Rain rain, don't go away, stay.

You know when you are looking at buying a particular thing, be it a car or a slow cooker, suddenly you see them everywhere and people are talking about them. Your favourite magazine has slow cooker recipes or you park next to the car you want or drive behind one for a while.....well its been like that for us, but with the weather.

At school B made this rain gauge, and he has been recording the daily temperature on a chart. We decided to encourage this keen interest with a store bought weather gauge. Let me tell you it has been $12.95 well spent. He loves the thing. So much so that I had to remind him, it didn't belong in his bed, but outside in the garden. Weather happens outside, not inside! The gauge has also had a special trip to school for sharing.




















The most exciting thing though is that it has been really raining. I think there is nothing better than being all warm and cozy inside when its raining hard outside. The sound of the rain on the roof is somehow reassuring. A feeling of wellbeing comes over me, like I'm secure and I've got my children warm and dry, perhaps it goes back to living in caves or something. Whatever it is I'm liking it.

Anyhow the rain gauge has been filled up (over a few days) B eagerly checks it every morning and night, so I am so happy it's not just standing there dry and empty. On a trip home from school one day we saw a rainbow in the sky and the other night we even had lightening and really loud thunder. The storm woke up B and had him in bed with us, but the timing couldn't have been better to enchant his interests. Thank you mother nature.

I decided to strike while the iron was hot and do a little activity about rain.

We played with cotton wool, feeling how light, fluffy and soft it is. Then we felt how it went heavy when wet.

The cotton wool was squeezed to make rain

We talked about what made a rainbow, remembered the rainbow we saw, sang the rainbow song, and we made these collage pictures together.

Sometimes life comes together really nicely whatever the weather.