Technology

On Wednesday last week the year 7’s and 8’s went to technology at Morewa
School. I was doing woodwork. The time before we had made the molds for our
necklaces but this time we melted the Puter (some sort of metal) and made it
look nice and shiny. Most people had to restart because it was too big, mine
was the first to be done because mine was quite small. It took quite a long time
to make it look nice, we had to do about 4 things but they took about an hour
each to do (It actually ended up looking really shiny). Next time we go to
technology we are going to make the holes on the necklaces, put the string on
and start our new project. What I could do better next time is when something
doesn't work i could ask for help.

Technology

On Wednesday the year 7’s & 8’s went to Technology at Moerewa school.
All of the year 8’s did cooking but some year 7’s got to do cooking ( But not me).
Because I am a year 7 I got to do woodwork. At the start I got kind of upset
because I really wanted to do cooking & all my friends were doing cooking.
When we started doing it we had to draw 3 designs & choose 1 of them to
make into a piece of jewelry. I chose to make a wave, once I had gotten it
checked by the teacher I got a 6x6cm piece on wood. I then drew it on the
wood & cut it out using a skill saw. After that we were going to get 2 pieces
of wood the same size & put one on each side then melt the metal & put it in
the gap, wait for it to harden then take it out, make a hole & wear it as a piece
of jewelry. We didn’t have time to do that though so we are going to do that next
time we go to technology.

Technology

Last week on Wednesday the year 7’s & 8’s went to Technology, The year 8’s
did cooking while we were doing woodwork. Our Teacher was Mr Edwards.
For the first half of the day we were just learning how everything works, how to
use power tools & we did 2 tests, 1 test was about 8 pictures of some of the
tools we used & about 20 different names, we had to write down which tool
was what. The other test was about the rules we had to finish the sentence of
the rules. In the middle block we got to have a little play around with everything,
we were allowed to make anything we wanted. We were handed a small piece
of wood & we could do whatever we wanted with it. If you didn’t want to draw
we were allowed to use traces that he had made from wood. I chose to draw,
I decided to do a feather. Since I was struggling to cut it out into a smaller
shape I just left it as a rectangle & painted over top of it. What I could do better
next time is not get so mad when something doesn’t work.

Have you ever done woodwork before?