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Adiscussion inthe morning meeting sparked animmediateinterest, insetting up the weather corner. Myra, Tvisha, and Shashank volunteered to help set itup.

Whatisfog? askedTvisha

Itisfoggyon the mountains ! Youcan’t seeclearly –Myra

Shashankand Myra blowingon the glass bottle; trying to create fog to show Tvisha,whileshe lookscuriously.

“Wecan set up the weather center in class“ Shashank

“No! Weather isoutside” Tvisha

“Maybewecan set itup inthe balcony”Myra

Childrenhave astrong sense of self identityand are competentand capable learners

“Bluebinocular becauseI will seethe sky,and itisblueand whitefor clouds” Shashank

How can we see what the weather is like today ?

Goout and see from the balcony – Tvisha

I think wecan makesome binoculars – Shashank

Let’s makebinoculars using cylinders –Myra

Theweatherman tellsus the weather ! Heiscalled ameteorologist !! - Shashank

Prior knowledge , makingconnections Binoculars inthe making! Expressingthemselves creatively

“Colourful binoculor for different weathers.”

Tvisha

Sun– sunny

Raindrops- rain

Thunder-thundery

Cotton –snowy

MeasuringtheWeather

“How?” Shashank

“Witha scaleI think ?” Tvisha

“Putmeasuring tapeon scale“Shashank

“Measure the tree to measure the weather” Myra I wonder How ?

“Thewind will blowand the leaveswill fly.” Myra Ritynwaspassing by, he said“We canrecord theweather to measure it”

“Record it with a camera, Ihave one at home “ Myra

Oh! But I willnot knowhot or cold

“Thefridgecan tell me becausethe numbers show up, mamaturns the circle thing (knob)for the temperature.”

Asthe conversation continued a fewothers joined in “Youknowwecan measure the sun “ Rityn

“Yeswith a telescope! Oops !!

IknowI knowit’s aThermometer!” Upmanyu

“Wecheck fever” Ruhi

“Wekeepit under the arm.” Tanaaya

Where can we measure the sun ?

“Ithink we cangoto the terrace and use a‘dopplerradar’ “ says Shashank What is a doppler radar ?

“Wecan see colour wavesfor historic storm, itis abox with lot of wires and apart of the radar is radius“ Shashank

Childrenare confident and involved learners

Collaborating with others to share questions, wonderings, interests andworking towards solving problems confidently.

Blueprint of the Weather Recording machine

Knob

Weather detectors at work on the terrace

Isee lotsof clouds

The clouds aredark ! Its goingto rain Itsso windy!!

Theclouds are moving!!

“Ithink they aretravelling to Vishakapatnam tomy uncle’s house” Shashank Theygoto Karnataka, Davengere!! Rishabh

“Theseclouds goover cars andhouses, buildingsand ocean” Myra

“The sun is hidden by the clouds” Shashank

Yes! because it wantsto rest Tvisha

CloudWatching

Story ‘TheLittle Cloud’by ‘Eric Carle’ was read to them

Wesaw different shapesof clouds

Some of their representations

Later during the daywhilethey shared their experience with some of their friends

Reyansh“ where you went?”

Tvisha“Wewent to the terrace”

Vihaan“why?”

Myra “ we saw the clouds”

Rishabh“ there was so many cloudsand lots of air”

Shashank“ it wasvery windy”

Anopportunity to understand their prior knowledgeon wind

Ruhi birdsgiveus airby flappingtheir wings

Upmanyu hanuman’s father givesus wind

Aarika whenwe moveour handwind comes

Rityn Godgivesus wind,air and everything

Rishabh weget air bypopping balloons

Reya from the handfan

Shashank Windsock shows direction of wind!

Guneeva itcomes from leaves

Evyavann From trees

Tanaaya from the sky

Blueprint of windsock

Creating the Windsock

Tvishadrew the windsock whileShashank created it. Thenduring their sandpit time theytested ittogether.

Childrenhave a strong sense of self identity.They build respectful relationships by wayof expressing their opinions, volunteering to set up the centerinteracting and helping each other.They are competentand capable learners as they continuetodevelop warmand supportive relationships withtheir peers and educators.

Theyare confidentand involved learners as theyexplore, research and investigate further intoweatherand making connectionsto their prior knowledge.

Childrenare effective communicatorscreating conversations, negotiating and taking turns indiscussing how they couldmake a weathermachine. Their problem solving skills emerged as they brainstormed to decide‘whatmaterial’ they coulduse tocreate their windsock.