Tapa turtles:
With Mrs Gibson White this term we were learning about… Tapa and how to carve and make Tapa out of paper. We made our Tapa out of special a3 pieces of paper. Then we dyed them browny red.We then had to carve our designs onto a wood block . Then we had to roll on printing ink onto our wood block. After that we had to print them onto a piece of greasy feeling paper then we stuck them onto the tapa cloth.
I learned… Rotations, translations, symmetry, Tapa designs, Tapa turtles, research, how to make tapa, patterns. I also learnt that Tapa is some sort of cloth that is used in Fiji and Samoa.
I enjoyed it because… It took a long time and we got to involve lots of math,research etc. It was a cool and a exciting experience and fun to go through the process.
Math rotations… In math rotations we did these cool math rotations. We learnt a lot about geometry in the tapa process.
This is what they look like in the end.
