T-Shirt Competition!

Welcome back to my blog! The past week we have been talking about greatness. At our school the teachers came up with a idea. If you do the right thing and/or are kind you get a little slip of paper that you take to the office and put in the jar. At assembly's someone will pick out a name and the winner will get a t-shirt. The best part is the t-shirt is made by us! Everyone had to design a t-shirt and winner will get theirs made. Here is mine: 

Question of the day: Have you ever designed something? 

Thanks for reading bye!

WHATS IN THE BOX?

Welcome back to my blog!
This term our PBL (Project Based Learning) has been focused on our school wide market.  Our question is "How can we make a marketable product using the steam approach?". The first step was to make groups. My group is  Grace and Caitlin.  After that we deiced to learn about STEAM.  We found out that STEAM is,
S-Science
T-Technology
E-Engineering
A-Arts
M-Math
After that we brainstormed some ideas about products that me could make. We wanted to do something unique and special compared to everyone else. Our group has made and designed an experience. We are making whats in the box!  There will be four boxes and each has a different thing in them. You have to guess what each thing is. Of you get each one right then you will get to pick a prize. Our game will cost $2 and we will also be selling natural lip balms and lip scrubs for $2 as well.  The market will be on the 4th of December from 10-2. We may sell out so come down as fast as you can! We hope to see you there!

My Magnificent Volcano

My Magnificent Volcano 

The past few days my  Neila and I have been working on a volcano. This term we have been focusing on Maori myths and legends. In our group session we were reading the story, Battle of The Mountains. This was what we chose to do for our reading follow up. Here is how we made it;

The first day we made a volcano shape out of tinfoil and tape. We covered a small bottle in tinfoil and stuck some different sized tinfoil balls to it. Then we covered it in lots more tinfoil.  This took us quite a along time. The shape was inspired by Tongariro one of the main characters in The Battle Of The Mountains. The next day we mixed lots of different colours of paint. We finally got the perfect reddy brown colour. On the last day we made the volcano erupt. This was my favorite part.  I really enjoyed making a volcano and hope that one day I can do it again.

Neilas Blog: Neila

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Comment Question: Have you ever done a science experiment?

Art Gallery Trip

On Tuesday 13 June from 12.30-2pm Home base 4  went to the Art Gallery. We had 5 very kind parent helps who generously  gave up their time to come and help  us on our trip. If it weren't for these amazing people we could not have gone. There were so many cool pieces of art and our host Bianca explained them really well. After we had a tour of some specific pieces we got to make our own tree house. We were given a piece of card with a template on it and we had to cut it out, colur it and then go to a table and use a craft knife to cut out the windows and doors. We all sat at a table with some colured pencils and we colured everything on the tree house. Some people were really creative and put rope swinging theirs using real rope! You will be able to see my tree house down below. 


Photos of my tree house:

Picture 1: One side of the outside. 

Picture 2: door side of the outside.

picture 3: The inside. 

The aim of my out side was to have it to look like a sky.

The aim of my inside was to make it look like my dream room. 

Thanks for reading and coming to cheek back on my blog. Have you ever been to the Art Gallery? If so what was your favorite piece of art?

Harriet