More Water!

Today, more provocations were added to the water areas to see how to Acorns would react. We put a scale in the sensory table and put out some tubs with cut up pipe cleaners in water and a couple magnetic wands. Of course, B ran right over to the sensory table. DeeDee asked him, "can you make the scale balance?" He got to work exploring the possibilities. He started putting various containers on both sides of the scale and filling them with water, watching to see what would happen. He realized that when one side fell, it made a good splash! So then he experimented with making bigger splashes, laughing as the water splattered around the table. After awhile, he had a new idea and set the whole bucket on the scale, continuing to add water.
The Acorns love using magnets in the afternoon, so we had a feeling they would love combining magnets with water and trying to pick up the pipe cleaners with magnetic wands. They spent lots of time gathering the pipe cleaners, picking them off, and then repeating the process.
It is so much fun to watch the Acorns work!