Gala Totebags

Hi there blogging, world soon it will be Waikowhai Primary School's (The school I go to) Gala day. For the Gala day each class is making a sustainable product to sell. In my last post I was advertising for my school's gala day this blog post is about how we made our tote bags (The product my class is making for the Gala day is tote bags) and the process of it. I hope you can come to the Gala checkout my last blog post to find out more information.
 Here is the process: 

First we had to cut two pieces of calico that are the same size. On one piece of calico we used some stencils we made out of paper to be our stencil for screen-printing.

After we did our screen-printing we sewed the two pieces together using a simple straight line on the sewing machine. If you would like to you can pin the pieces of fabric together before you sew. Be sure when you are sewing that your screen-printing is facing inwards and not outwards. Also make sure you leave one side open and not sewn.

After you have sewn do not turn it back the right way yet! Now you must fold your hem over but only the side that was not sewn together make sure your fold is quite skinny. Once you have folded it over iron it. Then you sew a straight line down the hem that you folded over. Now repeat the steps on the other side.

Now to stop the fraying you must do zigzag stitching on three sides but not the one that is the top.


It is time to add strapping we just bought strapping from a shop and attached the straps by sewing a square.

Last but definitely not least you must sell your bag!

Here are some photos:

My reflection: 

Sometimes when you do screen printing it can bleed so screen printing is quite hard to do. The reason we are making our tote bags is because plastic bags are a big part of global warming and our goal is to get people to use reusable bags more. The good part was designing our second bag I hand sewed sequins on my second one. I used to think that making tote bags would be hard but it is actually quite fun and easy. I would not do it by myself because there is lots of supplies I need that I don't have.

Gala Day

Hi there blogging world, this term for inquiry we have worked on advertisement.  We had to make a poster for our Gala day. First we had to do some note taking we did this on a google drawing. We had to state some examples of advertising you see like posters on the back of a bus or flyers etc. Then you had to  say how you are going to incorporate those ideas into your own poster. Here is the poster I made advertising our school's gala day. I hope you can come, all information is stated clearly in the poster down below.

reading review

 Hi there blogging world for reading we had to read a book that we were assigned to read, then we made a reading review about the book we read. I have not finished my slideshow so this is only one slide. I think I did pretty well but I wrote the story line as I was reading the book so some of the facts were wrong ,  I changed them as I went.  I definitely recommend the book I read, which is called Cool Nukes and it is written by Des Hunt. I will soon be posting my whole slideshow. Please leave a comment on my blog.

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Voting: National or Labour?

 Hi there blogging world, for week nine we learnt about voting. We learnt about how to vote. This Saturday most of your parents will be voting .  Will they vote for  Labour, National or  another party.  

This is how you vote: To vote you first have to enrol online or  call the Electoral Commission. After you have enrolled you should get an information pack in the mail. First we had to find out what electorate we were in. You can find it on elections.org.nz.  For your parents to vote they don't need to find their electorate  because it will already be there when they enrol. For your parents to vote they must find the voting booth nearest to them. We had to do the same except our voting booth was in the classroom because we set up a fake one. We had to say our first and last name and our electorate and address. Then the people behind the desk crossed our name out and gave us the voting paper for our electorate. There are two parts to the voting paper there is a party and a MP (member of parliament) If you vote for National it does not  mean you have to vote for the MP that belongs to National. Voting is very fun. Since I am not old enough to vote, our votes will be included into a survey for the gouverment.

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How to write a good comment

 Hi there blogging world and For cyber smart we learnt about writing a smart comment. First we had to go to the Ako Hiko website and pick an individual blog as an example. I chose Essa from Owairaka District School. Next we had to  fill in the slideshow template. Then we had to make a screen-castify explaining  the slideshow and explaining how to write a good comment. I hope you learn something from my video because every Friday we have to write a comment so I  think that I am very good at commenting and hopefully I helped you too so you can use those skills to write a comment on my blog. Here is my video:

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Crazy science magic show

 Hi there blogging world! On Monday we had a magical experience because the crazy science show came to our school. The science people were called Richard and Robin. Robin was the D.J and Richard was the scientist. Before the show started he did a few magic tricks. Richard asked us if we thought it was magic or science most of the people thought it was magic. Then Richard explained that magic is science. So I guess science is the new cool😎.  My favourite part was when he threw the grain in the air and it made fire. The reason he made fire is because to make fire you need heat, oxygen and some sort of flammable thing. With grain when it is packed tightly and you add heat there is no fire. Why? because there is no oxygen but if you added heat to the grain and throw it in the air it makes fire.  We also did an experiment with nappies. Richard poured the powder out of a nappy and put it into a cup the powder is called polymer. Then he got yellow water that looked like pee and added it to the polymer and when he decided to pour it out it was a solid and not a liquid. I really liked having the crazy science show come to our school I hope they come again. One question I would ask Richard was why after he threw the grain in the air the fire  faded away after a second? When I go home I am going to put a ping pong ball on top of my hair dryer and turn the air cold and blow it to see if it will stay even when I move my hair dryer.

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Forlorn song

HI there blogging world. In week five we went on a ski camp. I then wrote a couplet poem about the snow mountains and about how I hardly see snow since I live in Auckland.  I all so drew and coloured an illustration. A couplet poem is a poem when the last two words of the sentence rhyme.  First we planned our poem in our literacy book. Then we planned our illustrations in our art books. Then we did our good copy and we also coloured it in. My poem is called Forlorn song here is a picture of my poem and it's illustration. 

                             Forlorn song                               

The big blue sky

Lies above the mountain so high

Snow so white and pale

Just like a fairy tale

The air lies cold 

While I wait to be told

The breeze so mild

The kids go wild 

A layer of frost so thin

My face forms a grin

For once I feel like I belong 

In this forlorn song