In Writing and Drawing this week, you can write and draw a fictional or non fictional story about an animal.

In A Hat for Minerva Louise, Minerva Louise is a chicken. Is she a fictional--pretend--chicken, or a non-fictional--real--chicken? How do you know? In Rabbits and Raindrops, are the rabbits fictional--pretend-- or non-fictional--real? How do you know?

Draw pictures and write words for your story. A grown up can help write the words if you want them to!

When you are finished post your story on SeeSaw!

Here are more books about animals. Listen to them for more ideas or inspiration for your story!

This week, we will continue learning about weather.

We will be meteorologists and collect data about the weather using the wind sock and rain gauge we made.

You may choose to do this outside, or by a window.

1. Watch the video to hear all of the directions

2. Start recording your .

3. Talk about what you can observe in the sky.

4. Talk about your wind sock

5. Talk about your rain gauge

6. Optional: post your video to SeeSaw!

While you are playing, think about what you notice about the weather!

In Rabbits and Raindrops, there were trees, hedges, and other animals in the rabbits’ habitat where they lived. They took shelter from the rain under the hedge. Here are images of other animals in their habitats. An animal’s habitat provides it with protection from weather and from predators--animals that eat them. A habitat also provides an animal with food.

This week in Building, you can construct animal habitats using Beautiful Stuff. First decide which animal and its habitat you want to make. You can use some of the books about animals and their habitats to research what you need to create the habitat.

Materials: Images of habitats, animal books, Beautiful Stuff (cardboard boxes, cardboard tubes-empty paper towel and toilet paper rolls, fabric, paper); materials from nature (sticks, pine cones, rocks, leaves)

In Rabbits And Raindrops, the mother rabbit sheltered her babies from a rain shower under the hedge because their fur was not waterproof--it could not keep out the rain. The rain dripped off the rabbits’ fur.

This week in Art, you can create raindrop illustrations. First, draw on a waterproof surface (plastic or wax covered) with a marker, then spray or squeeze water on your drawing, making the water drip like raindrops. What do you predict will happen? Why?

Materials and Preparation: slideshow with directions, plastic containers, placemats, or flattened wax-covered cardboard (e.g. juice carton); markers; small spray bottle or cloth, or paper towel (to squeeze water)

Please be sure you have competed your letter work & posted on SeeSaw. Letter Writing pages and Letter Activity pages are here, at top of page, and on SeeSaw

Try these Yoga Poses: Warrior I and Warrior II