Rakau sticks

We have had a great morning working with students from Autahi. It has been a fantastic opportunity to share ideas and work on creating musical patterns with rakau sticks.

Dance

 

Today while the Year threes were at Te Papa the Year ones and twos were in mixed groups with some children from Autahi. We did some art about a Maori legend, danced to lots of different music and tried to follow a beat with the rakau sticks. We had fun!

Wig Wednesday

Today was "Wig Wednesday". 

We had some very interesting head wear! Thanks to all the people who made a donation to Child Cancer.

Tai Chi

Today we did some Tai Chi to wake our brains up. We are experimenting with different types of music and movement.

Capacity

In Maths, we have been learning about capacity and how we measure it using non-standard and standard units. We have been looking at the size of different containers, recording whether something is full, half full or empty. We have also been thinking about if a container looks smaller or bigger does this make a difference? Should we always be accurate when we measure? What happens when we aren't accurate...will this affect our results? Take a look at our video to see some of the highlights of this unit! We had heaps of fun and there is still some more learning to do around capacity. Maybe you could help at home when you are cooking or baking...

Music: Shared Writing

We are listening to music...

We have been learning about sound as part of our Inquiry... Today we listened to a range of different types of music.

This is a piece of shared writing by Nic's literacy group:

Music

Music reminds me of

Shooting stars in the night sky

A golden violin on a summer’s night

The moon singing in the dark sky

The funky DJ mixing disco sounds

A 90’s movie with a car chase

Music reminds me of

A giant tornado speeding through town

People running along like a herd of elephants

A volcano erupting with hot lava

Owls hooting through the night

The opening of a Brazilian carnival

Cannon bolts falling to the ground

Music makes me feel

Surprised like bangs of fireworks

Bright like Christmas lights

Excited like a university graduate

Strong like a super hero flying

Sad like a lost battle

Sleepy like I have walked for a thousand days.

Music is spectacular!

Our Sound Inquiry

We are beginning to investigate sound as part of our Inquiry about "Change". Today we begun to investigate musical instruments and materials used to create different sounds.