Snow Business!!!!

Despite a long Texas history of promised snowfall only to be left high and dry, the weather reports finally came through. It snowed!!!! We had just "suited up" to head out the playground when on our way we noticed snow flurries. We ran out to the courtyard and reveled in our brief snowfall! Ms. Price had her kindergartners join us and upped the volume to her Christmas music CD. To add to the excitement we had magnifying glasses and black paper to capture the snow crystals as they fell. I can't imagine anything more fun than playing tag and tasting snowflakes to rocking Ghristmas music on a December day-a rare and unexpected treat.
We ended the day playing "Melt an Ice Cube" with our 5th Grade Buddies. Each child has an ice cube and depending on the roll of the dice they had to drop it, blow on it, put ten shakes of salt on it, float it in water for 10 seconds, or drop it down their shirt. There were lots of giggles-especially if they had to drop it down their shirt. We had a fabulous day getting "snowed in" and playing with ice!