January's Children's Program was offered virtually, which allowed some friends to join from afar. We first introduced ourselves and shared what we had been noticing about the natural world, including lots of changes in weather (rain, snow, sleet and sun!), and ravens and other birds. We then read the story Ten Ways to Hear Snow, written by Cathy Camper and illustrated by Kenard Pak. In the story a child explores a snowy day on the way to visit her grandmother, and experiences many different ways of hearing snow along the way, from the scraping of snow shovels to the thumping of snowballs. When she finally arrives at her grandmother's apartment, she experiences a tenth way to hear snow - quiet. After the story we experimented with mimicking the sounds of a rainstorm together by making different noises with our hands, which ended in the quiet of rain turning to snowfall. Finally, we played a game called "Change One Thing," in which one person changed an aspect of their appearance and others guessed what was changed. We closed with a group
