Today’s rain has fit in nicely with our topic of Seeds this week.  As we learned on Tuesday, our seeds need water as well as sunlight to grow.  We visit our community garden plot every day to water our plants, but some days we don’t need to do it because the sky does it for us!  At Circle Time, we sang our Weather Song:

(To the tune of “Oh My Darlin’ Clementine)

What’s the weather?  What’s the weather?  What’s the weather like today?

Tell me Tugboats, what’s the weather, what’s the weather like today?

Is it sunny? (Hands in a circle above our heads)  Is it cloudy? (Hands shading over our eyes)  Is it rainy out today? (Wiggling rain fingers down)

Is it windy? (Waving hands side to side)  Is it snowy? (Shivering arms around our bodies)  What’s the weather like today?

As we talked about rain and clouds, some of our friends expressed confusion about how clouds could make rain.  To help explain, we read Little Cloud by Eric Carle.  The story of the tiny cloud separating from his friends and finally joining them to make rain together helped a lot of our friends, but some are still in disbelief.  I think I see a science experiment in our future!