A Fun Day at School!

Okay... I don't write about school on our blog much, but today was unique. Our school has a new behavior system called PBIS. We had a celebration today to recognize and promote the students' good choices. The school brought in six inflatables for the kids to play on and enjoy. Of course, the teachers couldn't resist and had to join in on the fun!

Mr. Fletcher......... This video is for you!

Here is a video that is also posted on my classroom blog - http://mrlund.edublogs.org

Amazing Dominos!

Will came by this Sunday afternoon and played with some dominos! We captured his table filling domino action and created a fun video. Will added some cool animations and effects to the video to make it even better! Cool!

Amazing Dominos from Dan Lund on Vimeo.

Will created this amazing video! Wow! That's Amazing!

Trebuchet

For Christmas, I received a table top trebuchet. A trebuchet is similiar to catapult but uses a counterweight instead of tension. During the summer, Fletcher was over at my house with his son, Will. While we talked, Will became excited by my little trebuchet. He busily launched nuts and rocks down the driveway into the street. Being an excited boy, he wanted to build a bigger one! Bingo! Now I had a reason to build a bigger trebuchet! Over the course of the summer, with the help of Will and his cousin, the trebuchet slowly took form in my garage. As the weather began to cool and pumpkins began to show up in the stores, we had a sudden rush to finish our project. Last Saturday, the trebuchet emerged from the garage and was placed on the sidewalk for its first launch! We carefully loaded it with weight and placed a football in the sling. We watched as the weight dropped, the sling moved, and the football sailed ten feet in the wrong direction! AHH! After some fine tuning, our fifth attempted sailed 90 feet in the correct direction! A Success! The video below shows the launch and the outcome. Unfortunately, the video was focused on the trebuchet (so we could watch and see what was going wrong!) so I'll post an updated video in a few days with a wider angle!