Expand the Theme to Centers Use these center activities to further explore the seasons and weather.
Science Center Rainstick Stories Provide supplies children can use to make rainsticks. Use dry beans to fill paper towel tubes and fabric or wax paper and rubber bands to cover the ends. Find ways to incorporate children’s rainsticks into
Art Center Colors in the Rain
Provide drawing paper, spray bottles with water, and markers in orange, red, brown, green, gray, blue, purple, and yellow—the colors used in The Deep Blue Sea . Encourage children to make drawings inspired by the book, and, if they’d like, use the spray bottle to see how “rain” changes the drawing.
other classroom activities, such as using them for sound effects as they listen to or tell stories that involve rain.
Dramatic Play What’s the Weather?
Classroom Library Extend the theme by adding related books and media to your classroom library. • What Will the Weather Be Like Today? by Paul Rogers, illustrated by Kazuko • The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats (Weston Woods Book with Audio) • Mushroom in the Rain by Mirra Ginsburg (Weston Woods Book with Audio) • The Rain Came Down/Y siguió lloviendo (English or Spanish) by David Shannon • Rainy Day Stories (including Come On
Set up the dramatic play area so that children can take turns being a weather reporter. Tape a map to a metal cookie sheet and provide magnetic weather symbols (clouds, sun, rain, snow, wind, etc.) that children can place on the map as they report the weather. Have short cardboard tubes available for microphones.
Rain by Karen Hesse) (Weston Woods Video)
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