This week we will read Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs written by Judi Barrett and illustrated by Ron Barrett. It is the story about two children, Henry, his sister, and their grandfather who tells the best tall-tale about the town of Chewandswallow. There are no food stores in the town of Chewandswallow since the weather comes three times a day, at breakfast, lunch, and dinner and the sky supplies all the food they could possibly want. It rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes and sometimes storms hamburgers. When the weather brings storms of giant food, the people in the town decide to leave on boats made of bread.
We will be discussing weather in conjunction with this unit and plan to make weather graphs and rain sticks. Later in the month, we will celebrate Earth Day and spend time talking about recycling.
