We had a fantastic week!! Integration all the way! In science we were studying weather and clouds. I shared my cloud unit a few days ago, but I wanted to show you how things turned out and more!
After a study on wind, we made our "Flutterflies," and took them outside to compare how the moving air affects even the lightest of materials.
We celebrated cumulus clouds and Charles Shaws book, "It looked like Spilt Milk" by creating our own clouds. Mix shaving cream and white glue, plop, swirl, dry and write using the patterned text! Thank you, Charles Shaw, for the inspiration!
We made out "cloud watchers" and went outside to study as scientists. After discovering those amazing clouds we recorded out observations in our science journals.
We tried to understand what happens in clouds for rain to occur. We were amazed by the "Rain in a cup" activity.
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| It's raining!!! |
One of the last things we did was read, "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs," a favorite of kids. We used this text as a springboard for our own weather reporting. The kids created a picture of themselves and we used the amazing AP "Chatterkids" to make a mini movie of our weather reports.
This was a great way to have fun with language, weather, practice fluency and creativity- all wrapped up into one lesson! The kids had a blast and will remember this for a long time!!
All these activities (except for the Chatterkids) are available in the Clouds unit. You can get that
Up next? Our Cinderella unit and a study of the moon!! Hold on and thanks for going on this ride with us!!
Thanks, also, for stopping by and don't forget to leave a comment!!
Have a great weekend!!
Joyfully!
Nancy
