Instead of letting the snow distract you and your children from school work, try these ideas for using the snow to your advantage in your homeschool.

Practice handwriting.

• Use a stick to write the letters and numbers in the snow.
• Try using a big paint brush and water tinted with food coloring to practice writing letters and numbers.
• Use your feet to make BIG letters and numbers in the snow. Color the letters with water tinted with food coloring in a spray bottle.
• Pack snow into a container and “build” a letter out of snow (similar to building a sand castle).

Learn geometry

• Draw shapes in the snow with a stick, or use your body to make shapes in the snow. Organize the shapes by number of sides.
• Pack the snow into different shaped containers and flip them over to reveal a cube, a cone, or a sphere.
• Investigate the best way to draw a circle in the snow.
• Make a circle in the snow and measure the radius and the diameter.
• Use bowls, cookie cutters, cups, or other containers to press shapes into the snow to make tessellations.

Have fun learning in the snow!

Photo by Hamza Hydri