We have a lot of resources for science at our house.  But, sadly, I have been quite lazy about it.  The day seems to go one of three ways:

1. A rough day. I am so thankful to be DONE with school.  It felt like pulling teeth just to get the basics done.  I feel relieved to send him off to go do something else or be somewhere else.
2. A good day. He's happy we're done for the day and quickly goes off to pursue his own interests  (lately it has been mostly shoveling. LOL) and I forget all about the fun or extra things that we could do.
3. A busy day. We have somewhere that we have to rush off to be or somewhere to be and it gets put off until some other day. 

But I really want to change that.  I want for us to do things that he looks forward to and enjoys.  I want him to have something he likes to work towards.  Today, it was a science experiment.

My Dad always seems to buy Christmas gifts that have an education twist.  A few years back, he bought us Pop Bottle Science.  It is a kit that comes with a pop bottle with a removable top, a few extra tools you need for some experiments, and a book full of different things to do with your pop bottle. 

Tonight we did the "Magic Floating Egg" experiment.  It also had a hidden fractions lesson in it.  First we were to fill the bottom part of the pop bottle 1/4 with water.  First we eye-balled where half was and then eye-balled where 1/4 would be.  I think that this was the first time that he got that 1/4 is a half of a half.

Then we cracked an egg into the water and watched what happened. 

That's right.  It sunk straight to the bottom.

Then we did it again but made a very high concentrated salt water solution.

(This was almost as much fun to him as cracking the egg and seeing what happened)

Then we added an egg again and voila!

The egg floated to the top. 

We always enjoy doing experiments and we were able to discuss things like solution, dissolving, and density and got to do things like estimating, measuring and predicting.