Marie Cecchini

This in particular activity book was published by Teacher Created Materials, a publishing company that strongly believes in developing whole-language thematic units created specifically for the use with children at the early childhood level. Additional activities in this book further extend the theme of each literature selection across the curriculum. Several of the activities encourage cooperative learning, and unit management activities allow the students to synthesize their knowledge and show more create projects that can be shared beyond the classroom. This thematic unit includes literature selections with related lessons, language experiences and writing ideas, bulletin board ideas, other subjects curriculum connections, culminating activities, and a bibliography to find more information on the weather theme. One activity in this book that is directly related to clouds is called “Cloud Creations,” students have the opportunity to make the word “clouds” out of cotton balls and also make cloud shakers. This is a great activity for any age because there are also other books or literature that could go with this activity. show less