Our first official preschool theme is complete and boy did we have so much weather themed fun this month. If you followed along with us over on instagram you saw a peak into some of the fun learning activities that we completed; however there was so much fun happening, we didn’t always get a chance to share so below is a HUGE recap of all our weather themed learning fun.
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We read so many amazing books, some just for fun, and others with some pretty awesome factual information that helped Little Miss 3 learn so much about weather. She is simply fascinated by it all now and to hear her talk on and on about everything she learned makes my teacher mama heart happy.
No thematic unit is complete without some fun weather themed snacks and food ideas and boy did we have fun with these this month. Read more about all our snacks here.
Sensory bins are one of our favorite activities and we had four fun bins this month that both Little Miss 3 and Little Man 15 months had fun with. You can read more about them in our Weather Themed Sensory Bins post.
We graphed the weather all month using a sheet from our Weather Themed Prek Pack. It sure was a rainy stormy month. If April Showers Bring May Flowers, What does May showers bring?
To be sure to cover all of the different types of weather that we typically see in our area, we spent several days on each type of weather.
C is for Cloud letter craft
Crayon and watercolor clouds: Draw clouds on a piece of watercolor paper with white crayon and paint over with watercolors and watch the clouds appear.
It looked like Spilt Milk blob art
Shaving Cream/Whipped Cream Clouds: Shaving Cream for Little Miss 3…Whipped Cream for “Sticks everything in his mouth” er I mean Little Man 1.
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K is for Kite Letter Craft
Paint Blow Art: Paint + Air Blow Through Straw
W is for Wind Letter Craft
Marble Wind Art: Paint + Ball + Air (fan or your own air) =Art
Fan or blow feather into a square: Feathers scattered about + square taped on floor + air (fan or breath) =Try to get all the feathers into the square
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Puddle Jumping ABCs
R is for Rain Letter Craft
Umbrella craft: Hot Glue Rain Drops + Watercolors + Tissue Paper Umbrella
Shaving cream rainstorms: Fill jar with water and top with shaving cream. Drop some watercolors or food coloring onto the top with a pipette and watch it rain into the jar.
Little Blue Truck Mud Painting
Puddle Jumpers themed Art
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S is for Sun Letter Craft
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Snowball Fight Letters: Pieces of paper + letters written on them + crinkled up = Snowball fight letters ready to be tossed and read
S is for Snow letter Craft
We loved using our weather themed word wall cards to see pictures of real weather.
And a recap of all the weather we learned about with a simple W is for weather letter craft.
Little Miss 3 also had some activities she worked on during quiet time that came from our Weather Themed PreK Pack that were perfect for working on many different skills like cutting, number sequence, patterns, and finding differences and similarities.
And we ended our unit with a fun filled Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs Family Movie Night Extravaganza & Cloudy With A Chance of Math Activity.
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Next up: Dinosaurs!!! We hope you will join along!!!
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