January snow has brought some wonderful learning opportunities for us outdoors.  This week we have been investigating snowflakes with magnifying glasses.  We discovered that all snowflakes have 6 points.  We also tried to find two that were the same but didn’t have any luck.  One student said, “Maybe every snowflake is different!”  We’ll have to do some more investigating to be sure.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After our investigations students had some fun building castles, playing a snow-monster tag game, creating and following paths in the snow, and playing 4-corners.  The outdoors is such a refreshing classroom!

How to play 4-Corners: The following instructions are for game play in the gym or the classroom.  When we are outside we assign numbers to four trees.