Last period of arts kete

Today is the last day period of arts kete before we show off our art. Then we went onto a slide and made our own one or get one what was made and write down our Haiku poem and our diamante poem. Our teacher would print them out and give them to us. After that we had to get our art and get two pieces of paper that should be stapled together. Then we would glue the art down. After you would cut out the poems and a name that should be basically big. The poems font size should also be sort of big. Then we stuck the poems and the name down onto the black paper. The part of my Art display I am most proud of is maybe the collage because I really liked how I made it. Something that challenged me in this Art/Writing Hurumanu was maybe the weaving. My favourite style of poetry to write was the diamante poem because when I was in primary I did it but I never did it since. The stuff that's on my piece of paper is my tapa cloth, collage, weaving and my poems. Here is my piece of paper with my work on it.

Freeze Frame Bok choy

In Hur 2 the drama part we have been learning about freeze frames. A freeze frame is where you go into a position and have an expression and freeze. The only things your allowed to do is breath and blink. A freeze frame is something to show a story in a different way. Before people are allowed to look you have three seconds to get into position. We had to get some freeze frames about the story Bok Choy. We had to do six points in the story. Here are six points of the story.
1. Jacob helps his mum stack some wood when Ah Sum comes around with some Chinese fruits.
2. Williams mum and her son William have an argument and so Jacob runs away to go fishing. Just then Jacobs falls in the river and goes down stream. He try's to stand. He sees some rocks and smashes into them.
3. Jacob forces his eyes open to find himself in a house like thing. He goes to sit up and Ah Lum makes him lay down again and says, "Sleep, Sleep."
4. His mum comes to Ah Lums house and says, "What happened?!" and takes him home.
5. On the way home through the Chinese village and some Chinese men start nodding their head outside of their hut.
6. Williams mum talks to Jacobs mum and after the talk Williams mum says, "I hope your not cooking the Chinese stuff." "It's called Bok choy!!" and takes Jacob inside of the cottage.

Diamante Poem

In Hur 4 we have been learning about different types of poems. The one we have been learning about is a diamante poem. Diamante poems are were you get the name of someone or something and you put that word at the top. The next line you put two adjectives about that thing/person. The next line is three words and the words are going to be a verb. Then the next line is what that thing/person does. Before you do anything else you put for the last line something that's bad or the opposite of the first word/thing. Then go back to the other line and write three verbs. The last line is very obvious what you do. You write two objectives. We had to do one but about a story we read. Here's my diamante poem. The story was the Taniwha in the Rakaia gorge.

Taniwha

Clever, brave

Hard working, helping, splashing

Cleans the water for everyone to use

Blowing, whistling, howling

Rude, mean

Nor west wind/Te Maru

Tapa cloth. Tuna i te Rangi

In Hur 4 what is poetic arts we have been making Tapa cloth. Tapa cloth is where you soak and beat bark and spread it out to make a cloth like material. Then you put some patterns on it. It's a pretty fun thing to do. We made a draft and made a good copy after that. Then we had to make a haiku about our Tapa cloth. The things we drew was some stuff about the story we read and some of the stuff in the story. The story is called the creation of tuna. It's an awesome story. There was the one from the book and the one from a video. More about the Tapa cloths is that there are dozens of different cultures that do it. Now even more about the creation of tuna is that tuna in English is eel. Tuna came down from his dry heavens and immediately swam into a lake what was named Muriwai o whata. His name was Tuna i te Rangi. He lived there for many years. He swam under someones legs and got stuck in a trap. He got taken and cut up into four pieces. They all got thrown into different places. The head turned into the Conger eel, the tail turned into the blind eel and the lamprey eel and the other body parts turned into the fresh water eel. That's all and here's my haiku and my Tapa cloth. In it is eels, a sun, hinaki in a river, A river, a tree and a pa/marae. If you see any mistakes that don't make sense or any lines please tell me.

A flowing brown tree
Fast and hard to walk across
Awaiting a fish.

The bullet

Today in Hur 2 we had to read a book of our choice and then answer some questions about it. That's what this blog post is about. There are six questions. Also the two main characters are Rodney and Charmaine. Here are all the questions from one to six in a row.

Do you think Rodney cares who or what the bullet was meant for? Why do you think that?
I don't think Rodney cares at all who the bullet was meant for and he thought it was really cool because he said to his sister said, "It may be dangerous!" But Rodney thought she was just being jealous.

What clues can you find in the text that will help you to understand why the boy might be with the police? Cause hes been dealing stuff he shouldn't have been. He was also trying to give a kid a cigarette and maybe had a whole gun in the car.

Why doesn't he look cool anymore? What has changed? He doesn't have the bullet anymore and he was only wanting to cool cause he had the bullet and he sort of wanted friends.

What is Charmaine's opinion of the boy? What does she mean by, "Guys like him"? Do you agree with her? Why or why not? I agree with her because the boy could not be doing stuff that is legal and might be dealing drugs.

What do you think Rodney has learned from the events in the story? Not to talk to strangers and don't listen to people who are trying to give stuff to you for money cause it could mean a bad thing in the end.

What do you think the author's theme or message was? What is your response to this? The message is not to randomly pick up stuff off the ground and not listen to strange people you don't trust. I really liked how they put the message in a story instead of doing it the boring way by just writing it down on a poster like thing.