Rosie Revere Engineer - week 3 Term 2

During class visits to the library this week we read Rosie Revere Engineer, a fabulous picture book with gorgeous illustrations.

Rosie is a quiet shy girl in class, but when she is at home she creates the most amazing contraptions made entirely out of junk.  The story has a wonderful theme about being true to yourself and never quitting, as each failure is one step closer to success.  Whaea Indira's class in particular enjoyed Rosie's helium pants invention, especially when I asked them to imagine their teacher wearing them to school and floating all around the classroom.  We joked about not letting teachers outside wearing them otherwise we would never see them again!  The kids were also fascinated about cheese spray,(which Rosie uses in many of her inventions), the thought of squirting 'cheese' was a source of great amusement.

Then, we set about becoming engineers. Some classes enjoyed making stick bombs out of Popsicle sticks, we made these, which were found on http://frugalfun4boys.com/ They proved to be tricky to make the first time around, but everyone soon got the hang on it.  Whaea Cil's class enjoyed shouting "Fire in the hole" before throwing them!

 

Imaginations were put to good use while building structures out of toothpicks and bluetac, some classes also built structures out of paper triangles as found on http://babbledabbledo.com/science-for-kids-paper-building-blocks/
Looks like we have some up and coming engineers in our school!