Emely's Lesson On Altitude

   
Altitude? Sound weird right, but it is actually not. Altitude is the height of an object or point in relation to sea level or ground level. This relates to kites because we want to see how high our kite can fly off the ground and see how many feet it goes off the ground. This also relates to the kite because we are having a contest and one of the kites are highest flying kite and in order to win that contest you need to have a high altitude. So I think if you want to win that contest you need a high altitude.But be careful with the weight because if its too heavy it might not have altitude at all.

Emely's Kite Building Experience

RIP SWISH CUT PLOP, building kites are not as easy as you think it is. It requires hard work and creative minds to think of different ways to design a kite. This project was very difficult to do but we still managed to do it. One part that was very challenging was making the sunset for the california style because we had to make different shades of orange and make sure they look like a light but dark orange at the same time, then we had to put it on the kite and blend it in to make the color look like its fading and then add the sun and make it look like its goes with the sky. The easiest part was writing the word california in script because it was one of those small easy details that made the kite look better. It was very frustrating when we had to keep doing the sunset, we redid the sunset at least four times.  I was ecstatic when we were finally done with the project because I was proud of my hard work. One thing we had to cut out from our kite was the pink and purple sunset so we just did a orange and yellow one. One thing that was difficult was making the ocean because we added the blue paint on the orange paint when it was still wet so we had to go over it a few times so it didn't dry into a color we didn't want. When you make a kite I suggest you first look up directions online first so you would have a clue on how to do it unlike us who just used our creativity.

Why Emely Chose The Fighter Kite

       The style of kite we chose to select was fighter kite. We selected this style because we wanted a type of kite no one else had or a type of style that people would stop and think what type of kite is that or wow I have never seen a kite like that how did they make that. We also selected this kite because this kite was for sports and we thought not many people make kites for sports so why don’t we make one. But I think that fighter kites are cool and one of those kites that are rare and that many people don’t know about so usually you wouldn’t buy one but we thought if we make this fighter kite beautiful and unique then people would want to buy it. But back in the days most people didn’t have enough money to choose the type of kite they thought was the most beautiful they usually got the one they could afford so I think you should be grateful for being able to get kites so you should being picky about what you want because back in the days you may not even would have been able to get a kite.

Emely's Conditions That Are Ideal To Fly In

       Conditions that are ideal to fly kites is in windy weather. I think this because if it was raining then the kite will come crashing down from the weight. I also think this because if it wasn’t windy then how would you get the kite in the air. I also think this because if it was snowing how would you even get the kite to fly with all the snow falling on it because then its going to get too heavy.This shows me that you need specific type of weather to fly a kite because not all types of weather are made for kite flying like for example rain and snowy weather is not for flying kites but wind/breezy weather is.

Jasmine's Craziest 2 days of her life

         These two days have been really crazy because we had a lot of ups and downs trying to make this kite perfect. The most difficult part was trying to make the kite stay in the position its meant to be in. Let me tell you guys the whole story, so we started by getting all the materials.

         To build our kite we used colorful sharpie markers, a bedding sheet, a thin blue rope, wooden sticks, duck tape,a stapler, scissors, and paint to top it all off. It took us both of the two days to gather all the materials and yet we still aren't done. We have so much work to do in less then a week! The second step we took to build our kite was we took the bedding sheets and made the shape of our kite. We took sharpie and traced the outline of the shape we were going to use and cut it out obviously with the scissors. 

          The third step we took was adding the sticks to hold the kite while in motion. This is where the problem came in. So we used the duck tape to hold the sticks to the bedding sheet, but it came apart so quickly and we needed a solution fast! So our math teacher (the genius) helped us make the kite. She stapled the ends and put the wooden sticks through the middle and did that for all four sides and we got our kite there! If it wasn't for her we would be so behind.

          We only have one step left to do...guess what it is!!! Its the most creative and its not the easiest. Fine since you guys don't have a clue about what I'm talking about its the design of the kite. Duh. so since we are doing California we have the idea of using neon colors and we are going to faded one color in to another one. I hope we finish because if we don't we wont win any awards and that's the whole point of this project... for me I don't know about my other classmates. But forget about the negatives because my groups knows we are going to win all of these awards. Keyword knows. I got to go and work on my kite I'll blog you guys soon. Peace.

The Ups and Downs of this flight- Autumn

Wow that kite building experience was so much different then I imagined it, I thought I would use instructions to build this kite but we didn't. First we took the sheet I brought from my house as fabric or material, we used that as the base covering, we put the two sticks we had into a cross and then we outlined the box. Were're doing a fighter kite but in a box shape, we cut out the box shape on the sheet and taped the two stick-ed cross to the sheet.

 We soon realized we needed four more sticks because duh as you scholars know a box is quadrilateral and a quadrilateral has four sticks, which is why we needed the four other sticks. My teammate Jasmine got some bamboo sticks from her dad and some were to long and some were too short, but we had our math teacher Ms.Lietsman cut of the long parts of the long stick.  

Then our very fabulous scholarly teacher Ms.Leitsman had an Idea that we should staple all the sides of the square a little bit not too much and slide the sticks  through the flap. We taped the middle of where the two sticks that form the line intersect. Finally we our kites structure done, all we have to do is paint our kite which will make it beautiful, also we need to add some streamers or some stuffing paper for the tail, and we need to use the rope we have for the kite to fly but not fly away from us.

Jasmine's Idea of a Flawless Kite!

A Fighter kite!?!? Hahaha sounds like a professional fighter. Not funny ok sorry just trying to make you guys laugh over here. So my team has picked that kite because we have seen that it doesn't take a long time to build the kite and we really don't have time. We are on crunch time right now! We also picked this kite because remember we are trying to build a kite that inspires people about California. But we most importantly want a nice kite and want more time to design the kite than building the kite. We want our kite finished on time but most importantly we want to win one of the competitions we picked because our kite is so unique and its looking FLAWLESS!!!