De Bono Thinking Hats

Hello blogging world. This week we were asked to create a Debono thinking Hats about the gala day to see this look at my previous post. We had to make a white hat, a yellow hat, a red hat, a black hat, a green hat and a blue hat. I think it was harder for some than it was for others because some people didn't come to the gala day. This is what I made. 



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Inquiry- Bags

This last couple of weeks we've been working on making tote bags to sell at the gala day, on the 25th of november, 10:00-3:00. To make them it is a slightly complicated process, depending on your level of expertise. Here is steps on how to  make it.

1. draw down the design you are going to screen print onto a book. 
2. Next, draw down your design on a piece of paper, leaving the outside untouched.
3. now, screen print. Put down newspaper, your cloth, and the outside of your design, that should look like this, 
   and a screen. put the ink on top of the screen press down and pull towards you hard. You have screen printed! Once you've let it dry for a couple of hours,  put the two sides of your bag together,  with the bits you want to be the outside on the inside. Pin the outside of the bag with ordinary sewing pins.  Then use a sewing machine to to sew three sides of it with a straight stitch, being careful not to go too close to the edge or it will rip when you turn it inside out. Next do it again but with a cross stitch but closer to the edge. now fold over the top and sew it twice, then fold it and sew it again. Next do the handle, a bit of 70 cm long strapping. To put it on, turn your bag inside out and sew in a square. do this to all your strapping and then iron repetitively and you are done!!!

Look at Ben go!

after each lesson

one person's bags

Cybersmart

This week in cybersmart we worked on collaboration. We opened a chart and on it we said our highlight of the year and a photo of ourselves. This very frustrating, as the entire class was working on the same document and people kept trolling. but that was just a trick. Our cybersmart teacher was just trying to teach us collaboration. After this we watched a video about collaboration and then worked on a sheet about collaboration. This is it.
I think that the best part was how easy it was and how quickly I could do it.
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Poems

Hello blogging world, Saskia here. This week we made some poems. We were not allowed to repeat the same word twice unless it was something simple like "I" or "and". It was especially hard because I couldn't think at first and we had write at least six lines. This is mine.

I sat out there in the wet, 

and wished I'd never got on that jet.

Indeed that jet looked cold and cruel,

I felt like throwing up last night's gruel

I swam far away in the tide,

until a shark nearly bit off my hide.

Now I'm happy I'm alive

but I'll never go back to that place where the shark resides.

by Saskia

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CAMP!!!

Last week we went to camp. It was amazing and fun. after the trip I am happy! I didn’t think it would be this fun until I went. Every day I was happier then the last, I loved the night walk, I didn’t think stars could be so bright! I especially loved being on the top of the mountain, and climbing on the top of a roof (where I shouldn’t have been, but it was great for sight seeing) On the way to Mt Ruapehu we had stops, they were Taumaranui, Otorohanga and Hamilton Gardens. On the way back we went to Taupo Aquatic Centre, Huka Falls and Cambridge. Also we skied. Here are some photos for all of them

My favourite part of it was skiing. The best part of skiing was when I was one of twelve allowed to go up to Rock Garden and bet my mum in a race because she crashed at the last second and let me through. What challenged me was moving up to Rock Garden with all the cliffs and heavy slopes 

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tinkercad new play ground

As our old play ground was ripped down, we had to, as a school, had to rebuild it. But we needed a plan for that, and the seniors were asked to make a new design for it. Most of us made impossible ones. Others, however made good ones. Mine was a impossible one. I made a screencastifying of it.  We used 3-D shapes and creativity to make the playground.
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Taekwondo

In class for the last four weeks on Thursdays day we have been going to taekwondo and learning how to punch and  kick. We are not allowed to use it out of the classroom and if we do we miss the whole next lesson of taekwondo and we have to sit and watch everyone else. Yesterday we learnt how to kick and had a competition about who could kick the highest. Caitlin won at round 11 (each round puts the target a little bit higher and a little bit harder to reach). Here are some photos.

this is me, kicking the pad and missing, on the first try

this is the whole class, kicking for practice 

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