The planning begins...

So, now that I know where my CT is going with both science and social studies for the next few months, it's time to figure out what I'm going to be teaching in November.
Science: We just began this unit on Tree Homes last week, but the unit will be completed by the end of October. The next science unit will be on Weather. When I asked for a copy of the curriculum my CT is using I was very surprised when she told me that they were instructed to get rid of their MI Curriculum Frameworks because a new verison was being drafted. However, because this new version isn't approved yet, my CT currently has NO copy of the curriculum she is teaching these students. Her plans for teaching are the same as they were last year, as the teachers in this building have been instructed to carry on until the new curriculum is approved. In the mean time, she's just going to keep doing what she's always done...So what if I was a first year teacher and my principle told me to do this...I think I might freak out a little bit!
All I know if that I'm covering a small section of weather safety, including what to do during severe weather. I know that for my science talk I'm going talk to some students about what they have done in the past when there has been some kind of servere weather. Other than that, I don't really know how I want to go about teaching this lesson. My CT did suggest to me that I try to bring in a local weather person to talk to the students about severe weather...but I almost feel as if that's something she'd like me to do rather than leaving me the freedom to come up with something from my own line of creativity.
Social Studies: Personal history and timelines are a bulk of the curriculum for Kindergarteners so that's what I'm teaching on. I really want to go with this "When I Grow Up" theme and have the students make puppets of themselves as adults-but I have to work out the logistics of that first...
Being able to identify past, present, and future is also a major focus of this unit and therefore will be incorporated into my lesson in some manner, so, I think that I will have the students make a timeline of their lives (birth, now, as adults...) to place significant events in chronological order. This lesson is going to be really easy to base off of benchmarks, however I'm not so sure about the science lesson because there is only one benchmark about weather safety and it only includes key concepts like thunder, lightning, watch, and warning.
Let the planning begin!!!