How to make a Tapa Cloth, By Addnan

...How To Make A Tapa Cloth...

Equipment:

Brown Paper

Pencil

Rubber

Ruler

Vivid

Brown Dye

Bleach

Cotton buds

• Find a Tapa Pattern That you want to draw.

• Find a Brown Piece of paper that is 30cm x 30cm.

• Rule up a 10 by 10 grid (rule boxes 3cm apart on a 30 cm Square piece of brown paper).

• Draw the Tapa pattern that you found on the brown piece of paper with pencil. {Step 1}
• Rub out all the lines that you made for the grid.
• Go over all the patterns with your vivid.
• Colour some of the patterns in with black vivid.
• Scrunch it up as much as you can to make it soft, approximately 10 times.
• Dye the entire paper brown.
• Wait for it to dry. {Takes about 3-5 hours to dry}
• Use cotton buds to put bleach on the parts that you want white.
• Hang the Tapa cloth on the wall to display it.

My Wall Wisher on attributes I look for in friends. By Teagan

Going to the fun Eastern Beach By Liantre

Eastern Beach


On Monday 27th February  we went to Eastern Beach.The whole school went. We had to  line up on the court. We all sat down, then we stood up. We were walking through the car park and were waiting for  the buses to come.  One bus came  but it wasn’t our bus so we were waiting for another bus to come but it wasn’t our bus. Finally the bus came and it was our bus. Room  6 went on the bus and then Room6 nearly  filled up the bus. Room5 went in the bus but some people couldn’t fit in the bus  so they had to go in with Room7 &Room8. We all left school at 10 o’clock. Room6 & Room5 went to line up on the grass because Ms Kirkpatrick and Mr Johnston wanted to talk to us about  water safety while we had our morning tea.

I had one swim because l  hate swimming in the sea. l had fun at Eastern Beach. l made a sand castle. l also played volleyball, played on the the tree & had lunch. l was eating all my lunch and then someone found a hide out so l  went to climb up but  a  teacher told us to get  down from the hide out  because it was out of bounds .But we didn’t  care. The people that were swimming  had to get out because they had to have lunch so they got out and had  their lunch and  they played  in the water & played in the sand. Then we got told to get out of the water.They went to go and get changed. The whole School went to line up on the grass. It took 10 to 20 minutes for the bus to come. Finally the bus  came. We went back to school. l had a fun day at Eastern Beach!!!

More Amazing Tapa Cloths

The Artists in Room 5 have been busy making Tapa Cloth. They have been focusing on ensuring their Tapa Cloth shows these Transformations - Reflection, Rotation and Translation. Check out the second installment of their amazing artworks.

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Miss Paton's Wall Wisher

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My time at Eastern Beach, By Alazay

Wow what a beautiful day!!! The birds were chirping and the waves were splashing at Eastern Beach. When the whole school went out to the driveway and the buses weren’t there we had to wait. We waited about 10 -15 minutes for the buses and then the buses came. We hopped on the buses and went to Eastern Beach. On the bus all the girls sang songs. When we got there it looked like an island paradise. We played on the sand and built a mermaid, until Mr Johnston said “It is time for Room 5’s ‘turn for the life jacket lesson”. We all started to swim on our backs and on our tummies. Next we had to take the life jackets off and went swimming without the life jackets. When it was time for lunch I had donut’s, cookies, chicken, cheerios, fruit and juice. Next I played on my iPod and listened to music, until it was time to pack up and go back to school.

Reflecting on my Tapa Cloth By Quaid

Reflecting on my Tapa Cloth

1. Are you pleased with your Tapa Cloth? why / why not?
Because it has the middle flower in the middle and it stands out.

2. What did you find easy when you were creating your Tapa?
The ruling up of the grids.

3. What did you find tricky when you were creating your Tapa?
All of the patterns especially the border.


4. If you made another Tapa, what would you change and why?
I might of change the border because it was a bit tricky.


5. Who / What has helped you in creating your Tapa?
The examples of Tapa cloth

6. Did you use any of your own cultural patterns in your own Tapa? Which ones? What do they mean? If you didn’t use your cultural patterns, what did patterns did you use? Where did they come from?

No I only used the Samoan patterns in the ones that Mrs Walters supplied.


7. What geometric elements does your Tapa Cloth show? Reflection, Rotation, Translation.
Rotation and Reflection.