Writing Prompts

This week we had to make a copy of a slide that had a lot of writing prompts on it and we had to write 1 or 2 sentences to go with it. After writing about 3 for 3 of them we were learning about different writing skills, like, Similes or Metaphors and there were eight of them and we had to write on each one 4 sentences that were using 4 of the skills.

I struggled with this for a while and didn't understand it properly. But after a proper explaining I kind of did it more easily. I hope you like it.

Here it is! 

Heilala Flower Prints!

WALT explore different printmaking conventions.

This week our class was participating in a contest that was called the "Festival Of Flowers". We had to make something that had to do with flowers. 

Our class was making prints of the National flower in our Culture!

The first step was to sketch out the flower. Mine was a Heilala flower from Tonga.  After we had finished sketching we had to put it onto a 10 by 10 cm square piece of paper. After doing that we had to then get card and trace over it with the sketch so that it would print onto the card.

When we had done that we had to cut out the pieces and then glue it onto a square cardboard piece the same size as the paper. 

After doing that we had to get ink and a roller and roll the ink onto the prints. We had to work the ink because it was really stick and we had to make sure that it was even before we put it on. We had black and red ink.

After we had to practice first!

Now it was time for the final print...

We had to make six prints on this piece of paper and they had to be different colors every time we did a print.

Somethings that I found hard was when I was printing a lot of the pieces were falling off. But either than that it was really fun making these and I hope that we do it again!

Where Do You Come From?

WALT investigate cultures and traditions within the class.

This week in IL (Integrated Learning) we were looking at cultures and traditions and things like class cultures and what culture and traditions mean to us. After all of this we had to make a slideshow that shared things about our cultures and traditions in our families.

I found this kind of hard at the beginning because I didn't really know what to write but after asking my mum it started to become a lot more easier! I hope you like my slideshow!

Here is my slideshow

Do You Know What Taonga Means?

WALT define and identify our own 'taonga'.

This term for Integrated Learning we are starting to learn about what 'taonga' means. 'Taonga' means something that you treasure or it's like your prized possession, after we read that we had to create a poster that combined all the things that you treasured and that were your 'taonga'.

In my poster I have a Tongan finger print and a New Zealand finger print because I am from Tonga and I was born in New Zealand . I also put a heart because that symbolizes love. Another thing I put is two friends holding hands because friendship is really important to me.

The next thing I put was a family and my family is a family of 8 and I treasure everyone in my family. I also put a USB and a camera because the USB holds all of the videos and pictures that we would take when we were little on the camera so it would be sad if that was lost or destroyed. I also put a cross because that symbolizes my religion. And the last thing is the earth because that's where we live and it would be sad to watch it get destroyed.

I hope you like my poster! What is your Taonga?