Go Along Activities and resources for the storybook, Storm in the Night.

You've seen what our days look liked this week , and how I planned for this row , and now here is our finished row! (For those who prefer ...

If you’ve stumbled here from Pinterest, or some other site … welcome! While each of these books/lessons can stand alone, they are also a part of a year-long series that we have taught at our homeschool co-op. Each lesson builds in part on the one …

You've seen what our days look liked this week , and how I planned for this row , and now here is our finished row! (For those who prefer ...

So here is our completed lapbook for our the Storm in the Night. We used some materials from Homeschool Share, but for the most part I made my own graphics for this one. Feel free to click on the l…

Storm in the Night by Mary Stolz This story is about a little boy and his grandfather sitting through a storm that has taken out the elec...

What a great first week of second grade! We have tried to row Storm in the night before, but something always got in the way. We had lots of...

I am several weeks behind. Three weeks ago, we "rowed" Storm in the Night by Mary Stolz. Storm in the night. Thunder like mountains ...

Go Along Activities and resources for the storybook, Storm in the Night.

Go Along Activities and resources for the storybook, Storm in the Night.

What a great first week of second grade! We have tried to row Storm in the night before, but something always got in the way. We had lots of thunderstorms in the forecast this week, so this seemed like a good time to try again. Storm in the Night is about a boy and his grandfather. The power goes out during a thunderstorm, and the grandfather tells the boy a story from his childhood. It is very sweet. We kicked off our week (and our year) with a yummy cloud snack! We Googled "cloud viewer", and found an image to print. We went outside every day, looked at the clouds and determined what types of clouds were in the sky. Some days, there were more than one type! We watched the weather report every day, and at the end of the week, Lily gave her own weather report. We made a rain gauge and placed it outside. We got lots of storms this week, so we had a chance to see it in action. We made an anemometer to help us see how fast the wind blows. The faster the cups are spinning, the faster the wind is blowing. We placed it outside near the rain gauge. We had our own mini weather center going on! We watched several movies this week to help us learn about weather. We watched Rachel and the Treeschoolers-Rainy Day, The Magic School Bus-Wet All Over, Rock N Learn-Earth Science, and The Magic School Bus-Kicks Up a Storm. We made a water cycle bracelet. Just take a pipe cleaner, and put some beads on in the order of the weather cycle: Yellow-Sun, Clear-Evaporation, White-Condensation/Clouds, Blue-Rain, Green-Groundwater/Collection. We made a water cycle mobile. I just checked Pinterest for this, and there are a couple of pins that have the pictures of them. We did an experiment. The sponge represents the cloud. Lily put water into the cloud. She saw that clouds hold a lot of water, and when they get too full, it rains. For math, we talked about patterns, and made some different patterns using the Geoboard. We talked about "comfort food", and then we made the recipe in the cookbook-Baked Mac N Cheese. The book didn't specify a location. Lily decided to place our story disk on Northern TX after we discussed "Tornado Alley", and how some areas of the country get more storms than others. We did another cloud/rain experiment. This worked the same way as the sponge experiment, but was a little more visual in nature. The illustrations in Storm in the Night were done in acrylics. Lily painted a picture using acrylic paints for art this week. Our final science experiment was a convection current activity. The ice cubes push the cold "air" down, and the warm "air" is forced up. This causes the instability in the atmosphere that produces thunderstorms. We talked about onomatopoeia, and did a couple of activities with it. This is an onomatopoeia mobile. I found the idea for this activity at: http://homeschoolingmom2mags.blogspot.com/2013/09/storm-in-night.html We discussed the five senses. In the book, the power was out, so the little boy noticed that he could hear and smell much better when he could see. We decided to play "Pin the Tail on the Unicorn", since Lily needed to be blindfolded to play. :) We completed the Fold N Learn from FIAR. If you want to get awesome Fold N Learns to go with a lot of the books, just go to http://fiveinarow.com/, and subscribe to their blog. You will get a link to them. They are great! We also did the parts of the manual that were conversational. We discussed fears, aging, relationships, personification, sources of light and more. It was a great week! Looking forward to The Finest Horse in Town next week. See you soon!

Hi! Last week we completed our Five in a Row study on the book The Storm in the night, by Mary Stolz. I was going to start on P...

Go Along Activities and resources for the storybook, Storm in the Night.

I am several weeks behind. Three weeks ago, we "rowed" Storm in the Night by Mary Stolz. Storm in the night. Thunder like mountains ...

Our unit on "Storm in the Night" has been all about weather. There are so many fun weather experiments to do! We read: - "Down Comes the Rain" by Franklyn Mansfield Branley - "Flash Crash Rumble and Roll" by Franklyn Mansfield Branley I can't believe how much I learned about thunder and lightning in this story! - "A Drop of Water" by Gordon Morrison - "A Rainbow of My Own" by Don Freeman - "Like A Windy Day" by Frank Asch - "Thundercake" by Patricia Polacco Polacco is a fantastic storyteller. "Thundercake" is about how a little girl shows bravery despite being scared of a storm. The Girl really wanted to make a Thundercake when we were done with this story! - "Courage" by Bernard Waber This story is about having courage, which can include during storms! - "Wind is to Feel" by Shirley Cook Hatch As you read through this story, there are tons of tactile things for kids to do to help them understand wind better. We did: Making rain in a jar by observing how hot air condenses at the top and then drips back down. For this experiment you just need 2 jars and hot water. Put hot water into one jar and place the other one upside down over the first to capture the air. We know a homeschool family with a middle schooler, and they're enjoying a bunch of chemistry experiments and games in a unit published by the American Chemistry Society. This was a great game that shows how water molecules like to join together, but you can separate them back out, too! As we got ready for two of our experiments for the day, I read to the kiddos out of our DK Weather book. We also made rain in a jar with shaving cream, water and food coloring. By watching how the food coloring finds its way through the shaving cream we learned how rain falls down from the clouds. This experiment taught us a bit about tornadoes. We used the most clear soda we had on hand (Ginger Ale), added water and then agitated the water in a circle. A funnel formed! We did this one until my arm was too tired! So cool! Salt and ice cubes in the can. Shake it up, and watch the magic! Frost forms! Find all my posts on "Storm in the Night" here.

What a great first week of second grade! We have tried to row Storm in the night before, but something always got in the way. We had lots of...

While doing our unit study on "Storm in the Night" by Mary Stolz, we took the time to focus on clouds. We did: I printed us off Cloud Viewers that I found via Pinterest so that we could ID the various types of clouds. We made Cloud Dough: This was a mostly for-fun activity. We made cloud dough (8 cups flour and 1 cup baby oil). Oh, so soft! Then the kiddos just played in it while I read them "Storm in the Night." Great tactile activity. Glad we did it outside because things got a bit white all over! We made our own cloud shapes out with paper, glue and cottonballs. "I looked up in the sky and though I saw a ________, but it was just a cloud in the sky." I found a great web site that had several poems about clouds as well as fog, rain and the water cycle. We love the Water Cycle Song (sung to the tune of She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain). What a great way to learn about the water cycle! We even made up actions to go with it. Water travels in a cycle, yes it does Water travels in a cycle, yes it does It goes up as evaporation And forms clouds as condensation Then comes down as precipitation, yes it does. Then we made our own water cycle artwork to put into our Kindergarten Notebook. We made Fluffy Cloud Paint (equal amounts of Elmer's Glue and Shaving Cream). The Girl spread the white concoction around on blue paper using popsicle sticks. We read: - "Do You Know that Clouds Have Names?" - Online book from The Globe Program - "Clouds" by Anne F. Rockwell - "It Looked Like Spilt Milk" by Charles Green Shaw - "Little Cloud" by Eric Carle One of The Girl's favorites - "The Cloud Book" by Tomie DePaola One of my favorite books - "Thundercake" by Patricia Polacco Polacco is a fantastic storyteller. "Thundercake" is about how a little girl shows bravery despite being scared of a storm. The Girl really wanted to make a Thundercake when we were done with this story! Find other posts on "Storm in the Night" here.

Go Along Activities and resources for the storybook, Storm in the Night.

I am several weeks behind. Three weeks ago, we "rowed" Storm in the Night by Mary Stolz. Storm in the night. Thunder like mountains blowing up. Lightning licking the navy-blue sky. Rain streaming down the windows, babbling in the downspouts. And Grandfather? . . . And Thomas? . . . And Ringo, the cat? They were in the dark. This wasn't my favorite book we have read so far, but we did several fun activities along with it to make it more interesting. In the book, there is a storm that makes the power go out. To pass the time, grandfather tells stories of when he was a child. It just so happened that my dad was in this week as we were studying this book. He got to read it to them one day, which I thought was great because it was about a boy and his grandfather.   The boy in the book couldn't even imagine his grandfather ever being a young boy. He asked him if there were cars and electricity when he was a boy. The grandfather scoffed and said, "How old do you think I am??" The boys thought this part of the story was funny. The boy said a grandfather could never be a boy and boys could never be grandfathers. I have an app on my phone that the boys play with often. Here are their photos in the aging booth: Lucas' cracks me up. He wasn't in the mood to take a picture. He looks like a grumpy old grandpa. We did some weather experiments that I found on Pinterest. We talked about the water cycle and made this with shaving cream and food coloring. Landon taught them about wind. Lane playing on the porch while we were checking out the wind that day. I made these cloud cards that I saw on Pinterest. They had fun using them to see what kinds of clouds were in the sky. This was a fun project with cotton balls. We also did a unit study on Tornadoes by Amanda Bennett. I was concerned it might make them afraid like it did me when I was little, but thankfully it didn't. We talked about what some fears they have and I reminded them we have nothing to fear if God is on our side. We made tornadoes in a jar. We also found a tornado tube connector on Amazon that makes a nice funnel. They decided to put Lego guys in it too. Hours of entertainment. haha This is our book from the week: 

Hi! Last week we completed our Five in a Row study on the book The Storm in the night, by Mary Stolz. I was going to start on P...

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While doing our unit study on "Storm in the Night" by Mary Stolz, we took the time to focus on clouds. We did: I printed us off Cloud Vie...

What a great first week of second grade! We have tried to row Storm in the night before, but something always got in the way. We had lots of...

What a great first week of second grade! We have tried to row Storm in the night before, but something always got in the way. We had lots of...

If you’ve stumbled here from Pinterest, or some other site … welcome! While each of these books/lessons can stand alone, they are also a part of a year-long series that we have taught at our homeschool co-op. Each lesson builds in part on the one …

We had a good time rowing this book. Before I complete this post I want to say that the way we row books has drastically changed. Originally I had planned to use FIAR as a curriculum. While we love learning through these books it simply wasn’t a good fit for us. I just wanted the rows to be memorable and I [was missing some of that by stressing myself out with to much planning, and really that is not the heart of FIAR. So we are back rowing with a new and refreshed look. The day we rowed this book it was raining which worked out perfectly. We read the book and then talked a bit about the types of weather mentioned in the book. We then set out our rain gauge and checked it later that day. We talked about how water gathers places, and went out in the rain to find rain that had gathered. The kids had a blast playing in puddles. We talked about the water cycle and watched a YouTube video . And then we did an experiment to show the water cycle. On a whim we decided to do an experiment that shows what happens when the water gathers in the clouds. In this book it talks about grandpa’s fear of storms. We talked a lot about our fears and memorized this scripture. 2 Timothy 1:7 7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. And that was all on a rainy day! It was really a great way to spend that day. I think the kids will have fond memories.

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What a great first week of second grade! We have tried to row Storm in the night before, but something always got in the way. We had lots of thunderstorms in the forecast this week, so this seemed like a good time to try again. Storm in the Night is about a boy and his grandfather. The power goes out during a thunderstorm, and the grandfather tells the boy a story from his childhood. It is very sweet. We kicked off our week (and our year) with a yummy cloud snack! We Googled "cloud viewer", and found an image to print. We went outside every day, looked at the clouds and determined what types of clouds were in the sky. Some days, there were more than one type! We watched the weather report every day, and at the end of the week, Lily gave her own weather report. We made a rain gauge and placed it outside. We got lots of storms this week, so we had a chance to see it in action. We made an anemometer to help us see how fast the wind blows. The faster the cups are spinning, the faster the wind is blowing. We placed it outside near the rain gauge. We had our own mini weather center going on! We watched several movies this week to help us learn about weather. We watched Rachel and the Treeschoolers-Rainy Day, The Magic School Bus-Wet All Over, Rock N Learn-Earth Science, and The Magic School Bus-Kicks Up a Storm. We made a water cycle bracelet. Just take a pipe cleaner, and put some beads on in the order of the weather cycle: Yellow-Sun, Clear-Evaporation, White-Condensation/Clouds, Blue-Rain, Green-Groundwater/Collection. We made a water cycle mobile. I just checked Pinterest for this, and there are a couple of pins that have the pictures of them. We did an experiment. The sponge represents the cloud. Lily put water into the cloud. She saw that clouds hold a lot of water, and when they get too full, it rains. For math, we talked about patterns, and made some different patterns using the Geoboard. We talked about "comfort food", and then we made the recipe in the cookbook-Baked Mac N Cheese. The book didn't specify a location. Lily decided to place our story disk on Northern TX after we discussed "Tornado Alley", and how some areas of the country get more storms than others. We did another cloud/rain experiment. This worked the same way as the sponge experiment, but was a little more visual in nature. The illustrations in Storm in the Night were done in acrylics. Lily painted a picture using acrylic paints for art this week. Our final science experiment was a convection current activity. The ice cubes push the cold "air" down, and the warm "air" is forced up. This causes the instability in the atmosphere that produces thunderstorms. We talked about onomatopoeia, and did a couple of activities with it. This is an onomatopoeia mobile. I found the idea for this activity at: http://homeschoolingmom2mags.blogspot.com/2013/09/storm-in-night.html We discussed the five senses. In the book, the power was out, so the little boy noticed that he could hear and smell much better when he could see. We decided to play "Pin the Tail on the Unicorn", since Lily needed to be blindfolded to play. :) We completed the Fold N Learn from FIAR. If you want to get awesome Fold N Learns to go with a lot of the books, just go to http://fiveinarow.com/, and subscribe to their blog. You will get a link to them. They are great! We also did the parts of the manual that were conversational. We discussed fears, aging, relationships, personification, sources of light and more. It was a great week! Looking forward to The Finest Horse in Town next week. See you soon!

So here is our completed lapbook for our the Storm in the Night. We used some materials from Homeschool Share, but for the most part I made my own graphics for this one. Feel free to click on the l…

Hi! Last week we completed our Five in a Row study on the book The Storm in the night, by Mary Stolz. I was going to start on P...

Go Along Activities and resources for the storybook, Storm in the Night.

Dexter and I are having so much fun trying out RightStart Math (our math curriculum for next year) ‘early’, that I decided to go ahead and take on Five in a Row this week, too. Who says…

We had do much fun studying the different types of clouds! As a way to wrap up our week, I created a craft for the kids to put together as they reviewed the different types of clouds. I made the poster sheet to show the kids what they were going to do for each cloud, [Read On]

You've seen what our days look liked this week , and how I planned for this row , and now here is our finished row! (For those who prefer ...

Hi! Last week we completed our Five in a Row study on the book The Storm in the night, by Mary Stolz. I was going to start on P...

Hi! Last week we completed our Five in a Row study on the book The Storm in the night, by Mary Stolz. I was going to start on P...

I could hardly wait to start rowing Storm%20in the NightStorm in the Night! Jordan LOVES Thunder and Lightning, so I knew this would be a HUGE hit! Lightning was the star of this cover page.&…

Go Along Activities and resources for the storybook, Storm in the Night.

What a great first week of second grade! We have tried to row Storm in the night before, but something always got in the way. We had lots of thunderstorms in the forecast this week, so this seemed like a good time to try again. Storm in the Night is about a boy and his grandfather. The power goes out during a thunderstorm, and the grandfather tells the boy a story from his childhood. It is very sweet. We kicked off our week (and our year) with a yummy cloud snack! We Googled "cloud viewer", and found an image to print. We went outside every day, looked at the clouds and determined what types of clouds were in the sky. Some days, there were more than one type! We watched the weather report every day, and at the end of the week, Lily gave her own weather report. We made a rain gauge and placed it outside. We got lots of storms this week, so we had a chance to see it in action. We made an anemometer to help us see how fast the wind blows. The faster the cups are spinning, the faster the wind is blowing. We placed it outside near the rain gauge. We had our own mini weather center going on! We watched several movies this week to help us learn about weather. We watched Rachel and the Treeschoolers-Rainy Day, The Magic School Bus-Wet All Over, Rock N Learn-Earth Science, and The Magic School Bus-Kicks Up a Storm. We made a water cycle bracelet. Just take a pipe cleaner, and put some beads on in the order of the weather cycle: Yellow-Sun, Clear-Evaporation, White-Condensation/Clouds, Blue-Rain, Green-Groundwater/Collection. We made a water cycle mobile. I just checked Pinterest for this, and there are a couple of pins that have the pictures of them. We did an experiment. The sponge represents the cloud. Lily put water into the cloud. She saw that clouds hold a lot of water, and when they get too full, it rains. For math, we talked about patterns, and made some different patterns using the Geoboard. We talked about "comfort food", and then we made the recipe in the cookbook-Baked Mac N Cheese. The book didn't specify a location. Lily decided to place our story disk on Northern TX after we discussed "Tornado Alley", and how some areas of the country get more storms than others. We did another cloud/rain experiment. This worked the same way as the sponge experiment, but was a little more visual in nature. The illustrations in Storm in the Night were done in acrylics. Lily painted a picture using acrylic paints for art this week. Our final science experiment was a convection current activity. The ice cubes push the cold "air" down, and the warm "air" is forced up. This causes the instability in the atmosphere that produces thunderstorms. We talked about onomatopoeia, and did a couple of activities with it. This is an onomatopoeia mobile. I found the idea for this activity at: http://homeschoolingmom2mags.blogspot.com/2013/09/storm-in-night.html We discussed the five senses. In the book, the power was out, so the little boy noticed that he could hear and smell much better when he could see. We decided to play "Pin the Tail on the Unicorn", since Lily needed to be blindfolded to play. :) We completed the Fold N Learn from FIAR. If you want to get awesome Fold N Learns to go with a lot of the books, just go to http://fiveinarow.com/, and subscribe to their blog. You will get a link to them. They are great! We also did the parts of the manual that were conversational. We discussed fears, aging, relationships, personification, sources of light and more. It was a great week! Looking forward to The Finest Horse in Town next week. See you soon!