Quite unexpectedly, we got a bit of snow last week. The kids were so excited! They had been waiting all year, hoping we'd get some snow this winter. For 3 days straight, we had nothing but rain but on Thursday evening, it changed over to a wet, heavy snow.
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| Our poor persimmon trees couldn't stand up under the weight of the snow. |
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| Our dogwood did ok, though. |
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| Snow angels |
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| Because the snow started out as rain and then froze, it wasn't very good for making snowballs. We managed to make ourselves a snowman anyway. |
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| We gave him a pie-tin hat with bird seed, hoping to get some visitors. |
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| Mommy started a snowball fight |
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| And Olivia gave it right back to her. :) |
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| We don't own a sled, so we improvised an old-school solution: a shovel. |
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| The kids loved being pulled around on the shovel |
And now, our artistic section:
The Many Faces of Ezra
Last year, Olivia did a nature activity book, but there were several activities she couldn't do due to the lack of snow. We pulled the book out and managed to get a bunch of the experiments and observations done.
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| catching snowflakes |
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| unfortunately, the snow was more like ice pellets, so we didn't see any actual flakes. |
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| Observing the temperature difference between the air (39 deg F) |
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| and under the snow (34 deg F) |
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| "Eskimo" snow goggles. By looking through the slits, glare from the sun is greatly reduced. |
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| We added salt to a small handful of snow. |
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| a few minutes later, it was completely melted. |
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| Olivia made 3 snowballs of different sizes and then recorded how long it took each to melt. |
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We snagged a bowlful of snow to make snow cream with.
Emma wasn't too keen on helping out with it. |
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| Ezra and Olivia, however, were more than willing to stir the ingredients. |
