Treaty Of Waitangi

This week we have been learning about the treaty of waiting this has all the information and questions that I answered about the treaty of Waitangi.

Famous singers - COUNTING THE BEAT

 Micheal Jackson, Micheal Jackson is a famous singer throughout the 80s and 90s, he was known for his famous dance move, the moon walk. His music genre was indie and pop music. A couple famous songs that he made were Billie Jean and Smooth Criminal, these songs were really well none throughout his time in the singing business. He came famous from his family band the Jackson 5, after that he went on a solo career and made a hit single to make him became who he is today. One of the problems he faced was a skin pigmentation, and later on in 1995 he collapsed from dehydration and low blood pressure.

Here is a video of him doing his famous moonwalk...

Video link to moonwalk

Strange Instruments - COUNTING THE BEAT

 This week we have learned about strange instruments, instruments that no one has every seen or played before. We had to make a drawing of a unusual and weird instrument on a peice of paper, my instrument is a ukulele cross between a guitar, it has 10 strings because a guitar has 6 strings and a ukulele has 4 strings, so that's what makes is unique to other weird instruments.

My instrument belongs to the string family because it has 10 strings on the neck and it has 10 tuning pegs for the strings. It is made from normal wood like a guitar. You play it normaly like a guitar or a ukulele you can swith through the strings because there is 10 strings, the first 4 strings are the ukulele setting, an the last 6 strings are the guitars setting, and you can play all the strings to make a new unique song and sound. The instrument can be played for any type of music because it has lots of vairity for the sound because it has 10 strings therefore it could be used for any type of music.

Here is a picture of my instrument...

Pavlova

 This week we have been learning about kiwi inventors, I picked my one to be pavlova. Pavlova is a famous desert known to New Zealand and Australia. Australia argues that they made the pav first, but we did.

The teacher set out a task for us, we had to make a poster about the pavlova and information and the origin that came from the pavlova.

All the information I have gathered is on this slide and my poster that I have made.

Kiwi Inventors

 This week we have been learning about kiwi inventors, as you might know lots of inventors were actually kiwis! Is int that something new, here are a few inventors the spreadable butter, bungey jumping, and the spring free trampoline.

Here is a fact about the spring free trampoline

the person that made it was a kiwi, he also thought that he wanted a more safer and better trampoline so he invented one for his kids to make the kids more safer on the trampoline, and then 15 years later he came out with his final product the spring free trampoline 

Percussion - Stomp COUNTING THE BEAT

This week we have been learning about percussion music,

What is percussion? Percussion is striking one solid object with or against another with some degree of force.

And there is also a percussion instrument , whats a percussion instrument? 

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument.

And there is also body percussion as well, what the heck is body percussion you say?Body percussion is the art of striking the body to produce various types of sounds

Here is an example of body - percussion Video

We watched a STOMP video and there were people using percussion instrument to make a sound and after that we had to pick a song to make a beat to, our song was Another One Bites The Dust. Then we had to make a beat with a group with random instruments to make a beat to the song, my group had Logan, and Beniah in it.

The instruments we used in the group was a cardboard tube that I hit with a jandle to make an echo sound, Logan had a type of maraca thing that made a shaking sound, and Beniah used cones to hit the ground to also make a loud echo noise. 

Here is the STOMP video of our group... 

Punctuation

 

This week we have been working on our punctuation, this work down belwo has been set out for us to do, it has speech marks, comma's, exclamation marks, and question marks. To finish this activity we have to type in what you think the punctuation sentences should be and look like in a writing...

Exclamation Mark (  !  )
1.	“I am sick, and tired of the behaviour that has been going on, in this class room!”, Snapped the teacher.
2.	“What do you think you're doing?, put that down!”, The teacher yelped”.
3.	“Who do you think I am,? A monster!”, Yelled the girl .
4.	“This food is disgusting!”, Screamed the infuriated customer.
5.	“Hey get back here!”, The hooligan’s  scream.

Question Mark (  ?  )
1.	“Hey Truby, what are you doing this fine evening”, as James tap’s the phone in a hurry.
2.	“How much is this car?”, as the customer questions the dealer in a suspicious way.
3.	“Do you like the scrumptious food I made you?”, says grandma delightfully.
4.	“I wonder how high that space - ship is up in the light blue sky?, as James asks himself.
5.	“Do you know what time it is?”, says the lawyer in a frantic voice.

Comma (  ,  )
1.	“Well, we all know now”, says the Judge sarcastically.
2.	As I walk down the long corridor, I see a scary figure in the dark...
3.	“Hey you, you don't know who you're messing with!”
4.	“How was the ride”, I say in a sad, depressed voice.
5.	As I shoot the basketball, it slowly moves throughout the air, and then into the basket.

Speech Marks (  “ ”  )
1.	“How was camp?”, Mum says in a joyful voice.
2.	“Wow, I wish I was as cool as you”, Jim says in a sarcastic voice.
3.	“Oh, no” Mum says in sorrow
4.	“Yo, how are you doing”, Says the cashier
5.	“Goodday”, says the man in the long dark coat

COUNTING THE BEAT - Violin

This week we have been learning about, violin's. Violins are a stringed instrument, that is played with a bow. The violin is a very very classical instrument that has been around for years, and in this blog post I will be talking about it and going into detail...

There are 5 types of violins, 

1. The first type of violin is, the violin the violin is the most basic violin you can get but there are meany different sizes for different people.

2. The viola is a bit bigger than the violin, no to much difference between the violin.

3. The cello the cello is a much more bigger violin, and bigger for people with bigger arms and hands. All of the violins have two f holes which are like sound holes but shaped like an f.

4.The double bass, the double bass is the biggest and lowest toned violin, it is much more bigger in size than all the other violins, this violin is usually played in lower beats and for people with bigger hand and arm sizes.

5. Electric violins, electric violins are well normal violins but they are electric and needs and amp, a bit like an electric guitar, it also has no sound holes

3 glossary words...

The strings, strings are very important on the violin because that where you strum  your bow against, it is also located on the neck of the violin...

The bow, the bow is a long piece of wood with strings at the bottom of it and to make it play against the strings you need this thing called rosin, which make it play well against the strings on the violin...

The f holes, the f holes are important to echo the sound out of the violin, the sound goes into the f holes and echos - vibrates out of the violin...

Here is a great violin player called Soo - Been Lee...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVBbbXn6qlo

International Womensday

 International women's day - To Jacinda Ardern

International women's day is to celebrate the women of the past and the present, for example women voting. New Zealand was the first country to let women vote, and too this day they can still vote thanks to New Zealand. They let them vote in 1893, which means they got a say in the politics and voting for who would be the next prime minister. And there is also another type of day called mothers day, that supports mothers. And I think that women's day is important to celebrate the women that have been through history and in the present like mums and grandmothers and other sorts of women that have been through history.

ORCHESTRA - Counting the beat

 This week we have been learning about orchestra's and different other instruments that are played in an orchestra, an orchestra is a group of instruments that typically play classical music, we also got to look at the type of instrument in person as well, which was really cool. I will show you some pictures and what the instruments are about...

The woodwind, Woodwinds  are a type of musical instrument that make their own sound when someone blows air into or across the mouthpiece. They get their name from the fact that most of them were once made of wood. Today many are made of other materials such as metal or plastic

The brass instrument is like a trumpet but it has a vibration noise to it, then the air goes in a tube that blows the air out of it to make the humming vibration noise,and you also have to use you're lips as well.  

A string instrument is a musical instrument that makes sound by vibrating the strings on it. The strings are pulled to make sounds. Each string has a different noise that it plays. To make a sound you have to obtain by adjusting the strength on the string. A string instrument plays soft notes.         

Here are the pictures of the instrument that I have stated down...

          

-James

Here is a link to one of the orchestra show's..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owOcW6mjl6Y&t=2s