Summer School Rockets

 Here Nathan is telling me all about how the rocket is going to work.  It is made of 2 2 liter bottles.  One is cut and houses the parachute.    You can see it's got a good amount of water inside.  The pictures are all out of order and I give up trying to fix it.  My laptop is too small to move them around.

Here is a picture of the water stream

This is a picture of Nathan pulling the trigger and just at the top of the water is the rocket.  It's hard to see...

They pumped air into the rocket....

His rocket is in the top right corner by the tree top.

So much fun!

They don't have summer school for kids in our district.  But they have a program you can pay for called beyond the books.  Tyler needed structure and Nathan needed something to do.  They have had a ball!  The first week they learned about the ocean.  They learned about an art form where you paint a fish, yes a fish, and then lay paper over the fish, yes a fish, and rub to get the paint from the fish onto the paper.  After they had to take the fish and wash them off for the next class.  The fish were about a foot long.  Crazy.  Last week they learned all about insects.  They made beehives and learned how to draw cockroaches.  Nice.  This week was space and rockets.  Nathan has been in heaven...