Head in the clouds: May 2016

Monday 30 May 2016

May in Oust-Marest

Millimeters of rain in May

Sunday 29 May 2016

ACTIVITIES IN SLOVENIA - MAY

Clouds and extreme weather phenomena

Project: Head in the Clouds

Implementation activities: 9. 5. - 13. 5. 2016

Age of pupils: 4 – 6 let

Mentor: Nuša Križnik

Activities:

MONDAY:

ü Talk about weather, clouds, extreme weather phenomena

ü Making weather calendar

ü See the extreme weather phenomena on youtube

ü Performed measurements - 1. measurement

TUESDAY:

ü Called clouds, make table

ü Predict the weather, occupation meteorologist

ü Making weather puppets

WEDNESDAY:

üPlay weather fairytale

üObserving clouds

THURSDAY:

ü Play weather fairytale

ü Observing clouds, naming clouds

ü Painting clouds

FRIDAY:

ü Creative dance: imitation weather phenomenons (Four Seasons, A. Vivaldi)

ü Prepared exhibition

ü Performed measurements - 2. Measurement

Photos

1. Making weather calendar: pupils painted different weather situation on the cards and they put the cards in the calendar every day.

1. What we are gonna do? Pupils has decided, that they gonna make weather puppets and play weather story. They created the sun, the clouds, the rainbow, the rain, the tornado, the wind …

1. Making poster about extreme weather phenomena: pupils painting, what they know.

1. Playing the story about weather

1. Naming the clouds

6.Exhibition: clouds and extreme weather phenomena

MEASUREMENTS

1. Which clouds do you know?

1. Measurment: 1 (9.5.)

2. Measurment: 4 (13.5.)

1. Which extreme weather phenomena do you know?

1. Measurment – 4 (9.5.)

2. Measurment – 10 (13.5.)

The pupils liked to talk about weather, clouds and extreme weather phenomena. Pupils learned that we know differend clouds and that the clouds has names. The names ware very interesting to them.

When i asked them if they know the name of the clouds, they had know one. In the end of the week, they know four.

When i asked them if they know any extreme weather phenomena, they know tornado, hail, storm and flood. On the end of the week they know 10 e. w. phenomena (tornado, storm, flood, hail, sleet, lightning,avalanche, drought, earthquake, hurricane.

Activites in Slovenia - may

''CLOUD IN A JAR''

Nature is a topic from the curriculum with which children's capacities for active cooperation and inclusion into our surrounding physical and social environment are regularly being developed. We put the majority of focus onto acquiring plenty experiences with living beings, natural phenomena and joy in exploration and new discoveries.

Weather is a natural phenomena that takes place in the atmosphere. The four- and five-year-olds have however brought a part of the weather wonders into our classroom. We recreated the conditions in which clouds occur – in a jar no less! Glass jars were the location where clouds formed and children observed processes of cooling and condensation and were amazed by the formation of little clouds.

We previously observed clouds in the sky, commented on them in videos and listened to an Eric Carle story Little Cloud. With hands-on experiences children got to know the physical environment that surrounds us all.

Narava je posebno področje, v okviru katerega razvijamo otrokove sposobnosti za dejavno vključevanje v obdajajoče fizično in družbeno okolje. Poudarek je na pridobivanju izkušenj z živimi bitji, naravnimi pojavi ter veselju v raziskovanju in odkrivanju. Področje postopno razvija naravoslovne pojme preko nezavednih procesov.

Vreme je pojav, ki se dogaja v atmosferi, v oddelku 4-5 let vrtca Tabor pa smo delček vremenskih pojavov prenesli v igralnico. Poustvarili smo pogoje za nastajanje oblakov. V steklenih loncih so otroci opazovali procesa ohlajanja in kondenzacij ter se čudili ob nastajanju majhnih oblakov v kozarcu.

Oblake smo opazovali na nebu, na posnetku in v zgodbi Erica Carla Little Cloud ter tako na konkreten način spoznavali fizično okolje, ki nas obdaja.