Stuff that Floats

One day in January, the woman teaching Jack's preschool group did a science lesson and showed the boys all kinds of fun simple science experiments.  Jack really liked this lesson, and on the way home we talked a lot about school, particularly one experiment, where they put a variety of objects in a container of water to see which ones float.  Jack recounted which things floated and which sank, and of course, at lunch time that day, we ended up doing our own experiment.  Jack and Eliza were both totally into it.

Bananas float!

Oranges float!

Peeled orange segments sink.

Apples float!  But we are not going to test out the pizza, Jack.
Homemade pizza is just too yummy to sacrifice, even in the name of science.

Carrots, carrot sticks, and celery sticks sink.

A few weeks later I had a pot soaking on the kitchen counter beside the sink.  And have you ever noticed how a large soaking dish tends to attract other dirty dishes?  That's exactly how this pot was.  It needed to be cleaned, and so did the several dirty things inside it.  Well, my two little scientists didn't see any reason why they couldn't continue their experiments, even in a pot of dirty water.  When I found them, they had put at least a dozen Clementines and several apples in the pot.  I washed the apples thoroughly, and the Clementines got a good rinse.