Do you want to fly a kite?

This week we have been learning all about wind! Today, I asked the kids if they thought we would be able to fly a kite outside. They suggested we check our wind vane to find out. After observing our wind vane for a few minutes, they realized the wind vane doesn't tell us how hard the wind is blowing, just the direction it was blowing! This was such a great learning experience using our previously made tool. The next suggestion made was to check the weather channel on the Internet. This told us that the wind was blowing 8mph. We were now ready to try to fly our kites!

We started by trying to fly them inside of the classroom:

We quickly realized this was not possible because there was no wind in the classroom! We decided to take our kites outside.