We looked at a variety of different ice castle pictures on the SMARTboard. We noticed that they were all different shapes and sizes. Some used ice blocks and other used icicles. We thought it would be really cool if we could make our own.
One problem was, we don't have any ice. We came up with the idea of making our own. We collected little cups and put water, food colouring and sparkles in the cups. We mixed the water up and put them outside to freeze.
We even wrote a sign that said "Do Not Touch" to make sure that no one would touch our cups.
When we got to school today, we were ready to work in small groups so we could build our very own ice castles. Everyone experimented with salt and water to see what would be the best way to make the ice stick together. It was very cold work, but the results were beautiful.
Another thing were are beginning to experiment with is to document our own learning. We used our iPads to take pictures while we made our ice castles. Then we used these pictures to make a book to show what we did and learned.
The Morning Class
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
The Afternoon Class
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Hello Kinders!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed looking at how you made your ice castles.
I wonder, why did you use salt? What was it for?
From Jesse's Mom.