Weechan's project for her Transportation Unit of Inquiry at school was to build a model of a vehicle she had designed at school. Due to the influenza plague, I received the designs in an e-mail from her teacher. The specs were:
Description: Flying Car
Function of her vehicle - to be able to fly and jump over cars in traffic
Use - long journeys for land and air
Features - 4 wheels and 2 wings
Using recycled material
Special features - wings
super speed
environmently friendly
This is what we came up with:
A wind and solar-powered (the retractable roof is just one huge solar panel!) convertible, with wings that extend Chitty Chitty Bang Bang style when flight is necessary, and jet boosters on the back for super speed.
Now I'm sure the inimitble Miss B sees these exercises as an opportunity for parents to be involved in their child's learning and for a fun family project.
That would be fine if you weren't dealing with a thwarted Blue Peter presenter with control freak and perfectionist issues, someone with a "that'll do" attention span of a gnat unless there is a festering disease or a get rich quick scheme involved, and someone whose understanding of the word "help" seems to correspond to my understanding of the words "just do it for me".
I'll leave it to you to decide who is who in this scenario, and just how much fun we all had with this.
Miss B, if you ever read this, these things can lead to broken homes!
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