escapade: n. a piece of daring or reckless behaviour. How many times have you been labelled as mad or reckless because you homeschool?
Well I say its time to break down those notions - Bring on the Madness !
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Monday, 13 June 2011
Think! Bridges
Our Think! challenge this week was to create a bridge, at least 9in long, from the following equipment
6 pieces of spaghetti
2 plastic cups (to be used as the ends of the bridge)
2 spoons
2 pieces of paper (A4 cut in half - portrait)
sticky tape
The task was to create the bridge, measure it and test it load bearing abilities using coins. I thought I was being really clever by providing 150 coins but it wasn't enough - so we opted to try a hardback book then ended up using a 1kg bag of flour to test its strength
The girls all managed to come up with their own ways of doing this DD2 & DD4 used spaghetti to create the base and laid paper over it with the spoon providing weights. I loved how DD4 thought to use the spoon's bowl to hold extra coins :)
DD6 again used the spaghetti as a base but wrapped her paper around it and found a great way of supporting it with her spoons.
DD8 again used spaghetti as her base and rested her concertina folded paper on top to give it more strength.
I love the idea of a weekly challenge. Do you come up with the ideas on your own or do you use some sort of reference? Also I have to say your children are just beautiful, they all look simply huggable.
Love that you gave them a "challenge"...ours would LOVE that! Your kiddos are so cute! Noticed that you read my sister-in-law's blog love@learn2day :) Thanks for joining us at NOBH. Take care, Kara @ The Chuppies/NOBH
What a wonderful idea. We'd love to do something like this too. Can't wait to check out the rest of your blog. This is my first time stopping by, but I can see you share some fantastic ideas! ~Liesl
We gave it a try! I have had "Think" on my follow list for a while, but had not got around to trying out any of the challenges. Thanks for inspiring us to get on it. I am going to include more of them in our summer routine.
I love the idea of a weekly challenge. Do you come up with the ideas on your own or do you use some sort of reference? Also I have to say your children are just beautiful, they all look simply huggable.
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Love that you gave them a "challenge"...ours would LOVE that! Your kiddos are so cute! Noticed that you read my sister-in-law's blog love@learn2day :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining us at NOBH.
Take care,
Kara @ The Chuppies/NOBH
Great challenge and such clever solutions! They are sho, sho shmart!
ReplyDeleteI also want to tell you that we got your sixpence gift and to say one big THANK YOU! :)
I am sure my boys will have a great time trying this out. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteStopping by from NOBH.
What a wonderful idea. We'd love to do something like this too. Can't wait to check out the rest of your blog. This is my first time stopping by, but I can see you share some fantastic ideas!
ReplyDelete~Liesl
We gave it a try! I have had "Think" on my follow list for a while, but had not got around to trying out any of the challenges. Thanks for inspiring us to get on it. I am going to include more of them in our summer routine.
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