We have a winner folks! Emily came home from school a few months ago so excited about the upcoming Science Fair at her school. She wanted to do a science project so we went to work. We talked about all of the different projects she could do and she finally decided on doing one with flowers, her favorite things. The title of her project was: "How Flowers Grow with Different Liquids."
For her experiment, we bought three dianthus plants and watered one with orange juice, one with grape soda, and one with Kool-Aid. We wanted to see which plant would grow and which plant would not. Her hypothesis was the orange juice plant would grow but the other two would die. After "watering" the plants for one month with one cup of liquid every other day, we compared the results. Emily's hypothesis was correct. The orange juice plant grew and did well because of the vitamins and proteins in the OJ. The Kool-Aid plant started to die because of the sugar content. The grape soda plant died and turned purple and red because of the color dies, sugar content and carbonation.
We helped Emily practice what to say to the judges and she even put together her own board. She was so excited for the school Science Fair. I took her to school on the day of the Science Fair and then waited out in the hall for her because parents were not allowed in while the judges were interviewing the kids and judging. After a few minutes, Emily came out so happy. I asked her how it went and she said fine. Then I asked her what she said to the judges and she said she couldn't remember. That was all she said about it but she was still excited so I assumed it went well.
The next day was the award ceremony:
Emily won first place in the Kindergarten division! We are so proud of our little smarty! Emily was so excited to win first place. She showed everyone her trophy and told everyone she saw about her project. Because she won first place, Emily qualified to take her project to the District Science Fair held at Dixie State University.
The District Science Fair was April 30. This was the real deal. There were tons of Science projects from all of the schools around St. George. Once again we waited in the hall while Emily was interviewed and judged on her project. That afternoon was the award ceremony. Unfortunately Emily did not place in the top three but we think she got fourth place at least! She was really sad about not winning but we told her she was still amazing for making it to District. To celebrate we took her out for frozen yogurt at her favorite place, Menchies. That made everything better.
The next day at school an award ceremony was held and Emily was given a certificate for being in the District Science Fair. Emily was really happy about that.
Emily has already been thinking of ideas for next year's science fair. We will see how it goes.
Congratulations Emily you did a great job on your project! We are so proud of you.
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