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Grade 2 · Unit 5 · Mi Escuela y Mi Comunidad

El Tiempo y las Estaciones
Weather and Seasons

Kindergarten’s weather words grow into real forecasts: seasons, temperatures, and the daily question ¿Qué tiempo hace?

🎯 Novice Mid (emerging)📚 3 lessons planned🚧 Lessons in production

Unit objectives

  • Describe weather with hace calor, hace frío, está nublado
  • Name the four seasons and their weather
  • Deliver a multi-sentence morning forecast

Can-Do targets

  • I can describe today’s weather in full sentences.
  • I can name the seasons and what they feel like.
  • I can give a real weather report.

Vocabulary scope

hace calor, hace frío, hace viento, está nublado, la primavera, el verano, el otoño, el invierno, la temperatura

How this unit builds

Kindergarten named sun and rain; Grade 2 explains them with hace expressions — the first idiomatic Spanish of the program.

Planned lessons

What this unit will contain

Lessons are produced in the same fully interactive format as Kindergarten — flashcards with audio, games, listening tasks, and take-home activities — and will unlock here as they are finished.

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Lesson 1

¿Qué tiempo hace? — weather sentences

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Lesson 2

Las estaciones — the four seasons

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Lesson 3

El pronóstico — the forecast show

Cultural connection

Upside-down seasons

When it is summer here, it is winter in Argentina and Chile — Christmas on the beach is real. The southern hemisphere flips every second grader’s assumptions.