MORE MAGNETS

Good afternoon you lovely people.  Am trying a new 'work' schedule, can't see it always working, but it should if we are at home all day.  So, today, it's worked, haha.

Slow start this morning.  Weather grotty, very wet, overcast and dark.  Did snow a bit this morning, but didn't lay as ground too wet from the rain.

Draco the dog in the snow and wet

A few things needed to be sorted out this morning before we started properly.  One of which was deciding  what Callum wanted to cook for dinner on Wednesday (alternate weeks he cooks dinner).  After going through his cookery book.

Managed to get this in a charity shop for £1.50.

He decided that pizza with mozzerella, olives and pepperoni was on the menu. Shopping list was duly made and a trip to shops tomorrow put on the To Do list.

Then it was firing up the computer and going into the To Print folder that we created when our old printer died.  As we now have a new one, it was time to print of the work and file it in the folders.  As it was the first time we'd used the printer, which is WiFi, was very glad that it all worked according to plan.  Now just need to link up my laptop.

Callum likes the new printer as it has lots of flashy lights!

A book review followed.  He has 3 to do in total, but as he's not keen, I said he could do one a day this week as we have a quieter week.

Then back to the magnet project.  Making magnets today, although we did try to magnetise both a needle and a screw, but couldn't get either to work even though we both tried several times.  We know what should happen in theory, but just couldn't get it to work which was a bit disappointing as some of the experiments Callum fancied doing needed a magnetised needle.  However, we did do some experiments which involved extended magnets as follows:

Adding a screw to a screw

Making ends repel by making screw heads the same pole

Making ends attract by making screw heads  opposite poles

Called it quits after this as we kept trying to magnetise the needle but it wouldn't work.  Callum then just had a play with a bowl of water, magnets and various floating objects, whilst I cleared away work.

Oh yeah, almost forgot we also used magnets under paper and sprinkled iron filings on to make magnetic patterns. 

Using a straight magnet

Using a U shaped magnet

Anyway that is definitely it for today.

Cya