Week Two of Winter Camp, a Wednesday Was Weather Day. Okay...that was fun just to have all those Ws in a row. I'm a nerd like that--have to enjoy the small pleasures in life!
The first period basically was another, "lets see how much you know" period. They knew a lot so I basically abandoned the worksheet I had and we did brainstorming about weather words. I put a word on the board and then they had to come up and write a word associated with the big bubble word.
We did four of these, and they couldn't repeat a word once it had been used on one brain storm bubble. Thus, we arrive to "crying people" when thinking about storm.
Next we came did a Jeopardy game dealing with weather. Doing Jeopardy games are a great way to fill a period because the kids really enjoy them and you can tailor them quiet easily to any subject.
For the last period we made rainsticks. I had this idea for part of my Survivor themed camp and thought I could roughly attach it to the Weather Day because, hey, RAINstick--of course it works! So I showed them a really quick powerpoint that was extremely stereotypical and over-simplified of Native Americans and what Rain Sticks are. I had asked the students all week to bring in paper towel rolls, and then I brought in some dried rice, beans, aluminum foil, and in the arts and crafts supplies we colored paper for decorating, tape and scissors.
I took them through the steps and we finished just in time--with one or two students actually starting to decorate. I was actually a little floored because everyone stayed an extra 20-30 minutes to keep decorating their rain stick. I did NOT expect that!
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| Putting Beans in the rain stick... |
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| Shake Shake...."It doesn't sound like rain!" |
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| Decoration time. |
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| Danny was probably the best English speaker of the bunch and he was quiet witty. This is his rainstick.... |
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| One little rainstick. Two Little Rainstick. All lined up in a row. |
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