Rockets

The seniors finished their last year of school so early, with finals at the end of April in my class!! So, with their few days left before check-out, graduation, and the rest of their lives, I decided the best thing for us to do was to build model rockets and shoot them off outside! We picked the windiest day of all (with gusts in the 60mph range) to launch them because of scheduling conflicts and had a super time! The kids enjoyed building the rockets and preferred cement glue to regular elmer's because they were too impatient to hold the pieces on their rockets for the elmer's to dry!

Sam and Ileana had successful flights, but ended up losing their rockets to the roof or the railroad tracks. David, Vince, and Jose Juan gave us a show of spiraling rockets and fire consumed rockets! It was a lovely end of the semester/year activity that the kids will remember, hopefully!!