This week in Writing and Drawing, you can write and illustrate your own book. Your story can be nonfiction, about something that is real or true, or it can be fiction, about something pretend or made up.

Materials:

Several pieces of paper folded in half; drawing/writing utensils.

Things to think and talk to your family about!

• What was the inspiration for your story?

• Is your story fiction or nonfiction? How will a reader know?

Things to know:

• author: person who writes a story

• illustrator: person who creates pictures

• create: make

*SeeSaw assignment

Take a Break and Play Outside!

Do you feel any wind. Can you see the wind? Is the wind helping you or not helping you? Think about these things while you run and play but most of all have fun!

You can listen to Gilberto and the Wind, One Dark Night, or other books about wind, water or weather. You can ask a family member to read to you. You can also read a different book by yourself or with a family member.

Things to Talk and Think about

• What kind of weather did you learn about from reading this book?

• How is it helpful to learn information about weather?

*SeeSaw assignment

Try one of these MIndfulness Activities

In Gilberto And The Wind, Gilberto made a sailboat and the wind propelled it- blew it across the water.

Look at these pictures of sail boats

Think and talk with your family:

How are these sailboats similar to or different from Gilberto’s sailboat?

Today, you can use Beautiful Stuff to make sailboats

Look at these slides for directions!

Materials and Preparation: Making Sailboats paper, scissors, tape, bottle caps or tops, chopsticks or other type of stick,

*SeeSaw assignment

Look through the slides with your family for directions:

You will need:

A craft stick, straw, or pencil

A small piece of string or ribbon

A piece of tape

Tape the string or ribbon to one end of your stick, straw, or pencil.

Take your wind sock outside.

Hold your wind sock up into the air and have someone take your picture.

Talk and Think about:

Wind Direction- which way your string blows

Wind Speed- how far up your string blows

*SeeSaw assignment

In One Dark Night there was a thunderstorm. How did the illustrator use color and lines to illustrate the storm? This week in Art, you can make a painting inspired by the storm pictures, One Dark Night, or other books you’ve read about storms. Look through these pictures for inspiration.

*SeeSaw assignment

In Gilberto And The Wind, the wind blew Gilberto’s balloon, and the gate that he sat on. What do you notice? What else did the wind blow in Gilberto and the Wind? Today in Building, you can use Beautiful Stuff to build stable structures that the wind can’t topple. After you build your structure, test its stability by blowing hard or using a paper fan.

Materials and Preparation:

Beautiful Stuff (boxes and containers); paper (folded to make a fan)

In One Dark Night, Jonathan helped the mother cat and her kittens take shelter from the thunderstorm. How else did Jonathan care for the mother cat and her kittens? People often care for animals by giving them food, shelter, and if they are sick, by taking them to a veterinarian--an animal doctor. You can pretend to take care of animals at home, or to be a veterinarian and care for animals when they are sick.

Materials & Preparation:

Bowls (for animal food and water); blanket or cloth; Beautiful Stuff (to use as food, medicine, toys. leash); toy or stuffed animals if children have them at home. Otherwise, they could make stuffed animals using mittens, socks, and Beautiful Stuff {see guide} or ask a family member to play with them and take turns pretending to be a favorite animal.