Group project - Music

On Friday in music we had to present the project that we researched with the student teacher.We worked in groups for this presentation me and my group researched about r&b. We did a slideshow to represent what we learn't in the last few weeks.Here is my groups slide show we presented.

Music performance - Music

Here is my music performance that I recorded it isn't that long seeing as I learn't it in half of 1 period. The rest is the questions I had to answer about the last two terms and my performance. Enjoy.

What instrument did you choose to learn and why ?
 - The instrument I choose to learn was the piano/keyboard.
 - I choose this instrument because I felt like for me it was the easiest thing to learn and I felt comfortable with learning the piano and keyboard.

What song do you choose to learn and why ?
 - The song I decided to learn last minute was blinding lights by the artist the weekend.
 - I wasn't going to learn this I was actually doing the research. But when I saw someone else playing the song I wanted them to teach me it because I liked the song in general.

What was challenging about the piece and how did you over come it ?
 - For me the timing and speed of the piece I did was hard to get it right.
- But also the technique you had to use with your hands was quite difficult with the speed.

Were you happy with your final recording performance ? and why ?
 - I was pretty happy with my finished product because I learnt it in a very short amount of time so I don't think I did that bad. Especially for how much I managed to learn in very little time.

What would you change about your performance if you could do it again ? and why ?
 - Yes would change something that I felt I could've done better or different. I would change the speed that I played the song seeing is I feel like I did it to slow compared to the song

Were you happy with your overall grade and why ?
- I have not got my overall grade yet.

What have you enjoyed about music this semester and why ?
 - I enjoyed everything in music this semester.
 - I enjoyed getting the sheets of paper to learn new songs on the piano.
 - But also enjoyed in term one getting to try every instrument to see which one we actually felt comfortable to play.

Quarantine - Physical education

This is some of the few things I did during quarantine. There listed in things that are positive and negatives so things I liked and disliked when I was in quarantine.

Positives 
 - I went for a walk around the block.
 - I got to sleep in more.
 - Watching Netflix.
 - Did more baking and got taught how to cook dinner. 
 - Spent more time with my family 

Negatives
 - My plans were ruined for the holidays.
 - Couldn't go out and see people.
 - My routine was ruined
 - Not getting a lot of my work because it was confusing.

Rats/Kiore - Social studies

Video 1

Where did this happen ?  
- This happened in Australia.

How did this happen?
 - They had months of rain which made all the crops grow so it was perfect condition for the mice/rats.

How many offspring can two mice parents make ?
 - 2000 a month, so 100 million a year.

How much wheat did they eat ?
 - 500,00 tones.

How did they kill them ? 
- They killed them with rat poison the specific rat poison was 1080 pest poisoning.

How many died?
 - 100 million.

Video 2

Where is this happening?
 - This was happening in India.

Why is this happening?
 - It happened because they believed it was there ancestors. Because they believe that after you die you become a rat.

What special treatments did rats get?
 - They get worshipped by the people of India and they get treated like they're celebrity's. But you also cannot kill them, I know if I saw a rat I would kill them.

Tsunami - Social studies

In social studies this week we learnt about what the biggest tsunamis in the world.But we also learnt about where the tsunamis hit in the world.The biggest one was the Alaska tsunami with 530 metres which is pretty massive.We had to draw a graph to represent how big it was or how little it was.We drew a graph to record our data. 

Ukulele - Music

Whats the difference between ukulele and guitar ?


 - A standard guitar has 6 strings  and ukulele has 4 strings.

 - A ukulele is much smaller then a guitar.

 - The fret-board on the ukulele is way thinner and shorter than the guitar and therefore it makes it way easier to manage for people with smaller hands. 

What country uses the ukulele most ?

 - The top three countries that use the ukulele are Australia, Canada and Hawaii.

Purpose of life taha wairua - Health

In health today we watched a video about Ed Sheerans speech at the 2015 American stuttering institute gala.We watched this to see how it contributes to our taha wairua so our spiritual well being. 

What message did we take away from this video.

 - The message that I thought we got through this video was that embrace all of your flaws so if people say your weird just take it as a complement and don't take it to heart.

 - When he was in school he got called a lot of not nice names.Because he had a stuttering problem when he was younger and a few other special things wrong with him, and look at him now he became very successful even though he did not have the best support around him at school when he was younger.

 - So in my words he wants us to take away from the video. That our flaws are special and you shouldn't be ashamed of them in anyway. So if someone says something that will hurt your feelings just take it as a compliment.