Today students had an opportunity to engage in water exploration.  Half of the class worked in pairs exploring sink and float while the other half used a variety of materials to experiment with water flow.  Some of the observations children made were the size of the object doesn't determine whether it sinks or floats  and gravity causes water to flow down, but the force of air from a baster can make water shoot up through a tube.  Needless to say the room was a little wet!  We will do this again on Thursday (hopefully outside) so children will have a chance to do both activities.

Yesterday Tyler Buswell of Highfields Composting introduced a new school-wide composting program to our class.  He talked to us about the process of composting, and how through composting we can "close the loop" in a cycle that starts with plants and produces new soil, which can then be used to grow more plants.  He also talked a bit about what happens to food waste when it is not composted and why this is a really important thing for us to do.