We are officially back into the swing of the school year after a restful Christmas break! January's unit of study is weather, and we will spend the month learning about winter weather, storms, snow, rain, and wind. Yesterday, we did an experiment to discover the effect of temperature on water.
While playing with simple cups of water, we discussed how the water is a liquid; it takes the shape of whatever container it's in. But if the temperature changes significantly -- i.e. it becomes very cold -- it turns into a solid. Ice! We put our cups into the school freezer and practiced patience (this week's letter of the week is P, after all!) while waiting to see how it would change. Meanwhile, we went outside for recess and discovered this all over the ground ...
ICE!!
Now normally we might discourage our kiddos from playing with ice, but since it was so perfectly linked to what we'd just discussed, we let them go to town on it. We felt how cold it was, we slid our feet over it, and we (carefully) threw it onto the pavement to watch it break into smaller pieces. The children loved it!
The playground had nothing on this pile of ice!
Here's a short video of the children playing in the ice:
The day after our water/ice fun, our Child of the Day reminded me that we needed to check on "our ... our ... that stuff we did yesterday!"
Sure enough, it had turned into a solid ... ice!
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