We have officially finished up on our cloud study!  Here are some miscellaneous things we’ve done recently to finish up.

Bible Devotion:

We read Matthew 17:1-8 (The Transfiguration) – again God chose to appear in a cloud.  One look in a concordance and I was amazed at how many verses there were to do with clouds; and especially God appearing in them (invisible to man, made visible through nature)

Art Studies:

We sat in front of our computer and went through Amanda's Clouds in Art Show.  First the kids picked their favorite painting from the show and filled out the notebook page; and then they put their hand to trying their version of that picture.

Alex’s Version of Lawren Harris – Clouds, Lake Superior

Hannah’s Version of Claude Monet – Water Lilies (The Clouds)

Also, Hannah and I completed another art assignment from the book Monet and the Impressionists for Kids, by C. Sabbeth called “Painting the Shimmering Sky”.  We used crayon to make cloud images in the background.  And then we painted over the background with watercolors (the wax clouds resisting the watercolor).  Also we filled in the grass with watercolor.  Then, on a separate piece of paper we sketched non-detailed images of a person of our choice and colored it in with either crayon or colored pencil, cut it out and glued it to our background.  Hannah, of course, chose Wonder Woman, well at least she put her in an elegant skirt!

Vocabulary and Science:

We have been keeping up with some cloud vocabulary, our latest focus being the word “condensation”.  I had them write the word and definition in their absolute best handwriting. 

And then we did two different quick demonstrations of how condensation happens:  1)  blew hot air from our mouths onto a cold spoon, and 2) poured an ice cold glass of lemonade and observed the glass sweating.

We have also been continuing to periodically fill out our Cloud Identification Pages.  And I’ve gotten myself in the habit of asking the kids what type of clouds are out each opportunity that I have, whether on a nature study, or even driving in the car.  Often, they've been bringing it up to me!

We read more from Take a Cloud Walk.  Most recently we read the section on hail, and completed the yummy demonstration of how hail forms using chocolate covered strawberries.

 I think this was the kid’s favorite demonstration!  I just left them for a minute, Ridiculous!!!

Math:

Alex did a math activity to reinforce grouping and counting by tens.  He took an outline of a water droplet that had 100 smaller droplets on the inside.  He first gave his estimate of how many droplets he thought were in the drop.  And then he circled groups of tens and then counted them up to see how many there actually were.

Language Arts (Creative Writing):

Hannah wrote story about her favorite type of cloud.  I got her started using the following sentence:

Once upon a time there was a (type of cloud) cloud named __________.

Photography:

And, we’ve continued to take more photos of different types of clouds to add to our nature journals.  Here are a few of our recent additions!

 This photo has numerous cloud types

(cirrus, altocumulus, and stratocumulus were the ones we could see)

Cumulus Clouds - Fair Weather!

Stratus Clouds (Fog)

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