A Few Books about Snow
One Winter’s Day
One Snowy Night
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
When Winter Comes
Animals in Winter (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1)
Tiny Snowflake Picture Book
Snowflake Bentley (Caldecott Medal Book)
~ Lapbook for Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Stopping by Woods is a FIAR vol. 1 title)
~ Lapbook for Katy and the Big Snow (katy is a FIAR vol. 1 title)
~ Using a few pieces from this Weather Lapbook, we will learn about the different types of clouds and which ones form snow (we will use the snow words and cloud type mini-books)
~ A great website for our snow school ~ The Snow Primer
~ Winter word puzzles and games
~ We will read, discuss and use for copywork Psalm 51. We will read the entire Psalm and discuss its meaning. We will write out verse 8 that says “wash me and I will be whiter than snow.”
~ Here are some great winter animal coloring pages!
~ Look at this great page with all kinds of *unique* snowflakes to print and color!
~ Some really neat high resolution photographs and images of snowflakes…taken by Snowflake Bentley himself!
~ A video of a news story on Wilson Bentley, it is about 3 1/2 minutes long. (first click on the format in which you want to watch the video, don’t click on the “eye of our atmosphere” link, it doesn’t work.)
Snowy Crafts & Projects
~ Is this felt snowman not the cutest thing ever?? Chasing Cheerios has inspired me! (she also made a gingerbread set and a turkey set like this one!) I want to make this snowman set for the kids for our Snow School in January!!
~ make paper snowflakes and hang in all the windows
~ Speckled Egg has some really cute marshmellow snowmen lollipops! This would be a fun (and yummy) treat to have one day! (this also makes me think we should have a SNOW PARTY!! Wouldn’t that be fun??)
~ Julie K has some very pretty winter night scenes using black paper, cotton and other collage materials.
~ A super, fun, fabulous idea that someone shared on a message board is to create your own ice sculptures! Really, this idea has me so excited!! Check out the Ice-Castle Creations that you can do in your own backyard. In a nutshell, take all the empty plastic containers you can find (lots of them!) and fill them with water, put them on your back porch overnight to freeze. (if your porch isn’t cold enough, try the freezer!) Then, help your kids to take the ice out of the containers, give them some salt (for the ice pieces to stick together) and watch what they can build! There could even be a science lesson in there somewhere, regarding the salt and ice!
~ Make a crystal snowflake from Borax! Here are some directions I found for this science experiment. Here are some more directions with a science explanation to go along with it. Also, Melissa shares pictures with us from when they did this experiment.
The Fine Arts
~ We are going to learn the hymn “Whiter than Snow” for the month of January. Of course, this will also tie into how Jesus washes our sins away and makes us pure ~ white as snow!
~ We will be keeping a “winter” journal (do you sense that I am loving the journal thing? We did a Thankful journal, Advent journal and now a winter one!) In this journal we will do 1)copywork with Bible verses and poems about snow 2)draw winter pictures 3)draw snowflakes 4)any other winter nature items will go in this notebook as well 5)our lapbook components will go in this notebook too
Facts & Quotes about Snow (to be used for copywork)
~ Snowflakes start as ice crystals that are the size of specks of dust.
~ Snowflakes have 6 sides, forming a hexagon shape.
~ As snow falls, snowflakes can connect to each other to form bigger snowflakes.
~ The snowiest state in the United States is New York with an average of 94 inches each year.
~ Wilson Bentley was known as the “Snowflake Man;” he photographed snowflakes under a microscope in the 1920’s.
~ “I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be seen and appreciated by others.” Wilson Bentley
~ Some snowflakes are wet and sticky, while others are light, dry and fluffy.
~ Snowflakes begin inside clouds.
~ A snowflake is made up of one or many hundreds of crystals of ice.
Lyrics to Whiter than Snow (hymn we will learn to sing and write for copywork)
1. Lord Jesus, I long to be perfectly whole;
I want Thee forever to live in my soul.
Break down every idol, cast out every foe
Now wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
2. Lord Jesus, look down from Your throne in the skies
And help me to make a complete sacrifice.
I give up myself and whatever I know
Now wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
3. Lord Jesus, for this I most humbly entreat;
I wait, blessed Lord, at Thy crucified feet.
By faith, for my cleansing I see Your blood flow
Now wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
4. Lord Jesus, before You I patiently wait;
Come now and within me a new heart create.
To those who have sought You, You never said “No”
Now wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
Chorus:
Whiter than snow, yes, whiter than snow
Now wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
WONDERFUL ideas! We did a snow unit study two years ago, but the kids never seem to mind mulling over it again. Or should I say ROLLING IN it again? :o)
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Wow, Candace! What great ideas and resources! Thanks for sharing.
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Love the printable snowflakes to color…thanks for the additional ideas for winter study.
I didn’t see the video…is it linked in the entry? I would love to watch it.
Barb-Harmony Art Mom
Looks great!
I just popped over here from Melissa’s blog (In the Sparrow’s Nest) and did a quick glance at your winter nature unit study. I plan to come back and use a lot of these ideas! Thanks for sharing!
Jennifer
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/ZephaniahWay
love these ideas! I will be using some of these for sure. Thanks so much
Angela
love the facts and quotes- we live in “ski country” south of buffalo… I now know it is the snowiest place in the country! I knew that before, but seeing it from a “what you are teaching your kids” perspective seems amazing and makes me not take the 18″ of snow in my yard for granted! Wishing a few flakes your way,
Krista 😉
Thanks for the ideas Candace – I am always so inspired by you!
We too are doing a unit these first couple weeks of Jan…
I loved the book In the Snow: Who’s Been Here? paired with Stopping to explore further tracks and traces animals leave…even here in Texas without snow we can explore that on a nature walk…
I also think the book Fall is Not Easy is fun to introduce seasons…and makes a great way to get into hand and arm print art to make a tree depicting all seasons…love that kind of art!
Lastly, don’t forget good ole shaving cream and trucks for snow when doing Katy — boys like Caleb and my son love it!
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Wow! Candace you did a great job of pulling in tons of resources here! Thanks for sharing, I’m definitely checking them out. I especially know I’ll use the lapbook resources for Snowflake Bentley and a few other things. I’m currently working on a post on our Snowflake Bentley studies, we began that today. Thanks so much for sharing.
Blessings, Melissa
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/melissal89
Candace,
We did the borax experiment, too.
http://luv2praisehim.blogspot.com/2008/01/holiday-science.html
I used the colored pipe cleaners instead of coloring the borax! LOL!! But it worked great for us 🙂
how would you factor in race differences? the east asians have produced some nutjobs all right, but looking over the broad arch of history they’ve had ok rulers. in africa, on the other hand, robert mugabe seems to be the rule. although i guess you could say he’s a product of democracy. would you apply this theory to africa and low iq regions?
Love your new blog, Candace!
We’re doing a snow unit in a few weeks (or whenever it starts to get really snowy around here), and I’m sure I’ll use some of these ideas – thanks for sharing!
Candace,
I just linked here from Barb’s blog and you have put together a wonderful study for winter.We are just starting to do one also.Thanks for posting the great links.
Blessings :o)