Tapa Cloth Inking

Last week we had to put ink on our tapa cloth. I thought it would be hard to put the ink on it and there would be more instructions but there wasn't. The materials we used were white ink, brown ink, newspaper and water. First we had to put the newspaper on the table. second the teacher gave us ink and water and she told us how to do it. last we put the ink and water on the paper.A tapa cloth is a thing made in the Pacific Ocean and it is originally made out of bark and trees. Normally people do 6 - 8 boxes if they are on paper but if they are on a cloth you can make as much as you want as long as it fits on the cloth.The word tapa is from Tahiti. It doesn't look different yet but it will when it drys. We had to create a haiku. Here is my haiku and tapa.

Haiku

Ink, water paper, chalk, water, charcoal,

Benny

For the past week we had to draw stuff about a book. The book is called "Benny". 

We go given a piece of paper and we had to filled to into 6 squares. 

Then the teacher read parts of the story and when to finished reading the part we had to draw the main event in the part.

On the back of the paper we had to draw a person and choose from Benny or I.

In the person we had to put there emotions they felt and what we think they are like and there personality. The person on the back of the paper was called "Role On The Wall"

The teacher showed us a thing called Iceberg. 

At the bottom of the iceberg we had to put stuff down that was not in the story and it doesn't show. At the top of the iceberg is were we put what was in the story and what it does show.

Paper Boy

Last week I started a new books called "Paperboy" it was made by Vince Vawter. I have only read chapters 1 - 6. My first impression about the story is, I think so far it is a 3/5 but I haven't read all of the novel yet. I am looking forward to when we have to create something about the story and read more about it. The characters in the story are Mrs Spiro, Mrs Worthington, Ara T, Mam/Miss Nellie Avebe, Rat, John, Art. I think this related to "Speaking My Truth" is that you can speak to people when there is something bad going on even though you don't want to. I think there is going to something bad going to happen to him later on in the story. Here is a summary of the story, Little man throws the meanest fastball in town. But talking is a whole different ball game. He can barely say a word without stuttering-not even his own name. So when he takes over his best friend's paper route for the mouth of July, he's not exactly looking forward to interacting with the customers. But it's the neighborhood junkman, a bully and a thief, who stirs up real trouble in little mans life.

Tapa Cloth Art - Tuna o Runga i te Rangi

Last week we had read a book called "The creation of Tuna" Tuna o Runga i te Rangi is the name of the Tuna. We had to create a haiku and a tapa cloth about the book. The materials we used were black, light brown paper and white, brown chalk. A tapa cloth is a thing made in the Pacific Ocean and it is originally made out of bark and trees. Normally people do 6 - 8 boxes if they are on paper but if they are on a cloth you can make as much as you want as long as it fits on the cloth. We have to use 2D shapes not 3D. The symbols I used were the sun, lake, trees, heaven, vine and the Tuna that was cut into pieces. The word tapa is from Tahiti. It was hard to create my haiku because my tapa cloth was not with me and couldn't find words about it. Here are my haiku and tapa cloth. If I did this again I would of tried to do my drawings better and make it have more sense.

Haiku

Black and White colour

The symbols are simple

Contrast colours

The Present

Today I watch a short film, it was called "The Present". Here is the link to the video that we did. The film was about a boy with 1 leg and a half and his mother came in to the lounge and gave him a present .The teacher gave us some question to answer. Here are my answers. I think the boy was like "I don't care" and "its nothing special". At the beginning he was like "its got 3 legs what the!" I knowed he was didn't like it because he let go of the puppy fast and his face expression was like ew. He felt that way because he saw that he had 3 legs and he didn't like that. The lesson of the film was that be grateful about everything you get even if its little. It is important to be grateful for what we get bacause some other people dont get the chance to get stuff like that and you might not of even got it.

Freeze Frames

Today we had to take a photo of our freeze frame and say what the character were thinking. The book we did the freeze frame about was called "Bok Choy". The book was by Paul Mason. A freeze frame is people in  group making a point about the story and the people are holding the photo for 3 seconds. We got given into groups we could of been in 1,2,3,3,4,5 or 6. I was in group 3. The characters in the story were Jacob, Jacobs Mother, Ah Sum, Mrs Bishop and William. Here is my groups freeze frame.

Benny

Today I had to read Benny it was made by Bernard Beckett, and illustrated by Pippa Keel. The book was about “That day last week shouldn’t have been different, but it was.”. The teacher gave us some questions to answer. Here are my answers.

Benny loved to play rugby and the other person liked to watch league not rugby. Benny was tall and his friend was up to his armpit.

Bennys friend didn't like that Benny moved away from him because he will not see him for a long time.

The mother feels very disgusted that a teen would do that to a kid. I think her reaction was what a normal mother would do if her kid was pushed into the water.

I think that the author's purpose was to let other people give stuff a try or don't be afraid to help.

I think the themes in the story were to be nice to people and not to push them to do something.

Here is a activity I had to do