Sink or Float

I bought a $1 book from the dollar bins at Target and it was about Reptiles - Snakes, crocs & lizards. As we were reading this book there was a section about Basalik lizards and how they can run on water. Julian thought that was a hoot and asked to see videos of how they do that (which I love that he asked that on his own). While we were watching the video he came up with the idea of testing things that would sink or float.

It became a whirlwind and before I knew HE had set up everything for this experiment (except the water and the labels).

I asked him to predict what would float and what would sink. Then after we talked about why certain things float / sink.

Ocean Week

Ocean Themed Week was awesome! They did sooo much, from visit the aquarium, to creating ocean habitats, to painting their own seashells, to learning the sting ray shuffle, to watching YouTube videos of different ocean life. I can say, it was one of my favorite weeks and I'm know all the kids enjoyed it too.

This post has pictures of the kids making the ocean habitats and the seashell painting.

The materials.

Aislinn picking out her seashells.

Baby Claire makes her own materpiece.

The finished seashells looked tie-dyed and I loved them.

Julians seashell sits in my kitchen and I look at it often.

Lava Experiment

Today we are busy, busy, busy. NO TIME TO BE BORED!

Julian and A watched a couple of videos on YouTube of volcano's spewing Lava and their interest was peaked. So I decided to go forward with the science experiment. Thanks Brandy for the instructions.

So while A took a nap, Julian made the volcano part of it.

Ms. C making her own little volcano :)

Before they poured the "lava" we talked about how when Lave is very hot it flows faster and when it is cold it flows very slowly. I demonstrated this by pouring hot and cold syrup onto an inclined plate. They guessed which one was flowing faster.

Between the two of them, they decided Jules would pour the lava......

The eruption of Mt. Hillside!! LOL. They both jumped up and cleared the table. They weren't expecting the eruption like that.

Then, they discussed what happened and how cool it was.