Clouds...
Have you ever spent the afternoon looking at the clouds in the sky? I love being able lay on the ground with my fourth graders and point out different shapes and sizes of clouds, and then classifying them!
"Wait, WHAT?! We aren't just spending time outside for fun?!?"
Oh, dear children, we do not have enough time for that! After drawing the different clouds we saw, we needed to figure out if they were cirrus clouds, cumulus clouds, or stratus clouds. Since this was the first day of the unit, I didn't get into the other types of clouds (cumulonimbus, etc). I made some cutout clouds classify the altitudes of clouds.
Note: I did not come up with the idea for any of these activities or drawings. However, the picture and products are mine.
We also made a little flip book to write down our own definitions of each type of cloud.
We started this unit on the same day I teach Art. We decided to make some clouds out of glue and shaving cream. This was so much fun! I was a little weary about doing it (because I didn't do a practice run), but it was fun for the kids and me! As you can see I bought Brut shaving cream. I had my choice of many different kinds, but this one reminded me of my dad. All day long people were coming into our classroom commenting on the scent of old man :)
I love teaching this unit as much as they love messing around! It's so much better when you can keep the textbooks in the desks and learn about the world around you!
Of course we couldn't help ourselves and we put shaving cream on our desks and wrote out our spelling words, pictures, etc. Unfortunately there aren't any pictures because my hands were a little messy :)
Note: I did not come up with the idea for any of these activities or drawings. However, the picture and products are mine.
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