Weather Week

April 13-17

Letter Videos of the Week: Letter W

Practice writing the letter W, Look for things around your house that start with the letter W

Have Fun Teaching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24scxyxULV8

ABC Mouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ9zokXKszM

StoryBots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNfM7996-8U

Color this Month – Purple

Go on a purple hunt around your house and find all the purple things.

Songs

ABC with sign language- We were starting to learn the ABC song with Sign Language. Some kids were really doing a

great job.

For parents, this first song shows how to make each letter before she sings the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYhAAMDQl-Q

This is just the song with sign language

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4FKufhMc44

Science

Science- Rain Cloud Experiment – I’ll make a video later this week to post.

Shaving cream, glass or clear cups or jars, pipettes or eye droppers. Fill the jar ¾ with water then add shaving cream to

the top of the jar. Mix a little water and blue food coloring and drop at the top of the cloud.

Day 1

Book- The Rain Came Down by David Shannon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV8snbVhXKU

Art Activity

Make an umbrella out of a paper plate. A parent can cut it out. You can use anything to decorate it. I am adding how to

make your own paint at the bottom of this theme.

Movement Activity-

Jumping in puddles. Make puddles any way you can, chalk, pillows (ask your mom or dad first) paper, news paper,

magazines or make blue pieces roll a die and jump to that many puddles.

If it rains put on some old shoes or boots and go jump in puddles. Go for a walk in the rain.

---Jim Gill-Jumping and counting. This is one of our favorite songs from school.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP-SVAlTLqc

LEARN ABOUT CLOUDS

Types of clouds video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yod3wMbFHUY

The three main types of clouds

High-level clouds (5-13 km): cirrocumulus, cirrus, and cirrostratus.

Mid-level clouds (2-7 km): altocumulus, altostratus, and nimbostratus.

Low-level clouds (0-2 km): stratus, cumulus, cumulonimbus, and stratocumulus.

Cumulus, Stratus, and Cirrus

https://web.extension.illinois.edu/treehouse/clouds.cfm?Slide=5

There are three main cloud types.

Cumulus clouds are the puffy clouds that look like puffs of cotton. Cumulus clouds that do not get very tall are indicators

of fair weather. If they do grow tall, they can turn into thunderstorms. The bottom of cumulus clouds are fairly close to

the ground.

Stratus clouds look like flat sheets of clouds. These clouds can mean an overcast day or steady rain. They may stay in

one place for several days.

Cirrus clouds are high feathery clouds. They are up so high they are actually made of ice particles. They are indicators of

fair weather when they are scattered in a clear blue sky.

Day 2

Books

https://bookflix.digital.scholastic.com/pair/detail/bk0018pr/start?authCtx=U.628847788

https://watchandlearn.scholastic.com/videos/earth-and-space/weather/its-raining-its-

pouring.html

---Make a cloud sensory bag with shaving cream, soap, gel, shampoo

Watch Mrs. Pollard’s Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP56OprWS3Y

Cloud writing- write the letters in shaving cream. You can use a cookie sheet or you can do it in the bath! .

Art Activity-

Pull apart cotton balls to make a cloud picture. Use crayons to decorate it.

Have the children use their worker fingers to pull apart cotton balls. You can pull them apart a few times and

stretch the cotton to make clouds. You can talk about what kids of clouds you are making.

How Do Clouds Form?

Clouds form with changing moisture from a gas to l iquid through a process called convection.

According to Live Science, “As solar radiation heats the ground and the air immediately above it , the warm air becomes lighter and the f low of air carries this warm air upward. As the air rises, the temperature decreases and so does the amount of water vapor that the air can hold. This vapor rapidly condenses and soon clouds — composed of countless bil l ions of tiny water droplets or ice crystals — result. These droplets are exceedingly small, averaging about 10 microns in diameter (a micron is one -mill ionth of a meter; ice crystals are much larger but less concentrated). Virtually all types of clouds and precipitation are due to rising air.”

water cycle – good one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncORPosDrjI

Water cycle video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWb4KlM2vts

Water cycle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq8iCsV4woE

Day 3

Book- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV8snbVhXKU

What food would you like to rain from the sky?

Windy activity-

Find a fan or hair dryer and see what is in your house that will blow in the wind.

***Watch Mrs. Pollard’s Video for a fun wind experiment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daGPCSqB6YE

Art- Make a new kind of Airplane-

Supplies:

Drinking straw

Cardstock any kind of paper

measuring tape or ruler

pen

tape

scissors

With your ruler and pen, mark a point at one inch on your paper. You’ll be cutting two strips, one that’s 1′ x 5” and one that’s 1′ x 10′.

Tape the strips together to make a circle. Tape the circles at the ends of the straw

Throw the airplane with the little circle in the front.

Day 4

Book- The Rainy Day by Anna Melbourne and Sarah Gill and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av2FP2n2qrg

Book- What Makes a Rainbow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2aypaRsCjI

Art- Draw a rainbow- Put it in your window, make someone smile

Sesame Street: Monster Rainbow (ROYGBIV)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycDbfU-2QPg

ZOOM MEETING THIS WEEK

Zoom this week will be Thursday April 16 for AM at 11:00 and PM will be 1:00

During the Zoom meeting I will be doing a song with everyone- I love Jim Gill songs- Here is one we will be

doing at our next zoom. You can practice if you want or your child can just do it with me on Thursday.

One from the Left by Jim Gill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CX-jFsVtR4

Favorite Rainbow Song

Here is one of my favorite songs- Rainbow Connection by Kermit the Frog from The Muppet Movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS3Lkc6Gzlk

HEGGERTY (Purple Book) LESSONS THIS WEEK With Mrs. Fogt:

If you would like to continue with the Heggerty curriculum (purple book), Mrs. Fogt made some videos. We

were on the same week. She might do the hand motions a little different but that is ok.

TUESDAY - https://youtu.be/GpCxRmGSdk8

WEDNESDAY - https://youtu.be/ccdh1CK8PPQ

THURSDAY - https://youtu.be/k6_wd2F7J3I

FRIDAY - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2JsqejoUIs