Monday, October 23, 2017

Celebrating Grandparents and Special Friends...with catapults?

We "launched" a great visit with our grandparents and special friends by giving them a taste of one of our engineering challenges: Can you build a working catapult?  Everyone got in on the action, and it turns out our grandparents and special friends are excellent engineers! Every team successfully created a working catapult with plastic spoons, rubber bands, boxes and paper plates. After our grandparents and special friends left, we tested each catapult and measured how far each could launch a ping pong ball. Our longest launch was over 20 feet!
We also played some chess, since we recently learned the game as part of our studies of the middle ages and feudal system. It was an awesome visit and we really appreciate all of you who took the time to visit!














Inspired by the "dress-up" photo station set up for the day, we brought out some medieval hats at recess and had fun trying them on. You can tell that, as is so often the case here at Seabury, a good time was had by all!

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