Harakeke Basket

                                              

The past few days our class has been making a flax basket for Matariki. First we each got a big piece of flax each and we had to make it into twelve strips. First we had to put seven of the strips down and weave the other five in it. Then we had to make the handle we used the side with seven, you had to fold parts down and eventually you were left with three. I tied them off and then did the same to the other side. Then I went back to the other side and took the middle piece and folded it over to the other side. I took the middle piece from the other side and folded it over like the other one. Then I took the two pieces from the sides and I folded them around the handle and used a small thin strip of flax to tie the ends off. the I gathered all of the flax that was on one side and tied it to look kind of like one side of a boat. Then I did the same with the other side and it was finished. My favourite part about this was pulling the flax into pieces because it felt relaxing. This was important because it was the way that our school showed that we celebrate Matariki

Do you celebrate Matariki?

Emily Carr Art

 

This term we did art based on Emily Carr. We did research on her about what she did and when she was born and when she died. Emily Carr was a Famous Canadian Artist that based her art style on trees and sometimes villages and churches. She was born on the 13 of December 1871 and she died on 2 of March 1945 at 73 years old. First for the art we got given a piece of white paper and had to choose two colours I chose blue and pink. Then we had to sketch out a picture of a tree that we were going to paint for the silhouette. When the pieces were put on the back we got to put our initials beside ti on the bottom of the page.  

Have you ever heard of Emily Carr before?

How to Spot Fake News

 

The past few weeks we have been learning about how to spot fake news and we had a look at the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus. It is a faux site and we had a look at it and our teacher told us all of the things that you would have to look for to spot fake news then we had to look at some posters and make a poster of our own. My favourite part about learning about this was making the poster. Have you ever heard about the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus before?