I know that at first weather and art seem like an unusual combination. We took the kids to the Art Museum for a special family day, and tha...

Here is the foldable classifying cloud types by their position in the atmosphere. The info inside is kept quite simple and concise for our fourth grade needs. The book is made from copy paper or cardstock. Cut the 8 1/2" x 11" paper into four strips, lengthwise. Each student will get two of these. Slightly off-set the strips before folding, and fold so they are off-set. This provides the graduated page lengths. The clouds are just hand-cut, though the title one is pop-dotted. The cirrus were…

Happy Friday, friends!! Today was a teacher workday for me and I had GRAND plans. I mean GRAND plans. But, of course, I wasted the day away chit-chatting. What can I say? How often do we have a chance to gab with our teaching buddies? It's rare, I tell ya! We did move the chit-chatting to our favorite little Mexican restaurant for lunch. That was productive, right? Oh wait - after lunch we actually did get SOMETHING accomplished! We decided to submit some proposals to teach workshops at our…

So, my plans to post last week were thwarted when I was thrust into becoming a CSI detective. Let me just tell y’all that I would make an EXCELLENT investigator should anyone ever need a private eye. For real. I successfully caught someone impersonating someone else & TOTALLY trying to scam one of my friends …

We are working on consonant digraphs this week and created some spider graphic organizers! The kids loved this activity and had a ball doing it! We glued on the legs, used glitter for the eyes and hung them with white yarn from the ceiling! We are also still working on clouds. I saw the cutest pin

Nature crafts and activities are a great way to enjoy the outdoors with kids, promote sustainability, and encourage little ones to conserve. Added bonus — many times nature provides us with free art materials! Here are some of our favorite simple, beautiful projects from FFFB and around the web that will make you want to …

We are finishing up our weather unit this week. This week we are learning about clouds, types of precipitation, and rainbows. So much fun! First, we read The Cloud Book by Tomie dePaola. After discussing the major types of clouds, we made these charts. You can download the cloud descriptions by clicking on the picture below. Last year I had posted these pictures of the water cycle headbands we made. The kids LOVE them and they are a lot of fun. You can just click on the picture to see the…

Okay, here we go. This week we have been doing district benchmarks so, keeping up with classroom goodies has been tough. So here is a recap of some highlights from our week! We are closing in on the final stretch of our weather unit. We finished up talking about tools to measure weather and completed these pages in our science journals. You can get the weather tool pages HERE! We also began learning about clouds. I took some tips from Cara at The First Grade Parade and Abby at The Inspired…

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