Platt Discovery Cottage

Cloud Study

January 8th, 2010

One of the things I love about homeschooling is that if we are talking about something in particular, we can actually see/experience that particular thing (for the most part).

Take, for example, clouds.   We we supposed to start a unit on clouds in the mid to late fall.  How lovely that we can go outside at any time, stare up at the sky and study the clouds.

I continued to put this unit off again and again.  However, the holidays were the time to catch up and get all the first term lessons caught up.

You may have asked yourself why I couldn’t do the cloud study as planned.  Well, we had no clouds.  Just grey skies for quite some time.  Not overly condusive to cloud study.  Unless you only want to study stratus clouds, which we didn’t.

So, I ended up doing what I always hated doing as a teacher.  I had to print out photos of clouds, which I found on the internet, and we talked about them that way.  I know Fuss could think back to having seen those clouds in the sky, but it really was not how I like to go about things now that I’m out of the classroom (and he’s never been in one to experience this type of teaching).

He still had fun making the three main cloud types out of coton balls:

He looks particularly jazzed about clouds here.

 Enjoying the journey,  Amanda

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