There's a Duck ...

 in the ICE!  The children enjoy hearing the story Duck at the Door by Jackie Urbanovic.  It tells the tale of a duck that doesn't fly south with the rest of the flock for the winter.  This morning, the children found some rubber ducks that were stuck in a large piece of ice.  Could this happen if a duck decides not to fly south?

Brrrr!  The ice is very cold.  It melts when we touch it!  Over the course of the morning, the children freed the ducks from the ice and enjoyed placing them in and out of the empty spots that they left behind in the ice chunk.  They also "skated" the ducks across the "pond".

After our visit to the sanctuary to celebrate Purim together, we found that the ice was almost all gone!  The children continued to enjoy the cold water and the last chunk of ice until it was time to go outside to play.