I hope every had a great fall break!  This week we are going to continue working with our simple machines.

On Monday/Tuesday we will be building hockey players!  Our hockey players will have gears that make the hockey stick hit the puck!  We will test out different pucks to see what goes the farthest.

On Friday Ms. Sarah will be your sub, I will be attending the iPad Conference so I can learn about the fun ways other schools are using iPads!  On Friday you will be building a dog who's eyes move when you use the gears.  Try to figure out how you can change the gears to change the way the eyes move!

Enjoy your fall break!  I hope you all have a good time with your families and I look forward to hearing about what you did.

This week you will only have one tech class, on Monday/Tuesday, you will not have tech class on Friday due to the Fall Festival.  This week we will build a car launcher!  We will use the launcher to try to send the car UP the ramp.  Will it work?  Which launcher makes the car go th farthest and why?

On Monday/Tuesday we will build a spinning top!  We will test out different ways of making the top top spin longer.

On Friday we will build a seesaw!  Yes, the type of seesaw on the playground; no, you can't sit on this one.  We will discover how to balance the seesaw and what this means.

It time for simple machines!  For the next 6 weeks we will building simple machines, we will build them then explore what they can do.  This week we will be building a windmill and test out different wings to see which works better.