Color with attitude![TM]. (Advertisement).Wild and Woolly wool·ly also wool·y adj. wool·li·er also wool·i·er, wool·li·est also wool·i·est 1. a. Relating to, consisting of, or covered with wool. b. Resembling wool. 2. a. Weather March is here! With its delightful spectrum of weather surprises, this month marks the end of winter and the arrival of spring. From light snowfalls to stormy rains, or even warm breezes, March makes learning about weather interesting--and fun! Activities K-3 WEATHER BALLOONS weather balloon, balloon used in the measurement and evaluation of mostly upper atmospheric conditions (see atmosphere). Information may be gathered during the vertical ascent of the balloon through the atmosphere or during its motions once it has reached a . Meteorologists Atmospheric scientists
adj. Producing or imparting color. colored pencils to decorate each weather balloon and to draw a picture of the day's weather in the box. IN LIKE A LION... Teach your students this familiar bit of March wisdom: "In like a lion, out like a lamb." Then invite children to create their own weather lions or lambs. Have students list several adjectives that best describe the "personality" of their animal choice. Then ask them to add a weather-related noun noun [Lat.,=name], in English, part of speech of vast semantic range. It can be used to name a person, place, thing, idea, or time. It generally functions as subject, object, or indirect object of the verb in the sentence, and may be distinguished by a number of to each adjective adjective, English part of speech, one of the two that refer typically to attributes and together are called modifiers. The other kind of modifier is the adverb. to describe a weather condition. For example, a lion is "fierce," a lamb is "gentle," and wind can be either fierce or gentle. On the body of the lion or lamb, have the children record their phrases. They then create a head, legs, and tail to glue to their lions and lambs, coloring them with Colorific markers. WEATHER TIMELINE. Use the weather balloons to create a timeline of the month's weather. Label a long strip of paper with each date, using Colorific markers. Then have a different student post a weather balloon each day that illustrates the day's weather. Use your time line to pose questions for the class; for example: How many days did it rain this month? BEAR-Y WEATHER TALES. Using Colorific markers, create a list of up to 12 weather words (such as rain, snow, sun, sleet sleet, precipitation of small, partially melted grains of ice. As raindrops fall from clouds, they pass through layers of air at different temperatures. If they pass through a layer with a temperature below the freezing point, they turn into sleet. , warm, breeze) on chart paper. Then ask children to write a story about a bear who wakes from his long winter's nap in the month of March. Each time they use a word from the list, have them write it in the corresponding color from the list. Display the Colorific illustrated stories on a class bulletin board. CIRCLE NO.26 ON PRODUCT INFO CARD |
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