It’s finally here, the second rocket launch I’m so exited to see how our rocket is going to do, I have a feeling it will do better than the second rocket. We pumped up the rocket.” RECORDERS ARE YOU READY? CLINOMETER READERS ARE YOU READY?” My teacher yelled. This is going to be awesome. “10, 9 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!” “WOW!” I yelled looking up at the sky with excitement. The rocket landed and everyone was cheering. From what I saw I knew this rocket didn’t go s high as my first rocket but I was still happy with it.

We got our second rockets score and it was okay, it was 50.5, and our average in feet was 165.6824. It definitely did not go as high as our last rocket which I wished it did but it didn’t. But over all I thought it was so much fun going through the process of making our rockets one and two,. It was the best experience so far in 5th grade and working with a group of people I didn’t really work with yet was really awesome. I loved rocketry.

It’s finally the day we get to launch our rockets I am so exited to see how well our rocket does. Will our rocket be able to stand the launch launch and pressure? Or will it have holes in it? Will it collapse at one foot. I just hope it does good. I thought when it was our turn to launch our rockets.

My job was to put the rocket on the launcher and then when the countdown master yelled “ONE!” I would have the honors to press the red button and launch the rocket.

When I launched the rocket my whole team looked up with glory in there eyes hoping our rocket will go higher than all of the other groups. When it landed the nose cone hit the ground first and made a dent in the field, everyone was so exited to go run up and pick up the rocket but only one person from my team got to pick up the rocket which was the countdown master. During the launch four people read a clinometer which tells them how high the rocket went. Our rocket went. Over all I think the rocket launch was awesome.

At the start of 5th grade we started a new unit called rocketry, it is where you get to build and design a rocket with a group of three or four. In this unit you need to have teamwork, responsibility, and patience. You need teamwork because if you don’t have teamwork then your group won’t be able to get through the unit without a lot of struggles. The reason why you need responsibility is because if your group members don’t want to do something and they are arguing about it you should take responsibility and do it. You need patience because sometimes things take a while to do in rocketry, For example in the start of the unit the teacher talks about rocketry and everyone always want to build there rocket right away without even designing it first.

Our group had some struggles when we where trying to figure out whether we should do three fins, two fins, or four fins. At the start one person in my group wanted four fins, but the rest of the group wanted three and the majority wins. We also had a struggle keeping up with other groups. For instance, when we where still making our design for our first rocket, some people where already onto there building process.