Week 17 21st june 2012

well today we sorter just had to do our own thing so i decided to work on my rocking cradle witch i still have to finish, all i really have to do is glue it all together and bolt the rocking part to the legs and i should be finished.

Week 17     18th-22nd June
Write a paragraph about what happened  carpentry practical this week. What specific tasks were you involved with?

well yesturday the 19th of june we were working on our shed its going pretty well every one was involved but i was mostly involved in the hammering stages and putting on the roof.

Week 16 11-15th June

Do some online research into sustainability and building. Find answers to these questions:
1) What sustainable materials can builders use? local materals and reusing materals
2) What are 2 methods of sustainable building? reusable wood and untreaded wood
3) How can builders minimise waste during construction? reuse,reduse,recycle
4) What features can be added to new buildings to conserve and use less energy? pink bats

Week 12 14-19th May

Making wooden toys

Task 1

Write a paragraph about making a wooden toy in carpentry. Include details about why you chose that particular toy, how you made it, what tools you used, how long it took to make.

well i chose to make a rocking cradle toy in carpentry and i chose to make this because it looked nice at simple, to make this rocking cradle i needed my rule to measure al the sides and to see where to put the wholes to drill the nails in and stuff and basicly all i needed to use was the drop saw and it took a few days to make this but i still havent finished just need to glue it all together now.

task 2

Write a paragraph to review your project:

1) How successful was your project? vary successfull.2) What went well? everything went vary well.3) What could you have done differently, to make it more successful? nothing i liked it the way i did it.4)Was the choice of toy the right one for the time available? not really but i didnt care im still happy with what i done.
5) Overall, how successful was the group at making their toys? i think every one of use was successful with maken there toys.

Week 11 7-11th May

1) Carpentry has begun this week. Write about what happened during the first 2 day of carpentry. Include details about

• The choice of projects you were given
• How the group chose which project to do
• The health and safety aspects of carpentry that you learned about.

1) we chose our own project to do, first we were given some books to look at witch had diffrent sort of toys in it and thats how we all chose our projects and at all times we had to where our safty boots and when we went into the room with all the machines in it we always had to where our earmuffs.

2) Assessment questions from Jamie

1/ Name 5 machines in the machine workshop?   

1. drop saw

2. jig saw

3. band saw

4. circular drill

5. router

2/ Whats the maximum amount of timber the thicknesser can remove at once? 3ml 

3/ Name all the tools in your tool box?  tap measure, hammer, ear muffs, chisels, tool belt, combination square.


       

Week 10 30th April- 4th May
1) Read Kim's blog post, look at the links in her blog (click on the red writing in her blog) and leave a comment for her - either about something in her blog post or about something you've done in her class.

2) On your blog for this week, write about 2 things you've enjoyed doing the most as part of your horticulture classes


the most tthings i injoyed the most was creating a japanese bonsai tree and designing a japanese garden with the class.

Week 9 23rd- 27th April
1) Read the articles on the links I have put up on the class blog, for Term 2 (Week 9)

Online research: Find out what career pathways there are in horticulture. Find information about 5 different jobs which are linked to horticulture or require training in horticulture.
This will be used as the basis for a class discussion and completion of a worksheet.
2)On your blog: Write details about what you did in horticulture on Monday (23rd April), particularly:

• What went well?
• What problem solving did you have to do?
• How well did your class work as a team?

       career pathways in horiticulture

• harvesting
• designing
• parks or sports grounds
• vegetables
• growing

     Write details about what you did in horticulture on Monday (23rd April),

we had a vister in called alan ferguson and he talked to us about landscaping
and design and other things to do with landscape and i think after that we went out
to aromoana to collect seaweeds for some reason

What went well?  everything went well but was abit tired though

What problem solving did you have to do? cant remember

How well did your class work as a team? very well

      

Week 7 26-30th March

Write about your horticulture practical day on Wednesday with Jamie

Write about your horticulture practical day on Wednesday with Jamie

• What did you do today? maden wood things with names on it for bonsais
• What skills did you use? we used our designing skills
• What did you learn? where all the materials had to be placed
  

Horticulture 7th week term 1

1) wright the steps involved in maken bonsai trees on monday.

who taught you? joy.
what tools did you use? sissors, chop sticks and other exciting tools.
where were you working? in the white tunle house in L block.
did you choose your own tree or did you get given one? we chose our own trees.

2) reflect on what you learned.

was it easy or chellenging? it was quite easy.
did you injoy it? yup.
what skills did you learn and could you use them in tother situations? well for starters i learned how to. make a bonsai tree and shape them so if i wanted to make one at home i could.
did any problems come up if so how did you solve them? no problems came up.

3) wright up the steps taken towords the development of the bonsai garden with jamie on wednesday.

what skills did you use? our bonsai maken skills and our designing skills.

Horticulture 6th week term 1

)Write up the steps done towards your bonsai garden project this week ( for example, collecting rocks from the quarry).


* When we got to horticulture yesturday 14th of march we had to build these wood square things for the compost that where going to put around by the chickens in L block.

* also in the room where we are making out chapanese garden had to lay down some wet news paper and on top of the news paper we had to lay down a big long bit ov plastic and the reson we lay down the wet news paper before the plastic is so that the roots dont grow up nd rip the plastic and we had to put down the news paper and plastic along where our pond is going to be and after all that we put some of our big rocks in the middle spreaded out along the pond for our stepping stones.

* we went to the quarry to go and collect some rocks then drove back to campus and we had to go back and foword to get the rocks off the trailer using a wellbarrow and to carry the biggest rocks we used a box carrier thingy and we just tipped the rocks into the chapanese garnden.


THE QUARRY



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grifiti boomings

 

 

week3

1) Write a paragraph about the activities at the Malcam Trust. Include details about how you worked as a team member and what problem solving needed to be done by the group.
2) Write about the steps taken so far in your bonsai project. Include details about how the project was chosen and what planning work you have done so far. Include photos.


In the activities at malcam trust we had to do some team building stuff witch was alright in away, first we did some circle thing had to move place to place alot was alryt then we did some chucking three frogs in a mini circle and had 2 remember what order  our throwz went and s*** thats fun sorter lol the one i like most is the game puzzles aye was algoooodz, i was in a team thing once had to build like straw towers or sum s*** but then after that was really any more team stuff aye

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