Earth Science: Weather Week 2

Clouds

Monday

• Read - "Sector 7" by David Wiesner (picture Book)
• Watch - Cool Clouds
• Complete the Mailbox Investigating Weather, Grades 1-3, "Clouds: Sing a Song of Cloud Types" and Cooking UP a Cloud (page 9)

The "Sector 7" picture book was a fun look.  I've never been good at choosing picture books, so this was a neat thing to Giraffe.  We tried to cook up a cloud, but have never managed to make it work, we did get to see it dripping with rain though! So no exciting photos today! :(

Tuesday

• Read - "The Cloud Book" by Tomie dePaola
• Complete the Mailbox Investigating Weather, Grades 1-3, "Clouds: Clouds of Foam" (page 8)

This is the actual photo of what Giraffe was supposed to do today, and as you can see Frog and Ketchup got in on the action - everyone loves to play with shaving cream here! :)

The experiment for today didn't seem as exciting as I'd hoped, so remembering I had seen the shaving cream rain somewhere, I decided to give that a shot, and it proved amusing to Giraffe.  She watched as the Food colouring made it's way through the shaving cream to the bottom of the cloud and then produced a rainbow of rain!   It was neat to see how it the food colour just hung there until it accumulated enough to drift down.

  

Wednesday

• Read - "Clouds" by Anne Rockwell
• Complete the Mailbox Investigating Weather, Grades 1-3, "Clouds: Cloudy Weather Windows (page 11)

Thursday

• Read - "Clouds" by Marion Dane Bauer
• Read - "The Little Cloud" by Eric Carle
• Complete the Mailbox Investigating Weather, Grades 1-3, "Clouds: Clouds Up Close" (page 10)