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| There's "snow" in the sensory table and small figures of Inuits, dogs and their sleds, arctic foxes and polar bears. Great conversations occur all the time and we love to listen in as the children talk about their own recent adventures in snow and ice, and what they might do if they visited the frozen Arctic. |
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| We're making the northern lights! First, the children carefully spooned out their choice of colored paint in a line. After putting a piece of foil on top, the children used a rolling pin to spread all the colors. There was so much excitement as we peeled off each piece of foil....different colors and amounts of paint produced very different pictures |
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| What would the arctic be without snow and ice? When we looked at pictures in non-fiction books, we realized that snow is not just pure white. Iya, Norah, Lilly and Evie are using a different kind of paint brush to create our snow. It is a big piece of paper so they must reach and stretch using many large muscles in the process! |
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| Jack, Dylan, and Will are creating an igloo using a block as a stamper. You can see that Jack must use good fine motor control to carefully place another "ice square" on the paper. |
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| One of the coolest things we learned was that many kinds of flowers bloom in the Arctic, but not for long! When the snow melts, patches of water with dirt beneath it can be found. Flowers on very short stems start to bloom. See if your children can remember which flower is the wooly lousewort....they loved that name! |
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| Ice fishing in the Arctic...what could be more fun! |
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