Fresh From The First Grade

Part of the water cycle is about cloud formation. As we looked at real clouds and pictures of clouds a lot of people in first grade started asking questions about why clouds look so different from each other. We decided to find out, and ended up doing a cloud study. We learned that there are three main types of clouds: Cumulous, Nimbus, and Cirrus.

Check out our cloud models!

{we’ve been tallying the types of clouds we see in the sky each day}

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We also learned that clouds are what give sunsets their bright colors. We got really inspired by this discovery and decided to make some watercolor sunsets of our own! Bonus: in the process, we learned that when sun sets it creates a “silhouette” of the land... here are our sunset silhouettes.