“Dear Families,
Today we made something for our eggs. We dropped them down to see if they would break. And Friday we are going to use new eggs to see if those eggs will break. Some of us used bubble wrap and cups to protect our egg. We watched a video about Eric Carle. Petey was wearing a Luigi shirt.
Love,
PJ”

Today we continued our study of Eric Carle. We watched a short video of Eric Carle speaking about his book The Very Hungry Caterpillar.  Eric Carle uses tissue paper to create his illustrations.  We learned that The Very Hungry Caterpillar was originally about a worm. Eric Carle had to do a lot of editing before his book was ready to be published. Lola wore an Eric Carle shirt to school today!

This afternoon we worked on our “Protect the Pilot” project.  The goal was to create a contraption that would keep our pilots (hard-boiled eggs) safe when dropped from various heights. We used the planning and brain-storming sheets that we created on Monday to construct our contraptions.  The engineers in our classroom used a variety of materials to keep their pilots safe.  We used marshmallows, bread, toilet paper, cardboard, tissue, paper, pillows, tape, boxes, paper towel tubes, and more in an attempt to keep our eggs from cracking.  We started by dropping our eggs from table height, then waist height, then teacher height, then off the reading castle.  Several of our eggs cracked during the first trial. We had to modify our designs and problem-solve to make more protective containers for our egg pilots.