Over the last two weeks the boys have been experimenting with all kinds of different materials to put into the wind tunnel. It wasn't until today that they noticed that the wind was doing the same thing the tunnel did in our room! While playing out at the sculpture park, the kids were engrossed in the fact that the wind was blowing everything around them. B watched as leaves and dried petals from flowers were blowing in every direction while L enjoyed the bubbles surrounding him and gently floating away. So cool to connect our classroom learning with the outside world!
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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