Instrumental Industries/ Guitars

Today in Music Mr Mitchell taught us about different types of Guitars, honestly before this lesson I despised guitars, i'm not sure why I hated them but I just did. Now I enjoy listen to them and learning about them. We were given a task to chose 3 different guitars and research about the length of them, who plays them, their name, features and who would use them.

Classical Guitar
The Classical Guitar or also known as 'The Spanish Guitar'. The Classical guitar has 6 different strings that make 6 different noises. The strings that a Classical guitar uses is known as Nylon strings. A lot of people prefer nylon strings, mainly because nylon strings are much smoother and less painful than metal strings. The length of a regular Classical guitar is 26 inches. A lot of beginner guitarist start off by using a Classical guitar.

Electric Guitar
The Electric Guitar is one of the most played instruments of all time. Every guitar is unique in its own way, when it comes to the electric guitar it has a special thing called a Tremolo Bar (Whammy Bar). What is a whammy bar? well a whammy bar creates its own little sound making the guitar sound distorted. The average length of an electric guitar is about 25.5 inches. One of the greatest humans who put his hands on this instrument was Jimi Hendrix who sadly past away 18 september 1970

Greetings, Miss Birtch

Hello people on the other side of the screen. Now, period 5 on Wednesdays Miss Birtch will be teaching us, but she doesn't know much about us. So she set a task to us so she can get to know us. So I Will be listing things that I like to do in my spare time and things that I favourite.

1) My favourite food is M&M's but not those normal cliche ones, the M&M's with carmel buried in the middle and when you bite in the middle it just flows out. I can eat this food anytime in day, in the morning, before I sleep, during a movie, so basically just anytime at all.

2) I'm a big fan of superhero related things, like The Flash, Superman, The Avengers and much more. When I have nothing to do I go on Netflix and watch superhero T.V shows and movies. In fact I'm currently watching one of the most known superhero shows 'The Flash'. I like superhero movies because of how action packed they are.

3) I consider myself as a gamer. I play multiple video games, the game I am most attracted to at the moment will be Fortnite, Fortnite is a online battle Royale game that has millions of downloads. I enjoy playing Fortnite because there is a lot of really good players you can verse and get better. There's heaps of thing you can do like Creative, Save the World, competitive matches and more.

NZ Artist biography

Willy Moon

Stage name - Willy Moon
Real name - William George Sinclair
Fact -  His first song was posted on MySpace
Popular song - Yeah Yeah
Date of birth - 2 June 1989
Awards - None

Ukelele

The ukulele is a instrument that was originated from a Pasific island call Hawaii, which is in America. The ukulele is apart of the string family, other famous instruments like violins and guitars are also in the string family.

The parts that are on a Ukelele are
Tuning peg
Head
Nut
Fretboard
Fret
Fret markers
Neck
Sound hole
Body
Saddle
Bridge
Strum zone

Clashy

In P.E we have been making a game, we needed to make Rules, an Objective, how many Players will be on the court, the Equipment, how the scoring system works and what you need to do to win. The game was easy to make but Ricci & I didn't know how to explain it on a piece of paper, so it took us a little bit of time to figure out how to write it. We played Nate's and Callum's game, their game was called H.B.L (Hornby Basketball League). Here is the rules of our game

Object

First you have to get into the four squares with different sports in them. their are four sports spread out in each square, so one might have basketball in a square and another might have football in their. and you only have five minutes in each square, after your five minutes are finished then you have to rotate to the next square. You need to see how fast it takes you to go around every square and count how much points you got all together.

Players

Four players in each square

Equipment

Basketball, Basketball Hoop, Netball, Netball Hoop, Football & Football post

Scoring

Win = 3

Draw = 2

Lose = 1 point

Winning

First team to 12 points wins

Rules

No pushing/shoving

No handballing the football

No traveling with the Basketball

No moving when the netball is in your hand.

HAVE FUN!!! :)

How To Make A Quality Blog Comment

Today, I made a slideshow to inform people how to make a quality blog comment.

C.I.P

Today, is the last day if C.I.P for this term, so we had a choice of three thing's today.

They all were interesting choice's but I selected Making A Plum Poster, the other 2 choices were weeding & cleaning the compost bin.

Even though I selected making a plum poster, 5 people had to go to cleaning the compost bin so I volunteered & so did 4 others.

We got there and Mr Mitchell explained what we had to do. The instruction's were to pick up rubbish, in the compost bin around the compost bin and behind the compost bin. Whilst we were picking up rubbish other people were raking the leafs out the way of the lane.

Then out of nowhere Mr Mitchell told us if we picked up 30 pieces of rubbish then we get 1 commitment card's, if we get 60 pieces then that is 2 commitment card's, if we get 100 pieces of rubbish then that is 10 commitment car's and so on.

The person who picked up the most pieces of rubbish was Orion whit 367 pieces or something like that.

What Is That White Powder?

What is that white powder?

Today you will be a forensic chemist.

A bag of white powder has been confiscated by the airport customs. You need to find out what white powder it is?

Aim: To learn about the makeup of different white powders.

There are  a number of different white powders in our everyday life. Some of these are harmful and others are not. Test the four white powders listed to see which one has been found at the airport.

Here are some examples of everyday kitchen white powders.

Flour

Cornflour

Sugar

Salt

Baking Soda

Baking Powder

Icing Sugar

Tartaric Acid

Citric Acid

Gluten Free flour

Materials

1.  Paper (black)

2.  Salt

3.  Sugar

4.  Baking Powder

5. Corn Flour

6.   Water

7. Iodine

8. Vinegar

Upload a photo of each powder.

1.  Corn Flour

2.  Baking Soda

3.  Salt  

4. Sugar

On the black cardboard using a microscope you need to record what you see. You will be given a small amount of 4 white powders on your cardboard. Look at them under your microscope and record what you see.

Do not mix the powders or taste the powders.

Findings:

	Sugar	Salt	Baking Soda	Cornflour
Appearance	Crystally	Very Very Crystally	Very powdery	White powder
Texture	Rough	Fine	Fine	Clumpy
Smell	Nothing	Nothing	Gassy (Light)	Corn (Strong)
Iodine	Stays As Liquid	Infuses	Infuses	Hard Dots
Water	Dissolved	Dissolved	Goes Into A Clump	Weird Texture
Vinegar	Infused	Infused	Fizzy	Powder Goes Into Liquid

Write a paragraph about your findings.

As we put the iodine onto the white powders they suddenly changed colours, the vinegar made things fizz and the water made everything.

Plants Science

AIM: TO LEARN ABOUT THE NATURE OF PLANTS

Plants fall into two categories:

1. Evergreen

2. Deciduous

Deciduous

Evergreen

Find three examples of each:

Evergreen: 

1. Hemlocks  

2. Conifers

3.  Blue Spruce

Deciduous:

1.  Oak

2. Maple  

3.  Willow

LEAVES

Simple                                 Compound   

Example: 
Plant type: Deciduous / Evergreen

Leaf type: Simple / Compound
Leaf colour: Green
Photo of leaf: 

Plant drawing:

MY LEAF COLLECTION

1.

Plant type: Evergreen

Leaf type: Simple
Leaf colour: Green

Photo of leaf:

Plant drawing:

2. 

Plant type: Evergreen

Leaf type: Simple

Photo of leaf:

Plant drawing:

3.  

Plant type: Evergreen

Leaf type: Compound

Photo of leaf: 

Plant drawing:

RESEARCH 4 TYPES OF PLANTS

Carnivorous plants
Pine trees 
Fruit trees
NZ Natives

Example

Title: NZ Natives
Examples: 
1. Manuka
2. Kauri
3. Rimu
4. Kohekohe

Habitat: Where do they live?
Country: New Zealand
Climate: