This morning Annie and I decided to try our hand at some
preschool science! We’d been talking over the weekend and Annie
had gotten confused over the meanings of float and sink, so I
decided the best way to get it to stick in her head was to let
her see floating and sinking in action. We filled up a bowl with
water then went around the house searching for things we could
drop in it. I let Annie have free reign over the choices, only
vetoing, ‘this book’ and, ‘Ezra’s Mr Dinosaur’ and this is what
she chose. As I wrote the list we talked about if she thought
the things on the table would sink, or float, and why. Annie
thought Luke Skywalker would float because, ‘he is a boy and I
am a girl and I float in the swimming pool’! I like her logic
;-) Annie got really excited about shouting out what each item
did when she dropped it into the bowl. We tried dropping them
from high up and also, gently placing them into the water to see
if that made a difference. Most of the items sank really quickly
except the Mega Blok