HEAVE HO HUMPTY!

Humpty dumpty sat on the wall. 

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. 

All the king's h

orses and all the king's men 

Couldn't get Humpty back over again.

Tuesday was the big day! We were going to see if our catapults could launch Humpty Dumpty back over the castle wall in his new costume since the king couldn't. We chose what catapult we wanted to use. We had 4 choices: 

the peg catapult 

the popsicle stick catapult 

the coat hanger catapult 

or one we had made at home with a little help from our parents.  

Some of the home made ones were massive!! 

We sat out on the wooden platform by the playground with our eggs. We had made a castle wall and propped it up at lunchtime so we were ready for action. 

We did a shoot off with the small catapults first. We used plastic jelly beans from class and the seagulls came over and tried to eat them. We had to run round and flap our arms to keep them away.

Then we tried the little catapults with eggs. Some of them of them didn't make it over. One hit the wall and slid down leaving a big, slimy egg-y trail. Lots didn't have enough power to even reach the wall. One even went backwards and hit the person trying to fire it! That was really funny!!!

Then we brought out the big ones. The homemade catapults sent eggs flying everywhere. Just about all of them went over the castle wall. Some of us didn't

 want to sacrifice out Humpty Dumpty eggs because they looked awesome in their outfits but in the end we all had a go! Some eggs didn't even break. Drew's went over 3 times and bounced every time!!!

We had a lot of laughs and a very fun afternoon. Afterwards we got some people to be gong farmers and pick up all the broken eggs. Then we went back to class. The people whose eggs went the furthest got "showered with gold" (Crunchie bars) and the rest of us got chewy snakes because we all put in so much effort with our catapults.