Mon. April 27

Wicked Weather

What is your favourite type of weather? Do you like when it rains? Could you imagine if it rained in your house? Well, today you are going to make that happen!

Literacy

The first part of this activity is that you need to follow instructions for a science experiment to make a rain cloud in your house. You will need a couple of materials, so gather these items before you begin:

• · a glass or jar

• · shaving cream

• · a cup or jug of water

• · blue food colouring (optional)

• · dropper or straw

Now follow these steps to make your rain cloud:

1. Fill your glass or jar ¾ the way full of water. Add shaving cream to the top (this is your fluffy cloud).

2. Mix a little blue food coloring with some water in a different bowl. Again, this is option, but it makes the rain much easier to see.

3. Add drops of the blue water to the cloud. As you continue to add drops, the water gets heavier and heavier; it will start to fall out of the cloud and make rain!

This is what happens with real clouds. The water droplets get heavier and heavier until they fall down as rain.

Writing part: JKs – Write a word that describes how you feel on a raining day such as ‘happy’ or ‘sleepy’. Parents, you can write this down for them to copy or in highlighter/marker and get them to trace it. SKs – Write a sentence about what you like doing on a raining day. Here is a sentence starter for you to use if you wish, “I like to…” Try to sound out the words you are going to write.

Math

Think of different sizes and the words that you use to describe them such as tiny, small, medium, big, large or humungous. Draw 5 different clouds, all of different sizes. You could also cut these out of construction paper if you would like. Then you are going to number them in order from the smallest (1) to the largest as (5). Once you are done this, you can then put them in order from largest to smallest. For a challenge you can write a word for each cloud describing its size. See picture for different variations of how to do this.

Extension: Gather 5-8 different item of your choice; toys, canned or boxed food items, hair accessories, etc. Put these in different orders such as shortest to longest or lightest to heaviest. Do you have items that are the same (equal)? What do you think you do then?