This morning the weather provided a great motivation for environmental writing. Three of our junior classes couldn't resist utalising such a magical teaching moment.
The children were super excited about the very fresh frost that was covering our school playground with many of them taking the opportunity to play around in it before the bell. Sliding, skidding and collecting icy particles... So instead of waiting untill tomorrow to do this type of writing (like I had planned) we did it today...
The children took off their socks, I (Mrs g) turned up the heater, they made sure they had all their jerseys and jackets on and were otherwise toasty and warm before we all lined up outside and I (Mrs g) helped to make sure long trousers were rolled up so they wouldn't get wet. We then all walked around the school finding patches of frost to run across before we would stand in sunny patches to warm our feet up again... then we did it all over again. Some children only wanted to do this once and this was fine as they got to watch from the court or bike trail where the frost didn't seen to have had the same effect...
Then we returned to the very toasty classroom to dry our feet, put our socks back on and before long we were all peeling off our extra jackets and jerseys because we were so cozy. We then discussed this experience in depth before we started some fantastic writing... here are some photos... many of them taken before school as I knew I had time to take some... thank you Mrs Stevenson for taking some of our class experience.
Running together through the frosty field
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