When I looked out my window a few mornings ago, I saw a blanket of frost on the ground. The ice clung to the windshield of my car, stubbornly resisting my efforts to scrape it off with a spatula. While adults sometimes dread winter, children find it a time of wonder and exciting contrasts.
Kids love to watch their hot breath form clouds in the freezing air.
Inside, they see a lively fire is crackling in the fireplace, while outside the dead grass and bare trees stand so still in the cold day. Winter changes the landscape dramatically and children wonder how the animals cope with such cold weather. Or a child might wonder where insects go when it snows. In Tallahassee, winter brings masses of migratory birds. Great flocks of robins, for example, descend on an open field.