Another wonderful day with our friends at Lakeside Academy! We learned all about weather and the water cycle this week-- which was perfect timing since we all woke up to an unusually cold morning and ice on our windshields. We started out with circle time and the normal routine that the kids love. Here's a little clip of a few of the kids doing show and tell- Josephine is pretty quiet but she still had lots to say!
We did a little interactive version of the book
It Looked Like Spilt Milk and then we read
Weather, a short book of facts about different types of weather. Then we learned all about the water cycle by looking at this graphic and learning some really big words.
To help them better understand these concepts we used a humidifier so they could see it in action. They saw the evaporation with their eyes and then put their hands over the top to feel the condensation collect on their palms. They all learned that the water we drink, bathe in and swim in is REALLY, REALLY old...like it's been here forever. All day they asked for "old water" to drink- very cute!
For cooking we challenged ourselves to make rainbow cookies. We were not really sure they would turn out like the pictures we saw- but they did- perfectly. First we made sugar cookie dough (just using packaged dough mix). The kids all enjoyed putting the ingredients in the bowl then watching the super mixer do the work.
We divided the dough into 8 balls and gave one to each child- then they each got a color (we used gel food coloring) to add to their dough. They played with their dough, just like playdough, until the color was worked all the way into it.
The grown up part came next- we rolled each ball out into a snake, stacked them and pressed them down. Then wrapped in plastic wrap to put in the fridge for a while.
Later, we sliced them (just like the dough you get in tubes) and baked. Didn't they turn out beautiful? We were ALL very impressed!
After a lunch break and a little play time outside we moved on to art time. First we made weather wheels using paper plates, glue, crayons and scissors.
Then we made some small rain shakers to use during our music and movement time.
When art was all cleaned up we had time for music. We started out by honoring the sun with yoga sun salutations. We sang a few songs next,
Itsy Bitsy Spider and
If All The Raindrops Were Lemondrops And Gumdrops. And finally we got to the really fun part- we made a thunderstorm using our hands (rubbing and clapping), our legs (hitting them), our rain shakers (shake, shake, shake), some drums (thunder) and our voices (howling winds). They kids enjoyed this so much we did many rounds of it, our last storm was so powerful we even had a tornado.
The rest of our time together was spent outside playing, swinging, drawing with chalk and having a great big SNOWBALL FIGHT!
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