Today we wanted to do something completely different than walking around the neighborhood, something a little more challenging, so I took the kids over to the High School track and we ran some initial "test runs" to see where the kids are at, endurance-wise.
It was rather interesting.
We started out with some stretching exercises (obviously). Since all the kids have had P.E., they knew how to do that, so I didn't have to teach anything about that. Then I had them run 50-yard sprints. Then 1/8-mile runs. Then 1/4-mile. And I took some measurements of their time. Just so we'd have a basis against which to measure our progress.
When we got home, we went out in the backyard and built a travois! Actually, I took the kids out in the back and tossed them a pile of sticks and some rope and told them to "build something to haul stuff with." And they designed and built a basic travois.
From there, we went inside and talked about wheel stuff. Like, how people came up with the original wheel, and how it developed into what we have today.
At some point, we're going to build some more wheels, and come up with our own wheelbarrow.
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