Fizz Boom Read: Weather!

June 10, 2014

Fizz Boom Read: Weather!

A storytime devoted to wonderful weathery sciency stuff! Clouds and rain and tornadoes and more!

Books:

Itsy Bitsy Spider by Iza Trapani
Cloudette by Tom Lichtenheld
If Frogs Made Weather by Dane Bauer


Songs:

Opening Song: Where is Thumbkin? - Kimbo

Song 2: Skinny-Marinky-Dinky-Dink - 100 Singalong Songs for Kids

Song 3: Dance Your Fingers/Clap Along With Me - Wee Sing for Baby

Song 4: Let Everyone Clap Like Me - Wee Sing in the Car

Song 5: Shake Your Sillies Out - Raffi

Song 6: Itsy Bitsy Spider - Wee Sing Fingerplays

Song 7: It's Raining, It's Pouring - Wee Sing Fingerplays

Song 8: Mr. Sun - Raffi

Song 9: Wheels on the Bus - 100 Singalong Songs

Felt/Magnet Board:

Today we did a magnet board version of Leo Lionni's A color of His Own - the story of a chameleon who is tired of constantly changing colors and wants a color of his own (hence the title). It's a very, very cute story and since it involves leaves changing colors we decided to use it for our weather theme (it kinda makes sense! but whatever - it's cute!).

Ms. V printed out copies of the book's illustrations and we used those as our magnet board pieces. The illustrations are so vibrant, it really worked beautifully. We did this in the middle of our storytime when attentions were beginning to wane and the kids really seemed to enjoy the story.

Experiment:

Torandos!!!! Sort of!

We made a tornado in a bottle this week to show a scarier part of weather. It's not all sunshine and rainbows after all! We were fortunate enough to get two plastic tubes to connect two bottles to form the necessary parts to create a tornado! We then talked about motion and air movement and whatnot though frankly the kids were more interested in the spinning water than why it worked!


If you are not fortunate enough to get such a fantastic device, then you can make your own using duct tape and this book:

Craft:

This week we made a Weather Wheel Chart!! Whoo-Hoo! These kits were very simple - printed circles to color, a paper fastener, and a paper arrow - they were done in about 10 minutes, no problem!