How full of the creative genius is the air in which these are generated!
I should hardly admire more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat.”
–Henry David Thoreau, 1856

It’s snowing today! YEA! The above picture was taken at 9:16 a.m. Then, I started on this blog entry, gave a few spelling and math speed drill tests, came back to finish up this blog entry an hour later and look at the scene outside now! Picture below taken at 10:16 a.m. (never mind the bad exposure… I’ll post another entry about that hopefully later today).
We have a couple of traditions for the first Snow Day of the year which I’d like to share with you all. We actually had our first Snow Day back in October, but that was MUCH TOO early in the year to celebrate a “snow day.” (LOL). So, even though today is actually our 2nd Snow Day, we’re going to celebrate it like it was the first (LOL) and in the big picture of life I’m guessing no one really cares whether we actually do our traditional Snow Day activities on the first, second, or last Snow Day of the season (LOL). Right?First. We have a hot breakfast instead of our normal quick breakfast of cereal. Today some of us had blueberry pancakes and others of us had chocolate chip pancakes.The second thing we always do on our Snow Day is read Snowflake Bentley. I keep eyeing a couple of other snowflake photography books, but have yet to actually purchase one. I just might buy this one: Snowflake by Kenneth Libbrecht who is supposedly the modern day expert on snowflakes. I think I may have to stop in at the book store tomorrow while I’m in town to see if they carry this or any of his others books. And, finally we usually do some sort of snowflake activity. Here are some snow activity and informaton sheets I found on the Amazon website. Some years, we’ve gone out and collected snowflakes on black sheets of paper and then looked at them with a magnifying glass. Other years we have made paper snowflakes to hang on the tree or around the house. There are many activities one can find to enhance their study of snowflakes. You can view some of Mr. Libbrecht’s amazing snowflake photography by visiting the LiveScience website and find some fun facts, activities, and information on the SnowCrystals website which also showcases some of his books and research. Today, we decided to make some coffee filter snowflakes because I needed something “different” (LOL) to put in my December Diary which I will blog about SOON! (I sound like a broken record when I say that, don’t I?… and that term probably really dates me.. maybe I should say I sound like a scratched CD instead?). Anyway. Here is a picture of my coffee filter snowflake that will become a page in my December Diary, which again, I hope to post about as early as tomorrow!Do you have any special traditions for the first snow day of the year? If so, please share in the comment section or post a note on your blog.