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

Scribble My Riddle

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I have been Learning about Riddles in the class room

Hi This is my Anzac Biscuit sotove story HOPE YOU ENJOY

The original biscuit was not sweet at all. Rather it was  savoury hard tack biscuit also known as a wafer. They ate bread and rock solid bully beef stew every day of their at their time at of war.

They were named ANZAC biscuits in the 1950s. They named them Anzac crisp or Anzac Krispies not ( ANZAC) cookies). They named them ANZAC crisps because Anzac stands for the troops that came from Australia and New Zealand. They were from the army in World War One. And crisp means nice and crunchy.

So thats all I know about anzac biscuits!!!!

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This is my Big Splash Story.

Straight after morning tea people had gotten changed and lined up, “what a sunny day said Miss Hand’’ “I hope we win she said excitedly’’. Some people were nervous and some were really  excited. my classroom entered the swimming pool and some class’s were already cheering with excitement. The activity’s were noodle tow thats when somebody has to tow you with a foam noodle, there was a relay , and clothes race, and freestyle backstroke and then the finals The best part for me is when my class was cheering as loud as we could and taoke over all class’s cheers.   I'm gonna talk about the finals, the finals in the girls were Iona,Leiola,portia,Grace, and for the boys where Elijah, Kenz,Wu,Hemi. The finalist were like a speed boat for the girls and boys,when the boys had finished their race IT WAS TIME TO ANNOUNCE THE WINNER in first place we had … ROOM 19 Miss Hand was so thrilled that she jumped up and down as high as she could.

My Green day poem

This is my green day poem at things that are green. Hope you enjoy

I was practising my doubles up to 50-100.