At the beginning of July, we decided to head out and pick some blueberries with our boys. They were fairly good especially since this was the first time we picked our own produce at a farm. The boys had a blast hiding from us in the bushes and then yelling "boo!" whenever we said, "Where are the boys?"
We ended up picking almost two buckets worth of blueberries by the time the boys started talking about going home. Since I didn't have a specific amount of blueberries that I wanted, we decided to head back home to prep the blueberries for freezing.
On the way home, Beniah asked how much a blueberry weighed. So, once we were home, out came the kitchen scale, four ramekins, and Beniah's notebook. Tim had Beniah count out 30 blueberries per ramekin.
They then measured each group and wrote down the weights.
Then came the adding up of the weights of the four group of blueberries.
Beniah worked out the math problem in his head. I noticed that he figured out the math if he marched around the front room. (Mental note to self: Remember this when homeschooling starts in September!)
Elijah did not enjoy the math portion of the experiment, but he did like figuring out how the scale worked.
In the end, we figured out that one blueberry was approximately 1.8 grams.
And now you know a random fact about blueberries.
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