{"id":237,"date":"2020-05-17T20:32:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T03:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/?p=237"},"modified":"2020-05-17T20:32:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T03:32:14","slug":"frozen-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/2020\/05\/17\/frozen-exploration\/","title":{"rendered":"Frozen Exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Making your own Ice Exploration activity.\u00a0 All you need is a rubber container, some of your child&#8217;s toys (avoid using &#8220;delicate&#8221; items) and water.\u00a0 Fill a container with water and the toys.\u00a0 Do not overfill with too much water.\u00a0 Leave at least 2 inches from the top, giving enough space for the water to expand when it freezes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-240\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/files\/2020\/05\/IMG_3203-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/files\/2020\/05\/IMG_3203-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/files\/2020\/05\/IMG_3203.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-239\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/files\/2020\/05\/IMG_3210-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/files\/2020\/05\/IMG_3210-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/files\/2020\/05\/IMG_3210.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-238\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/files\/2020\/05\/IMG_3212-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/files\/2020\/05\/IMG_3212-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/files\/2020\/05\/IMG_3212.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How are we going rescue these creatures out of the frozen ice?\u00a0 We used paintbrushes, toothbrush, salt, tweezers, eye droppers with warm water and our hands to get them out.\u00a0 It was a lot of team work and patience.\u00a0 It was hard work.\u00a0 The children (in the above photos) spent over a half hour working together to get them out.<\/p>\n<p>Some questions to ask your child during the activity:<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how are we going to get these out?<\/p>\n<p>How did they get stuck in there?<\/p>\n<p>What is happening to the ice?<\/p>\n<p>What happens if we add warm water or salt to it?<\/p>\n<p>Can you see more with a magnify glass, look closely into the ice, &#8220;What do you see?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How does the ice feel?<\/p>\n<p>Asking open ended questions invites children to use their own imagination.\u00a0 There are no rights or wrongs.\u00a0 Let them explore freely with all of their senses, touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing. (with supervision of course!)<\/p>\n<p>Together with your child, have fun exploring and experimenting with ice!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making your own Ice Exploration activity.\u00a0 All you need is a rubber container, some of your child&#8217;s toys (avoid using &#8220;delicate&#8221; items) and water.\u00a0 Fill a container with water and the toys.\u00a0 Do not overfill with too much water.\u00a0 Leave at least 2 inches from the top, giving enough space for the water to expand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}