The Sun, Weather unit

If and when i do this again . I would start the melting first . after they where hot enough it went fast but the waiting for 3 years old was a little long and i would of loved each to do a sheet but we ened up with just doing one melted sun and they made a different sun . Hint for next time .

weather , Wind

pinwheels from www.dltk-kids

We picked a prefect day to do wind it 40 to 60 miles today .

We read this great book , Talks about wind and what it does . Blows bubbles , blows seeds around and even pinwheels . Just like our day .

Water Cycle

the water cycle sheet www.earthwiggles.com

Clouds and rain we made today (Evaporation condensation clouds and precipition ) Boiling water , glass jar , plate and ice .

Rain clouds Our Rain gauge we made not sure what happen to all the rain we leave out still and see if we collect more rain .

Water cycle poster am not sure where i got this .

Water way book

I'm a little Rain cloud

I' a little rain cloud in the sky

I pick up moisture as i float n by .

when i get so full i cant hold no more ,

I open up and let it pour

by www.makinglearningfun.com

The water cycle , The Rain

Rain Gauge

Maybe we get an inch or more of rain this week . (It is a rainy week here )

water cycle

This is a great book to help understand the water cycle ..

Thursday Letter of Week U

April Shower Bring May Flowers

Tired of letter of the week . Thursday is letter of week and this is the way am doing it this year is so different then passed . Will have to decide if i like it and if it is really working better the passed to introduce letters but we will see . I see the end and looking froward to review weeks with some really fun ideas .

Practice writing U , Made umbrella's , Made our U list , under , umbrella , up , unicorn ,

We played a little game with up and under . We also played I spy letter with Raindrop letter .(sorry no picture ) From mailbox.com

As were doing weather this week we worked on umbrella's for the wall. I made a little rain .

I started with some water and brought to a boil and we watch when it streamed how it make water cloud and form rain droplets . We introduced Evaporation ,Condensation ,precipitation and collection .

Wind socks

So we took cup , foam pieces , twine ,crape paper and markers .

We decorated our cups any way they wanted . then I tied string around top of cup for hanging and they glues crape paper inside the cup . Then we hung out side on the deck to watch the wind . Hard to photo wind but you get idea.

ABC's of Jess's house: Playing in the Wind.

ABC's of Jess's house: Playing in the Wind.: "So today we played in the Wind . I bought in one of my husbands work fans in and we turn on different speeds to feel the w..."

Playing in the Wind.

So today we played in the Wind . I bought in one of my husbands work fans in and we turn on different speeds to feel the wind blowing in our face and blowing our hair . Please be careful with young child. We also blow bubbles in the fan and watch and kids wanted to know why they only blow to some people . Great time to talk about direction of wind . I blow up a balloon and let air out and let it fly . Then we let the fan wind blow the balloons around . Then we where the wind and blow the balloons around the room . When finished we made balloon pictures with ink pads , We stamped with tp rolls and our finger . Then we added string onto balloons and talked about wind only blows one directions so balloon will too. I wanted to share .I though i did yesterday sorry .I been using for weather sounds . So at our 2nd circle time we been reading Clifford's weather but we also read Clifford and the big storm and we listen to wind Great site to get all kinds of weather sounds http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/soundfx/Weather.shtml

Sorry pictures are not great it is hard to take pictures of windy and items blowing in the wind!

Wind -Windy

so we are on week 2 of weather and today were talking and looking at wind. First i blow a feather . And they guess what kind of weather i was talking about . Then i gave them all straws and a feather and we blow them around a while . Then i had diamond shapes and we painted with our feather on the diamond and made a kite . What do you need to fly a kite Wind !March is windy here in Minnesota .

Rain, Rain I should be saying Snow Rainbow and mixing colors

So we studying rain and rainbows this week through our weather unit but actual this is how it looks outside today here March 23rd . School closed all over, ice and snow but we moving on with Rain which we did get yesterday .As we studying Rainbows we doing a little color mixing as they where very excited yesterday to tell and sharing what color of the rainbow make what .

I take zip lock bags and we mixed

Yellow and green = blue

red and blue = purple

yellow and red = orange

SO today as i have a small group we just used the three colors red, blue and yellow and now have 6 colors . We did talk about making pink , brown and they come up with some of their own .

Then we took Q-tips and i gave then the three colors Red , Yellow and blue and they made six color of the Rainbows . I already had rainbow Arch's and let them follow lines . It was great to see them reinforce the mixing of colors while painting the rainbow .