Wild About Weather

The weather has been wild lately, one day warm and the next day cold. We've become wild about the weather in class as well during our new "Clouds and Storms" science unit. Our room is filled with the 4 different types of clouds we're studying (cumulus, cirrus, stratus, and nimbus) from the ceiling to the floor...

Some of the activities we've completed to learn about types of clouds included reading nonfiction books and watching videos about them and using cottonballs to form the types of clouds that word riddles described. We've also been studying the phases of the water cycle ( precipitation, collection, evaporation, and condensation) in a variety of ways including making precipitation using shaving cream clouds and food coloring rain...

 

creating paper plate water cycle wheels, and learning The Water Cycle Song...

April showers may bring may flowers, but our classroom is already blooming with "Spring Simile" paper plate poetry flowers. After learning that a simile is a figure of speech comparing 2 unlike things using the word "like" students created poems about spring using their five senses and similes. We first brainstormed 5 senses associations we have with the season on a pre-writing bubblemap and then moved on to compose rough drafts. After peer and self-editing the students wrote their final drafts and attached them to paper plate flowers they decorated with markers...

Our class has also become experts on adjectives. We started the unit by creating "namebows" that have adjectives describing ourselves using the letters in our names written on rainbow strips...

Students created sentences containing adjectives describing "how many" and "what kind" by playing "Spin and Adjective" using the whiteboard and a magnetic spinner. We also learned about comparative and superlative adjectives by creating a t-chart showing the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives...

Wishing everyone a happy Passover and spring season!