Weather Wednesday!

Hey Kinder Friends,

So much fun talking about the weather as the weather is changing. It is always a topic we discuss as we observe the daily weather and look forward to spending time outdoors. Considering we have Weather Wednesday each week when we record our observations and we discuss and collect weather data daily you can imagine it is tough to keep the discussion fresh and ongoing at times.

We finally had a few days with some wind so we decided to shape our discussion around that. According to our standards our children are supposed to collect information using tools such as wind socks. So we decided to look up wind socks before making our own. Just a simple search and we were able to find lots of examples to look at.

Our wind socks were pretty simple and we decided on a weather theme. Just construction paper and some streamers and a little bit of glue and we had some pretty cute wind socks to hang around! For more Science fun join me here! Happy Investigating.

What's Up With The Weather?

Hey Kinder Friends,

What is up with the weather? It is just plain hot around here! I swear you could fry and egg on the sidewalk and notebook in Science about it. I have had a fun week getting out and about and back in to the swing of things and seeing teacher friends here and there during professional development. I recently went to ipad camp and kind of fell in love with some sock puppets. Best part of all is I can really see myself using this in the classroom because it is age appropriate. I can't wait to get the full version when school starts. I have to say that the free version of Sock Puppets is not so bad. You can try a few things and get a feel for it and fall in love like I did. As I was leaving the camp I was trying to figure out how I could use this app in the classroom and I came up with lots of great ways to use it but one of my favorite ideas was to use the app for weather reporting. With the free version you can select an outside background, puppets and record for 30 seconds. This would be just enough time for a child to record the daily weather report and then share with the class.

The other app I ran across was the Kids Timer App. It was free last week and it might still be free. What I loved was that you set the timer and the visual is a tree changing as time passes. I loved it because it fit so nicely in with our weather and season observations.

We had so much fun last year reporting the weather. I bet we will have a lot more fun this year. I wonder what new additions to this routine we will add?