Tree Book
For 2 months the whole 6th grade at Durham Academy made tree books. This was a long process. We had to write, decorate and design the actual book. For the writing we did:
- Salute to My Roots
- Life List
- When this is Over
- My Wish
We had multiple sections of writing that all end up in our tree book. Salute to My Roots was a section of writing about our life hero. This was our largest section of writing that was in paragraphs. Some of our writing was in bluet points for example, in our Life List and My Wish we could use bluet points. On the other hand, our When This is Over was a poem which was about what we we never agin take for granted after Covid is over. In the end, i think that When This is Over was my favorite piece. Some of these were shorter than the others but all equally important.
We also did a lot of art work. Some artwork that we did was:
- Screen Printing
- Paper folding
- Akua ink
- Collage
- Pockets
You might not know exactly what each of these are. When we started this project I didn’t know what they were either. Let’s start with screen printing. Screen printing is when you have a screen and you put ink over it. Then, you would put it over our board and push the paint down with a scraper. After you do that, you lift the screen up and you see you beautiful words that you just made.
Next up is paper folding. This is literally what it is called, paper folding. We got a long piece of paper. Before we did this we had to use blue paint and paint the paper, this was so that it looked like the sky. After we had our paper ready, we did a hot dog fold and a hamburger fold. This was to get the shape of our books.
I think that Akua ink what the best part of the whole tree project. To do Akua ink, you start with a jelly pad, akua ink and a roller. After you have all of you supplies, you have to put the akua ink on the jelly pad. Then, you have to place a plant or object on the colored jelly pad. Get a paper, put it on the jelly pad and roll over it with the roller. This was a super fun piece of artwork. We used these to collage on the pockets and the rest of the books. In the end, this project really made me think about how this year haas gone for me and my family.
Do any of these activities sound interesting to you? If so, you should try them. They are super fun!
Hello, it is good to be back! In Language Arts, for the past week my classmates and I have been practicing and presenting TED talks. They are all so interesting some about climate change and some about masking emotion. I did mine on the different types of RVs. I did this because when I was 7, I traveled in an RV for two and a half years with my family around the country. This was the outgoing experience! Doing this changed my life, so I decided to tell people how to chose which RV is best for them so that maybe they will end going on an RV trip like I did. Let’s look into more detail on how we did these talks.
