Santa's Elves

Today during our last guided reading station we heard a twinkling sound.  It was coming from my cell phone.  We received a text message with the code PDXSO.  I put the code on the board and someone in the class thought maybe it was a Nearpod code (feel free to put it in the Nearpod app to see what our class saw).  It was a message from Santa!!!

Santa needed our help!  The toy car making elves had disappeared and he needed our class to build new toy cars.  We filled out Elf Applications and I faxed them to the North Pole during our specials.  Everyone was approved and hired for toy making!!

We were given specifications.  Our toy cars need to travel 3 feet off a ramp and they need to be able to be pushed at least 2 feet.  We got to work in pairs or groups of threes.  We built cars, gave them a test run, and then made changes to make the cars go further.

Check out the video and pictures below!  Tomorrow we will give our cars the final test in front of the class before sending them off to Santa! :)

Thank you to Santa's helpers who were able to send in Lego wheels!! ;)