Good morning, everyone. Our students are in an assembly so we thought we would get a jump start on the blog and get back to where we left off with our water and weather activities.
Last week we talked about how we introduced the vocabulary words evaporation and condensation with our students. From there, we went into the water cycle. We read and completed a Sketch to
Stretch with the Reader's Theater called Water Cycle Adventure. The purpose of the Sketch to Stretch was to help the students visualize what happens to a drop of water in the water cycle. We also used this visualizing to create a mural of the water cycle.
To connect with our theme of water and weather, we used the MAC program Numbers to create a circle graph showing how much of our earth is covered with fresh water, salt water, and land. This led to a lively discussion about the importance of conserving our natural resources.
Our next step was learning about clouds because they play an important part in the water cycle and our weather. Before we did our research about the different types of clouds (that will shared with you in our next blog), we decided to start with reading another African Tale about a cloud that changed the weather. It was called, Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema. We used Christine Boardman Moen's idea called Crayon Conversations from her Better Than Book Reports: More Than 40 Creative Responses to Literature to summarize the tale. It was a lot of fun and it stretched their thinking because they had to do it independently. We felt they were ready for it because we have done many summarizing activities throughout the year.
That's all for now. We look forward to sharing more cloud activities with you next time.
Kim and Anne
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