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.

J-Rock countdown: costumes, freeze-frames, book props...

Perfecting J-Rock

Freeze frame for Joe diMaggio.

We can't wait for you to see our J-Rock performance; everyday  it is becoming more polished. We're currently focusing on, looking up (not at our feet), smiling, remembering to put our hands on our hips and exaggerating our movements. Half of the costumes are at school and they look great, we are looking forward to seeing the rest early next week.

Fabulous Duathlon Effort

A brilliant effort from Room 19ers at today's duathlon. Almost half the class took part in what was a long and challenging event. So proud of you all! Also to the lap-counters and photographers - you all worked well to ensure the success of this event. Tu meke Room 19!!

Weary, but satisfied.

Dom and Finn, leaders of the Year 11 boys event.

Just 2 kms run, 6 laps of the field ... and still smiling!

Nearly there!

Year 8 Leadership Camp

We had a fabulous time on Leadership Camp last week, putting the '7 habits of highly effective people' into action. Everyone stepped up and gave of their best, no matter what team they were working in ... staff were very impressed!!

'Unlocking the grid', an exercise in the importance of risk taking.

Balancing 8 people on a concrete block, a great synergy challenge.
Those who 'began with the end in mind' and 'put first things first' achieved success quickly.

Success with 2 blocks, the next stage was to see how many they could balance on 1 block.

Unfortunately the pool was closed, but we were proactive and  looked for other ways to have fun.

Room 19 transforms into a bedroom.

The ropes challenge put 'think win win' into action. 

Swapping places on the ropes structure in the quickest possible time, supporting each other so that everyone could be successful.

The flying fox challenge got us thinking  and acting quickly as we worked as a team to improve our times.