We continued our explorations of weather and snow this week. Last week we found out that snow melts into water that takes up much less volume than the snow. The kids hypothesized that it might have been because the water evaporated. SO... to test that, we tried our experiment again, but this time put plastic wrap over the top of our cups to make sure evaporation didn't remove any water. Guess what? STILL less water than snow! We wondered WHY?! So we got out the magnifying glasses and looked at snow crystals outside. The kids were able to see that there were actually many many little spaces between the snow crystals.
Our class has had a really good time doing research to find out how different animals survive the winter. We are working on a writing and art project to publish our findings. Next week we will share our research with each other by presenting in front of the class!
Happy Chinese New Year! Chinese New Year begins on the first new moon of the year, so we celebrated on Friday! We ate looooong noodles for a long life, and oranges for a sweet life. Using chopsticks made for lots of fun...in fact, the kids all wanted to bring their chopsticks to lunch to keep practicing! We happened to be having pizza for lunch, but they still tried to pick up their pizzas with chopsticks. It was quite hilarious!
We also made dragon masks and we will join the third grade next week in a parade around the school to bring in the Year of the Rooster!
Three of our kindergarteners are on the Tok Mites hockey team! They played in a tournament in Delta this weekend, and I had the privilege of watching them skate. They are doing awesome! Great job Nolan Roslansky, Aiden Gross, and Sawyer Fitting!!!
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