Buoyancy and Emptying the Pool

One of the great joys of homeschooling is the myriad ways we can do science experiments and teach the foundations of science.  Our science lessons that past 2 weeks have included nothing but water.  And the blow-up pool.  We emptied the pool after a couple of days of using it.  The water got icky so we had to wash it.  Except I never got around to washing it fast enough.  Then it rained cats, dogs, and buckets from the sky so the pool filled up again.  The kids were thrilled to say the least.  Nothing is more fun at our house than playing in the pool (well, maybe eating popsicles).  So we experimented with floating and sinking various toys, rocks, sticks, balls, cups, and whatever else we found in the yard.  Bricks don't float unless you put them on frisbees.  Frisbees float until you put too much stuff in them. 

Then it rained cats, dogs, and buckets again.  So we did more experiments.  The Wonder Kids also learned how to reuse the rain water to water the garden.  The Boys Wonder had fun spilling their buckets of water on the blueberry bushes.  I could not convince them that they were watering the bushes.  In their world, they were spilling the water on the bushes, ergo, a much more fun adventure.  Girl Wonder #1 daintly watered the strawberry bushes.  Mostly, she watered her head with some splashes into the strawberry bushes.