Music

Music

This week for music we have been researching musicians for NZ. First we were given A band biography paper template to write on the first musician I researched was Stan walker and then I researched Six60 here is A slideshow of my research.

CIP

           CIP

For the last few weeks for our Community Impacts Projects we had been planning A budget lunch for six people with only $12. On Wednesday the 12 of June every group went down to paknsave and then we came back and started making our budget lunch and then when we finished making the lunch we said karakia and ate the food.

Mathletics DLO

Mathletics DLO

This week for Mathletics I have been learning the rest of my timetables and here is A dlo of some times tables and how to solve them.

Maths dmic

Maths dmic

This week for dmic we were given a maths problem about a bake sale. The task was to figure out how we could modify the question to make the profit of $250. How we could work it out is it is $2.50 for a punnet of 1 dozen strawberries and $3.95 for 2 dozen pieces of chocolate. Here is a dlo of the problem

Visualisation

Visualisation

What is visualisation: Visualisation is where if you're reading a book with no pictures and then in your head you think or picture what the story is about. This week for reading our teacher read out a story and then we had to use our minds and visualise what it would look like. After that we had to draw what we thought it could of looked like.

Beats&beyond

Beats&beyond

This week for our new hurumanu we have been learning about music and different genres. Today we learnt about different types of guitars and wrote out the definition of some parts. Here are some different stuff we had to write out the definition for.

Tuning pegs - put tension on the strings to tune them

Capo - holds down all 6 strings at the same time

Backpacker guitar - a guitar with a small body you can take to places

The type of guitars my teacher had at school today were the

Backpackers guitar

Dreadnaught guitar

Strati caster guitar/Electric guitar
Nylon string guitar

The back packers guitar

Design tech

Design tech

This week for design tech we got our device stands that we had designed on laser works v8. The first thing we did was some planning on paper. After that we did a little research of what we were going to put on our device holders and what are the good and bad things of acrylic plastic.