MOORESVILLE — It's often difficult to know how to dress for the weather in Central Indiana, but Tuesday, a group of second graders literally dressed as the weather for their school's Weather Parade.
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All the second graders at Neil Armstrong Elementary School in Mooresville have been learning about weather recently. The culmination of their studies is a Weather Parade.
Each second grader picks a weather word and dresses to match it.
"I am a flood!" said Jaxon, just one of the parade's participants. "We connected some lightning bolts and raindrops with string."
"I used a pop-up hamper, and we cut the bottom of it, and then we used fuzz stuff and put it all around," explained Leelynn, who dressed as a tornado. "We used some animals, and we glued them on."
Another student named Charlotte dressed as an anemometer.
"It's a instrument that tracks wind. I just wanted to pick the most complicated word," said Charlotte, with her homemade anemometer atop her head.
The parade route wound through hallways and into kindergarten, first and third-grade classrooms.
"We are just trying to make everybody's day today," said Margo, who was dressed as condensation.
Other costumes included: wind vane, meteorologist, hail, dust devil, sleet, almanac, air pressure and clouds.
Each student became an expert in the word they chose.
"If you're in a car and you see a flood, you actually need to turn around and go to a different area," explained Jaxon.
"The evaporation, it's like little water, but you can't see it, and then it finds a thing like this cup, and it cools it down," shared Margo.
To cap off the unit, following the parade, WRTV meteorologist Maci Tetrick gave a quick presentation to all of second grade about the job (which rarely involves Weather Parades, unfortunately).
For the three students who chose the word 'meteorologist,' Maci invited them to give a pretend forecast following the presentation.
"Hello, I'm Meteorologist Ezra, and on Thursday, it is going... there is a chance of thunderstorms and rain," explained one student meteorologist.
"Stay inside and go to the safest place in your house if there is a tornado," shared student meteorologist Bradley.
"Tomorrow it'll be like a medium.... it'll be chilly. It'll be chilly and warm," concluded the third student meteorologist, Emma.
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