Forcast: Clouds, Rainbows and Tie-Dye

Staycation Week 5 : We are learning about Science

On Monday we learned about Colors, Clouds, Rainbows

and for a fun activity we tie-dyed t-shirts.

I put together a packet for the kids to fill out.

The first page was the colorwheel

the primary colors are Red,Yellow and Blue

the secondary colors are Orange, Purple and Green

They had to blend the primary colors to achieve the secondary colors

sorry, I can't get the image to turn the right way

Next we made rainbows by gluing on froot loops for the colors

and mini marshmallows for the clouds

Then we counted up how many froot loops were in each color

The red one usually had the most and purple had the least

They had to use tally marks to help count.

There are ten types of clouds in our atmosphere

I created a worksheet with a brief description of each type of cloud

and a box to illustrate what it looked like

This activity was a little advanced for our younger learners

so I had them go outside and draw a picture of the clouds they saw

Then I identified them as the Nimbostratus Clouds

Thick heavy rain clouds that hang low in the sky

Here is J-Man's illustrations of clouds

Next we played the raindrop game

To play you roll three dice, add the total,

 then cover the corresponding raindrop with the umbrella

I-Man played and was frustrated

he could not roll three sixes to complete the game.

After about ten minutes he finally rolled three sixes

and refused to let anyone touch the dice.

The younger kids played together and colored in the raindrops.

J-Man, A.L. and J.L. all rolled one dice, then I helped

them count to find the sum of the dice

Next we tie-dyed our shirts

A.L.'s shirt

The first color she chose to put on her shirt was black.

J.L. chose some fun colors for his shirt

I-Man didn't like all the white left on his shirt

so he continued to dye it with his fingers.

I-Man's shirt all finished

J-Man's shirt

I-Man thought it was so fun he ran to

his room to find something else to dye

He found his pillowcase

I have my shirt all twisted and banded

Tie-Dye table

My shirt dyed and tied

My shirt all finished

I-Man's pillowcase finished

What a colorful day!