Launching Materials

The Pine kids continued their exploration using different materials to launch rockets and cardboard cutouts into the air. They were given more materials than yesterday to figure out how to rebuild the launching mechanism.

"Look, we made it like this. We can use the popsicle sticks."

"I made it kind of like a bridge. It still works."

"It's flying up so high!"

"I made a seesaw with this one yesterday. It just goes like this."

"We can use this for a seesaw too. It can spin around."

"I need these blocks to block it from rolling off."

The boys finally realized (the video cut off 😕) that if they knocked the block over, it would have the same effect of using your hand to push it down. It was so cool!

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Submarine Update

Yesterday the Pine friends continued their exploration on how to create a submarine out of a box. They first started drawing sketches of how it should look. "It needs to have windows!" "We should make it yellow too." "It also needs a telescope (periscope)." Now that the drawing phase was complete, some friends wandered over to then build a submarine out of the blocks. They worked purposefully and explained the different parts as they worked. "We need to cut out a circle for it to be the telescope." B, V, & E continued to work with one another and make compromises throughout their building in order to make the best version of a submarine as they could. The three finished building their submarine, but noticed something was missing. "It needs a propeller so it can move!" How could they make a propeller? What does a propeller look like? The kids got to work on some research about wh...

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It was a Ms Amy day!

Happy Wednesday

How lucky are we that it was nice weather which allowed for much needed outside time!

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