Sorting Seasons

Activity One

Students need to have some knowledge of when the farming activities that are shown actually take place. Students may be able to work out from the pictures that making hay and picking fruit are activities that occur in hot weather and feeding out hay is most likely to take place in winter when the grass grows slowly.
Encourage the students to place the activities they know about first and work out the rest by elimination.
For example:

Shearing is most likely to occur in summer or spring when the weather is warmer, while planting trees and fixing fences might occur in cooler times of the year.

Activity Two

Get students to call on their own experiences to list jobs that might be done around their house during the year. Such experiences could include painting, cleaning out the swimming pool, raking leaves, stacking firewood, making fences, wallpapering, cleaning windows, and watering the garden. They will then need to consider what the weather is usually like when these tasks are done and find the appropriate season to put them in.

Answers to Activity

Answers will vary, for example:

Students should be able to justify why they have placed particular activities in the seasons.
They may need to use reference material.
Activity Two
Answers will vary.