Weirdest Sports

 Today we had a look at worlds weirdest sports, I found out that there is a sport called shin kicking. Shin kicking is a sport where men and girls and a 1 on 1 shin kicking brawl. To win the game of shin kicking you have to kick the other opponents shins until they drop to the ground, so that's how to win a game of shin kicking. 

There is also an annual toe wrestling champions ship, insist that crazy? Toe wrestling And if you win the champion ships you could be in the chance to win 1 million pounds that's a lot of money for such a weird sport . There is also an annual toe wrestling champions ship, insist that crazy? And you would be surprised about how many more wired sports out there that a even more weirder than toe wrestling. Here are a few pictures of the toe wrestling...

-James

My writing goals

 In my writing goal this term I want my spelling to be better than average same with my vocabulary in my story's and writings. What I need to work on in punctuation, commmas most times I forget to put  commas down in my writing to create pauses. 

What I need to do next time for my spelling is re - reading my writing and checking the spell check, and taking out boring words and putting in more interesting and helpful words to understand my writing in my story.

What I need to improve on my punctuation, I need to find the right time to use commas and capital letters, and when i'm listing things I need to improve on making comma's between the words that i'm listing, and when i'm expressing a felling of something I need to use exclamation marks as well when i'm expressing my feelings.

Vocablary, when im writting I need to keep the reader hooked to the story and keep the reader interested in what my story is about and what im writing about, and I will try to begin with words that how im felling about.

Bird Masks

 Bird Mask’s

This week we have been going to make bird masks for drama plays. We can bring materials from home, we also have to make the material breathable, we also have to look at mask designs. My mask design would look kind of like a scarecrow and a bird. We need eye holes to see outside the mask so we can see, I will put a picture up of the mask that I would like to make in a few or more weeks. Here it is…

I will call the bird a raptor mask that I'm gonna make in these weeks.

We also down a bird dance on the stage, in the bird dance we had to bend down and put your nose out like a beak and then walk around the stage looking like a bird, it was funny and everyone looked stupid and silly.

This is a new update to my post...

I have now finished my mask, they way I made it was with lots of clourful cardboard and cutting out the shape that I want the mask to look like

Plan:

Blue lightly thicker card (cardboard)

White lightly thicker card (cardboard)

Yellow lightly thicker card (cardboard)

Sellotape

String

Glue stick

Pen

Stapler

Scissors

Here is a link to how I made and drawled out the mask.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osQiGJ7oGKM

This is an update to my bird mask post...

Last week we finished our mask's, my mask looked like a bird with a big beak and lots of blue feathers.

My mask is breathable and wearable which puts me at the level at drama. It has eye holes to see out of the mask and it has, I have reached diff rent types of birds and found a step by step video to make my mask of youtube, and it turned out great.

Here is some pictures of us working on our bird masks in drama...

Show time! - last week we have done our show with our bird masks, our show was about a robbery the robber was trying to steal some gum. But me and Truby took the robber Kryzlah down. We had to put music in the background and we put lighting on the stage to make it more cinematic.

Counting the beat - Ukuleles

This week in counting the beat, we have been learning about ukuleles and recorders, ukuleles are a type of stringed instrument, it more looks like a mini guitar.

What I know about ukuleles...

• Stringed instrument

• 4 strings - nylon

• Instrumental art piece

• Related to the guitar family

• Came from Hawaii

• It has a sound hole

• There are lots of different types and sizes

There are 4 types of ukuleles the saprano, the concert, tenor, and the baritone each of these ukuleles have a diffrent type of sound and tone, the saprano is your usual and common type of ukulele to be found and is the smallest, the concert, the concert is a bigget type of ukulele sort of like a saprano, but the sound doesnt change much between the saprano and the concert, the tenor is a much larger version of all the other ukuleles and sounds deeper than the other two.

The baritone, the baritone is the largest ukulele you can find it is a much deeper and bigger ukulel than the other one, much people will mistake it for a guitar or a small bass guitar for its 4 strings.

Quick facts about the ukulele: 

1. The ukulele has 4 strings 

2. The ukulele strings are made out of nylon, nylon is much more kinder to your fingers other than metal strings like on guitars.

Here are 3 glossary terms of the ukulele...

The head, the head is the top part of the ukulele which is wear the tuning heads are and where the strings connect at.

The neck, the neck is the part that goes up - towards the head of the guitar, the neck is allso where all the strings are aswell

The strings, the strings are on the neck and the strings are made out of nylon which is kinder to your finger tips.

Our Hero's

  

 This week we have been talking and drawing about hero's. A hero is someone who is courage and is fearless, my hero is Kahu he is fast and he is from fast planet. And another activity is name hero who helped the world my hero's were my Grandad, Richie Mcaw, Mum, Dad, these people are hero's to me because they help me out if i'm sick or something else is going on. They are hardworking helpful and courage's. 

Guitars

 In counting the beat we are learning about music and other types of music. In this post I am doing it about guitars, yesterday we saw all different types of guitars and guitars that play different music to other guitars.

We saw an acoustic guitar, a spanish guitar that has nylon strings that are more kinder to your finger tips, and then we saw an electric guitar the electric guitar is powered by a amp, an amp is a speaker that you connect up to the guitar to amplifie the guitar to make sound louder but if you use an electric guitar without an amp it will be really quiet because there is no sound hole to make it echo. 

3 glossary terms:

1.Headstock is at the top where the tuning pegs are.

2.Fret, the is the lines down the neck to help the guitar player.

3.Neck, the long part where the strings go down.

• Some are electric

• They have strings

• They make music

• Made out of wood

• It’s a musical instrument

• Stan Walker and lots of other singers play the guitar

• Mr Mitchell plays the guitar

• They are tuned instruments

• There are lots of different types

 

Counting the beat

What is music?

our definition of music is... Sounds, notes and beats that are put together to express ideas or emotions.

What are types of music? Rock and roll, rap, country, hip hop, jazz, blues, lyrical, metal, heavy metal, classical, calm, pop, karaoke, electric, singing, soft

Where can you find music?

• Spotify

• Public toilets

• Radio

• Social media

• Movies

• TV programmes

• Concerts

• CDs

• Speakers

• Youtube

What type of music do you like to make or listen to?

• Dance music

• Sad music

• Hip hop

• Rap

What do you want to learn about/do in “Counting the Beat”?

• How to make different types of music

• How to play an instrument

• Learning about a range of instruments

• Different types of music

My goals for counting the beat are to lean how to play the guitar.

That was my blog post today hope you enjoyed reading my count the beat blog post.

- James

Drama

 Today we are doing a blog post about drama

In these three game we build up alot of energy

game 1: Circle, the circle is when u walk around the stage and take steps until you get down to 1 step

Game 2: Seven up, sevun up is when you say a number around the circle and if you say seven your suppsoed to say seven up and point to the left or right person next to you and so on.

Game 3: Turn game, turn game is when you count and then turn around when it is your turn to turn around.

Thank you for reading my post

James -