School Bag Statistics

We wanted to find out which was the most popular coloured school bag in Room 8. We made a real live pictograph out on the netball courts. We sorted out our school bags into colours. Here is what we found out.

We wait with our bags.

Our graph begins to take shape.

Nathan and Brooklyn sort their bags.

Can you see which colour bag is the most popular?

We found out that Black and Blue bags were very popular, closely followed by pink and purple coloured bags.
What would happen if we put the pink and purple bags together as one group?

Room 8 tamariki check out the bag graph.

Our First Swim in the School Pool

All set ready to go!

Kick as hard as you can. Can you splash Mrs Broad?

Making Tapa Cloth

We had Aaron from the museum visit us today. He brought in a beautiful Tapa cloth to show us. We learnt that they are made from the bark of the Mulberry Bush. In Tonga they are a traditional part of their culture. They are also known as Ngatu in Tonga. Tapa cloth is used for many different things. We learnt that they are used for decoration, artwork, mats, curtains, clothes, to give as gifts, to wrap bodies in for a funeral, wedding dresses, wall coverings.

They use an eke to bash the bark to make it bigger & bigger. Then they layer it together. They make glue out of potatoes to stick all the pieces together to make one huge piece.

Then it is ready to be decorated. They make special patterns using a Kupesi. It is a board made out of a coconut.

Aaron shows us how they use the eke to pound the Mulberry bark to flatten it out
and make the tapa cloth.

He shows us the board that they rub the paint over to make the tapa patterns.

Can you see the pattern on the finished cloth?

We had a go at making our own tapa cloth patterns by rubbing crayons over a patterned board.

Here are our creations.

Holly and Juni

Oska

Rori

Amber

Momo

Nathan

Brooklyn

Te Atawhai

Alice, Cash and Cornelia

Bramm

Oska with his finished piece.

Rori shows us his colourful work.

Mrs Arthur

Mrs Broad