Chipping Away

Landmark 11 (Celebrate Each Season)

Easton found a metal spoon and begin trying to dig into the snowbank to make a hole but the snow bank was tough to dig through so he said, “I’m going to chip at it”. As he was chipping at it he made a statement about how the snow became this solid. He said, “the snow isn’t soft anymore it’s hard, it would have melted because the weather became mild, and then it got very cold again so the melted snow turned frozen like hard tough ice instead of soft snow”. He said, “I’m digging to see how big of a hole I could make through the tough snow, but I’m chipping away at the snow bank… chipping away like a chip” and giggled. We examine certain spots of the snow to see where it melted and how thick the ice was. He used the shovel to see which parts of the snow bank he could chip through and what parts were too frozen solid.

Junior Afterschool – Strath-Maclean – January 10, 2023