This afternoon the children were set a challenge to melt a cup of snow the quickest.  We had to keep the test fair so we had to use the same size of cups with the same amount of snow and start at the same time.  The children came up with lots of ideas to melt the snow the quickest : put it on a radiator, cover with a hat, blow on it, hold cup in your warm hands, etc.  No-one expected the winner to be stirring it!

Our teacher told us about a hotel made of ice where she had gone on holiday.  We went outside for a short time and made snowbricks and built a snow wall.  We reached 5 rows high before it fell over.