My students always enjoy this calendar activity! I hope yours will too! Since I first shared this activity, I’ve added even more ways to explore March lion and lamb weather with young students, including weather sorting activities, crafts, writing prompts, a song, and a bulletin board display. I’ll share those with you below!
Does the saying “March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb” hold true this year? Find out by keeping track of lion days (cold, winter-like days) and lamb days (warm, spring-like days) during your morning meeting or calendar and weather time.
Each day, discuss the weather and decide if it is a lion day or a lamb day. Hang up the appropriate animal.
You can display the results several ways:
Option 1: Graph – Create a wall graph using the free Lion Days and Lamb Days headers and pictures included in my download. Each day place a lion or lamb marker under the appropriate heading.
Option 2: Chart – Hang the free included chart by your calendar / weather area. Each day place a lion or lamb marker on the chart.
Option 3: Calendar – There are 2 different ways to mark your calendar.
1. Use the included free calendar cover-ups to mark the lion days and lamb days on your calendar.
2. Use the smaller lion and lamb pictures to mark the days on your calendar. This allows the numbers to be visible.
Digital Google Slides Version – Since many of you may use technology during your morning meeting or have limited space in your classroom, I added a digital Google Slides version of both the graphing and chart activities.
They both have movable lion and lamb pieces. Move one of the pieces under the correct heading each day.
Meaningful Math – I love using the graph and calendar for meaningful math practice during morning meeting. We discuss our results and practice greater than less than, more or less, comparing numbers, tally marks (we keep a tally each day of how many lion days and how many lamb days).
If you would like to use this activity in your classroom it is available FREE in my Teachers Pay Teachers store HERE. You receive a Lion Days header, a Lamb Days header, lion and lamb markers, a Lion Days Lamb Days chart, calendar cover-ups (lion and lamb), and the digital Google Slides.
Want More March Lion & Lamb Activities?
If your students enjoy tracking the lion and lamb weather, you can extend the theme with even more hands-on activities!
I’ve put together weather sorting activities, a March lion and lamb song, crafts with writing prompts, a bulletin board display, and additional weather tracking activities that help young students understand the changing weather from winter to spring.
You can see classroom examples and ideas for using all of the activities in this post:
March In Like a Lion Out Like a Lamb Crafts, Bulletin Board & Weather Activities Blog Post
If you’d like everything ready to print and use, you can also find the complete Lion & Lamb March Weather Activities Pack here.
