Snow and After Snow

Feb 6 - more snow.  G. made a couple of snow forts planning for a big snow ball fight.  This particular part had a personal sledding hill.

One fort, in progress.  The kids helped out.

It included a really cool hole.

The ruler says almost ten inches of snow.

Just liked the way the slide looked with the dent underneath where no snow collected.

Finishing touches. There is a fort to the right and one to the left with a "no man's land" in between. The "escape hole" is on the left.

Let the games begin.

C., B. and J. throwing snow balls back.

Neighbor N. brings reinforcements.

N. and H. from their fortified position.

The battle is over.

J. the next day.

My J. the next day.

B. the next day.

There were lots more photos of the snow ball fight but it seemed redundant to put that many photos of flying snowball up.  But it was lots of fun.  Thanks to G. for making the great forts!

One Hundred Day

February 3 was our One Hundredth Day of school so we celebrated by doing things related to 100.  There are lots of ideas for what to do on this day.

J and J in front of our chalk board.  The challenge was to see if we could find one hundred words made up of the letters from the words "ONE HUNDRED DAY".

100 kisses.  Made by ....

J. C. and G.B.

One hundred unifix cubes. Ten of each color, ten colors.

J and J. stacking the one hundred unifix cubes.

It stretched from one end of the counter to the other.

Same stretch of unifix cubes.

A game played with cubes on a 100 board.

A circle of one hundred cubes.

A mess of 100 cubes.

B. took more then one hundred steps measured on her pedometer.

B. wrote different math problems that equal 100.

Fifty dollar sized pancakes....

plus fifty more....

Makes one hundred pancakes.

Some of the eaters of the one hundred pancakes.

One more eater of the one hundred pancakes.

Last pancakes.

Last bites of the one hundred pancakes.

All gone.

We found about 80 words.

Late January Snow

There are so many snow storms this year we have to label them.  This is the January 30 Snow Storm.

The view from our window.

G. fixed a hardy breakfast of french toast before we ventured out into the cold.

A. one of the breakfast eaters.

B. getting ready to go out.

J. getting ready to go out.

A. ready to go out.

A.s dad getting ready to go out.

Impressive amount of snow.

Waffle snow.

A.'s big brother J. in the snow.

J. not too sure about the snow.

B. loving the snow.

More.

Porch

Rocking horse.

Relaxing after playing in the snow.

Pre-Snow Walk

January 29 - we knew more snow was coming so we decided to get some park play in before it got here.  J. has been working hard at mastering the monkey bars.

 She also enjoys the circular slide.

Slime

Playing catch up here - this science project was done on Jan 25. We've been working our way through a book on the Periodic Table with bunches of fun experiments to do, some are better then others.  This one was a success and involves Boron.

Boron is commonly seen today in the form of Borax, a laundry enhancer.  There is a story about 20 mule teams used to haul Boron from the mines, across the desert.

You take some borax, boil it in some water then let it cool.

After it is somewhat cool, take a cup (disposable is good) and add half water and half gel-type glue.

The 1 tablespoon at a time, add the borax mixture to the glue mixture and stir.

It gets goo-ier the more you add the borax mixture.

 and goo-ier

until there is not much of the glue-water mix left. It looks like this:

and this:

 We decided to add some color:

It took a little while for it to mix in completely.

It, in the end, became a lovely shade of blue-violet and it lasted for a couple of weeks.