Nathan does not do well when he is sick so ginger lemon and honey tea was made today. We didn't do any official school work but learning did happen.
Nathan played with mini weapons of mass destruction.
With this weapon nathan used it and thought it should be able to go farther. He took a look at it and he adjusted the front legs on it, so it leaned slightly back. He explained that when he did that the trajectory was higher and it could fling the object higher. I think it's pretty impressive he was able to look at it and make corrections and understand what he was doing. He is quite good at understanding physics.
This ones called a Viking catapult.
This little weapon was made by some friends and they have it to nathan, because it sucked and did not fire far. Nathan took a look at it and figured out why it was not firing the eraser far, it was hitting the elastics and slowing down. He solved this problem by making it smoother by adding scotch tape on top.
Genevieve played with duct tape today making wallets. Duct tape is hard to work with but she seemed to be pretty good at it. She also practiced a lot of tumbling today.
We also got a surprise flower delivery today. Jeff ordered flowers for Friday but the came today. They were beautiful.
I'm impressed with the weapons! Never thought I'd say that to a student, but it really is impressive to see how Nathan was able to tweak the design to make the weapon more effective.
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