Here are some things that I borrowed from a similar lesson in another textbook on another thread and I just modified it to fit my needs.  Thank you to those that did the templates, you came to my rescue in a pinch.

A quick note on the word search.  I accidentally left in a word from the previous template.  When one of my smarter students had finished well ahead of time I told her there was a bonus word in the puzzle that she could try to find.  I told her it was part of the song we had just watched (Busy Beavers It's Rainy).  It took her the remaining 10 mins to try to find the bonus word.  Next time I do a crossword I am going to add in a couple of extra vocabulary words for the quicker students to find. 

For the Boggle game I pretty much used the same letters and template that was given in another thread.  Since they are 3rd graders, I told them the letters did not have to be connected.  I gave 2 points for each vocabulary word they found and 1 point for each correct word they found.

I hope these are useful.

Here is a modified Angry Birds game for this lesson. It went over really well. There are a couple slides where the students have to come up to the board and practice writing capital letters.
Thanks to whomever made the original game, it is amazing.

Here is a worksheet that I gave out during this chapter.  It has a "practice writing the alphabet" section, an alphabet word search, an alphabet connect the dots, and a word search with these words:  doll, cup, dad, mom, I, pen, book, you.

Here's a catchy song about the weather, and the download:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZpF7eESCHI

Here's a guessing game where the students guess what the weather is like in various cities around the world. They guess whether it is hot or cold, and how it looks ouside (sunny, cloudy, snowing, etc). I've embedded live webpages for both the city's weather and a live webcam to show the weather conditions in that city.

You will need this plug-in in order for the live webpages to work properly:

http://skp.mvps.org/liveweb.htm

I've included instructions at the end of the PPT on how to install this plug-in and how to enable macros and ActiveX so that the presentation works properly.

If you have any questions or problems, please let me know.

Hope you find it useful!

it's sunny, snowing, raining....

Because there isn't one yet, here's a really basic intro ppt based entirely on the textbook.  Nice and simple.

Here is the real show time script for unit 13. The previous poster uploaded the show time ppt for unit 12.  Two scripts per page for less printing. Great for role play presentations.

A short, simple Prezi for introducing new vocabulary. Feel free to make a copy and fix it up however you like ^^

http://prezi.com/v4fanwj9wf-2/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

Really short review and a what's missing game. Thunderbolt at the bottom right takes you to the points page.
Thanks to original posters.