This is what we were learnig about

  Week 4

 Digestive system

Introduction/ The  digestive system is the way our body breaks down food to get all the energy out for us to use. The rest is waste.

The first part of the Digestive system is when food goes inside your mouth and the saliva slowly breaks down the food.

Then the food goes to the esophagus then it travels to the stomach.  gastric juices breaks  the food into a liquidy mush.

Then it goes to the small intestine the first part is called the duodenum. In the duodenum it breaks protein. The names of the proteins is vitamin and minerals.

The large intestine absorbs water and salt.And whatever is left goes to waste out the bottom.

This is my Coil poetry

                         Coil pot poetry

Clay and play squish and push,

flatten it out, make a pot

different types of shades just like gray,

make a mould

use your imagination just like me.

Making a pot can be fun

but watch out it could be tricky

so maybe ask for help.

Use your imagination to plan it out.

I ask for help just figure it out.

This is my 2014 speech its about graffiti Do you think graffiti is art

Hi im Punatahi im here to ask you...... a question about graffiti. Do you think it is art...... or vandalism? I think that graffiti is art, but once it goes on someone’s personal property like homes and garages then I think it becomes vandalism. Graffiti has such a bad reputation because kids go around tagging nonsense and it affects other peoples views of graffiti art like that you see displayed in murals along the motorway or on the sides of buildings and shops. Graffiti as we know it...... really began in the 1940’s and 50’s in America. It was mainly political messages or tags to mark a gang’s territory. Later in the 60’s it became more popular after a group of people began using spray cans to tag on the insides and outsides of subway trains. Taki 183 was a well-known graffiti-ist in the 1970’s. Tagging is different from graffiti. It is stylized writing. Spray cans and marker pens are the most common tool used these days. Sometimes tags are swear words or peoples ‘tag signatures’ which they want to get up in as many places as they can. They want people know who they are and see where they been. Taggers call this getting FAME Tagging can look like scribble..... but actually it is hard. Some taggers are actually very good at art but leaving their messy tags all over private property doesn’t help to improve the negative image that most people have of graffiti and the people that do it. I think real graffiti is awesome. The most artistic pieces are called bombings. Artists can spend many hours painting signed masterpieces. Sometimes these are on illegal surfaces but more and more often businesses and even big corporations are hiring these artists to liven up bleak, boring spaces. During the 2013 summer holidays the Christchurch Museum held its first graffiti art exhibition. They wanted to promote the best of street art as it has become very popular, world-wide. I think it would be really cool to have a place where graffiti artists could go and practise and share their work. Some of these people will probably need to work on the negative activities they do beside their art. Maybe if people could see their talent they might be willing to change their view of graffiti art and this might help grafitti artists and taggers gain more respect for other and the property that belong to others. Thanks for listening to my opinion. I wonder if you have changed your mind on whether graffiti is art or vandalism.

Journey to Jo’burg

Ive read a book called Journey to Jo’burg and I enjoyed it