The Unstable Obstacle Course

First thing this morning, the Pine friends ventured into the collaboratory where E, C, & E wanted to build an obstacle course.

"We need to make it really big! It has monsters!"

C's suggestion sparked a different way in which they could build an obstacle course. Instead of just lying the blocks next to one another on the ground, they started putting smaller blocks down first as stilts.

"We have to build it up like this so the monsters won't get us."

E found different blocks and came across a long cylinder shaped block.

"Here this one should work."

E took a step on the blue block and fell backwards landing on her butt.

"Oh, that's too unstable!"

She began readjusting the smaller blocks and replaced the cylinder with a square.

E sighed with relief and then began building the obstacle course with the two boys.

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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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