So today we arrived to class ready to go outside and continue working on the project. We have been making great progress and have been excited to see the changes we make each day. But today, instead of going directly out side, Mrs. K and Mrs. Williams had some interesting news. They said that we would not be able to dig any deeper at our site because of the wiring underground. This disappointed us all, but we saw it as a challenge. Right away we were able to brainstorm great new ideas and realized that with our new plan, we are actually ahead of schedule. The change was unpredictable, but definitely manageable. Before we went outside we determined that our goal was to clear out our site and remove all the grass. And we definitely accomplished that.
Our next plan of the day was to lay out our new plan and lay out the divide with the materials we have. We were also going to move the sticks and continue to shape the mound, which we did great with. Later, we would make cross-sections with the wood or lay it down like a current (another idea). We didn't reach all of those goals today but will in the forthcoming.
My group worked on sawing today, and as other people in the class have seen, it is not easy with a handsaw. So after wasted minutes fighting over a log to reach maximum efficiency, we finally obtained the log and Jake, Andrew, Cal and I made a type of assembly line and it worked extremely well.
The technique we used was each person in our group would saw as fast and as powerful as they could and then once they got tired we would hand it to the next person to do the same. We were able able to cut each log in 4 minutes. And compared to the usual time of 20 minutes, this technique worked well. We were able to accomplish 6 cuts in the remaining time we had of class when we obtained the log we needed.
Everybody in the class did a great job today, and we are clearly making great progress on this. Everyone is excited to see the final product.
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