My Book 23.3.17

Title:

Bush Bolts

Starlight Stables Series

By: 

Soraya Nicholas

This book is funny, sad and action packed all at the same time and I would recommend it to girls aged around 8-12 that love horses and want to read a really good series. In this book theirs Poppy hows an amazing rider, her aunt Sophie and uncle Mark and her BFF's Fearless Sarah riding Poppies old pony, Crazy Milly and her chestnut Joe and Katie with her beautiful Palomino Cody.        

Term 1 learning Reflection 2017!

Term 1 Learning Reflection 2017!

This is me doing writing!

We have been learning how to do complex sentences

and the five things you need to hook the reader in.

This is me playing one of Mrs.Gibson awesome multiplication games!

Along with this we have also been learning decimals. 

And this is me reading! We have had to read hard so we have something to share at book talk.

Pirongia South Redoubt inquiry (Term 1 2017)

#Tapa Turtles!

Tapa Turtles!

This term with Mrs. Gibson we have been learning about Tapa Turtles. Tapa is a traditional cloth made in places like Fiji and Samoa. First they have to get the inner bark from a mulberry tree and beat it with a mallet until it transformed into a soft cloth like sheet. Then they put pressure on the cloth to make it flat. Once it is flat, people draw on traditional designs with dye made out of natural ingredients. Unfortunately there is no mulberry trees in Pirongia so we had to make our tapa turtle’s slightly different to the way I just told you. First we had to scrunch up a piece of Mrs. Gibson's good tec art paper then unfold it and repeat that pattern for a good 20mins, after a while the piece of paper will become soft like a real tapa cloth. After that we carved a sign that had something to do wit us into a piece of wood, then rolled indian ink over it and printed onto a piece of paper. In the middle of all this we have our tapa turtles which are turtles with designs on them and we have been over them with the skinniest paint brushes and ink. Completing our art and learning about tapa has been super fun and it would be cool to do it again!