Cloud Explorations Continued!

We asked Ms. Cuthbert, the librarian in the Elementary School if she had some books on clouds, and she found us It Looked Like Spilt Milk and Little Cloud. We are looking for some more fiction as well as non-fiction books right now.

Our class decided they wanted to head back outside to observe the clouds in the sky again, but this time see the clouds “from a different ground spot.” We went out to the track.

“The sky is so blue! Wait…is that THE MOON?!” –Malia

“The moon is up in the day?!” –Mena

“Yeah, sometimes I have seen it before like that.” –Maxton

“The CLOUDS look like the moon!” –Rania

“The clouds are so fluffy. The sun is so bright but I can keep looking at the sky because it is so relaxing for me.”  -Shayne

A chorus of “yeahs” heard all across the class.

The students are in the process of finding other ways to represent what they are seeing in the sky and in the clouds.

Through the project so far the students have been using fine motor skills in writing and drawing, observation and recording skills, and have had fun exploring and expressing what they have experienced with a variety of materials. Many of the students also noticed how calm and peaceful they felt just looking at the sky, and how being outside made them feel fresh and happy.

“To get all there is out of living…Never be in a hurry to stop and sip life, we must never lose our sense of the enormous value of a minute.” –Robert Updeegraff