Oh no, my glider has crashed landed!

On a rainy 25th of November, Room 7 had an awesome time making our own gliders out of cardboard!

First, I asked Salome if I could get a sheet of cardboard to use for my glider. I grabbed my pencil, ruler and an eraser. I used both the ruler and the pencil to draw the lines for the shape of the wings, tailplane, fuselage and the stabilizer. Kevin kept telling me that I was taking a very long and that I should just take it to Miss Chao, but I ignored him because I wanted to see if I could do it by myself. I used the eraser because some of my lines weren't the right length. However, I ran out of time when I was cutting the wing because the bell rang for morning tea.

Later, when we came back from our fun morning tea, I quickly went to my cardboard and continued to cut my cardboard pieces out. 10 minutes later, I had cutting out all the pieces for my glider so I started taping my fuselage and the wings together. It took me a long time because I tried to angle my wings in an anhedral position. I cut a straight line inside my tailplane and slid the back part of the fuselage through it. I used a lot of tape and stuck it to the symmetrical parts where it was unstable. After five minutes of getting my glider ready, I went to the cloak bay to try out my glider.

When I was in the cloak bay, people kept coming to the cloak bay and interrupting me during my investigation. I asked them to come to where I was quickly so we can each have time to fly our gliders. I threw my glider in the air, but it was hit the walls and crash landed dramatically on the ground. It reached a length of 4.4 on the measuring tape. After that  I went back to the class and added blu-tack to the front of my glider for weight. I went back to the cloak bay and flew it again. This time it stalled in the air and it landed without hitting the walls and it reached 5.4 on the measuring tape.When I came back in, Miss Chao said that we had to make a glider using only tape and a small amount of straws. When I was making the glider, we had to pack up because it was time for lunch so we said bye to Salome and Siliga (the artists from Art Space who has been helping us with our topic this term).

Making our own gliders was splendid! I wish we had time to make another glider. My favourite part of the day was when we had the opportunity to fly our gliders!

Learning Intention: We are learning to use descriptive language in our recount.

Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use appropriate adjectives to describe the art lesson that we had on Thursday.

Sanding wood is hard!

On Thursday 11th of November, Room 7 had a great time taking the pieces out for our glider and sanding it to make it smooth!

First we scored our pieces of the wood. It was very hard because the craft knife kept going out of the sharpie marker line. Scoring the back wings of the wood was very hard because the 1.5 millimetre wood was very fragile and it was very hard to keep the cutting line straight. After I completed scoring my pieces of wood, I put the blade through the lines so the piece that I had split would fall out. It took me a very long time because I was being very careful so that my pieces of wood would not split. 10 minutes later, I heard a crack and my piece of wood started splitted along the side.

Next, I  to Salome and asked her for what to do next. That was when I noticed my classmates were smoothing out their pieces of balsa wood. So I asked Salome and she gave me sandpaper too. Salome gave a sheet of sandpaper to use for sanding my pieces. It was rough and black, but rubbery on the other side. I quickly took the sandpaper and started sanding the pieces. It was a bit hard because the wood was very rough around the edges and the and the sandpaper kept slipping off the fuselage's side. However I had to wait for Tristan because I needed the craft knife to cut a part of the fuselage that wasn't split yet.

After I smoothed out all the pieces out all the pieces the pieces of wood, I swiftly smoothed the fin, but it snapped in two like a cracker so I had to start again. When I finished carefully smoothing out the fin, it was time to pack up because it was the beginning of morning tea. Soon we had to say goodbye to Salome and we had to clean up as fast as the wind, then went out to play outside.

Getting our pieces ready for glueing was awesome! I wish we had more time so we could have started piecing them together. My favourite part of the day was sanding and getting our pieces ready for piecing together.

Learning Intention: We are learning to use descriptive language in our recount.

Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use appropriate adjectives to describe the art lesson that we had on Thursday.