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.




Monday, 1 August 2016

Spanish Lesson with Maria



On Friday we continued to learn the different body parts in Spanish. Learn our songs: Spanish Songs


We were also given Spanish names...


Next time we will learn the names of different food.

Learning about volume in Music

Today we learned about the levels of volume you can use in Music. In this video we are practising ff - fortessimo very loud and p - piano soft. We also learned about f - forte loud, mf - mezzo forte medium loud and mezzo piano medium soft.

Friday, 29 July 2016

Tangrams

Today in maths we were exploring shapes by using tangrams. We made some interesting things- kites, christmas trees, junk monsters and many others. 

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...

Learner attributes - goal setting & reflection

In the morning we have been setting a goal around the learner attributes (I am a thinker, I am connected, I am a goal setter and I am powerful) then in the afternoon we have been taking the time to reflect on the goal to see if we have achieved it. Here are some examples:


Wednesday, 27 July 2016

Creating and exploring sound .


Scott's base group have been exploring vintage instruments, such as record players, tape players, drum machines and even a theremin in preparation of the music festival. 




Space Place - Learning Celebration

We had a great learning celebration -  Our students got to share all of their learning with whānau.  We also topped off our Inquiry with a v...