Friday: dryer vent, pumpkin experiments

This morning Joshua and I worked on cleaning the dryer vent.  You see, the new dryer hasn't really been working very well.  However, the company wanted us to clean the dryer vent before they sent anyone out.  I guess it makes sense.  The dryer vent was very clean and now the drier seems to be working worse than it was before.  I learned a lot about how to clean the dryer vent though, as I got stuck and annoyed a few times.  Next time will be better...if I can get the pieces apart again.  I might need to call in the people with the good tools to re-separate the sections.  Joshua was a good helper and kept going inside to see if any fuzz had come out yet.  He yelled at me from inside, but since it is sort of in the middle of the house there was no way I could hear him.  I kept telling him this, but he kept yelling and asking if I had heard him anyway.

Then I went to help out with pumpkin experiments in Isaac's class.  I got the "does our pumpkin sink or float" station, which was an awesome station to have.  First of all, pumpkins float.  (I had been debating it in my head so the first one was a surprise to me too.)  Secondly, kids love finding out if things sink or float.  The second group I had had their stem fall off, so we put that in the water too.  That started putting lots of things in the water.  We may not have talked as much about density and instead just put stuff in the bucket of water, but it sure was fun.

When the third group got to me, they had cut open their pumpkins and taken out the insides.  So what did we do?  We filled the pumpkin with water!   Small pumpkins still float and the large pumpkin did not.  As they got filled with water you could see that they floated lower in the water.

Only a few people got their sleeves wet.  I cleaned up after myself, including the bucket of water and pumpkin guts.