Look what is melting in kindergarten?

During our first week back to school, our kindergarten students were very interested in exploring the snow.  We began the week by bringing lots of BIG snowballs into our classroom, so that we could observe the melting process.  We added some paint to the "snow table" and look what happened.  We made the snow into "Rainbow Snow".

Remember our beautiful "Rainbow Snow"?  We made some predictions about how long it would take for all of the snow to melt.  Well, after leaving it in our water table for 3 days, we ended up with a very different final product.  Our beautiful snow melted and the colours all mixed together to create....a mess!  But, as we all know, learning can be messy.  We worked together to clean it up and it turned out to be a great learning process for us all!

On Super Science Wednesday, we played "The Melting Game".  We used the following different methods to help speed up the melting of an ice cube:
1.  Blow dryer
2.  Blow on the ice cube
3.  Drop the ice cube
4.  Hold the ice cube in your hand
5.  Put sprinkles of salt on the ice cube
6.  Float the ice cube in water