PES 6th Graders Build Boats!

This morning the whole school came out to watch our two new boats, Sea Kiss and Crazy 8, take to the sea.  It was a beautiful ceremony!

With our first boat more or less done (it is painted to the primer), we’re moving on to Boat #2!  We held a read-a-thon to raise money for materials, and we’ve made great progress.  We’re pretty excited that we’ll be setting sail soon!

 We have been out of touch for a little while, but we’ve been busy making progress on our boat!  We have made it to the painting stage, which means that we are almost done.

The gym was full of loud sounds on Friday as the 6th graders took the next step in the boat building process.  Please enjoy their updates in the “comments” section of this posting.

We’ve been busy over the past few weeks, working on our boat.  Today we’re going to update you, and tell you about all the different tools that we’ve been using to build our boat.

We did some very cool stuff last week in boat building.  Please read our comments below to learn more!

Thanks for your comments on our last post.  We started the pattern for the big boat, working all together and we’re going to tell you about it here… see our comments below!

This week we are each going to blog to tell you how we finished our boat models.  Please read our responses below!  We’d love it if you’d write back.

Last Friday, we glued all of the wood into the cardboard boat models.  We are almost finished with our models, we just have to put the two sides, the bottom, and the seats together to make the model.  We had fun and we are excited because we each get to make a model of our own (without help!) and bring it home.

Have you ever built a boat?  On Friday, we went down to the gym where Mr. Schade showed us how to build a cardboard boat which is a model for the Peace Canoe, which we are going to build.  We drew parts of a canoe on cardboard and cut it out.  We used a proportional divider to measure the size we need to build our model.  We learned different parts of the boat, like: bow, port, starboard, stern, keel.  Next week we’re going to glue our models together and add wooden pieces.  After boat building, we wrote in our journals about what we learned.

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