Ocean Pals By Karen L

Our inquiry project right now is Oceans. I made a seal. We made these amazing pals by doing these steps.
You will need:
Shredded paper
Paint
2x A3 paper
Stapler and staples
How to make a Ocean Pal:
1.Choose an animal
2.Draw it out on an A3 piece of paper
3.Cut out your animal
4.Trace your animal on another piece of A3 paper
5.Paint your animals
6.Staple part of your animals together and leave a medium sized space
7.Stuff your animal with shredded paper
8.Staple the parts that you haven't stapled
Now you have the perfect Ocean Pal!

Wow Alive Jelly fish! By Karen L and Claire

WOW! Alive Jelly Fish!
On Monday the 27 May we made a jelly fish in a bottle. Now we will teach you step by step how to make a jelly fish that looks alive.
You will need these everyday products:
Scissors
Clear plastic shopping bag
Clear drink bottle that is not going to be used anymore
Blue food colouring or blue dye
Water
Fishing string
How to make it:
1.First you cut a plastic bag in half
2. Second you put your first finger in the middle of the half plastic bag
3. Blow in the the hole where your first finger was
4. Tie the string in under the hole but don't make it so tight because you need to put water in it
5. Put water in the jelly fish and the bottle only put two thirds of water into the bottle
6. Now put the dye into the bottle but not the jelly fish
7. Put the jellyfish in now and you are DONE!
This is the finishing result!

Wanted! By Karen L

This poster is about dark lord Voldemort. We were learning about notorious (notorious means someone known for being bad.)
Name: Voldemort
Age: Unknown
Wanted For: Killing countless wizards and witches all around the world
Reward: $100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Homemade paper by Karen L and Claire

This week Room 5 made paper out of old paper that's been used into new paper.

Here is how we made it:

Resources:

Old paper that's been used

Hot water

Paper recycling kit

Dye

Art shirt/old shirt

Rubber gloves/plastic gloves

Cello tape

Glitter (if wanted)

Cloth

Method:

1.Rip up paper

2.Put the ripped up paper into the hot water

3.Soak it over night in the hot water
4.Put the dye, mulch in to the tray in the recycling paper kit
5.Get the gloves and put them on with the cello tape

6.Choose which shape you want to make the paper with from the recycling kit

7.Take the shape you want and put the sieve under it
8.Then put it in the tray containing the mulch and dye
9.Leave it in the tray until it has been covered in mulch and dye
10.Clear away the mulch from the edges of the shape
11.Put the cloth on to the shape and sieve then squeeze it hard with your hands
12.Take the sieve and the shape off carefully be careful not to damage the shape of the mulch

13.Then put the other cloth on the other side

14.Take the squeezer from the recycling kit and put the cloth and mulch on to the squeezer
15.Put the lid on the bottom part of the squeezer and screw the bolts on

16.Then squeeze the squeezer until there is no dye coming out

17.Unscrew the bolts and lift up the lid
18.Let it dry over night


Room 5 enjoyed making paper, the colours room 5 chose were violet, blue and red.
We made to pieces each one for Mother's Day and one for the parent helper who helped us on Maritime Museum.

Karen L's Comic Life (Camp)

Crazy Filters!!!

Today our group made a water filter. First, we had to research on the internet to find out what we needed to find.

 This is how we did it :

1. First we cut a Coke bottle in half (Adult supervision)

2.Then we poked 5 holes in the bottom of the coke bottle (Adult supervision)

3.Put in the cotton

4.Tip in some sand

5.Put some mini rocks/gravel

6.Put in some coal/charcoal  

7.Put in some fresh grass

8.Put some more cotton on top... DONE

9.get some dirty water and pour it in the water filter

10.Use a container to get the clean water 

11. Do steps 9 and 10 over and over with the same water until it comes out crystal clear

We learnt how to always have clean water, even if our water source is dirty (like if we are stuck in the forest or something!).

We were surprised that charcoal made water crystal clear - we thought it would turn the water black!

We learnt that we needed to put the cotton at the bottom, so that all the dirt and sand wouldn't fall out the holes at the bottom.

We had a lot of fun making our water filter and we learnt a lot. We wish you Good Luck if you decide to make it. Do you think you can make a filter that is as good as, or better than, ours?!

Sam, Alice,Karen and Thomas