We learned about different kinds of weather this week...Monday we painted suns.  Tuesday, we made clouds (a real one with steam and soft clouds with cotton balls).  We learned a poem about rain and made some glittery raindrops.  And Friday, we learned to make snowflakes.  While we were doing weather, we were also learning about different textures in science and learning about symmetry in math.

Here's our cloud that we made by catching steam from a tea kettle.  As the steam cooled, we could see the 'rain' on the side of the jar.	For math on our cloud day, we read It Looked Like Spilt Milk and made our own version of the book.  Our book is being laminated now.  We used blobs of paint and folded our paper to make different shaped clouds.  All of our clouds had symmetry!
Jacob's mom is a meteorologist.  She came to help us learn about the weather instruments that meteorologists use.  She showed us a rain gauge and a thermometer.  Then we made an anemometer to measure wind speed.	It was a cold, rainy day so we tested our anemometer through the window of our back porch.  It spun quite fast as a gust of wind came!
We graphed our favorite kind of weather.  Most of us like snowy weather the best.  I guess that's good news for us because winter's coming!

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