Our Snow Unit

We had such a great time with our snow unit! We did a lot of activities, learned a lot about snow and just had a bunch of fun!

We learned all about snow flakes and snow crystals. We read Snowflake Bentley. In 1885 Wilson Bentley was the first person to photograph snow crystals (snowflakes). Did you know that no two snowflakes are alike? That every snowflake has six sides? Wilson Bentley was a self educated farmer and went on to photograph over 5000 snowflakes. You can read more about Mr. Bentley's life's work here.

We made our own snowflakes out of Borax. We've made them before, but they are always fun and very easy to make! We studied the crystals and looked at some of the pieces that fell off under out portable microscope.

Our borax snowflakes

checking out a crystal from our borax snoflakes

Kaden was very intent on looking at his crystal!

We played a snowflake matching game. I found these over at Kelly's Kindergarten. Kaden has an excellent memory! This game was hard for Justin and I but Kaden could remember where the matching snowflake was almost every time!

Kaden also did some snowflake patterning.

We did a snowflake building activity found here at Making Learning Fun.

I printed out the cards, laminated them and cut them out. Then cut out felt pieces. This was a lot of fun.

We made snowmen scenes with paint, marshmallows and Q-tips.

Justin's snowman family!

I brought snow inside for them to play with. They made all sorts of things and also watched it melt back into water.