Snow, Snow everywhere!

 It always fascinates me to think about who was the first person to study things we take for granted. The book Snowflake Bentley is a biography about the man Wilson Bentley that studied, you guessed it, SNOWFLAKES!  .

 

The students like this book because they love to see the photographs that he took of the snowflakes.  They are gorgeous and really make the students think.  We compared picture after picture on our Smart board and came to the conclusion that  every snowflake is different! 

We started a snow journal that combined math and writing prompts. We predicted what wound happen if we built a snowman in the classroom.

We then discussed where the best place to build a snowman was and charted our thoughts.

I love the answer "Michigan"!  We were so lucky that we have had so much snow this winter because we then.......built a snowman in our class and watched it's progress all day.

We then wrote in our journals about the results.

We finished off the week buy "growing" our own "snowflake" crystals with Ms. Doennig's class.

 

I still love snow !

Snowman Writing

Last week, I have to confess, I experimented with the students.  It isn't as nefarious as it sounds.  There were no science labs, rats, or lightening. (Although, mawahaaaa, that sounds fun....) With the help of Mrs. McCloskey, the computer teacher, the students illustrated their writing in Microsoft Paint. She is always so wonderful to work with and the students just adore her! I was really excited about this.  I always like to try something new and the illustrations turned out much better than I thought they would. How adorable! This is definitely a project that I will do in the future.