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Music

For the past few weeks I have been doing music, We got into four groups, The instruments we used were triangles and tambourines, we also used block instruments, drums and maracas. I used a block instrument. We had to come up with some notes to play. First we played all the instruments at once then we had individual turns in our groups then we had one group do it then the next group played their instruments while the other group was playing at the same time.

These were the notes we used.

This was the instrument I played.

Monday Mashup

                                                  Monday Mashup

For Monday Mashup I have been learning how to speak French, The first day we learnt mainly how to greet people and we made fortune tellers. We have learnt all the colours in french and numbers up to 10. This is how you say what is your name in french, Comment t'appelle tu and this is how you say my name is, je m'appelle,  Bonjour means hello and au revoir means goodbye. Please is S'il vous plait and Thank you is Merci. Comment ca va means How are you, Ca va mal means I feel bad and Ca va bien means I feel good.

Christchurch Symphony Orchestra

                      Christchurch Symphony Orchestra 

For the past few days we have been learning how to play different instruments with some people from the Christchurch symphony orchestra. We have been making a rap about space. We got a choice from 3 different instruments. There was a choice of Violin, Drums or Ukulele and there was also a group for singing the rap but I wanted to play a instrument I chose Ukulele. Kathy was teaching the violin, Emma was teaching the Rap, Serenity was teaching the drums and Sharon and Ross were teaching the Ukulele. I have enjoyed making this rap, I hope I can do this again sometime.

The song goes Like this

Whats up there, No air, No gravity, Dark to infinity (Shhhhh)

When the earth travels around the sun I see day and Night

Jupiter 

Mercury

Neptune

Earth 

Saturn

Uranus

Mars

No Pluto

X4

The Old Spooky Railway

 

Hi my name is Emma and today I bought a photo to put on my wall in a frame, it was called the Old Spooky Railway. It has an old crooked railroad that is covered in spongy gross lime green moss, foggy white mist that covers the whole forest, a spooky setting almost like a ghost town and lush green trees waving in the wind. It is a bit spooky but a wonderful sight, I hung it in the middle of my living room and gazed at it for hours, then I had risky, weird but wonderful idea...

I should touch it, even though when I brought it, it had a star covered sign on it saying... magical BEWARE! I obviously didn't believe it so why not try it out? I tip toed towards the painting and as soon as I touched it... I was forced down a wormhole! I could see the end, it was at the forest that was in the picture! As I came out of the wormhole I landed with a THUD! At this point I was really scared I didn't know what to do.  

I stood up, whys because I definitely would not get out if I would have just sat there, I mean I might find a way out. As I climbed up narrow spooky railway I heard a crow and just after I heard that it swooped over me I screamed AAGGHH what do you want from me, I started to cry.... oh sorry I did not mean to startle you it said my name is Ava the crow, ''you can talk I sniffed well if you can talk maybe you can help me?''

Help you? what happened, aren't you supposed to be here?  "no" I sniffed in reply. Ohh certainly, now how did you get here? um well I sort of touched a painting 

Food Earth

 Today We made the Earth out of food first we got given a skewer then a marshmallow and then a m&m then some chocolate got melted and we dipped the food earth into the chocolate and then we had to wait for it to dry we also had to squeeze it to make the tectonic plates  . It does not look exactly like the earth but we are just representing the earth.

Chocolate= Crust

Marshmallow = Mantle

M&m = inner and outer core

Under the Earths surface

                                           Under the Earths surface

The Earth has 2 core's a Inner core and a outer core the inner core is made out of solid Iron and the outer core is made out of liquid Iron. 

Core

The Earth has 2 core's a Inner core and a outer core the inner core is made out of solid Iron and the outer core is made out of liquid Iron. 

The Mantle

The next layer is called the mantle . it is made of rock it is very hot in the part of the Earth.

Crust

The crust is the part of the earth and we walk on the crust.

Tectonic plates

 These 6 large plates fit together like a puzzle.