After our snack break we went to three outdoor games stations. The first two were arctic games stations:
One game was called the Blanket Toss. In the real version of this game they use an animal hide blanket sort of like a trampoline and send the person on the blanket flying into the air. Don't worry, we didn't do that! We used mini-parachutes as our blankets and tossed balls into the air. It was tricky to work as a team to catch the ball in the parachute! Then, we tried passing the ball back and forth between two mini parachutes.
The other game was our own version of the Labrathon. A traditional event from the Labrador Winter Games where you have to practice the skills needed by a northern trapper. In our version we did a seal crawl to build strong arms. Gathered snow that we would need for water, played the stick and ball game, and raced a "dog sled" (sometimes we were the driver, sometimes we were the dogs).
The third station was our scientific Cabane a Sucre. At this station Ms. Boyer was boiling maple syrup. We talked about a new term called flow rate. This means how quickly something flows when you pour it. We looked at water, maple syrup, and then at the maple syrup that Ms. Boyer was boiling. We could see that as the maple syrup boiled steam was rising off it. This meant that some of the water in the maple syrup was turning into steam and leaving the syrup. This was making the syrup thicker and making it flow slower when it was poured. Then Ms. Boyer poured the boiled maple syrup onto clean snow and we saw how it became even thicker and almost stopped flowing altogether. Then she rolled it up onto sticks and we got to eat it! This is a traditional Quebecois tradition called Tire d'Erable, or maple taffy. Delicious!
Then it was time to go home. What a beautiful day to be outside!
Have a great weekend!
