Weather Unit and the Deep Freeze Again!!

 

This coming Sunday will be Open House at my school so we have been really busy completing projects and getting everything hung up.  Here is a little bit of our weather unit projects. Besides the baggie books about the different types of weather my firsties made we also did this cloud anchor chart (thanks for the idea, Cara Carroll). We went on to make these cloud and water cycle booklets. The kiddies put the clouds on the outside and their descriptions on the inside as well as the water cycle on the inside. We were going to go outside and check out the clouds with our cloud windows but with our temps right around 0 degrees that was out of the question. If it ever warms up a little around here we will head out to observe the clouds. The water cycle sheet came from Kristen Smith's weather unit on TPT. She had a ton of awesome weather ideas in her packet.

   

We are back in the deep freeze here in Chitown. When will it ever end around here?? Next week is predicted to be even colder.  Oh no!!

 

I'll  have more pics to post after tomorrow and last minute cleaning of our room. Be sure to stop by to check out our little corner of the world.

Weather Baggie Books, Snowmen, and more Bulletin Boards

 

We've been working on our weather unit these days (as everyone else is) and the kiddies made these really cute baggie books. I don't know why but I didn't even think to take a pic of the inside. I cut a file fold to fit sandwich size baggies. I stapled four sandwich baggies inside. Inside each baggie was an index card which they drew different types of weather on each one. Then they decorated the covers. They really turned out great.

 

We were also working on writing number words. I used the snowman from Funky Fresh Firsties and tweaked it a little. We just wrote the number on the middle snowball and their number word on the bottom. The kids had a good time making them.

 

Here is an adorable board outside our second grade room. These penguins are 3D.

 

Here is another great board made by our wonderful kindergarten teacher. Too cute!

 

Finally, this one is in my room. I love doing this writing activity every year. This year we used clear plastic plates for the snowglobes. We will have open house next Sunday so this week we will be busy cleaning and uber (if that's such a word) decorating for the big day. This is the day for recruiting and it will be a little crazy around here. Thanks for stopping by. Enjoy your day off for MLK day!



Clouds

We have been working on a weather unit these days. I found these adorble clouds on Babbling Abby's blog and had to make them. I think it's a great visual for the kiddies. After we labeled the clouds, described each one and looked for them on the internet the kiddies went outside to check out the clouds for the day. It couldn't have been a better day. The temps are in the 50's and no snow yet (however, it is coming in the next day or two) . I'll post more pictures in the next day or so of our weather activities.