Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Today we started building

Laying the concrete foundations for our model houses - some of use a using wood and some of us are using concrete.





Mixing the concrete



Pouring the concrete into the boxing to get the shape right




Screeding the concrete out to make it level


Dry time

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Floor plans for our houses


Our house plans are coming along well. After the planning process we will start building our models.

www.floorplanner.com if you want to go online and design your own house.
















Thursday, October 15, 2015

Hula Hoop Champs


Lydia the champion!

Who won the teachers competition?

Nantan sharing his power point he made in the holidays!


Well done Nantan! You had some great information and awesome pictures in your presentation. Thanks for sharing it with us.



Monday, October 12, 2015

Our first go at designing our own house

Kiwi Sport Taekwondo

Today was our first day of Taekwondo training - we learnt some cool techniques and moves. We also  learnt about the self discipline self control and integrity you need to be good at it.






Sunday, October 11, 2015

Monday design challenge


This term were are learning about the process of designing and building. Today was out first design challenge. The challenge was to take the newspaper and tape and build the tallest free standing tower possible.



There were some interesting designs...
 
The Winning Design - the only one that stayed standing.