Scientist Matthew

For over a year now Matthew has been saying that he wants to be a scientist when he grows up, so he was buoyant to discover a chemistry set under the tree from Santa this Christmas.  We did two experiments this morning.  The first involved putting one penny into water and one into lemon juice to discover what would happen and then discuss our findings.  Matthew thought it was neat that lemon juice turns dull pennies into shiny pennies.  The second experiment we performed was a simple but delightful task of searching the house for small items, predicting if we thought each item would float or sink in water, and then finding out if our guess was correct. We tried items such as Legos, a nail, chocolate chips, goldfish crackers, candy hearts, pennies, a key, a gummy bear, a marble, and a key chain, just to name a few of the multitude of objects.   

Using the tweezers to pull the objects out of the beaker was one of the highlights of the experiment