Frost

“Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry.

Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition.

Now it can build castles and cities and whole ice continents with your breath’s vapor.

In a few blinks you can almost see the winter fairies moving in . . .

But first, you hear the crackle of their wings.” 

― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

We have been preparing for the day, but it still tricked us anyway. We talked about how one morning we would wake up, and there would be white all over the grass. It will look like snow, but it won't be snow. We talked about what frost was, we talked about the sounds it would make, we talked about how it would feel.

So on the day that we got our first frost, it still tricked us! It goes to show that it really makes a difference when the children see, feel and hear it for themselves. It all makes sense now.