Rainy (Part 2) and Wind

 In terms of lesson planning, this day went terribly wrong on several different occasions. It was supposed to be about wind and two of the four wind activities did not work at all...
The day started by me drawing a kite on the board. I asked the boys about it. What is this? How does it work?
   They told me that they had to run with it then Jordan yelled out that it needed to be windy! I had put streamers on the fan and we watched how "wind" made the streamer move. That one worked!
      Next we tried to make pin wheels that looked really easy but the folding and cutting of them was too much and an adult needed to do it and they would even spin. We said we'd try a different one in the spring sometime.
     Next to show how air/wind made things move, I tied up a ribbon, put a two inch straw on it and taped a blown up balloon to it. The hope was that it was jet down the line across the room...it went no where! I ended up blowing balloons up for about 5 minutes and letting them chase them around the room.
     The last thing I had planned was to use the boats in the water table and blow air through a straw as if they were on the ocean. This worked! This turned into an unintended sink and float lesson because we had the balloon. I filled one with air. Will this sink or float? Everyone said float. We tested it and they were right. I filled one with water. Will this sink or float? Everyone said sink. We tested it and they were right. I filled one with green water then blew air into it. The kids were spilt. In fact, it doesn't do either. It bobs about the water and air meet. It was cool because they got to see it.

That was all the air stuff which I couldn't take pictures of because everyones hands were busy. The rain activity was a clear cup half full of water and shaving cream. We used food coloring as a water like liquid to fill up our cloud (shaving cream). The boys are adding their liquid to the cloud. It was really neat because the food coloring obviously changed the color of the water.

Then they were giving more shaving cream to play/practice writing their names. This turned into a mess too!  Kingston said, "Mrs. McCoy, if I clap my hand together really hard I can make snow!" Before I could say anything all three of them were "making snow"and it got everywhere. Faces, hair and floor. It was a fun day to be in Pre-K, a little crazy but they really liked it.