Erupting Snow

So, Today we learned about weather in Science. They made a weather observation chart and the made some snow.

We started off by all three of them working together. (Which in itself was an expirement) It took them some time to work together. In the end though they did well. My wonderful sister sent us a link with an observation sheet wich garrett glued to our posterboard. Alyssa made a pocket to stick our weather clipings in and neleh cut them out. We also added some information about the months of the year to it. In the end they learned to work together a little.

Afterwards we read two books about snow. The kids really liked to just lay down and listen to the stories. Alyssa thought it was nice to not have to read it herself for once.

The kids were all so excited about hearing about snow, but were bursting with excitment when they heard we were going to make some snow. At the kids old school they had a book fair and i bought a test tube kit which included insta snow so we got to use it today.

We made four badges. The first was a regular batch. The second one after it was made they added salt to it. They found this caused their snow to get slushy. The third batch we stuck in the freezer. (we are still waiting on this one. The last one we disected one of Lorelai's diaper and removed some of the chemicals from inside. We then added water to this. It also made a snow like substance.

The kids had a blast learning today!