This week in Nature Club, we started out learning about snow and ice as weather, but ended up really learning about the seasons. The name of the lesson was What's Up with the Weather? As we began talking, I realized that they wanted to talk about all the seasons. I read books called "Seasons of the Year" by Margaret Hall and "Snow" by Helen Frost (great name, huh?). By Thursday we ended up talking more about the pattern of seasons and also on Thursday we talked about fog because with the weather a little warmer, there has been a lot of fog. Then we drew snow pictures. I was impressed with how they thought to draw icicles and blizzards.
This is a perfect example of what we call a "teachable moment," where you scrap your other plans and teach about what the kids are really interested in!
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