April Showers

Rain, rain go away.
Little children want to play!
It was fun to play with umbrellas even when it wasn't raining!

Where are the kids?

We used the parachute as a great big umbrella as we sang:

To the tune of

“Have You Ever Seen a Lassie?”

we sang:

Come under my umbrella, umbrella, umbrella,

Come under my umbrella, it’s going to storm

There’s thunder and lightning and wind and rain.

Come under my umbrella, it’s going to storm!

Ice cubes and warm water in a bottle allowed us to do a science experiment which made a cloud that actually started to rain.

One of our favorite books was Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco.

 We made a thunderstorm of our very own with rhythm sticks, as we listened to "Little April Showers" from the movie Bambi.

It’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man is snoring.

He bumped his head when he went to bed.

And he couldn’t get up in the morning!

Kin Eagle wrote some more verses to this song. We read the book over and over again.

We sang a rendition of "Singing in the Rain" which had us wiggling and giggling as we moved to this song with silly verses.

 We read It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw,

and made some clouds of our own with cotton balls dipped in white paint.

We had pretend puddles to jump in. Worms were wiggling around in them. We had to be careful not to jump on them!

Speaking of worms, we chanted, "Herman the Worm"

Sittin’ on the fence post, chewin’ my bubblegum
(pretend to chew gum, make chewing sound)
Playing with my yo yo. Woo, woo. (pretend to play with a yo yo)
When along came Herman the Worm
He was this big! (Show with hands size of worm. Herman gets bigger with each verse)
I said, “Herman, what happened?”
He said, “I ate a/an________________”.
Repeat three or four times adding a new food or whatever Herman ate.
Last verse:
Sittin’ on the fence post, chewin’ my bubblegum
Playing with my yo yo.
When along came Herman the Worm
He was this big! (With thumb and index finger, indicate a very small worm)
I said, “Herman, what happened?”
He said, “I burped!”.

We painted with worms! Ewwww!

We didn't have rain all week long so we made our own rain with squirt bottles. First we dribbled paint on our paper and then we laid them out for the rainstorm! The results were awesome. 

Now if we could just have some real rain...