We have had a lot of fun learning about how snowflakes are made.
The science of Snowflakes is fascinating! And watching this man and his passion for figuring out how snowflakes form is inspiring! Can he create two of the same snowflake?
Many of the resources we used for our study were from the WillowandOwl.com Ice Skating Unit
We notebook our findings!
Our kids love ice skating outside and at our indoor rink. M just finished taking a term of lessons and with it being winter, it was a fun time for us to do an ice skating study with a field trip to go skate!
Dutch Artist: Hendrick Avercamp "Winter Landscape with Skaters" and other paintings. We learned that Avercamp was deaf and mute. He used his powerful observation skills to paint amazing winter scenes! It is fun to watch the video about the history of skating and then look at fine art and notice the different skates and how they evolve over time!
History of Ice Skating:
an older design in action-history of ice skating
Another Ice Skating History video (animated)
How to draw an ice skater
Henry Takes the Ice Read aloud
We also enjoyed the art of Jean-Georges Beraud "Women Skating" and Gilbert Stuart's "The Skater" --portrait of Scotsman William Stuart (1782).
For our winter plant study we are looking at conifers.
We wanted to know how to tell the difference when we see different kinds of pine trees. This video gave us some tools which were perfect to watch before our winter walk!
If you are new to nature study, I highly recommend the Handbook of Nature Study. It is rich with information!
What is Taiga? We wanted to know. We learned where the Boreal Forest is and why!
We learned about how reindeer eat lichen in Sweden during our Christmas around the world study. We were surprised to find out about the symbiotic relationship that make lichen possible!
