Friday, November 20, 2015

Day 55 - Up in the Clouds with Mrs. Hoyt’s Kindergarteners - Mr. Musselman - Burlington Science Center

This post originally appeared on the Burlington Science Center Website


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Kindergarteners offer answers as to why predicting the weather is so important.
On Tuesday Mr. Musselman visited Pine Glen Kindergarteners in Mrs Hoyt’s class to take part in her “Everybody Reads” series! He brought along one of his favorite books as a child, “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” by Judy Barrett. Mr. Musselman tied in the imaginative story of wild weather in the land of Chewandswallow with students own “Weather Wednesday” investigations. The class discussed why it was so important for the people of Chewandswallow to predict (make a thoughtful guess in Kindergarten speak!) what the weather would be like and how they would prepare for the weather each day.
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cumulonimbus cloud can bring heavy rains, wind, and even lightning!
As a follow up, Mr. Musselman came in again on Weather Wednesday to share with students how clouds can be used to predict the weather. Students examined different kinds of clouds and shared what kinds of weather they would have to prepare if they saw these clouds outside their window. Mr. Musselman wrapped up the presentation by showing students how to make their own cloud, stopping at each ingredient to give students time to think about where on Earth they would find heat, water, and cold air to construct the much larger clouds in the sky!
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Kindergarteners offer answers as to why predicting the weather is so important.
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Kindergarteners offer answers as to why predicting the weather is so important.

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