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Weather cards (free download)

April 20, 2025 by greengrubs

 

April 2025: My beautiful Mum works at a special needs school, and recently needed a set of weather cards in Te Reo Maori and English to accompany a well known tune!  

All Kiwi kids know the following classic right?!
 
Ma is white,
Whero is red,
Kakariki green,
Mango is black,
Pango is too,
A E I O U!
 
Wera is hot,
Maku is wet,
Makariri cold,
Ua is raining,
Mahana is warm,
A E I O U!

Mum was wanting some visuals to accompany the song – cards that she could hold up with words in both Te Reo and English (plus some appropriate pictures) to use as cues for her little learners.  She had used the tune and added several new verses using other weather vocabulary to create a longer weather song!
 
CLICK HERE to download your FREE set of cards!

In addition to the weather words included in the traditional version above, this free resource also includes the following new vocab:

Hukapapa is frost,
Kanapu is lightning,
Uenuku rainbow,
Patapata is raindrops,
Kupua is cloud,
A E I O U!
 
Hau pukeri is strong wind,
Paroro is storm,
Ua nganga hail,
Hukarere is snow,
Hukapapa is frost,
A E I O U!
 
(*Also included are: Whaitiri/thunder; Hauhau/windy; Paki/fine; Maaku/wet; Kaapuapua/cloudy; Puhoro/stormy; Kohukohu/foggy)


**My personal fave is ‘patapata is raindrop’ – how perfect is that?!  This set of A4 sized weather cards could be adapted for all sorts of uses (general classroom posters, or maybe as part of your morning calendar routine?)  We used the Maori words that were chosen by my Mum’s colleagues – but please be aware that other words/translations might be more common depending on what part of the country you live in.  If you’d prefer a different word/translation (or to have a whole new weather word!) please leave me a comment below and I’ll endeavor to insert a new page with an alternate option.


May the sun be shining wherever you are.

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Comments

  1. Kirsty Brown says

    October 13, 2019 at 10:50 pm

    Tēnā koe Rosie,
    I just wanted to send you a pīki mihi to say thank you very much for your amazing mahi, you are helping our tamariki, teachers & Aotearoa!!!
    Ngā mihi,
    Whaea K / Kirsty Brown

    • greengrubs says

      October 15, 2019 at 12:11 am

      You are SO welcome!! Stoked you’re finding them useful, thanks so much for popping by to let me know:D

  2. Aquitania Holleran says

    June 30, 2020 at 5:52 am

    Kia ora
    I was trying to work out which app to open your/my kāri tino ataahua with but they have disappeared. They are absolutely stunning. I won’t go near PDF as don’t understand the workings of. Will you help me please?
    Ngā mihi nunui
    Nā Kui Tania
    .

    • greengrubs says

      June 30, 2020 at 9:04 pm

      Kia ora Tania! No worries at all, this set of weather cards are available as a free download. They are saved as a PDF so they’re easy to download and print, most computers should be able to easily open this type of file. Fingers crossed you find someone to help – no hurry at all as these resources will be here for you to enjoy whenever you’re ready 🙂

  3. Gurjit says

    June 22, 2023 at 2:08 pm

    I love this website but can’t print all the weather cards

    • greengrubs says

      June 22, 2023 at 3:57 pm

      Kia ora Gurjit, sorry to hear you’re having issues printing – can you be a bit more specific about what the issue might be? Feel free to email me: rosie@greengrubsgardenclub.com

  4. Paulette Francis says

    September 5, 2023 at 10:20 am

    Thank you so much for these free weather cards. They are just what I need for my class!

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