I love homeschooling because everything can be turned into a lesson & is a opportunity to teach! Today we were supposed to go to our nutritional co-op with our homeschool group but all 3 kids have little colds so we have been homebound. Plus I was glad I didn’t go out in the nasty weather we had. It was my 2 boys 1st time seeing HAIL! I heard it hitting our livingroom glass sliding door so I ran for my camera & told my boys to look at the ice falling from the sky! They were mesmorized! It was so bad outside that our bench swing flipped over & fell on the kids outdoor playhouse. The power went out for about an hour, which gave me a opportunity to teach JJ about electricity briefly. At 1st I dreaded all this but I am glad we stayed home because it was an opportunity we wouldn’t have gotten!
ice on my kids trampoline!
This is a big deal where we live because this is a rarity!
So…………. I decided to have fun with this!
I did a ice cube sensory bowl, I hid bottle caps in the bowl for the boys to dig out
Even the baby LOVED the ice!
Then our Science experiment…………
I put 3 ice cubes in a bowl, asked my preschooler why the ice cubes during the hail storm melted so quickly & surprisingly he said because of the warmth! So to duplicate what we saw I gave him some warm water to pour over the ice cubes & we timed how long it took for the ice cubes to melt – it took 10 minutes!
What a great idea with the ice. And clever for using the weather issues as a teaching tool!
That is so cool!! Great opportunity to teach…it is these moments that warm my heart 😉 We didn’t make it to Nutrition today either Jaedah had a little stomach bug yesterday but praise God she is all better now!
We got to do the same type of spur of the moment learning activity, we got a surprise snowstorm yesterday. Looks like you had just as much fun as we did!
This will fit inperfectly with our Ice theme. Thanks for linking up!
Hi following from Friday Follow! What a great idea! Home schooling moms always amaze me with their ideas!
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Playing with ice is always fun. Great idea.
Brr! I’m all ice and snowed out here in Ohio. So are my kids – they were asking about spring and planting the garden today while the snowflakes were falling.
That looks like a lot of fun. Playing with ice and water- can’t beat that.
Great lesson! And glad that you didn’t experience a lot of damage.
What fun! Though the ice cube sensory activity made me shiver just thinking about it.
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