The snow has finally arrived! We started an inquiry on snow, ice, and winter. We have had multiple opportunities to explore snow and ice. One of the first explorations was bringing the snow and ice into the classroom. Students had to guess how many days it would take to melt. During this time, students were able to touch and feel the ice and snow, in order to make better predictions. Another experiment that we did was the reaction of road salt and table salt on ice. Students again made predictions and got to see what happened first hand. They noticed the road salt made holes in the ice, and we added food colouring to see where the holes were. The salt melts the ice quickly and that is why we use salt tucks in the winter to de-ice our roads. We have been building inukshuks and igloos with our "ice blocks", working on our one-to-one correspondence by placing the appropriate number of buttons on the snowman, and writing in our snowman books. We have been painting,, measuring, and decorating snowman, matching and sorting snowflakes, and talking about winter activities in both French and English. In French we have started writing journals, where students are to pick a topic of their choice and write a sentence. A lot of children have been writing about winter. Winter is certainly not over and neither is this inquiry!