// Curriculum Update: Week of Jan 28 //

Lately, we have observed rainy days and a few snow flurries as well. This sparked a discussion on states of matter. We had a group lesson on solids, liquids, and gases, focusing primarily on water, but also naming other solids, liquids, and gases we could think of. We discovered that water is a liquid,but we can turn it into a gas by heating it and we can turn it into a solid by freezing it.  The children were excited to see an ice cube melt into water by the end of the day sitting on a shelf in our classroom! We are waiting to see if the water will still be in the vase a week later. They were also excited to see water freeze when we put it in an ice tray and placed it in the freezer. We added color to the ice cube tray and decided to paint with the ice the next day.  We all felt the cold ice and warm steam as well. These exciting experiments ignited conversations about why snowmen melt and why it snows when it is cold outside.