Friday, February 8, 2013

Our Cloud Diorama

Mama Voyager came up with a great idea to help the little voyagers remember the kinds of clouds they have been studying. A Cloud Diorama! We worked together on this at the end of the day. It was a great way to reinforce the names and kinds of clouds: 

High - Middle - Low - Fair Weather - Precipitation Clouds
Cirrus - Stratus - Cumulus - Nimbocumulus


We covered the edges of a big cereal box with foil tape.
(Did you know they made this? I didn't!)


Spiderman helped glue in the colored paper for the background.
  
While Rosetta printed cloud labels...


 Saralina traced the cloud names in the Mini Cloud Helper booklet.


Mama Voyager and Saralina used a sewing needle and thread to hang the clouds.


What do you think of the finished diorama?  And what do you think the first thing the little voyagers wanted to do with it? Why, make a puppet show, of course! We shall see.  

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I tried re-googling to find the cloud diagram we used to cut out the cloud forms for the diorama, but we googled that at Mama Voyager's house, and I can't seem to repeat the search results on my computer.

But I did find come cool cloud reference charts:


From Keeping it Easy and Simple - This one could be used as a reference to draw your own clouds.

This one from Our Family of Flowers would make a great bookmark! (They have a GREAT weather/cloud post!)


If you want your child to have a little more practice identifying cloud heights, you might use this nifty worksheet from Have Fun Teaching.

Hi Ho A Cloudy Oh!

1 comment:

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