After skyping with Rube Goldberg's granddaughter today to discuss his cartoon inventions and creative style, we learned of a world wide challenge to create a real Rube Goldberg machine.  This machine will need 12 steps to complete a simple task.  This year's simple task is to open an umbrella.  Your second grader may be asking you if they can bring some items from home next week that we can use to build our model.  So far the designs on paper are very intricate!  We will work together as one group to see if we can achieve the task!