Rain, Rain, Go Away!

As I was doing my weekly nature observations I realized how different the weather here is at my house (in Connecticut) than it is in Newburgh, where school is. There is still so much more snow here on the ground! I couldn't believe it when I walked outside on my back porch and saw that there was a pile of snow that hasn't melted that was still piled up over the railings! Then, on top of what seems like hundreds of inches of snow was a few inches of rain that kept accumulating the whole day yesterday. The inches of rain left remains of soggy grass, slushy snow, and muddy piles in the backyard. I'm so sick of being in this cold weather, nasty rain, and I don't want to see snow anywhere anymore! I just can't wait until summer comes around, my favorite time of the year! For my future classroom, I was thinking about all of the ways in which I can incorporate a rainy day in a classroom. I can have my students do so much observation about the effect that rain has on nature. I can also teach a lesson about how rain is so important for the environment because it pretty much helps things like plants, trees because they need it for survival. I personally don't think that rain is the most exciting thing to observe and talk about and I feel that the students may not be as interested in it as they will feel about other things in nature, but it really does provide some good last minute activities when you run out of things to do!