I want to get a board where it states the weather, day of the week, month, letter of the week, we’ll also practice numbers by what day it is (Jan 4th). I may try to incorporate colors weekly. I may add more, but that is all I can think of right now. I’m debating about making one or buying one still. I’m not super crafty, so I’m thinking I may buy one. Almost all of the books we read are Usborne Books. We are in LOVE with them! I also sell them, so if you would like more info. let me know! :) If you want to check the books out that I mention, you can click the link and search the name of the book. Here’s the link: h4006.myubam.com
Week 15: Weather
July 3rd- 9th
June we studied about the Outdoors and this week we’re specifically studying about Weather (and Seasons) this week. We swapped Weather for 4th of July topic because I wanted to wait for my new weather book to come. These lesson plans are mostly for my 3 year old son, but I’m adapting them to my 1 year old daughter as well. They can be adapted for any age. I have more ideas on pinterest.
Monday 7.4.16 Books Happy 4th of July!
This is the reason, I may switch the topic. We have these fun new Usborne books that were just released that are about weather, so I may wait until my order is delivered, so we can use them! Here are a few books though. We do have See Inside Weather and Climate and I have no doubt my son will love it because he is loving the See Inside series lately. Our World has a picture of the trees in the different seasons. I usually like to have 3 books, so we probably do Weather next week.
How it Went:
We did a field trip to the 4th of July celebration in Meridian. My son had a blast on the bouncy house.
Tuesday 7.5.16 Library/Learning
I think my kiddos are finally over their colds, so we’ll most likely be going to the library this day. We will also talk about different seasons and different kinds of basic weather. We aren’t planning to go into tornadoes, hurricanes, and volcanoes unless he wants to talk about them. :)
How it Went:
He really liked our books! He was more interested in the seasons. He really enjoyed the clouds and rain as well. We mentioned storms, but not hurricanes and tornadoes.
Wednesday 7.6.16 Music/Library
We are going to sing some songs about weather and seasons.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/317503842460889648/ Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/317503842462806690/ If it’s Windy and you Know it
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/317503842462529514/ Rainbows (come after rain)
How it Went:
We had a fun time with the songs. He wanted me to sing the seasons songs a few times.
Thursday 7.7.16 Activity/Art
Below is what I eventually want to do, but I’m not super crafty. For now, we’ll probably just use a piece of paper to refer to the weather each day.
How it Went:
I forgot to do snowy, haha! You think I would remember since we live in a place where it snows. I put partly cloudy and not snowy, seriously, I wasn’t thinking clearly.
Friday 7.8.16 Field Trip/Food
I can’t really think of a field trip to do. We could go to the park and talk about whatever weather is happening then, but we may just do something to do with food. I was thinking we could use marshmallows like clouds or whipped frosting. We may “paint” with whipped frosting. That would also be a fun sensory activity. :)
How it Went:
We didn’t do this on this day, but we still got to it! He loved it! We used whipped frosting and talked about storms and made one. He also really loves the Bible Stories book about Jonah and the Whale because there is a storm (and because Jonah is inside of a whale). We used food coloring for the storm and the clouds. We talked about 3 types of clouds; stratus, cirrus, cumulus and how they each look different. He loved eating the frosting and had a blast getting it all over his hands.
The different kinds of clouds
Our Storm and different kinds of clouds.
Saturday 7.9.16 Science/Sensory
I think we are going to do shaving cream rain clouds! I’m excited for my son to see it, I’m not sure if my daughter will love it yet. I hope we can find liquid food coloring if I didn’t bring ours to Boise (where we are living for 3 months).
Shaving Cream clouds
Our 4th could turned into an ocean. :)
How it went:
So my hubby bought the stuff for this, but got blue shaving cream instead of white, so we changed out activity. I think it turned out more fun for the kiddos though because they got to play with the shaving cream instead of just look at it. It was more of a sensory activity. Although, another time I really want to do the one we planned to.
