This week we had a perfect emergent curriculum moment. On Monday during the circle time weather report one of the kids reported that it wasn’t cloudy when in fact, the entire sky was covered in clouds. We went out on the porch to get a closer look. We discovered that the sky was covered in clouds, like a blanket. That night I phased out my lesson plans on superheroes and researched clouds.
We started with a cloud science experiment. There was so much excitement as their clouds grew heavy with rain!
We had an awesome time learning about the clouds for the rest of the week. We did so many fun things. On Tuesday we read the book The Little Cloud by Eric Carle. It is a new favorite! In the story we followed Little Cloud as he changed into different shapes. After we read the book (twice) we painted our own little clouds, who had turned into some great shapes like: donuts, numbers, letters, dogs, and even a tornado.
We used cotton balls to make a cloud book of our own after we learned about the three basic types of clouds (Cumulus, Cirrus, and Stratus.) Everyone read his or her cloud book before naptime. It’s great hearing them use the cloud vocabulary words as they read and talk.
At the end of the week we painted clouds again, using cotton
balls one day and puffy cloud paint the next (shaving cream mixed with glue.) We
made dream clouds that we will hang from our ceiling. We also read Cloudette by Tom Lichtenheld. We wore
Cloudette necklaces all morning as a story treasure.
