FLOATING AND SINKING

Children love playing with water, so activities involving water are always enjoyable. This time they worked with different objects like a tennis balls, ping pong balls, wooden bricks, marbles, and rocks to classify floating and non floating materials.

The Sad Stone

It’s easy to float

Said the blue rowing boat

As it bobbed on the mill pond one day

There’s nothing to that

Said an old cricket bat

As it bobbed and floated away.

And see so can I

Said a duck floating by

With a swish and a splash and a quack

But here I sit stuck

In the mud Mister Duck

Said the stone oh alas and alack.

And I can float too

Said a battered old shoe

If I’m careful and sitting up straight

And of course so can I

Said a swan floating by

With four cygnets behind, and his mate.

Deary me said the stone with a sort of a groan

The whole world can float past but me

The branch and the boat

And even the goat

And the iron ship out on the sea.

Oh stop all  that groan

Said the duck to the stone

Quickly picking him up in his bill

Sit there on my back

And away with a quack

They floated down to the mill.