What can you do with a basketball hoop?

When the Tel Aviv class went into the community room today, the boys immediately noticed that there was a basket ball hoop that had never been set up before! Next to it were lots of different size and shaped balls that you could throw through the hoop. After only a few throws, Eli and Max were fascinated with this new hoop. The tuned it on it's side and realized that you could throw the ball through the bottom and if you threw it hard enough it would go through the hoop; it was like playing basketball backwards! They played this game with a few different balls. They quickly realized that the yellow foam balls got stuck and the plastic "ball-pit" ball worked really well. We compared the two balls and decided that since the yellow ball was bigger, fuzzy and squishy it got stuck easier. The plastic balls were hard and smooth so they wouldn't get stuck. It was neat watching the boys you logic and deductive reasoning to understand the physics of this basketball hoop. After this game they realized that they could sit under the hoop and turn it into a cave! Such neat imaginations! I loved seeing so much creativity in the community room!