Building Bridges

This week has been our state's standardized achievement testing time, and to blow off some steam at the end of each day our grade level has been celebrating our Engineering Week as well. The students have had to make cars and bridges out of uncooked pasta. I've enjoyed this part of the day, the kids all excited about the car runs and the bets on whose bridge will break first (and last!).  It's been a pretty fun way to end the day. Mark got into it too and asked me for the info so that he could make a bridge too. I could tell he really enjoyed the task, but to me it was more excited to see him interested in my job (and therefore interested in ME) to the extent that he decided to build. He built a bridge between the two of us in this way, and he may not even know it! So honey...I'm telling you now...thank you for building this bridge and taking an interest in what I do! I love you!