Clouds, wind, rain, snow, ice, sun – you will find all sorts of weather in the poems on the Children’s Poetry Archive. Find out how busy the weather is in this challenge. You will need to use the search bar in Let’s Explore to discover the answers - https://childrens.poetryarchive.org/explore/. You can search using particular words or the name of the poet. Enjoy listening to the poems too.

The answers are below – no peeking until you are finished!

1. What does the wind smell of in Zaro Weil’s poem – ‘Wilderness Howls’?

2. How is the umbrella jump described in Andrew Fusek-Peter’s poem – ‘Use Your Rains’?

3. What does the snow do to the ‘white-roofed’ houses in Robert Hull’s poem – ‘Snow’?

4. What can you see on the ‘stained glass window’ in Valerie Bloom’s poem - ‘Autumn Gilt’?

5. What does the wind bring in Grace Nichol’s poem – ‘To My Coral Bones’?