Wind & Cloud Exploration and Marble Friday Fun!

Wow, the Whales have been busy this week studying Wind, and the Clouds! In the beginning of the week, the Whales learned that wind is created by cool and warm pockets of air that the sun makes. They did many experiments to test out weighing air, and capturing air. The Whales noticed that you can’t see air but when you quickly move a bag and close it you can trap air and feel it in the bag. Later in the week, the Whales engineered their own sailboats and tested them out using the wind they could create with their breath. They made some spectacular sailboats that could float all the way across our sensory bins! The Whales also learned about different forms of clouds! We went outside to be cloud searches and on our beautiful Friday, we noticed that many of the clouds in the sky are cumulus which means it probably won’t rain!

On Friday morning the Whales were busy engineering marble runs, and marble mazes. They worked together to figure out how to make a marble not fall off of their marble track. They also built some amazing domino structures. Not only are the Whales becoming meteorologists, but they are also creative engineers.