Ramps, Maps, and Restaurants.

 There were so many wonderful things happening today in Magnolia Room. The Snail was our outdoor space and we quickly noticed a tub of tubes and ping pong balls. It took no time for our friends to begin building ramps down the hillside. 

If you looked into the tube and blocked the light with your hand you could watch the ball go ALL the way down the ramp!

Check out how MF put his tube on top of the container to give the ball more speed.

They experimented with different parts of the hill to see where the tubes would make the ball go fastest. Once they found the "best" place to put the tubes, they began connecting them to make longer ramps. The initial zig zag design was tricky, we learned that the balls would get stuck at the 90 degree turn. Someone suggested we move our tubes to create more of a down hill, hoping the increased speed would cause the ball to take the turn and keep moving down. 

Once JR, our resident engineer, got the angles right we started taking turns sending the balls down the ramp. Wouldn't you know it, the more balls we sent down the more likely it was to cause a "traffic jam." I posed this problem to the class, thinking they would slow down and go one at a time. Silly me, their solution was to build the ramp higher, making the balls go faster, giving them more speed to go down the ramp. This increased speed meant they wouldn't get jammed up at the corners. Check out the video to see if it worked!

CW made this ball holder so her friends didn't have to keep running up and down the hill.  

This activity brought so much joy to our class. We used so many parts of our brain and body. Play truly is the best form of learning!

Check out the videos and photos from other parts of our day. There is just so much going on, how do we blog about it all?!

"Look, I am a wrench. Need me to wrench anything?"