Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Weather Unit ~ Day 1 and 2

All the kids went down for a nap at the same time today so I get to blog Monday and yesterday's  activities! We started doing our weather unit this week. Living in Maine this time of year is great for this unit since we get so many different weather patterns in a week! This week we have observed sun, wind, cloudy, and rainy weather. The only weather pattern we better not see is SNOW!

 
 
 We have worked on our fine motor skills by stacking cheerios on a piece of spaghetti. We found that the spaghetti kept breaking so we then switched it up and used toothpicks.
 





One of our experiments this week is watch how rain forms by doing weather in a bag. This is day one where we placed some water in a bag, sealed it and placed it taped to the window to observe the changes that happen daily in the bag.
 
 

Before we left for vacation we planted sunflower seeds that will eventually be planted on our play ground.
 
 On Monday only one seed was starting to sprout.
 On of our projects was to make paper windsocks to hang in the play room. We used play white paper, glue and colorful tissue paper to decorate the windsock!



 
 Our windsocks hanging downstairs. We even opened a window a little bit to watch the wind make them dance!

 
Day 2 of our weather bag...condensation is forming to make a cloud.
 Wednesday- it is hard to see but 5 of our seeds are sprouting!

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