Earth paints

 

We have been reading about Earth Paints. Earth Paints are paints made out of crushed clay or soil and mixed with water. In the story the children found different coloured soil in the vegetable garden, compost, near a swamp, beside a stream, under the bark on the playground, clay off a bank, building site and from the river.

Aborigines used to use Earth Paints to paint pictures on cave walls or bark. They used twigs, bamboo sticks and sometimes their fingers to paint. So that the paint stuck they mixed emu and fish oil or beeswax with the paint.

Here is my earth paint painting.

Amazing Race

We ran as fast as we could to snatch the ribbon off the billboard.  In the holidays I took part in an amazing race.

Olly came and picked us up to go to the Warehouse  to buy prizes.  When we got to the Warehouse we asked to go to the  toy department. I was playing on the long board, this is a skateboard.  My brother found 100 dollars on the ground. He came and showed me the 100 dollars. I was excited that we had $100. We had to show Olly because it was the right thing to do.

When we got to Totara park we saw Jules. We waited for a while before the race was going to begin. Then we started the race, we had to paint our faces green because that was our groups color .  The first activity was bobbing for apples I got the apple in my teeth and then   

we went to get the next clue. We ran and ran and ran I was so tired. Finally I got the ribbon but we had to run back to the entrance it took forever to get there .

For the next activity our team ran up the steep hill. We had to grab a ribbon from off a pole. I had the ribbon in my hand and headed back to the entrance. I had to put a bandana on over my eyes so I couldn't see where I was going, Olly was my guide, when we reached our goal it was my turn to guide Olly.

Our final active was called Fear Factor. We had to put our hand in a box, I was nervous because I didn't know what was going to be in it. I put my hand in, it felt really slimy and yuck. There were plastic spiders and centipedes in the box. They felt like fish bones. I knew it was hair gel but I did not like it. Olly tried and got the card out because I couldn't do it.

At every activity we collected these cards. When we had all 3 cards we had to find out what the secret word was. I was in charge of doing this. It wasn't that hard to work it out. Our word was Kakapo. “YES!!!!!” I yelled we had won the game. I had so much fun I was really excited. The prize for winning was 20 dollars.

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archimedes theory

This is the results form today when i put the clay in the water it was the same but when i put in hardly it displaced a lot of water