Winter Series #4 - Winter Weather

Outdoor Hour Challenge - Winter Series #4 - Winter Weather

I am behind in my challenge blogging!! We have still been working on our challenges. Luckily, for this challenge we have had a wide variety of weather lately - snowy days to foggy mornings to rainy afternoons to chilly sunny days.

The week of the challenge we put together a chart similar to the one we used during our Autumn Series - Weather study. Over a few days we kept track of the temperature in the morning and evening, recorded whether it was snowing, raining, or windy, and what the weather was overall for the day. This has made my kids more aware of weather changes, and with all the ones we are experiencing we are talking about the weather everyday.

We are also having some wonderful signs that spring is on its way - a good thing because I don't care for the cold, but also a not-so-good thing becase we do live in a desert and the mountains need all the snow they can get!! Also, we could enjoy nice weather this month and get slammed with snow storms next month. Weather is amazing!!

Some pictures from our walks-

Phlox starting to flower

We watched a squirrell scavenging seeds from the bushes one day at the park. He was climbing up the bushes to get the ones at the very top. In the picture, he is sitting on the rock to the left behind one of the bushes.

Lots of new green!!