february 2011

We saved most of our science for the end of our school year(we are catching up after having started a new curriculum at the end of the school year last year…so the girls tested for their appropriate grades in the middle of the year, but we had to start their grade at the beginning of the new curriculum and are finishing it up, and are just about ready to get them in their appropriate grades!…it’s been a lot of work, but so worth it of course!  It’s been a great year!).

So Madison and Camden and I are learning about Matter, and how all things are made of matter…and that matter is made up of molecules and smaller parts called atoms.  We learned that when the molecules in the matter are cold or in a solid, they are linked together and move very slowly, but when the molecules are in a liquid or gas or something warm, they move faster and start to let go of each other.

So the test was…to see if the red in the warm water would spread faster than the blue in the cold water, and it seemed to work.  If anything, it helped bring home the whole point.  And for me too!