Term Two Reggio

First take of building the IGLOO!

In 8B4 this term we are studying the cold and 8B4 wants to learn about Inuits and how igloos are made. Today we did our first take of trying to make an igloo using sugar cubes, icing sugar for the glues and flour and water for the glue. Here are some photos and a little about what we found out. 

 

If you put too much glue it melts the cubes and they fall over – Jules

If you make it too big you run out of materials – Thomas

Don’t use two different strategies – first ours didn’t work out well so we tried a new one that worked out but it was at the end of the session. – Alex

You have to be very careful otherwise it will lean over – Rach

The technique of building it is hard, each of us tried different things, the only one that worked was our second one. We used the technique of gluing carefully. Chris

Not too much glue- Kayla

If you put the bricks in a pattern like a little T  it will work– one brick then two bricks. Jayden,

Why did that work? Miss M

It was layered and made it was stronger because it wasn’t just stacked onto of each other. Abbey

Mejean tell us how you created the roof? Miss M

I got sugar cubes and stuck them into the glue, then I got more until I had five and glued them together then I stuck them onto the roof. Mejean

 

I learnt that if you stick them all up on top of each other they will just come tumbling down. Chanel

We found it easier to use them standing up and then have the top ones sitting down. Nic

 

We all got pictures in our mind and then did it that way, we worked together. Owen

We found it hard to curve to igloo – Grace.