Weather

Dramatic Play

We played Meteorologist. The kids could move the different weather pictures around the map, and also change the daily weather. They loved lumping all the pictures together to make the biggest storm they could.
The "camera" was the biggest hit, and they'd wait in line for turns to "record." There were often kids waiting at the camera, begging others to come do the weather so they could film them. They had a great time.


 
Blocks

Car rug and cars

Duplo Legos

Art

Clouds-blue paper, cotton balls, glue


Mop painting with cut up mop pieces. It was a fun new sensory experience.


Coffee filter rainbows with color water and squirters


Spin Art
 
Small Manipulatives

Word and line tracing with dry erase markers


Books on tape, Little Cloud, by Eric Carle


Weather patterns


Lacing beads

Weather bears, sorting clothes


Many of these printables are from totschooling.

Snack

Painted rainbow toast

The kids each made their own. We use brightly colored milk in primary colors, and they lightly brush it onto their bread with pastry brushes. They want to soak it, so I do it one on one with them in play time to help them do just a little so they don't get soggy bread. They loved watching the colors mix to make secondary colors too!

Outside

It's back to winter! We played with color squirt bottles outside on most days with snow.

Large Group

We're learning Dr. Jean's weather song. We've already been singing it daily along with our weather, so we've got the spelling of Sunny down just right, so it's been good to learn the ones we rarely sing, like Rainy and Snowy.

Day 1, we read a book called Weather, then made patterns with weather cards.

Day 2, we read Magic School Bus Weathers the Storm then made rain. We put shaving cream on top of water in mason jars, then used droppers to drop colored water on it. When the "clouds" got heavy enough from the water, it began to "rain" into their jars. They LOVED this!! They poured in water until they had goopy messes, and had a lot of fun.


Day 3, after reading, we talked about what to wear in different weather. I had a variety of snow and rain boots, coats, rain jackets, swim suits, sun hats, sunglasses, umbrellas, short, tank tops, etc. Each child got a turn to dress up and the others got to guess which weather they were dressing up for. I was pleasantly surprised at how entertained they were by such a simple activity.

Day 4, we read about tornadoes, then made a tornado in a bottle. We added sequins and glitter to be able to see it lift and spin things around too.

Small Group

My group: rolled my weather dice and graphed our results
Independent group: wrote in their journals

My group: R is for rainbow page
Independent group: weather and clothing matching bears