Cloudy with a chance of meatballs written by Judi Barrett was our book study for this week. Involving math in our activities, we created our own town. Using colourful sticky dots to pretend that they are meatballs we wrote down what we wish would fall down from the sky. We organized the food that the children came up with and the food that falls down from the sky in our story into different groups. At the end, we made a chart and we analyzed and discussed if our meal would have been balanced. We created the town by using different kind of shapes and every group came up with a name for their town. The question that the children asked: How would it be if you would have ordered food and it would have fallen down from the sky?
Children seem so open to possibility as their question about food falling from the sky shows us. You can let them know that I would be much more careful about what I ordered if instead of being brought by a server, my order rained down from the sky. I will think of them when I am next at a restaurant. I wonder if they thought about the sky in general. I have not seen this book by Amy Schimler but it's called: Why is the Sky Blue. My favourite book of the same title though is by Grindley. It fits so well with some great philosophical conversations about ways of knowing.
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