On the Same Day in March: A Tour of the World's Weather

On the Same Day in March: A Tour of the World's Weather takes the reader on an adventure to 17 different countries. The author and illustrator show us what is happening from the poles to the equator all on the same day in March. I liked reading this book because it showcased many different cultures and places. It is very important for me to have a diverse library that reflects the diversity of my students. I believe this would be an excellent addition to any elementary school classroom. I would use this book for a science lesson on weather, climate, and seasons. It would also be good for a social studies lesson focusing on different countries around the world.

What a great idea for a book! Start at the North Pole and work your way down the globe, describing different weather on the same day. Many of Singer's vignettes in different locations stand alone as poems, but taken as a whole they open up the world to students and encourage them to put their tiny place of the world in the context of the whole planet. I would bring a globe and a flashlight out after reading this book to start discussing the relationship between Earth, the sun and our weather and seasons.

In this book we follow along a trip to 17 different places, all on the dame day in the month of March. We discover the different climates, seasons, weather, all throughout the world. All on the same day in March, everyone is doing different things in different places in different weather. I really enjoy this book and think it is a great introduction to weather patterns as well as geography.

The style that this book is written in is so captivating. Each page describes what the weather is like in a different place in the world on the same day of the year. This teaches students that the Earth is different all around, and the weather is as well. I think this is a very informational book that is also fun to read. I would use this in my classroom for sure!

This book uses one or two-page spreads to talk about weather all around the world on the same day in March. When I read the description of this book, I had very high hopes. Unfortunately, it seems more conceptual than factual. It tells what the weather might be like all over, but not why. Illustrations add some insight about the cultures of a geographic region, but again, no information is given.

This would not only be a great lesson to start off a lesson in weather and seasons, but also geography. I think that this book has a lot to offer with the amount of different lessons it could be paired with. This book is about the month of March in different locations around the world and shows how they are different. This would be a great starting book to read before either a seasons or weather lesson. I would even go as far as to say that they could really be done together. The students are learning different scientific terms that involve both concepts as well. I think that the illustrator did an excellent job with creating the pictures to really capture what each location was to represent.

This book would be a great introduction to a weather unit or a science or geography unit. There is a great map of all the places the book talks about where students can study if the location is in the northern or southern hemisphere and they can make conjectures about what they think the weather will be like. The words are poetic in nature and make you visualize the place and the weather without telling the reader exactly what is happening. The illustrations help paint this picture too.