Daily Dose of Awesome

We made rainbow fruit kabobs today.  They had a lot of fun doing this and are excited to share them with you tomorrow!

Want to know what they are looking at?  What made them SHRIEK and laugh hysterically for several minutes (don't worry - I warned the preschool teacher next door ahead of time)?
Raisins.  Yesterday we talked about sinking/floating.  Today we continued it.  We predicted if raisins would sink or float in water.  Then we dumped out the water and tried Sprite.  Ask your child what happened...  Or you can watch the video clip later, which was several minutes in, when the room had quieted down quite a bit.  Science is so fun!

We recorded some observations for our science notebooks.  I did not take pictures of their writing, but here are some of the things they wrote:

In Sprit razins go up and buwn (In Sprite raisins go up and down)

are rasins moovd (Our raisins moved)

Watr. The razn sunk. Sprit. it flotid and Then Suk and flotid and Suk.

dasTin Srit (danced in Sprite) 

And my personal favorite because of the very scientific observation at the end:

  It floted asikt. floted and sikt! it was crase. (It floated and sinked.  Floated and sinked!  It was crazy.)

Near the end of science, some children started saying they wanted to try it at home with orange juice, lemonade, milk... it is wonderful to hear their excitement to learn more.  Did any of you experiment?