Windy weather

I know, I know ... I said the next blog post would include pictures from our Valentine's party. Those are on Mrs. LeeAnne's home computer; I never have it with me at school, and I never remember when I get home! I will try to upload them asap! In the meantime, enjoy some pictures of our windy weather experiments ...

We concluded our weather unit by learning about the wind. Using plastic straws, we made our own wind and did a little experiment, trying to move various objects with our wind and predicting which items would move and which would stay still. (We even graphed the results!) Everyone agreed that we'd be able to move a cotton ball with no trouble, but when we added counting bears, markers, and bottles of glitter, the predicting became harder! It was a lot of fun seeing what we were able to accomplish (and whether our guesses were right!).

Just blowing through the straws was a lot of fun too!

Next, we made windsocks! This is always a really fun activity; the students begin by coloring a large white piece of paper in any pattern they like ... the more colorful the better! 

Some of our students got very creative with their technique! :)

When they were finished drawing, we glued streamers to the edge and rolled it up into a cylinder (some preferred a square). We stapled that together, added a string so the kiddos could hold it, and then had fun waving them through the air. But the best was taking our windsocks out into the gym and turning on the big fans! 

Learning is so much fun!