print it (US Letter or A4) or color it on screen.
Read the story
Every morning, Emilia ran to the window to see:
what's the weather today? What will it be?
On Monday, she peeked out. What's the weather today?
Sunny! The sun was shining! Hooray, hooray!
Sunny days need a sunhat, to keep the sun off her nose,
and off to the park, in her sunny-day clothes!
On Tuesday, she peeked out. What's the weather today?
Cloudy! Big, puffy clouds, all white and gray.
No sun, and no rain. Just a cloudy, cloudy sky,
with clouds like a bunny! A boat! A pie!
On Wednesday, she peeked out. What's the weather today?
Windy! Whoosh! The trees swished and swayed!
The wind blew her pigtails! The wind blew her dress!
It blew off her sunhat! What a windy mess!
She held on to Pip, so he wouldn't blow away,
and Pip held his ears! What a windy day!
On Thursday, she peeked out. What's the weather today?
Rainy! Pitter, patter, the rain fell all day!
Rainy days need rain boots, from her heels to her toes,
and her umbrella! SPLASH! There she goes!
Jump in the puddles! One, two, three...
SPLASH! Rain boots keep her toes dry, you see!
On Friday, she peeked out. What's the weather today?
Snowy! Soft, white snow! Let's go out and play!
Snowy days need mittens, and a hat, and a coat,
and a little snowman, with a scarf at his throat!
She caught a snowflake on her mitten, so small,
with six little points... the prettiest of all.
And on Saturday? Sun and rain, both together!
And a rainbow! The very best weather!
And what's your favorite weather?
Sunny, or snowy, or rainy... it's all fun together!
Your turn! Let's look out the window!
What's the weather?
Sunny!
What's the weather now?
Rainy!
And now?
Snowy!
What's the weather?
Windy!
And now?
Cloudy!
It's snowy! What does Emilia need?
Mittens!
It's rainy! What does she need?
An umbrella!
You know your weather! Hooray for you!
You know all the weather! So stand up and play,
and sing the weather song! Hip, hip, hooray!
Then over to her backpack, for pin number eight:
a sun and a cloud! Click! Oh, that looks great!
Eight pins on her backpack! Is she proud? Oh, yes!
Two more to go! What's next? Can you guess?
Every day, there's something new to know,
and every time you learn, you grow, and grow!
Next time: things that go! Beep, beep! Bye-bye!
Questions parents ask
Does this work for kids who live where it never snows?
Yes. Snow is only one of the five days, and the window-check habit works anywhere. Children in warm places can still learn the word and talk about places where it snows.
Does the story teach the seasons?
Not directly. It covers five kinds of weather across one week, plus the clothes that go with each one, which is a simpler first step before seasons.