Earth Science: Weather Week 6

Really behind now.  The holidays are crazy around here and we got sick again over the holidays, so even this week we're fighting to make progress.  We're getting tired of weather now, but I think we're in the final stretch so that's not bad!

So without further adieu we will begin our week of Seasons, and hope it moves quickly with fun! :)

Seasons

Monday

• Read - Sunshine Makes the Seasons by Franklyn M. Branley.
• Read - Ring of Earth: A Child’s Book of Seasons by Jane Yolen
• Complete - The Mailbox Investigating Weather, Grades 1-3  "The Seasons: Shining Seasons" (page 34). 
• Watch - Bill Nye the Science Guy: Earth's Seasons DVD by Disney.

We did the experiment from Investigating Weather but followed the one in the Branley book instead, made it easier to explain, but the Giraffe kind of fluffed it off, we've sort of done this one before.  No photos cause it's hard taking photos in the dark when you're using your flashlight on your phone! LOL!

The Branley book was a good explanation on the Seasons, the Yolen book was a beautiful poem for an adult, but a little too long and descriptive for a 6 yr old, I think Giraffe, snored through most of it... remember attention spans are quiet short for many at this point, especially when they'd rather be off playing and having fun! (the Yolen book was recommended by the Investigating Weather book.)

Tuesday

• Read - Paint a sun in the sky : a first look at the seasons by Claire Llewellyn
• Read - A Bear for All Seasons by Diane Marcial Fuchs
• Complete - The Mailbox Investigating Weather, Grades 1-3  "The Seasons: Global Opposites" (page 35).
• Complete - The Mailbox Investigating Weather, Grades 1-3  "The Seasons: Get Clear on the Hemispheres" worksheet (page 39).

Enjoyed both books today.

Wednesday

• Read - Four Seasons Make a Year by Anne Rockwell.
• Read - Autumn Across American by Seymour Simon
• Complete - The Mailbox Investigating Weather, Grades 1-3   "The Seasons: Creative Calendars" (page 35). 
• Complete - The Mailbox Investigating Weather, Grades 1-3   "The Seasons: The Fun Four" worksheet (page 38).
• Complete - The Mailbox Investigating Weather, Grades 1-3   "The Seasons: Seasonal Squares" game (pages 40-41).

Extra Reading
The Reasons for Seasons - Gail Gibbons

YAY!  Weather is done!  This Week dragged.  Boy did it drag... she was totally uninterested in furthering the study of weather or the seasons or anything of that nature.  So on to new things! :)  Thanks for keeping up with us! :)

In case you missed it on the Weather Unit page, there was a 7th week scheduled, but we didn't make it.  We had done forecasting along with our other units, so I didn't see any reason to add a special unit to focus on it.