HS: Dressing Up Our Boxes

I hope that some of the information about the typical types of sawing wood stuck with you. As a reminder, here are some great pictures of what we talked about.

As we begin to protect our birdhouses with paint, please remember what we talked about when applying a finish to wood. Sand the wood, and then choose the right treatment. For aesthetics in wood, the most likely choice is some type of stain, shellac, dye, etc. that would bring out the wood grain. But these types of treatment go into the grain of the wood and don't necessarrily protect the surface. For that on this project, we'll use primer and paint!

HS: Kennel Building Away!

The progress y'all are making is great! It is great that the balance your keeping between research, practice, and patience. As you make plans for your second trip to the kennel please consider any questions you need to ask to get clarification.

Keep practicing your patience and working on your SketchUp skills!

MS: SketchBook Drawing

This week will continue to work with Autodesk SketchBook.

You will have new teams, and we will continue with the Composition Game. The more you share with your teammates the more you'll learn.

HS: Lap of Luxary

This week you will have all of the information you need to move forward. The process is the same for this part as the "sketches" you did last week.

So consider what worked for that and repeat it. Take what didn't work and discard it or rework it.

Don't forget to watch the videos for tools, as they will help you with your SketchUp model.

http://www.sketchup.com/learn/videos/60

HS: H4H Bluebird Boxes

As we've discovered, we should not put our boxes up in trees because, as
one article said, if we do we're making a lunchbox for critters who enjoy eggs.

Mrs. Webster said that her class would love to install the boxes with us. So we should start a dialogue with Mrs. Webster's class as to the where and the how. Maybe they can some of the research or make the stands or some such.