It’s all about taking opportunities to teach. Sometimes those short lessons get the most across. Today it was all about science lessons that 3′ of snow, blue sky and 40 degree weather allowed.
Shadow tracing:
- Talk about the body parts as trace a body’s shadow
- A little later re-stand at the shadow.
Does the tracing still fit? Why or why not? (The shadow is moving and getting smaller. The Sun is moving.) - We’ve guessed the direction our shadow will be this afternoon (head to the snowbank). We’ll be checking to see if we were right.
Our boots are sinking into the snow as we walk across it. 
- Why?
- What do we need to do to not sink in?
Snowshoes 
- How do snowshoes work?
Our body weight is spread over a larger area of the snow, so we can walk on top of it. 
Big people sink some even with snowshoes, but not all the way.
Melting
- driveway is clear of snow and ice
- little snow sculpture from yesterday is almost gone and the colors are all gone
- ice found is in shadows
and the one we already knew by Jan Brett 
~ The children discussed their observations about what was the same and different between these 2 stories. I wrote their observations onto our large white board, placing into the correct sections, as guided by the kids. 
