Get your students looking up and learning about the clouds in the sky with this engaging lesson plan designed for preschool and homeschool students.
Cloudy Sky Finger Paintings
Give each student a piece of light blue construction paper. Put a few blobs of white and black finger paint on each paper and let students blend the colors to create cloudy sky scenes. Point out how white and black make gray when blended together. When the paint is dry, let your students place black cut outs of trees and houses in front of their cloudy skies and glue them in place. (fine motor skills)
Cloudy Sky Observation Journal
Over the course of a week (watch the weather and try to choose a week that will have some rain and some partly cloudy days) give students a weather journal with five pictures of a simple scene (such as a tree and house) with a lot of sky space above. Let them go outside and observe the clouds in the sky and then record their observations. Rainy days should have dark gray clouds with rain and cloudy days with no rain will have white clouds with a blue sky behind it. Point out to your students that clouds don’t always mean rain. (science)
Cloudy Shapes
Give each student a piece of white paper to tear into a freeform cloud shape and let them glue it to a piece of blue paper. Underneath the cloud write, My cloud looks like a _____. (Fill in the blank with what the student thinks the cloud looks like). Have each child sign his or her cloud and create a bulletin board with their artwork. (language arts, fine motor skills)
Cloudy Counters
Take 15 index cards. On the first five, write the words “one” through “five.” On the second set of five write the numerals 1-5. On the third set of five, draw sets of clouds starting with one cloud on the card all the way to five clouds on the card. Let students match up the different representations of each number (word, numeral, and group) on a pocket chart. (math)
Lacing Cloud
Cut a cloud shape out of cardstock for each child and punch holes around the edge in ½ to 1 inch intervals. Tape a long piece of blue or gray yarn to the back of the cloud and tape the loose end of yarn to make a “needle.” Show students how to lace around the edges of their cloud. (fine motor skills)
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