The Works!

Carlos is starting to drill the holes for his catapult. We went to The Works! Our goal for the day was to build catapults.
Here are Taylor, Emilie, and Vianna starting working on our catapults. They had just gotten there bases to hook everything on to.
Here is Daynesha drilling holes in one of her pieces, we had to do all the drilling ourselves.
Team work is the thing here. Nora, Huda, and Destiny all worked together on drilling holes in their wood pieces.
Here is Abdirahman sawing some pieces to use for supports, we also had to saw our own pieces for the catapult.
Larry is helping Dave poke his tack in to the cup to use at the top of the wood lever piece.
Daynesha is using a hammer to pound in the tack, Jaia is drilling in more holes. The tape you see in the middle is used for holding on the cup along with the tack.
Vianna and Clara are both getting their cups ready to add to the rest of the catapult.
Here is some of our people putting the finishing touches on their catapult, working hard as well!
Fire away! We tested our catapults by trying to shoot marshmallows into an ice cream bucket.
Chue was trying to hit Clara with his marshmallow instead of aiming for the bucket. Good thing they were marshmallows.
Check out all those marshmallows in the air!

Chue is playing with the mechanical robot, trying to pick up blocks and tennis balls. We were able to play in their museum for the last hour of the day.
Harrison is playing in one of those crazy mirrors that make you look really tall. Too bad you can't see his image in the mirror.
Dave is playing on the marble race track. You could build and destroy to create new paths.
Huda is learning how to ride a bike. Not really, she already knows, but she is trying to see how fast she can move the peddles on her own.
Vianna has a bright future in the orchestra playing light harp, there were no strings yet it made music. There were invisible lasers that acted like strings when you strummed the harp.
We built a giant tower out of foam bricks, they had a room just for building walls and castles.
What goes up, must come down. We had a great time destroying in seconds what took us quite a long time to build. It was awesome to be able to play with all of these cool museum items and learn science as we went along.

Written by the Students
Photos by Mr. Lundquist

The Minne-Loppet

Here we are on Saturday January 31st at the Sons of Norway Minne-Loppet in uptown Minneapolis. 18 students from our class, and Mr. Lundquist, were involved in the race.
Here's Chue taking off from the starting line, he was determined to win the race!
Lots of kids passed by Mr. Lundquist, but he was a good skier. He wanted to make sure all the kids were safe.
Here's Danielle trying to do her best, looking pretty in pink.
On Saturday, it was 45 degrees, it was so warm that Daynesha took off her coat so she could ski better and not be so hot. We were use to training in really cold weather, one day when we practiced, it was -1, so 45 degrees above zero felt like a spring!
Here's Kegan taking off from the starting gates. Also, there's Harrison's mom right behind Kegan, she also skied with us the whole race Thanks to all the parents who came to watch and support us kids!
Wow! Here's Abdirahman passing Chue, but Chue would eventually catch up to him and pass him up.
Harrison is really close to the finish line, keep going Harrison your almost there!
Can Mr.L. pass Clara up? Part of the race was on Lake of the Isles, the lake was frozen so we could ski on it.
Salma trying to make her way passing other kids, and she flew past them with no problem at all.
Destiny was trying to go up the hill, the race was over a mile long, from start to finish.
Check it out, there's Mrs. Potvien skiing with us as well. Her class was the other 4/5 classroom that skied in the loppet. She was a natural on the skis.
Here's Vianna making her way past Nicola, there were over 750 kids skiing that day, it was packed.
David on his way to getting to the finish line.
Go Clara Go! The race really was fun, but we were really tired and sweaty at the end of the race. At the end of the race, they had hot chocolate and cookies for everyone. Thanks to Coach Kim & Coach Katie for teaching us how to Cross Country Ski and more about nutrition, and thanks to Ucare for sponsoring our school. Check out the video below this post.

Written by Salma & Danielle
Photos by Sara Lundquist

The Starting Gate