Jess

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[|What if trees could walk?]

Thursday 28 March 2013 Today at intrepid learners we have had a lot of fun. Our topic for this year is creativity. Today we solved problems in groups of two, here is an example: your shoes were on the other side of some sharp oyster covered rocks. You could use to help you a reel of cotton, a spoon, a bottle, a basket and a can opener. One of Aimee and I's best ideas was to bend the spoon, tie it on to the reel of cotton and throw it over. Once it was over on the other side you would then hook the spoon around the laces and then drag them over. There you have it! We are also doing a cool project;making something creative. The thing that I am making is a storage container; it is three separate boxes that look like jigsaw pieces. They can all join together and are very colourful with heaps of patterns.



Thursday 4 April 2013 Today we have had another fun day workingn out problems and solving what we thought were mistakes. Our problem was that we saw a video that was showing penguins that could fly, only, it looked very true, as they had photoshopped them into the sky,we thought that it was real because they had put shadows on the ground to. We had to research f it was real, we found out that it was only an April falls trick! Today we were supposed to start our projects and bring our own materials to school, I forgot! So the only thing I could really work on today was writing this. I think today was a good day[as always] because we get to work on a lot of things. Here are a couple of pictures of me and my friend Sofia. Tuesday 9 April 2013 Hi again! I am just trying to think what materials I should use for my presentation. At first I was thinking about using corrugated iron that my dad would bring home but then wondered if it would be easy enough to join together, I then thought that it would be VERY hard to carry three seperate boxes into school. Anyway, I just was bursting to tell you that [even though it will sound a little bit weird!]I love pigs, kombi vans and peace signs. It sounds like I am a hippy but I am really not. Even though hippies are really cool.

Thursday 11 April 2013 I am so excited! I am going to start my project today because I finally remembered my stuff. The materials I am going to use on my prototype [It might end up being my actual one if it works] are : a hot glue gun, a couple of bits of paper, some material to put on the outside, and a big box that usually holds paper. Lets hope this works!

Thursday 9 May 2013 Today we did a game to get our brains working. The game was called would you rather. For example, our teacher said would you rather stay hot or stay cold, left hot and right cold, we had to jump to our left if we wanted to stay hot or jump to our right if we wanted to stay cold.

Friday 9 August 2013 Over the last few weeks or so, we've been visiting some creative people. The first person that we saw was a women called Angie Masutti, who takes old, rejected, vintage furniture, fixes them up, and then puts new, funky material on them so that they look AMAZING! The second person that we saw is a man called Bevin Holmes, a former All Black. His wife is the principle of our school so it was quite easy to contact him. The reason that we visited him was because he is now a great calligrapher. He showed us the nibs he uses, the pens he uses, and how much the GOOD ink costs, which is a lot. He also let us have a go AND gave us the best muffins ever! Thanks for reading this . media type="custom" key="23590244"