Science Fair

The girls entered the county science fair this month. Adelle's experiment was about what the best thing to remove tea stains from eggs was. She found that if you put baking soda on your toothbrush and put a little hydrogen peroxide on it then brush your teeth, that is the most effective way to remove tea stains from your teeth. When she entered the school science fair in second grade she got first place, based pretty much on the fact that she had hand written her entire report (meaning her parents did not do it for her). She got second place this time and was a little disappointed. But I was super excited for her because there was a lot more competition.
This was Maeve's first science fair. We chose her experiment out of an elementary science book we found at the library but did not get the results that we were suppose to. She poured different liquids into cups of raisins to see if the raisins would float. Her hypothesis was that the raisins would float in the plain water because boats float in water. The raisins were suppose to float in the club soda but almost nothing happened. She determined that nothing happened because the raisins did not have air in them, like ducks. She was excited to have a participant ribbon until Adelle went on the stage to be recognized and she did not. Not like she would have gone anyway...
Even though I am not good at math or science I am really trying to help the girls to be better in those areas. Maybe they will grow up to choose different careers than artists or social workers. :)