Materials:

blank books, writing/drawing tools, storm pictures

To do: In One Dark Night there was a thunderstorm. This week in Writing and Drawing, you can draw and write about storms inspired by the storm pictures in One Dark Night or other books you’ve read about storms. Look at the storm pictures for inspiration and/or listen again to One Dark Night!

To think and talk with your family about:

How is your story similar to or different from One Dark Night?

Why did you use these colors to illustrate your story?

Try one ore more of these poses

Cat Pose, Rabbit Pose, or Sleepy Rabbits

Facilitation:

What do you notice about how much water has been collected in your rain gauge?

What does the amount of water tell you about how much precipitation there has been over the past few days?

Key Vocabulary:

• precipitation: the rain, sleet, or snow that falls from the sky

• meteorologist: a person who studies the weather

• rain gauge: a tool for measuring how much rain has fallen

Have fun playing outside!

Is there any precipitation? What kind is it?

Materials: box lid; markers; paper (cut to fit inside box lid); eye dropper or small squeeze bottle, cut straw, or tiny spoon (for dripping water); Rabbits and Raindrops, One Dark Night

To notice: In Rabbits And Raindrops, when the rain dripped on the baby rabbits their fur did not repel, or keep out, the water, and they started to get wet. Their fur did not protect them from the rain.

In One Dark Night, the rain dripped off the mother cat’s fur when she brought them into Jonathan’s house.

To do: This week in Art, you can create designs by making the ink from markers drip on paper inside a box, like the one Jonathan used as a bed for the mother cat and her kittens.

1. draw a design on the paper.

2. drop water on the design using the eye dropper, squeeze bottle, or spoon

3. See what will happen if I tilt the box lid!

Things to think about and try:

What happens when you use more or less water?

What happens when you tilt the box lid a little/lot?

How is the water dripping on your painting similar to or different from the water dripping on the rabbits in Rabbits and Raindrops and on the kittens in One Dark Night?

Materials: bowls (for animal food and water); blanket or cloth; Beautiful Stuff (to use as food, medicine, toys. leash); toy or stuffed animals if you have them at home. Or you can make animals out of paper or Beautiful Stuff, or ask a family member to play with you and take turns pretending to be a favorite animal;

To do:

This week you can continue to pretend to be a veterinarian and care for animals when they are sick. You can write prescriptions, record data and make pretend money to pay for veterinarian visits.

Click on these links for some papers to print out if you want to!

Bow Chicka Meow Pet Clinic

Pet Patient Form

Animal Hospital Records

Complete these activities on SeeSaw

Materials: Rabbits and Raindrops English, Rabbit Habitat Images; Beautiful Stuff (cardboard boxes, cardboard tubes-empty paper towel and toilet paper rolls-, fabric, paper); pretend rabbits

To know

In Rabbits and Raindrops, the mother and baby rabbits took shelter from a rain shower under a hedge. The hedge is part of the rabbit’s habitat, the place where the rabbits live. Look at the pictures above of other rabbit habitats.

To do:This week you can use Beautiful Stuff to construct rabbit habitats. And play in them!

To talk and think about:

What part(s) of your habitat could a rabbit use for shelter?

How is your rabbit habitat similar to or different from your home?