F.H.E

For the past two Mondays, we have launched off Rockets for our Family Home Evening Activity. A week or so ago on I think Saturday March 1st, I was running around town and Brian took the kids to go get a model rocket! I came back, the house was cleaned up and Jacob and Brian were making the first of the two rockets. Brian was really patient with the boys and let them do a lot of the project, even cutting the wood. With Jacobs completed, Aiden and Daddy made Aiden's Rocket. Aiden's Rocket is the only rocket we have left! Jacob's Rocket I think was put into orbit!

This is Thomas Jones launching the first rocket (Jacob's) with our red neck launching controls, which consisted of speaker wire touched to each end of a row of AA batteries taped together with electricians tape. Then alligator clawed to the the ignitor on the engine that is at the bottom of the rocket. What a brave boy!

We saw Jacobs rocket go up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up, a little poof and then nothing! Maybe that is what started the JR Smith teacher's copy room on fire! Wait it started on fire before we launched rockets! This next picture is what smoke is left from Aiden's Rocket going off.

It also went up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up, with a poof then we saw the gliders and rocket with parachute coming down. The gliders didn't glide very well, they seemed more to be like missiles headed back to earth.

Mark, Aiden, Jacob, and Thomas. It looked like Mark was going to get it and then the wind blew it backwards and Jacob got it.

Thanks Jones for coming tonight and thanks to Brent and family for coming last week. We had a lot of fun. I hope that soon we will have less snow and it will be a bit more fun to launch off Rockets.