This book is about the town Chewandswallow. The small town is like any other place except for the weather. Three times a day at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The rain and snow was never normal. It rained things like tomato soup and snowed mashed potatoes. And sometimes the stormy weather produced hamburgers. Everyone in the town of Chewandswallow enjoyed the weather for a while until it took a turn for the worse. This book is a great imagination builder and problem solving for the younger audiences. Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs is simply classic in my opinion.

Extension:
Students can do an art project in which they can make it rain vocabulary or math problems and who ever eats or solves the most problems is champion weather person of the day.

Students can study the weather and find out what weather patterns are prevalent in their area.

This book is a fun twist on weather patterns using different foods. Although, the title of the book gives this plot away. The book is set in a regular town with regular people, but what happens is not.

I have always loved loved this story. I have read this story to many children including my Sunday School courses. Watch out! This book will make you hungry.


The book can be a different way to teach children about weather or if you just want a break from monotonous work sheets.
Some versions of this story tend to be a very long read. I suggest breaking it up and talking, or journaling about the different events that happen throughout the story.