Today we learned about what a snow day is. A snow day is when school is cancelled because there is too much snow. We thought that would be really neat to have a snow day, but since we live in Saskatchewan it likely will not ever happen! Even though a snow day with school cancelled may not ever happen didn’t stop us from coming up with a list of things we like to do when it snows.

Here are some of the things we like to do when it snows:

After we thought about all the things we like to do when it snows Mrs. N read us a short story. The story was about a boy, named Tim, who stayed home with his Grandma because it snowed, school was cancelled, and his mom had to go to work. When his mom got home from work Tim and his Grandma were not there. His mom found “evidence” or clues around the house to give her hints about what Tim and his Grandma did during the day.

We worked in small groups looking at envelopes of “evidence” about Tim and Grandma’s day. We made inferences about their day based on what was in the envelopes. For example in one of the envelopes there was a recipe for Chocolate Chip Cookies. Based on that evidence we could infer that Grandma and Tim made cookies during the day. Each of our envelopes of “evidence” only gave us a small glimpse of Grandma and Tim’s day so we don’t know the whole picture yet.   We are looking forward to Thursday when we find out what was in the other envelopes so we can use all the evidence to put together a timeline of what we think their day looked like.

The neat thing with inferring is that sometimes we may infer something based on the evidence and once we find out more information it may change our thinking!  Check back in after Thursday to see what we were able to infer based on all the evidence!

Mrs. N.