Weather Exploration

Last week our conversation ended talking about different kinds of weather and what it looked like in terms of colors and in hand drawn pictures. Today we continued a deeper exploration of rain specifically. 

We started the day off by asking "is it hot or cold this morning?"

The kids took a poll and chose whether they thought it was hot or cold. 

Each child thought about their own experiences of walking into school this morning. 

"I was kind of cold."

"Yeah, I was hot and I wore a shirt like this." as V pointed to her sleeveless shirt.

"When it's hot, you have to cool down. You sweat to cool down." 

As our morning continued the kids described the weather outside. 

"It's hot & it's really sunny!"

Since it was so sunny outside, we wondered how we could make it rain inside. 

"Look, it's dripping!"

"It looks like it's raining! It's going really slow, but if it was pouring it would be going really fast."

"It's going down everywhere! They go slow."

While some of the kids were squeezing the eyedropper at the top, B took a different approach and held his eyedropper perpendicular to the plastic sheet.

"Wow look it's like a really big rain. It's so big from using the big eyedropper! It like goes everywhere."

F experimented with different ways to use the eyedroppers as well. He would squeeze the rubber tip hard making the water shoot out with more force. The explosion of water made him giggle as he continued to watch the water drip down. 

At the end of our day we wondered what the weather would be like tomorrow. Will it be hot or cold? Will it be rainy or sunny? How can we find out what the weather will be?