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Friday 2 October 2020

Explaintion of harakeke 02/10/2020

 Harakeke 




Last week we learnt how to weave a flower using flax. (Harakeke) Maori people use flax to weave mats, clothes, kete and decorations, but they also weave piupiu which are classified as grass skirts. They used it to clothes themselves.


Before we cut the flax, we must find the person who owns it and seek permission. We must have the right tools to cut flax. Before cutting and harvesting the flax you must do a karakia. After doing the karakia we can start cutting the flax. Cut your flax leaves on either side of the central leaves, in a downward angle, away from the plant. As long as it’s to the base of the leaf as conceivable. Water can’t run into the middle of the shrub otherwise it will rot and become unusable.


When you have finished cutting the leaves off, tie it up in groups of three, keeping the leaves from each bush together. If viable, it’s best to use leaves from the same bush in one piece of weaving before shredding, cutting away any dead or disposable leaves from the plant to boost growth and keep it healthy. After shredding the harakeke, you have to work out how many leaves you are going to cut. From there, you decide on the width of the weaving strips and how large the item will be when you weave. Items look better in strips with smaller widths, such as centimeters, and taller items can make great widths, up to 1 half centimeters wide.


Finally, you hold the shiny part of the leaf with the stem pointing downwards. Fold that leaf to the left strip back behind the strip next to it and then go over and under about eight times. Continue this pattern on the next side until it makes a triangle shape. Then ,roll it around til it makes a spiral. Lastly, cut the stem to create your flower.


My experience with weaving was exquisite but bold. The part that was difficult for me was having to repeat the step over and over again and learning to finish off. 


I would like to teach people to weave flowers with flax (PutiPuti) to give them a chance to learn how to weave in the future. I think people should weave because it will give you good coordination and good life skills. Give it a go, you may never know. Like me, you may grow to like it.



Saturday 27 June 2020

Technology

Today at tech we did something different .Tech was fun but today was weird because I was the only person who talked to my teacher.It was very difficult to do the different code but I finished doing it, sometimes people would ask for help from the teacher but he wouldn't listen because he would have to something else with someone.Robotics is fun, when doing games that were from my class and I were doing the codes that the tech teacher said to do.



What we did at technology

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Today at tech I learnt how to control the robot  on my chromebook. Our tech teacher taught us how to put  music into the mbot which was difficult.After putting music into the mbot we had to make the mbot move,it was hard to make it move and it didn't go the right way as I thought.Then we had to make the mbot blink red and blue but that was hard but I finished .

Friday 26 June 2020

Robotics 2020


                                 Today at Tamaki college we did robotics with a new tech teacher named Mr. Whisken, Mr.W taught my tech class that we had to take away the other codes that other people use and use your codes and put in the mbot and put the code that we did. After replacing the codes we played a quiz called Mbot quiz,  and my friend had to do the tune coding together, the coding was very challenge. After doing the coding with my teammate. The when tech was over we had to clean the room and put our chairs away. I can't wait to go to technology again next week.