tapa turtle

                                                         Tapa turtle

This term Mrs Gibson White has come in and we have been learning about tapa and we had maths involved.For maths we were doing geometry,  symmetry and rotation. For that she put out these amazing tasks for us to do. These were the tasks: getting in line,wrap it up,cut it out, pattern pieces,circle power,one good  turn,reflecting on counters. I learnt heaps doing those stations.

What is tapa? Tapa cloth (or simply tapa) is actually bark but it's a special type of bark that comes from a tree and the name of the tree is the paper mulberry tree. This  takes a lot of work there is beating, peeling and most of all patience you need patients because it takes about 5 weeks to do the tapa or less or more.

I have been working on something for a while and it took patience and hard work. I liked how it turned out here it is