This week, during our weather PBL, we have talked all about WIND! We first discussed what we knew about wind...
Then I gave my friends "kites" made out of grocery bags and yarn. We tried to fly our kites inside by standing in one place. It didn't happen! We talked about why it didn't happen. We realized, it needed wind! Tyler showed us how moving air (wind) helped the kite to fly!
It was a particularly windy day on Wednesday, so we went outside to fly our kites!
Needless to say, it was a LOT of fun! :-)
After we went outside and flew kites, we came inside and we wrote about our experience, what we knew about wind and what our experience with our kites made us think about!
"When Tyler flew his kite in the class room it did not fly, but when we went outside with our class, it flew. You see, wind made it fly! It flew. Look at this picture. Look at me running."
"Wind, it blows grass. It blows leaves."
"Birds can fly without wind, but kites can't fly without wind."
"Wind is strong. Wind comes from a windmill, and wind comes from the sky, and wind comes from a tornado."
"When we went outside the kites were flying."
"Birds and kites are not the same because birds can fly on their own."
"When Tyler was inside, there was no wind, but when we went outside, there was wind and our kites were flying."
"Wind. Do you like wind? I do. I like wind because I like to fly kites! Sometimes wind can be tornadoes."
I absolutely LOVE this unit! We have so much fun and we learn a lot. We are going to have so much fun participating in our Easter Egg hunt this afternoon and learning more about weather in the upcoming weeks.
