Slippers take shape...

We had a wonderfully soapy time last week creating our felt slippers. This week we finish the shaping and add the design. Can't wait for you to see the finished result!

Go the Master Chefs

Today the school got together to wish our Maggi Kitchen Countdown regional finalist team all the best at their upcoming competition. Our team are one of 12 representing the South Island. We hope their spinach and feta crepes with a spicy salsa wow the judges; the sure do sound scrumptious! What's more, three of them come from Room 19 ... go girls!!! All the best Ella, Beth, Lucy and Georgia.

Creating Fabulous Felt

Laying out the fleece and pattern.

Rubbing and rolling...

Peeling off the protective net, before the rolling begins.

A perfectly felted bunny!

Enjoying the felting experience in Room 19

Today we checked out wool under a microscope and discovered it has scales. We are starting to put the clues together and work out how wool felts.

We also started to lay out fleece to make a flat piece of felt, however we were interrupted by the Beep Test (awesome results from Dom and Finn!) and didn't get finished. Yoda joined us this afternoon and couldn't resist a snooze in the box of fleece...

Mmmm, like your work girls, hope you're designing purrrfect cat pictures.

Yoda had a little help 'pulling up' the felt blanket.

Science inquiry gets underway.

 In Room 19 for science we're learning about sheep's wool and felt! We took the wool, put it inside our

shoes, then walked around for 24 hours.When we took our shoes off, we discovered we had created felt.

We discussed what the conditions were like inside our shoes, that could have led to this transformation and came up with:
*  heat
*  moisture
*  pressure and movement

Next we tried to achieve the same result with cotton wool and with polyester. However after 24 hours or longer inside a shoe, neither the cotton, nor the polyester had felted. There must be something about the wool fibre that causes it to felt ... next step in our inquiry is to magnify a wool fibre and see what we find.