Super Cold Days Equal No School
There are many perks to being a teacher and one of my favorite ones is...snow days. Recently we lucked out with two back to back super cold temperature days which resulted in two snow days! I love these unexpected days to just hang out with the boys with no structured routine. Since the temperatures were so cold we took advantage of trying all the outdoor science experiments we could.
Blowing bubbles in temperatures below zero
They crystalized and then when we popped them they deflated like a rubber tube.
Carter loves to draw and he has been working on understanding perspective and also shading.
The boys and I did this experiment with microwaving Ivory bar soap when we lived in Michigan but it has been quite a while so we tried it out again. They love to watch it expand the longer it stays in the microwave.
We even made homemade ice cream in our roller ball in the kitchen. Wow, did that take longer than we thought and it only made just a tiny bit of ice cream...it tuckered them out though!
Next, we boiled water on the stove and then tossed it into the air outside to see it change its state super fast. This was awesome. We may have done this one several times.
The next day we met friends at a new indoor climbing place called PLAY CLE. It was our first time going there. Funny side story, we showed up ready to jump and we looked down and Carter was wearing his mud boots. You can't climb in mud boots so Bob ran him over to Kohls and got him a new pair of tennis shoes. He scored big that day with a trip to the climbing place and a new pair of shoes.
Fearless!
Carter was the only one of the boys that met the height and weight requirement for the zipline and he was so eager to try it out!
While we were there we bumped into so many people that we knew the boys were in heaven. Here is Nolan with his two best friends Cole and Jonah.
It is definitely a place we will have to go back to again soon.
Blowing bubbles in temperatures below zero
They crystalized and then when we popped them they deflated like a rubber tube.
Carter loves to draw and he has been working on understanding perspective and also shading.
The boys and I did this experiment with microwaving Ivory bar soap when we lived in Michigan but it has been quite a while so we tried it out again. They love to watch it expand the longer it stays in the microwave.
We even made homemade ice cream in our roller ball in the kitchen. Wow, did that take longer than we thought and it only made just a tiny bit of ice cream...it tuckered them out though!
Next, we boiled water on the stove and then tossed it into the air outside to see it change its state super fast. This was awesome. We may have done this one several times.
The next day we met friends at a new indoor climbing place called PLAY CLE. It was our first time going there. Funny side story, we showed up ready to jump and we looked down and Carter was wearing his mud boots. You can't climb in mud boots so Bob ran him over to Kohls and got him a new pair of tennis shoes. He scored big that day with a trip to the climbing place and a new pair of shoes.
Fearless!
Carter was the only one of the boys that met the height and weight requirement for the zipline and he was so eager to try it out!
While we were there we bumped into so many people that we knew the boys were in heaven. Here is Nolan with his two best friends Cole and Jonah.
It is definitely a place we will have to go back to again soon.
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