Exploring ice
IN A TIGHT SPOT
In small spaces you need to make the most of every inch – and that includes the airspace! A network of thin wires, crisscrossing high overhead between walls and fences or other features and secured with small eye hooks, will provide a basis for suspending all kinds of interesting items that children can then experience at their own level. For example:
Communication and language
There are so many wonderful wintry words to share during January, plus sound effects to experience and replicate. Do Inuits really have 50 words to describe ‘snow’? Apparently not, but they do have words that describe the various states and conditions of snow; for example, words that describe what we’d call ‘fallen snow’, ‘swirly snow’ or ‘drifting snow’.
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