engineering in action
I always think that engineering will be right up M’s street and have various bits and bobs throughout the house like Knex, lego, geomags and meccano that might spark some building interest and looking at how things work. So far he’s only been hugely interested in lego and building cars and space ships but you know, not hugely bothered.
Today though he started mucking around with something and it evolved into thinking about things much more. He decided to use a wooden tray and lower it down from his window to make a kind of lift thing. He did all of it himself and tried using one string in the middle, nope didn’t work, tried 2, nope. Then he was getting a bit upset so I suggested one on each corner so he tried that. Hooray!!!
He left it for a while after that and has only just looked at it again. He was trying to sort out how long the strings would need to be to get to the ground and was working out how to do it (it’s dark now and raining). So he was using the length of the stairs (I know it wouldn’t be right, but I’m applauding his thinking of ways to do it|!!!!), we then discussed how it wouldn’t be exactly right due to the height of the window and the length of the stairs not being the same.
He’s so chuffed with himself and as he does this kind of thing so rarely, so am I 
Also wanted to write about a programme they’ve both been enjoying on Pop (I think). It’s called Backyard Science and is an australian show. They were very indignant towards it at first saying that it had stolen the idea from Richard Hammonds Blast Lab, but actually they prefer this now and it’s really good with ideas and experiments and all very accessible.
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Comment by Jax — September 2, 2009 @ 8:08 pm
love the slogan!! will look out for the programme and…
WAY TO GO M - applause
Comment by HelenJ — September 2, 2009 @ 8:08 pm
Love the engineering stuff from M, *and* the slogan!!
Comment by Sarah — September 2, 2009 @ 9:23 pm
Yay to the tray lowering and hurrah for the slogan - very Sesame Street
Comment by Nic — September 2, 2009 @ 11:27 pm