We used Shining Dawn Book's Captivating Clouds nature study this week. It's been a good week for clouds here. We have learned to identify each type of cloud along with the prefixes that tell us the altitude of the clouds. Monday was a good day for looking at shapes in the clouds since we had large cumulus clouds everywhere. The boys made cotton ball models of the 3 main types of clouds at the 3 different altitudes. We talked more about the water cycle (we had already discussed this with our creek study) and evaporation. We made it rain in a bottle and talked about the different types of precipitation. Tomorrow the boys will practice being meteorologist's and give me the weather forecast for the day. Here are some pictures of our journey:
Cumulus Clouds:
Cirrus Clouds:
Cumulus Clouds:
The boys filled out one of these sheets for each day of the week about the cloud type and weather along with a drawing of the clouds for that day.
Their cotton ball models of the cloud types:
The "making rain" experiment:
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