This week is a short week again due to meetings I had to attend today. Tomorrow with the 3rd-5th graders we are going to continue perspective drawing, but instead of 1 point perspective they will learn how to draw a 2 point perspective. Then on Thursday/Friday we will begin our next set of activities based around crane building. Students are going to use the engineering process to build a working crane model that is strong enough to lift a stapler.

Quote of the week- "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar! -Helen Keller

Last week we were able to test our parachutes. We experimented with different heights and weight to find to perfect combination. Then on Thursday/Friday we started talking about perspective drawing. Both classes were able to start their own perspective drawing. This week we will continue with our drawings.

We will not have High Flyers this Thursday, Friday, our next Monday due to meetings I have to attend.

Today we FLY...

Finishing up the parachutes last week took longer than I had anticipated, so today and tomorrow we will put our parachutes to the test. With the weather hopefully on our side, we will take our parachutes to the football bleachers and test them out. We will experiment with different amounts of weight to see what flies best.

On Thursday/Friday we will start our next set of activities in this unit titled "Renaissance Design in Perspective". In this lesson we will understand linear perspective in drawing and painting as a mathematical and geometric relationship. Then try our hand at perspective drawing.

Since it just started pouring down rain as I type this, we may have to switch our beginning of the week and end of week activities!

Quote of the Week: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -Gandhi

This week we are continuing to work on our Da Vinci parachutes. By the end of the week we will be ready to test them!

Sorry this is not getting posted until today! I had a sick little boy I had to stay home with yesterday.

This week we are going to learn about Da Vinci's Parachute and then build our own prototype. Last week we started our first unit- Engineering and Design in the 16th Century. We started with an activity of falling objects. The objective was to learn about gravity and drag to explore how gravity acts upon an object. In this activity we learned that weight and mass of an object does not determine the speed an object is pulled to the ground by gravity, but the shape.

If your child has not brought their dowel rods to school yet, please remember to send them tomorrow (6th grade) and/or Friday (3-5th grade).