Earth Science: Weather Week 3

Precipitation

Monday

• Read - "Wet weather : Rain, Showers and Snowfall" by Jonathan D. Kahl 
• Watch - What is Precipitation on YouTube
• Complete The Mailbox Investigating Weather, Grades 1-3 "Precipitation: Weather Word Wheel" (page 17). 

Really didn't like the book we chose for today.  Very long and dense for Giraffe who wasn't really interested in reading it or looking at it.  Days of rain do that to a kid!

Tuesday

It has been raining here for days, since Halloween to be exact.  Some days it was a light drizzle, other days it was torrential downpours, other days the clouds would drift in and out and leave a puddle in their wake.  We've been under flood watches and flood alerts as area rivers take in the deluge of 10 days worth of rain.  They're calling for more rain later in the week.  Today we were happy to see the sun and blue sky though.

Last week when Giraffe and I, attempted to make a cloud in a jar (which I have tried 2x in the past) we instead watched the raindrops form on the the bottom of the "lid" of our jar.  The smaller droplets combined together until they were too heavy and then they just fell.  So while we didn't follow the experiment here exactly, we did get to see it in action and talk about it.

• Read - "Down Comes the Rain" by Franklyn M. Branley.
• Read - "Listen to the Rain" by Bill Martin.
• Read - "Come On, Rain" by Karen Hesse.
• Completed The Mailbox Investigating Weather, Grades 1-3  "Precipitation: Looks Like Rain" (page 15) and "Going Down!" (page 16).

Snowflakes and raindrops, which one falls faster?

Wednesday

• Read - "Snow Is Falling" by Franklyn M. Branley
• Completed The Mailbox Investigating Weather, Grades 1-3  "Precipitation: Frosty Figures" (page 16).

Ice Crystals Booklet

Thursday

• Read - "Snow" by Marion Dane Bauer during reading.
• Read - "It’s Raining" by Gail Gibbons (wanted "It's Snowing" our library didn't have it.)
• Read - "Snowflake Bentley" by Jacqueline Briggs Martin