Today's Classroom Activities :

Spring Rains Classroom Activities

umbrella and rain drops

Drop By Drop
Math Make paper umbrellas and write a different digit in each section. Provide raindrops for children to count out and attach to the proper sections with clothes pins.

Spring Rains
Art/Math Make umbrella templates for the children to use. Have them make paper in the Eric Carle tradition of painting on tissue paper. Let it dry. Have students cut the paper to fit the pieces of the umbrella, sharing one another's papers. Glue the painted paper onto manila backgrounds. Then provide stencils or die-cut numerals and have the students put fact families on their umbrellas using whatever mathematical operation you are teaching at the moment.

Rainy Day Field Trip
Science Take the kids to the National Inventors Hall of Fame at www.invent.org to get lots of ideas for their own inventions through dozens of biographies and links to other invention sites.