Month: March 2015 (Page 3 of 5)

My weaving project

  What I liked and disliked About this weaving project is:

Liked: What I liked about this project Is that It was complicated and fun at the same time And we got to go to a garden and get 2 Invasive Species of plants for the project The Ivy and willow we used and we made a lot of cool stuff with all of the stuff Like Springs and small chains made of willow and Ivy.

Disliked: What I disliked about this project Is that It takes a little to long to put all the stuff together so we used a lot of the willow and ivy to make one small thing so we had to visit the garden a few times and at the 2nd one there was probably not a lot of willow and ivy left for the whole class to use. Another thing I disliked was how a lot of it broke really easy like one small crack you make It all falls apart and you have to restart the whole thing unless you use a lot of ivy on It which I don`t do because it is sort of wasteful to use a lot of Ivy on one piece of art that will just be shown at a art gallery or around the school.

It’s going to be hard to not give spoilers because I’ve read a lot before and I remember the major parts of the story. I’ll try to make this purely on the cover:

I think that the man on the cover is really old and that he is the giver for a few reasons. One is that he is wrinkly and has grey hair. I’m pretty sure no sane person would die their hair grey (I thought wanted to look younger). The wrinkles is probably not from being in the bath tub for too long, but who knows. The old man has pale eyes (hint for later chapters) and I’m just guessing so I think that since he’s under the title, he might be the Giver. Since I can’t give evidence from the text it’s all just a wild guess. I think that the man lives in the forest. We’ll just have to wait and find out.

Im ok with being matched

Because If u get matched U will have a lot In common with ur partner so u wont get In fights Because u can have everything In the same way because u have a lot of the same Interests. The reasons I wont want to be matched Is because I wont have the freedom of choice U get your partner chosen from other people.

I like to weaving because it is fun and you get to make weird stuff. You get to make necklaces and rings. Sometime it’s relaxing. I enjoy doing weaving and getting to play with weaving.

I like easing into the day and not having to start math as soon as I walk in the room.  So weaving lets me start to think about my day a little more. But most of the time my weaving turns out differently than I would have liked. But that is just my perfectionist side coming out. The only things that annoys me is that, the willow will break or the ivy gets to dry. Which doesn’t help when I am using it for binder. I think seeing all of our pieces put together will be worth the while in the end. And I would much rather be doing this than painting or drawing. So overall I don’t mind weaving and I think its a good way to start off the day.

-jaime

When you think about weaving and SAM2 what do you think? Well i think that they have a connection, for example reusing. All sort of people all around the world reuses materials, like SAM2 and weaving. For weaving you reuse some unwanted plants in someone’s garden and get those unwanted plants and weave with them and make a wonderful piece of art, SAM2 reuses all sort of materials for example a piece of metal, a tube that attaches to a boat, and a thrown away wood planks. SAM2 makes all sort of materials using reusable stuff and that was Waving + SAM2 thinking.

The weaving project we are doing is actually pretty fun. I never expected it to be like this. When we weave every morning and sometimes in our free time, it’s really fun because we get to talk, and listen to Ms.Lanaway read some books, its like a big circle of art and socializing.

Weaving is also really fun because the materials that we are using are easier and more interesting because they are tree branches and invasive plants. It’s more intriguing if we get to use stuff like that.

The part in weaving that I find interesting is that so many people in our class have never heard of weaving and never done it before and now we are all pretty good at it. We’ve even created something cool of our own. It’s also amazing that there are so many people who’ve done amazing projects and it’s just fantastic.

A part in our weaving project that I don’t like is how some of us are constantly having to change our plans on what we’re creating because the willow is either too dry or the ivy is ripping when we bind it and (Ugh the worst part) it falls apart. We are constantly having these bumps in the road and it’s very frustrating but we always find a different way to make our plan work or we change our plan and continue on.

Lastly, the hardest part is bending the willow. We always have to bend the willow before we do anything with it because if we don’t it’ll break. It’s just kind of hard.