On Tuesday, Shannon and Sigrid came in for an interactive, hands on science lesson all about snow. We began the morning closely observing snowflakes. We were lucky it was snowing so we could catch snowflakes on our black felt squares. Once we caught a flake, we used our eagle eyes to observe it up close using our magnifying glasses. We also collected snow and made hypothesis about how much water would be left once it melted. We were quite surprised at the end of the day to find very little water in each of these cups. Many of our hypothesis were far off!
After coming back inside, Shannon and Sigrid put on a very engaging, entertaining puppet show. During the show, we learned about different types of snow crystals: capped column, hollow column, needle, stellar, and plate. We also learned that snowflakes form while falling from a cloud and no two snowflakes are the same. In our science journals we added pictures of different types of snow crystals and we made snowflakes to decorate our classroom. We also used an old fashioned slide projector and observed different photographs of snow crystals in varying forms.
Thanks so much to Shannon and Sigrid. It was a great informative and fun morning. See the side bar for some interactive snow related activities to do with your child at home.
On Wednesday, we went to the computer lab to listen to the story of Snowflake Bentley on the projector. Ask your child who Wilson Bentley was! We will continue to learn about snow and observe the weather over the next few weeks.
