{"id":12227,"date":"2016-05-31T19:31:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T18:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/?p=12227"},"modified":"2016-05-31T19:31:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T18:31:22","slug":"floating-and-sinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/2016\/05\/31\/floating-and-sinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Floating and Sinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The children have been taking lots of their learning outdoors in the recent warm weather and we captured some photos last week of a group investigating floating and sinking. There was lots of discussion about exactly what was happening and why some objects &#8220;stayed on the top&#8221; and some &#8220;went down to the bottom&#8221;. 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