I told you he was into science experiments! His other interest this week has been sink/float experimentation. This probably came about because of a couple new boats he bought with his chore money at the dollar store. Anyhow, we've done sink/float several times over the past couple years and he remembered it and asked to do it again. Yesterday I set him up with a nice table of objects and a big glass bowl of water and he had a good time experimenting. Today he asked to do it again while I was doing some dishes. I didn't have a good window of time to set up the "big" activity, so I told him to get out a tupperware bowl (no matter what, it's best if the dish is clear so you can observe the object from all sides) and sent him out into the backyard with a small bowl and instructions to bring in 5 objects to see if they'd sink or float. After sending him BACK out to dump out the bowl of sand he though he'd try (maybe next time, buddy....creative but it wasn't a good time for kitchen floor mud!) he came back with a pecan, a shell, a pine needle, a little teacup from Quinn's fairy garden (DON'T TELL HER--YIKES!) and a rock. He got straight to work trying them out. So today's experiment was a float/sink snack, eh?! Just a little tidbit of time he spent exploring and a smaller set up than we often use, but he was still exploring and doing science!! Besides just the floating and sinking, he was also exploring the properties of water/a liquid! Wow, such scientific power in a few minutes of curious play!
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