We had our first week of Preschool for the Spring Semester. This month we are studying Winter, and our theme for the week: ICE was very appropriate since this last week was the coldest of the year!!!On Tuesday we had lots of fun with a Science Experiment studying ice, how we get ice, and what happens when the ice gets warm. We had some of our animal friends who had been frozen inside a block of ice and the kids had to find a way to get them out. They made some great observations and hypotheses. Our first idea was to just bang the ice to get them out. We tried this but it wasn't working too well so then we talked about the snow and the ice and outside and what happens to it when it gets warm outside. Their next idea was to stick our ice block outside, but we soon decided that 3 degree weather outside probably wasn't going to do much so finally we talked about warm things we have inside the house, like the oven, the microwave and finally WARM WATER!!! As the kids started pouring water over the ice block they could see a difference immediately and got SO excited. They took turns pouring the warm water and were just thrilled when they freed their friends.
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