{"id":74040,"date":"2009-12-10T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T06:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/?p=134518"},"modified":"2009-12-10T01:00:58","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T06:00:58","slug":"weather-activities-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/74040","title":{"rendered":"Weather Activities for Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Youngsters usually enjoy the study of weather<\/strong>, reading about it, viewing videos,\u00a0performing experiments and finding out why things happen, especially violent incidents like tornadoes and hurricanes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_134843\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 211px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-134843\" src=\"http:\/\/images1.blisstree.com\/files\/2009\/12\/1174099_umbrella_girl_2.jpg\" alt=\"Enjoying the rain image: sxc.hu\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enjoying the rain image: sxc.hu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0During my substitute teaching recently, I spent three days with a second grade class, \u00a0and they were focusing on weather in reading, science, math, art \u00a0and writing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We read Tomi de Paola&#8217;s <strong><em>The Cloud Book <\/em><\/strong>and discussed the various types of clouds described.\u00a0 They drew pictures and\u00a0did a math\u00a0paper about clouds.\u00a0 Then they began making a cloud booklet, using worksheets their teacher had provided.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Some of the students became so enthusiastic, they wanted to create their\u00a0original cloud booklet when they had free time.<\/p>\n<p>We watched a video on weather, learned about tornadoes and hurricanes, blizzards, frost and snowflakes and weather myths.\u00a0 (A book we didn&#8217;t read, but which I would have used if the teacher had been out longer, is <strong><em>Snowflake Bentley <\/em><\/strong>by Jacqueline Briggs Martin<strong><em>.\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>This is about the man who first photographed snowflakes.)\u00a0 Some of the youngsters\u00a0cut out snowflakes, an activity the art teacher also did with them later that day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I found this unit so interesting that <a title=\"Weather Lesson Activities\" href=\"http:\/\/maryemmaslearningactivities.blogspot.com\/\">I&#8217;m developing\u00a0 one to use <\/a>with youngsters when I teach and to provide material for home schoolers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\">Blisstree<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/weather-activities-for-kids\/\">Weather Activities for Kids<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youngsters usually enjoy the study of weather, reading about it, viewing videos,\u00a0performing experiments and finding out why things happen, especially violent incidents like tornadoes and hurricanes.\u00a0 Enjoying the rain image: sxc.hu \u00a0During my substitute teaching recently, I spent three days with a second grade class, \u00a0and they were focusing on weather in reading, science, math, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}