Leaf Art

All of us had to gather some leaves to practice our sketching techniques. Some students wanted to just sketch but others had the option of using coloured pencils, water colours or paints to enhance their piece of artwork. We talked about what kind of colours we would need to use to capture the likeness of the leaves.

(photos of art work)

Jackiwa Poems

After Judi Billcliff came to visit Kauri team and our class she emailed Whaea Kat about a new type of poem to write. 

We were all keen to try the new type of poem.

A JACKIWA POEM - juh-key- waa

 A jackiwa Poem is a Judi Billcliff idea.

 It is structured like a (sideways) triangle where poets tell

their story in a minimalistic way.

 A jackiwa poem tells a simple but complete story in 8 lines:

1 word: topic

2 words: uses adjectives

3 words: uses verbs

4 words: builds to climax

4 words: ready to resolve

3 words: uses verbs

2 words: uses adjectives

1 word: ties back to first

Before we wrote our poems we did some revision on what verbs and adjectives were.

Adjectives:
Verbs:

Here are some of our poems.

Taonga sent his poem to Judi and she has put it on her blog. We are very proud of him. He is a published author!
Check out Judi's blog. Taonga's Jackiwa Poem


(photos of modelling books)