ICE!

Thanks to some sprinklers and a big cold snap, we saw a lot of rare Savannah icicles on Wednesday this week! The back lawn at the church was watered, and froze into a field of icicles. They dripped off the soccer goal, covered the bushes and turned all the sticks, pine needles, and even blades of grass into lovely ice sculptures.

We made some pretend icicles in class with microwave puffy paint. Usinga squeeze bottle, we put a thick line of our flour/water/salt mix at the top of our paper. Then we held it up and let it drip into icicle shapes. A few seconds in the microwave and we had a dry puffed up picture!

There was some indoor ice too! Ms. Heather left our blue tub with water outside overnight to freeze, and we had an ice skating center for cooperative play. Our people house family and some penguins all had fun skating on the ice. We had to break out the gloves and mittens for our cold fingers, and got some much needed practice getting these hand warmers on and off ourselves.

We continued our icy centers through the week with ice cubes in our sensory center, creating a polar bear book about position words, making igloos and ice cream cone name pictures for our short and long Ii sounds, and eating ice cream at snack on Friday. 

We had lots of silly chilly fun (and learning)!