Tongan History Writing: Tapa Cloth.

Task Description: Here is 2-3 paragraphs all about this video called Tapa Cloth. We had to watch a video and write paragraphs about what we have learned about that video.

Everyday in all Tongan Villages you can hear banging noises of women processing the harvested mulberry. The bark of the mulberry is stripped and beaten into fine cloth.

The women gash the bark with their teeth so they can pull it from the wood, making sure the bark stay’s in one piece. The inner layer of the bark is what they need to make the cloth, using a knife to make a start of cutting the bark and it’s form when the inner layer otutu is gently separated from the husk. 

After stripping them all off they measure them in same length groups and roll them all up and leave them. Then they soak it in water to soften it and then and start beating them up with ironwood and it has 4 sides. Three of the sides are grooved to help break the fibres, and they beat it until all spread out into a cloth.

Writing- The Young Detective.

WALT: Write a narrative

Task Description: This week for writing we started off with a narrative. Mrs Moala gave us a picture to guide us and an example of what we are writing. The blue writing on this narrative is Mrs Moala's writing and she has started us off with a good introduction. Then the black writing is the writing that we have to do on our own, so we had to finish off the story. I hope to some time finish writing during the rest of the week.

Pobble

It had been three days since it had gone missing. One minute he had held it in his hand, the next it had vanished. How could it just have disappeared? It had been right in front of his eyes!

He had been warned about what would happen if he lost it. His mission had been to guard the key with his life, ever since they visited him last summer.

Adam had always had a detective’s instinct. They had told him as much. He had been chosen because he had certain skills, and he would need them more than ever now.

Only one clue had seemingly been left, which was sat on the living room table.

Holding the magnifying glass up to his eye, Adam began to investigate… 

It was only him who would be able to find it and he who lost it needs to find it. But again he has the skills of an investigator so he might find the key and get all the answers he could possibly get. As he looked around the house with his magnifying glass his mum called out “Adam time for bed”, “Ok mum” Adam replied. He hopped into bed and couldn’t go to sleep because he was still thinking about that key, the wind was howling and the trees were swaying. In his bed Adam was tucked in tight and suddenly fell asleep.

The next day everything was about to come to an end, Adam got up, got ready, and grabbed his magnifying glass. He went to the living where he last saw the key and looked around for it some more. While dad was on the couch reading a book, he looked at him and started to think what in the world he was doing. 

Dad got up and asked him “son what are you doing”, 

Adam replied “dad, do you know the key that I got from the librarian on Sunday”, 

“Yeah, the magical one”

Adam said “ yeah that one, well I lost it and now I can’t find it, I looked everywhere where I left it but nothing”.

They stopped the conversation and dad went to help him look for it around the house. When dad stopped and thinked for a moment he just remembered that they had a mouse come in a while ago. So there was a high chance that the mice took it or something else, because if there’s  one thing that can carry and move things it’s either us humans, or those creepy mice. Finally Adam and dad found a clue, tiny footprint even tinier than a pencil rubber. So it must have been them but they'll find out very soon . . . .

Keyhole Narrative.

Keyhole Narrative-

It all began when I was at school and let me tell you this, I've never been so frightened before just because of this that doesn’t mean I was so scared (but was I). 

It was about 8:30 am and I was at school getting ready for the first block of the day which was Literacy/reading and writing. Then I noticed that I forgot to get my books at home this morning so I asked my teacher Miss Charlotte if I could go to the library. But then she actually needed to go too and so did my friend Mary, so we popped out of class for a bit and went off. As we got there, my other friend (Nevaeh) she was reading a book and so we went to go and sit next to her and talk while our teacher was talking the library lady too. When we sat next to her Mary and I looked at the book she was reading and it was this big brown weird looking book with a magic map on it and other things, so we asked what it was about but she was too focused on it. Anyway as went looking for the books that we needed, but something strange was going on at the same time.

We looked around and everything was just quite, then we ran back to Nevaeh and she read up to this page that was actually a spell and we didn’t think that it would be real. Suddenly the page that she was on was the spell bit and everything was changing and it went pitch black all of a sudden.

Everyone was on this small island and it was floating around, me and my friends, plus Miss Charlotte was so scared and confused at the same time. We looked at eachother and we made our way into this cave thing. After that we had a map, the map that was on the front page of the book, I got up and started to look around. It looked like we were in this other world, because we've never seen anything like this before in our lives. Now we looked at the map and started to read what it said, it says that we have to try and get the keep that was with in a keyhole if we wanted to get out of this world.

Okay, we have to do this we all said together, and then we took the map and went off further into the cave. Finally we could see some clues on the map because we’ve accomplished the first stage and we were so happy to see that we were working together as a team. But then that wasn’t all because it was the only stage and when we saw the keyhole all of us started jumping happily because we all wanted to go home. So then we got closer and closer to the keyhole and we did it!.

The End.