Facing the Wind...

Weather is so interesting to me.

I find it quite fascinating to learn about all of the different weather, 

the weather that comes with the seasons

and even the crazy weather we might not get here in NEPA but we hear about on the news. 

This week we explored the different kinds of weather...

 We read Oh Say Can You Say What's the Weather Today?

A great story to get students engaged and actively brainstorming weather words.
I mean really who doesn't love a little Dr Seuss.
This story had my kids engaged in all the different kids of weather out there.

We then worked on our Weather Anchor Chart 

where we jotted down all of the weather words we could think of.
Just because we don't experience it ... doesn't mean we can't learn about it:)

We discussed the different seasons and what the weather in our area is like and ho it changes.
We used this activity here to discuss what we wear in the different seasons and also build vocabulary. This is something we usually talk about in morning meeting but students loved making themselves in the seasons!

This week we primarily focused on wind.

I found this adorable book in the library ... I Face the Wind

This book was awesome in challenging students to think about the wind and how we see it everyday.

The story also challenged students to do experiments to test what it was describing in the book.

We used the worksheets here to make and test predictions about the wind. 

All you need is a straw for each student and a bucket full of ...

a marker

a tissue

a straw

a spoon

a crumbled piece of paper

a cube

a button

and a pencil

We of courses added things from around the classroom and on the back students drew their other items and answered whether or not they blew. 

They loved this activity and we engaged in finding new items to see what would blow!

What's Spring without some butterfly symmetry?!

A butterfly is just one of many great examples that can be used for Symmetry.

This of course went great with spring and students loved making symmetrical butterflies of their own. 

Scholastics had a great worksheet in their weekly newsletter to get students thinking about symmetry and we topped it off with these ... 

Originally I had wanted to them done with the shapes but when you leave material for a sub somethings it doesn't come out how you envisioned it but great in a new way! Students did a great job showing symmetry using crayons as well. 

We extended our symmetry activities to our math centers and students completed the worksheet below. I thought it was a great way to revisit 2-D and 3-D shapes while also incorporating symmetry. 

Check out my free Spring Symmetry worksheet HERE

Make it a good week!