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title: "Floating Flowers"
url: "https://www.ststephenskearsley.co.uk/blog/2015-03-18-16-20-00-floating-flowers"
school: "St Stephen's Kearsley Moor CofE Primary School"
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# Floating Flowers

  ![Image of Floating Flowers](https://files.schudio.com/ststephenskm/images/news/100_3035.JPG)  18 March 2015   [Lyndsey Faulkner](https://www.ststephenskearsley.co.uk/blog/author/Lyndsey)   [Year 1 Blog](https://www.ststephenskearsley.co.uk/blog/category/year-1-blog)

We used our knowledge of fractions to create our flowers. We then timed the absorption rates of different papers. Without touching our flowers they began to open, the thicker the paper the slower the flower unfurled.

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