New schedule

Starting on Monday, September 16th our daily schedule will be changing a little.  Here is what our new schedule will look like......

7:35-8:00.    Breakfast, Announcements

8:00-10:00.   LA/SS with my home room 

10:00-10:20.   Engineering

10:20-11:10. Specials

11:10-11:40.  Recess

11:40-12:10.   Lunch

12:10-12:30.   Engineering

12:30-2:30.    LA/SS with Nelson's class

                       My home room will be with Ms. Nelson for Math & Science

2:30-2:45.      Switch classes & prepare for dismissal

Structure building

In Engineering this week the children have been working on building a structure that is strong enough to hold a tennis ball and withstand the wind from a fan without falling over.  Their supplies are:  5 pieces of copy paper, 10 straws, 10 Popsicle sticks, 1yd of string, and 1yd of tape.  Here's what they have created so far......

Building a table

Today was revision day on our table building.  Our goal was to revise our first plan to get our table top to hold as much weight (books) as possible.  We had 1 group's table able to hold 5 books, another 4, another group 3 and 3 groups able to hold 1!  Here's some pictures from today......

Structural engineering

We have been discussing structural designs and today we had the challenge of redesigning our index card tower from Friday.  The children's goal was to create pillars that would be strong enough to hold textbooks.  They were given the supplies of:  6 index cards and masking tape.  After the pillars were constructed we tested them by seeing how many textbooks they could hold.  Here's some of the towers....

And the one that held the most (38 books)

Challenge!!

Today we had a difficult challenge, we had to work as a group on our communication skills, by walking on skis in groups of 3.  Each group had a leader that gave directions.  If any member of the team fell off, that member had to turn around backwards.  If 1team member fell off twice then the leader lost their voice and they had to figure out another way to communicate.  The children did a great job and had a blast at the same time!  Here's some pictures.......

Design challenge

This afternoon we had a very difficult design challenge that involved 20 spaghetti noodles, 1 yd of tape, 1 marshmallow, 1yd of string.  The goal was to build the tallest tower in 12 minutes.  Here's how we did:

And the results were:

Engineering exploring

This morning we went and explored in the Engineering lab.  Here are some of our creations.....