Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts

Sunday 30 June 2019

Worser Bay Orchestra at Assembly


Music enhances our Positive Emotions. Research shows that Music improves brain health and function. It makes you smarter, happier, and more productive. Listening is good, playing is better! When music enters our brains it triggers the pleasure centre that release dopamine (a neurotransmitter) and that makes you feel happy. Playing an instrument increases some gray matter volume in the brain and can improve brain function. 

Rhosyn: I play the ukulele in the orchestra. We practise on Thursday afternoons. It is fun hearing all of the different instruments at once. Practicing together has been fun because I am part of a group. I used perseverance and bravery to perform on stage. I have a sense of gratitude that I can be part of the performance.

Evie: It was fun to perform on stage. I play the violin. I have played since I was four years old. This shows my love of learning and how I have stuck with it! Thanks Kirsten, Vicky and Sarah for helping!

Edward: I play the saxophone, some people mistake it for a trumpet! I used zest in the orchestra performance at assembly. The audience looked really happy and some have said that they want to join now.

Emelie: While I played the guitar I stared at the audience while playing with frozen fingers. I used my bravery, perseverance and zest. I am proud of myself because I made some mistakes but kept going and not stopping.

Wednesday 4 July 2018

Matariki Whānau Day

After a wonderful morning starting at the beach and watching the sunrise, we had a whānau group rotation. There were many activities like weaving, dance, art and making Māori musical instruments.
Here are some people making porotiti and koauau.








Tuesday 3 July 2018

We're Counting the Beat

In Tautoru we’ve begun to learn about beat, rhythm, and ways that we can create small sets of music in groups. We’ve done some drumming, rākau stick patterns, and music appreciation as well.

Last week tried body percussion after watching the work of Anna Meredith.



This week some of us put together a small musical Mexican wave using sets of four beats and a combination of sounds. Check it out!




Some of us still feel a bit shy about performing but we will be working on our bravery and love of learning so we can be ready for next term’s arts celebration.


Tuesday 19 December 2017

Christmas Talent Competition

Molly, Mia, Nell and Isabel were the judges. We saw each act by act. We judged them on how much courage they had, teamwork, their ideas, their costumes and their performance. All of the performances were awesome. We could only choose one winner from each space.

Autahi

1st place: Zane
2nd place: Charlie
3rd place: Eva

Tautoru

1st place: Coco
2nd place: Marnie, Greta, Rosa and Jasmine
3rd place: Zach, Cooper, Nye and Evan

Mahutonga/ Matariki

1st place: Jessie
2nd place: Edward
3rd place: Ruby

What a great show.

By Nell and Isabel


What a great show!


Friday 4 November 2016

Garage band beats and pieces

We have been working on creating a rhythm using the drum machines on GarageBand.


This is what Angus came up with: 

Tuesday 1 November 2016

Fractions Down on the Farm

Today in Maths, our Year 3 students made up fractions songs. They were based on a silly fractions song that we have been learning:  Fractions on the Farm 

   
By Rim and Hunter T 

   
By Liam and Jupiter

   
By Reuben and Mitchell

Tuesday 30 August 2016

Performances- A moment in time


Last week we performed in our Music Festival. We have been writing recounts about our show. Here is one from each Tautoru base group...




The Junk Bot Aliens
Tap, tap went the drums, I had to keep the beat up for audience. There was only me and Reuben so if I stopped everyone would know (because there was a small group). The group had to do it 7 times for two days and each scene was a minute. But the time went so fast. We all participated and got a gummy. “yay!”
Our  beat was confusing because every scene had a different beat.
By Jupiter


Story of the Cooks      
My stomach urged me on but my brain said this is going too far.I sucked in my cheeks took a deep breath and plunged into what I needed to say, “this is the story of the breakfast cooks...” I used up all my energy, it all just ran out like it was being chased by a stampeding elephants,like a dam had just broken inside my mouth.I felt like I was going to collapse. But my brain changed its mind and urged me on so then I changed my mind and shot up and down like an arrow stretched and curved and at the end we got a big round of applause.
By Nela

Eagles V Dragons
My brain exploded as it was awesome. Parents cheering and clapping and music playing. It was better than I thought it would be. Fingers pushing, my breath was breathing into the piano. Suddenly it stopped and I was amazed. That was the first night, only seven more times to go. It was tiring but fun. At first I had butterflies in my tummy but then I was  as strong as a soldier. It was spectacular and in my head I thought “isn't this amazing!”
By Gina  

Beats and Haka
Did you ever go to school at night?
I did. I had to perform seven times in a row.It was amazing! There were lights of all colours. I enjoyed a lot the drumming with all different instruments. Our audience was giant! I loved doing the haka though it was hard to keep in time with our recording of the haka. The audience went crazy clapping a lot. Chrissy explained how we made our show.
By Leola  

Thursday 25 August 2016

Claude, Sophia and Ambrose came in to play their violins



Claude, Sophia and Ambrose came in to play their violins this afternoon. They played music and used every string. They practise every day and fantastic musicians.

By Kirsty

Hannah Fraser Visit



Today Hannah came to talk to us about music. She plays the grand piano at the hospital  and makes people happy by playing her music. She teaches people how to play different instruments. She showed us a jazz song and taught us a song called tiny bubbles. She sang us a french song when playing the piano. It is really cool to meet different musicians. Hannah is very talented!

By Violeta, Hunter T and Ari


Monday 22 August 2016

Junk Bots Aliens

The music performance is fast approaching! 



Things that we think are going well:
  • Molly: We have got some of the dance moves  spot on e.g. the patting on shoulders
  • Eden: The electricity bit looks good. The star jumps also look good. 
  • Angus: The costumes are awesome!
  • Reuben: I like the drumming. We are in time. 
  • Dylan: The electricity and the drumming look epic.
  • Edward: The flying saucer looks great!
  • Izar: The slow motion part looks cool. 
  • Jasmine: I like the bit where we go crazy (dancing)
  • Theo: I like it when I shout, "parents join in!"

Monday 15 August 2016

Nicola's Base group practising for the music festival...


We are going to have a music festival. Nicola’s base group are doing a junk  (monsters) bot’s performance it is called junk monsters because they
are involved with plastic free peninsula. Our parents are bringing in
bits of pizza wrap, cardboard, plastic, and lots more! We have made an alien spaceship. We still need to add a few finishing touches on it. We have to cut it out a bit more and stick some more stuff on it. By Angus and Theo

Our music show
We have been practising for the music festival.  Holly (Talia’s sister) gave us a video of her dancing to improve our dance. We have been making our costumes for the show. There has been some hard things.The story is about  kids playing in the park then a spaceship came down so the play kids went away.Then we all do a little dance and become friends at the end

By Eva, Kate and Jasmine.


Nicola's Base group practising for the music festival...


We are going to have a music festival. Nicola’s base group are doing a junk  (monsters) bot’s performance it is called junk monsters because they
are involved with plastic free peninsula. Our parents are bringing in
bits of pizza wrap, cardboard, plastic, and lots more! We have made an alien spaceship. We still need to add a few finishing touches on it. We have to cut it out a bit more and stick some more stuff on it. By Angus and Theo

Our music show
We have been practising for the music festival.  Holly (Talia’s sister) gave us a video of her dancing to improve our dance. We have been making our costumes for the show. There has been some hard things.The story is about  kids playing in the park then a spaceship came down so the play kids went away.Then we all do a little dance and become frineds at the end

By Eva, Kate and Jasmine.


Chrissy's Base Group Practising for the music festival



Chrissy's base group music show

We all have been practising for this performance, but we are about to tell you what chrissys basegroup has been doing. First, Nicola's base group have been doing the JUNKBOTS!!! Shona's base group did a RAP and Scott's base group are doing a spooky,musical,STORY.

We have been doing a routine with rakau sticks, drumsticks with chairs, drumsticks and
buckets. We all got turns on them in our different groups and had a backing track with
the haka.


By Liam, Evan and Hadley

Thursday 4 August 2016

Exploring Sound

Thank you to Richard (Edward's Dad) who came in with some different drums for our students to explore new sounds.




Thursday 28 July 2016

The Worser Bay Junk Bots are coming...


Nicola's base group have been exploring different sounds on Garage Band. We are really excited about the upcoming Worser Bay music festival. 

We are the "Junk Bots" and will be making our costumes out of junk. 

We have also been experimenting with green screen as we would like to make a music video to go with our performance...

Thursday 7 July 2016

We have been making our own music using Garage Band



We have been working together to create music on Garage Band. We have been finding sounds around the school. We will be creating our own music for the upcoming music festival. 

Saturday 2 July 2016

Experimenting with sound

In Tautoru, we have been experimenting with different sounds. We have been using chairs as drums and experimenting with  different instruments...

We have also been experimenting with different rhythms.

Tuesday 28 June 2016

Where the wild things are...music

We created music based on the where the wild things are book...take a look at our video!


Monday 27 June 2016

Salsa Dancing



Today we learnt a little about the history of salsa and some did some salsa dancing. This was a lot of fun!

We are learning dance and music skills in our lead up to the music festival. Our Inquiry is about "Sound".