Weather

It was so good to see everyone again after spring break. On Tuesday we talked about what weather is. The rain outside helped us as we listed different types of weather. This is what we came up with.

Weather can be different. Somettimes it is windy(Hanna). Sometimes it is snowy(Helena). Sometimes it is rainy(Duncan) and sometimes it is sunny(Liam). Sometimes it is cloudy(Gavin) and sometimes there are rainbows! (Wadie)

We also had lots of fun painting and mixing colors on the back of a muffin tin and then making circle prints! These are hanging up in our classroom!

We talked about the water cycle on Wednesday. Mrs. Bulgerin brought in stick puppets that helped explain. There were clouds, sun, raindrops and dirt. The kids heard the book Big Sara's Little Boots, which was a story about a little girl who loved to splash in puddles with her favorite boots! Then we made a class terrarium to help us see how the water cycle works! For art we made a thunderstorm with paint and glitter glue!

Thursday we talked about wind. We talked about how you can't see the wind but you can feel it and see it move other things. Each child got a straw to blow through to see if they could move cotton balls and balls of tin foil as well as blocks, legos, and other things. Ask your child what they could move and what they couldn't move. We turned on a fan to feel the air moving too!

We heard a big book by Pat Hutchins called The Wind Blew. We made wind socks for art.

All week we're also busy working on puzzles, learning to share and get along, singing, moving to music, playing games (this week we played a movement game called "Where is the Bristle Block" and each child had a turn to hide the block while the rest of us tried to find it). Mrs. Jenkins came in on Thursday and we played hand bells and learned another song. We're beginning to get ready for our spring sing which will be held in May!