It is hard for us to call this an autumn weather study… since the weather around here is decidedly winter these days. Here are our few brief observations between helping Daddy shovel the driveway and full out playing in the snow.
Observations at around 3pm:
Cloudy – sky was all gray
Snowing – big, wet flakes (accumulation was less than 1″)
Windy – (I looked up later that the wind was about 13mph from W)
Temperature – right at freezing 32F
Snowman conditions… perfect. Sledding conditions… a bit sticky and slow.
Join in the Outdoor Hour Challenge #40.
We started this nature study in a most unusual way… on the sofa watching tv. We watched the Magic School Bus episode “Wet All Over” about the Water Cycle (on The Magic School Bus: Catches a Wave DVD). We then read Oh Say Can You Say What’s the Weather Today?: All About Weather before digging for mittens and heading outside.
Have I mentioned it is cold here? This was our first sunny afternoon in several days and the kids were quite happy to get out to play in what was left of yesterday’s snow. We took a few minutes to look at the clouds but they were really much more interested in what was going on beneath their feet.
Bug pretty much has the water cycle down. After I asked him a few questions about the state of water around us I left him to his own devices. He was really interested in watching his breath and collecting icicles.
Unknown to me, Bug brought several icicles in the house when we decided it was time to warm up. He wanted to see what would happen. Sure… but can we not have them just sitting on the sofa please? 😉 I got him a little jar to place the icicles in for his experiment.
I did have to tell him later that it probably isn’t a good idea to drink water from melted icicles found hanging off of who knows what outside and out of a jar we use for painting no less. LOL. Boys!
