The Goat Peak Crew (3rd, 4th and 5th graders) at the Methow Valley Community School are immersed in a year-long science, math and literacy focused expedition on flight. During the fall, students are learning about human flight, investigating the history of flight, how flight happens, and how flight has impacted our valley and changed the world. In September, this crew conducted some field work during a Seattle overnight adventure, visiting the Museum of Flight and iFly (an indoor wind tunnel). At iFLy, students were instructed in some basic mechanics of flight, and then got to fly in the wind tunnel. These are some of their own reflections about the experience.
| Flight was fun when the instructor and I went to the top of the air tunnel.
Flying felt as if I was actually in the sky.
I want to do it again because I felt safe.
Next time, I want to learn the hand signals.
Overall, flying was amazing.
--Sophie Eberline, 4th grade |
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Flying was very fun and exciting.
Flying felt like I was on the wind.
My mouth was jiggling.
It was fun when I went up in the air.
I want to go flying again.
--Kylee Holbrook, 3rd grade |
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Flying was amazing.
All I could think about was that it was hard to breathe.
My favorite part was going to the top of the wind tunnel.
It was cool.
Overall, flying was astonishing.
-- Grace Kominak, 3rd grade |
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Flying was awesome.
I think it was amazing.
Flying felt like going to heaven.
All I could think was Ahhhhhh!
Next time I fly, I’ll do backflips.
-- Carter Darwood, 5th grade |
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Flying was undescribable.
I felt limitless in the wind tunnel.
I felt like a bird.
All I could think of was air.
My favorite part was when we went to the very top.
Overall, flying was incredible.
-- Kellen Miles, 3rd grade |
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The flight museum was awesome because I got to go in an airplane.
All I could think about was airplanes.
Next time I would sit in an airplane that makes sound effects and pretend to fly.
-- Emily Langdalen, 5th grade |
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It was fun because I got to to go so high.
I love it because I fly
Flying felt like I was invisible.
My mouth was jiggling.
It was fun when I went high.
-- Kaydin Haase, 3rd grade |
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Flying was amazing!
I had a fun time.
All I could think about was what I am supposed to do.
Flying was really great.
Next time I want to fly longer and get better.
Overall, flying was awesome.
-- Gretta Eberline, 5th grade |
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Flying was scary.
I was scared when he threw me.
Flying felt uncomfortable.
All I could think about was being done.
Overall, flying was scary.
-- Gunner Smith, 3rd grade |
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Flying was confusing and awesomely amazing.
Flying felt like I had entered a different world where it was completely normal for people to fly.
All I could think about was how weird it was.
It was exciting when the instructor took me up to the top of the tunnel.
Overall, flying was very odd but fun.
-- Sydney Schuler, 5th grade |
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Flying was fun and confusing.
It was scary when I went to the top.
All I could think about was looking down.
Next time I fly there I will bring friends.
Overall, flying was fun.
-- Kelly Schuh, 4th grade |
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I thought I would be a person that loved to be off the ground, but I discovered I much prefer to have my feet on the ground.
Flying felt like walking against a strong wind in the winter.
All I could think was how odd it was to be floating.
It was surprising when we went up.
Overall, flying was not something I had ever expected.
-- Rachel Fonda, 4th grade |
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Flying was absurdly awesome.
Flying felt like I was being torn apart, pushed together, shoved up and pulled down all at the same time.
My legs and arms were moving as if an invisible hand was pushing them around.
Next time, I’d like to go to the top.
Flying inspired me to keep studying flight.
-- Kierra Reichert, 4th grade |
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