Our Second trip to the Museum

We learned about shapes and sizes.

We started out making shapes with clay. We made them with play dough.We made circles, squares and triangles. These are triangles.

When we were making shapes, I made a rectangle. The person who was telling us what to make, made the same thing, but a little different. It was fun making shapes.

When we were making squares, one boy made a cube out of play dough. It was a little different than ours and like a piece the person who was showing us made for herself.

Next we went outside to walk. The whole class is walking to see how big the Wyoming was when it was built. We have to count 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10...It was fun and boat was over 300 feet long.

 

A student in our class is bending wood to make the round parts on a boat. It helps making the bow. You need to wear gloves because the wood can be very hot and burn your hand. The man who took the wood out almost burned his hand.

The wood was bent by a student in our class. The wood was a little bit hard to bend. Some pieces were harder to bend than others. Sometime the wood breaks instead of bending.

We used a plane to shape a piece of wood to make the boat smooth. At first it was hard. The girls had an easy side but the boys had a hard side because it had a notch in it.

Here is Jeff, drilling the holes. We do not have the same kind of drill in the stores. Jeff's hole went down through the board to the floor.

The wood was very hard to drill through at first because there were no hole there. His hand were slipping with his gloves.

We also saw lot of old small boats that were made the way we were shown how to do by bending,drilling and planing.

We learned a lot about shapes and making boats.

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