Hi everyone! Hope you had a nice July 4th weekend. Looks like we will be trying to stay out of the heat and smoke again this week – I better start thinking of things to do now!
This week’s theme over at Unplug Your Kids was sky. My girls love to talk about the weather, so I thought I would share some of the weather charts we have made.
This paper plate weather chart is perfect for even the littlest weather watcher. We used die-cut shapes and a cotton ball for the cloud. An arrow attached to a clothespin marks the weather each day. You could also attach an arrow with a brad in the middle of the chart.
Another fun and easy way to show the daily weather is with a magnet chart. The girls drew pictures for 4 types of weather – sunny, rainy, cloudy, and windy. I scanned them into the computer and added text. I am going to print the drawings on magnet paper (which I am apparently out of!) and give this a little spot on our fridge. If you don’t want to use magnet paper, you could just glue your child’s drawings on some thin cardboard (or laminate them) and add a piece of strip magnet to the back.
Finally, if you have a bit of room, you could set up a more detailed weather reporting station. Today I put out a bar graph and a thermometer. The thermometer page is inside a sheet protector and gets colored in with a dry erase marker or overhead projector marker, so we can use it over and over again. I found the thermometer here, and printed it at 130%. We can use the bar graph to practice counting, comparing numbers, etc.
Happy weather-watching!
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Fun! I love the paper plate weather chart
Thanks for sharing,
Nature Mama
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/NatureNotesFromAbove
I can’t wait til my little man is old enough to appreciate this kind of stuff! We are an aspiring homeschool family, and these are just great ideas I want to squirrel away somewhere for 3 years from now!
Those look like fun “sky” projects!
What a fun project! My son made a weather wheel at preschool and that thing became a favorite toy around here for awhile. Not only was it a weather wheel, it was also the steering wheel of a car and, of course, a plate to eat food off. I love their imaginations!
Lots of great ideas here! Thanks for sharing.
Those all look like fun projects. I was thinking of trying to chart the weather with my daughter – maybe we’ll try one of these.
Very nice. Mia, 2 1/2, is very much into the weather. Everyday, when we step outside, she let’s me know what’s going on out there…she’s always first out the door
It’s either hot, too hot, windy, burr chilly cold, rainy..mostly too hot
I love all these great ideas! I will have a classroom paperplate weather chart and have the childrren make one to bring home. Also to teach the children graphing I will graph the weather everyday. Thanks