My Te Tuhi Writing

On Tuesday class 2 and 4 got to go on an exciting trip to the art Gallery. Class 2 had to go in the morning because they didn’t have enough room for 2 classes at one time, so they went in the morning block. My classroom “class 4” went in the afternoon, we were all looking forward to a great time at the art gallery once the bus arrived.

After a while the buses arrived and it was our turn to go to the art gallery. We boarded the bus and we asked the bus driver to pick us up after we were finish. When we made our way into the Te Tuhi art gallery. Then there was a staff member who showed us around the environment.

The helpers name was “Jeremy” and he was happy to take our class and show us the 3 most important patterns that means a lot to them. So he introduced himself to us and lead us to the art room where we will experience the 3 pattern from 3 different countries.

So we did ink painting with pastel and a A4 printed paper. So we had to draw 4 things in 4 boxes about our “family, interest, home, and our culture”. So before we started drawing our designs we had to scrunch up our paper to make it feel like mulberry tree. Then we would have to colour in each box and only the boxes with the pastel. Then after that we had to paint over the entire paper with the ink.

He showed us these 2 different Tapa patterns that come from different Islands which is called “Fiji and Samoa”. Then we had to give our piece of artwork to “Jeremy” and we would let them dry up for the next class.  So we used the other classes artwork and drew our 4 different things about our “family, home, interest and culture” and painted around our drawing with pastel and ink ( 2 with ink and 2 with pastel).

About half an hour later we went over to the water room and watched all the things that people would do in the clips and which one of them have family, home, interest and culture init. We saw one about family, culture and home but not interest. We saw a huge picture on top of a big wall paper which had interest in it and the very last one was about the Mangere bridge and saw the difference of what it looks like now and how it looked like a long time ago.

Then Mary and Lesieli went over to get our artwork from the art gallery room and the rest of the classroom had to wait outside for the bus. While we were waiting we took pictures of the building and all around the environment and discovered that they use a lot of detail in their work and the kids actually love this place. They have enough room for kids to play around and me, Ashlee and Quasia took photos of everything.