High Flying!

We have noticed that with our fresh, spring air, comes lots of wind!  Today, we made wind socks.  The students were encouraged to decorate them, add streamers, add string and attach them to a stick.  Then we went outdoors, ran around in our field and let them fly out behind us!

We then flew our big kite.  The students were very excited to see it. Not only is it very colourful and very long, but it goes extremely high into the sky.  They were anxious to try their hand at flying it too.  I was a bit reluctant since if they accidentally let go, there was no telling where it would end up!  Many got the opportunity to fly it and they had fun chasing it's long tail too!

One student was helping to carry the storage bag for kite and noticed "the air is trapped inside the bag".  I have fond memories of making bag kites as a child.  Guess what we will be doing next windy day?  (If you have any old balls of yarn or string that you are no longer using, we would make good use of them as kite strings.  We would gladly accept them~ feel free to send them in!)