Stone Carving

Today at Enrich I did my stone carving. It is a koru pattern. To make a stone carving you need  a piece of Omarau stone. You then cut that stone into the right amount of stone and draw your carving onto the stone. Then you cut most of the extra stone out with a saw and then the excess pieces off with a smaller saw. After that you use a file to round the stone and get the pointy edges off. You then use a small knife to carve anything in that you need to carve in and then use sandpaper to sand it until it is completely smooth. I am up to the filing stage and when I'm finished it will hopefully turn out like this picture.

The Technology Challenge

Today at Enrich we did a technology challenge. We had to make a device that would pull a hammer and a chisel towards us and then free ourselves from the set concrete which our feet were sealed in. In our group there were Pippa, Jemma and I. Our construction was a failure and we blew up. Luckily it was only a game!!

Recycle Signal

Today at Enrich Isabella's Mum came in again and we finished rolling the newspapers. We also started the table top. First of all we chose a design. The design was the recycle signal, that you see on the bottom of the things you can recycle, outlined in black and coloured in white, then we had a circle and it was coloured in green. Next we put little black circles around the circle and decided we'd colour in the rest of the cardboard white. We put it all on and it actually looked pretty good. This is what it looked like:

Teacher Comment

Hi Kate.

Your preparation for the recycled furniture is going so well!  You girls were REALLY busy all day.  I didn’t hear any complaining about all the painting you had to do - you all just got on with it!  Great to see.  The discussion about water pollution today was pretty interesting.  We could see your thoughts progressing with each question you asked!  It is something to keep in mind, that while we are doing our bit with our environment projects, we also need to keep in mind the bigger picture and the fact that if everyone does just one thing to help - even through awareness - then this is a step in the right direction.  It was great to see you so involved in the discussion Kate!  Katie.

Coloured Circles

Today at Enrich we painted the circles from the pizza boxes colours after painting them white last week. We painted a few white but mostly we painted the already white ones blue, yellow, orange, purple, green and red. We still need to make 60 more newspaper rolls because we didn't make any this week and we still have lots more cardboard circles to paint!

The Legs

Today we continued with our table. We focused on our legs. We made 120 rolls of newspaper. There is going to be 40 rolls in each leg. We have made 3 legs. We also went to the pizza box man and we got millions of circles and two pieces of big cardboard. The pictures above are of us working:

Rolling the News

Today at Enrich Pippa and I rolled newspapers for the legs of our table. When we had finished rolling and taping for the day, we had made twenty sticks and we had forty more to go. We used paper tape for the middle newspaper sticks and we are going to use this strong clear tape for the outside sticks. We are on our way to finishing it but we still have a long way to go.