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