Snow Experiments

We have had an amazing week so far in kindergarten.  The kids are writing in their journals each morning now.  Everyone is writing a sentence.  Some kiddos represent their words with the first letter sound they hear.  Others are using vowels in the middle of their sentences, and some are spelling sight words correctly.  Everyone is matching their illustrations to what they are writing.

Mrs. Keach is taking over math and doing a great job.  The kids worked on making two digit numbers yesterday and they made two digit numbers with playing cards.  You can do this at home as well.  Have your child draw two cards and see how big a number she can make.

The kids were very excited to do a snow experiment.  On Monday we asked the question, "How can you keep snow from melting?"  Everyone created their own hypothesis and wrote/illustrated their idea. Then we gathered snow in cups and put the snow where the kids suggested.  We had snow in the dollhouse, math tool shelf, under a blanket, under the roof outside, in the refrigerator and in the freezer. The next day we checked our experiments and found that the freezer was the best place to keep the snow from melting. A side benefit of seeing the melted snow was that the kids saw all the dirt in the snow they gathered.  Hopefully that will keep some snow out of their mouths =).

As the snow starts today we might turn the experiment around to see what can make the snow melt FASTEST.