We are going to build a trebuchet. So we have to build a anamometer to measure the wind. Because if you have no wind your wind turbine is not going to work but if you have a whole bunch of wind it would pump water and make electricity.

Right now all 3 classes are building a mini trebuchets after making schematic drawing. The mini trebuchets will launch light objects such as bouncy balls,  paper clips, marbles, paper balls and erasers. Kids have been bringing in materials such as pencils, wood, tape, hot glue guns, string and rubber bands. 

On Thursday afternoon all the 5th grade classes went to mr. Vince's classroom. We all went there because, mr. Vince was showing everyone the Trebuchet simulator on his computer. There was two different simulator that we could choose from(the treb challenge and the trebuchet simulator). The Trebuchet simulator was a trebuchet on the computer, and you could customize the trebuchet to make it go farther. After we looked at the simulator we found out we were going to do it for homework. Then on friday, in morning meeting we talked about the simulator. 

0n monday october 6 the students were all very excited  about the many changes to our classroom the changes are: a new carpet, shelves to hang our awesome marble machines,and above the sink we have a lot of tools we have hammers, screwdrivers, wrenches, stopwatches, and wire cutters. 

Ms. Johengen had us draw or make a marble machine.  I find that we have done well making or drawing our marble machines.  We have taken measurements of the distance the marble has to travel through the marble machine and the time it takes for the marble to travel from the start of the machine to the end of the machine; I feel that we should also measure the height of the machine and the width of the machine; it's possible that we could use this data  on another project or for writing homework.