Snow Crystals and Feelings

Today we did a really neat experiment to help us learn about snow crystals. We used Borax soap and hot water to mix a saturated solution. We immersed pipe cleaner snowflakes in this solution and waited and watched. After awhile, crystals began to form on our pipe cleaners! They were so beautiful and so amazing. Right now we've voted to hang them up in our room - later on, we'll send one home with each student.
We also continued our Empathy Unit and looked at photographs of children who looked "interested" or "scared". We learned that good friends try to look interested when someone is speaking to us. We are getting better at identifying emotions based on visual cues, and we are beginning to understand that feelings are caused by different things. There is a Home Link for this lesson to work on over the next week at home.