Sailboat sailboat

                                                         Sailboat Sailboat

In class I made sailboats to go with our sail car races.

First I carefully planned our sailboat design so I knew what to do and then                                                      I gathered up my materials from home.                                                                                                              

I had a lot of fun making my sailboat.

I think my boat is going to float good, but I wish I could change the 

sail on it to be a bit bigger and better.

The materials I used for my boat was

-Two Plastic containers

-Skewers

-Plastic bag

-bottle caps

-Hot glue

-Scissors   

-Tape

First when I made my boat I used the plastic container as the base of the boat. Then I made a sail by cutting up some skewers and putting some tape and plastic on it.

I then cut out a keel and hot glued the sail and keel onto the boat.

I felt like the boat felt a bit light so I added 4 bottle caps onto the bottom of the boat.

                                                                         My Sailboat.

Public transport

 For a research card I did public transport so I researched on some of the train times.

Japan travel brochure

 For literacy I made a travel brochure on why you should visit japan.

My research cards

 For inquiry we had to do 2 research cards  the first one I did on food allergies and the second one I did on  different dog breeds. 

I think I did well on my work this week but I think I could of done a bit better on another week.

But I am still happy with my work

Links

Dog breed

Food allergies

sailboat design

 In class we have been making sailboat designs.                                                                                            On Monday I will hopefully be making my sailboat.                                                                                        The Hull on my boat will be made out of a container or a bottle if I don't have a container to use                    I will use skewers for the mast and edges of the sail and glad wrap for the sail.                                              For the keel and rudder I am using some chopped up plastic.                                                                           I might put some bottle caps on the bottom of my boat if I am unsure if it will float.                                        And if I can I will put tiny people inside the boat to see if they will survive the ride on my sailboat.                I will be gluing everything together with hot glue or taping it together.            

           

Sail cars

 Last week in week 7 we made sail cars.

My sail car was made out of Skewers, cardboard, paper, straws and bottle caps.

My sail car has a rectangle base with a pointy arrow, 2 sails one sail at the front and one sail at the back of the car. The sail at the front of the car is smaller than the one at the back to allow more air to push the car forwards.

There is a few things on my car I want to fix up.

The main thing is the wheels, The wheels are crooked and sometimes pop out of place

The other thing I want to fix up is the sails. The sails are good but I wish I had made them more straight to have more air to push the sail car further.

 

Self portrait

In Home Room we all made self portraits of our self to hang up in our classroom. It took a while to finish the portrait but I had lots of fun making it and having a challenge.

First we covered a wooden board in lots of ripped up bits of news paper and found 8 words that describe our self and stuck them over top of the ripped up newspaper. Some of my words were Sports, Build, Hockey and New Zealand. 

We then painted over the newspaper with lots of different colours of paint. 

After that we got a printed paper with our face on it. (This was our practice paper before we did the real thing) We coloured on the back of the paper with black pastel then we placed the picture with the pastel facing down on another piece of paper. 

We had to trace around our face and body and when we lifted the paper up our traced face would be there.  Then after that I was able to do it on my board. I slowly traced around my face and lifted the paper up.

I was finally able to paint now. So I painted over my practice paper to get used to painting. 

Then I got to paint around the outlines of my face on my board. After I let it dry I painted shapes on the background and painted around my shapes and body with white paint. 

After the white paint dried I when over my black lines again.

The last step was to cover our portrait in some shiny stuff.

fish

My finished portrait 

My practice portrait