Week 3: Water

This last week's best moment was the water experiment on surface tension in Science 1.  We've all been getting through our work faster than I had planned, so I had plenty of older helpers for gathering materials and managing little siblings.

After we did all the projects in the book, we headed down to our pond to see if we could find some water striders:

We've had a drought this summer, so the water level is way lower than it usually is.  We found some dragonflies, but no water striders.  Maybe they are a spring insect!

We left our science supplies unattended long enough for the little ones to turn them into a tea party.  No needles or coins were consumed ;)