Wednesday, 28 February 2018

Snake Writing

Success criteria:
1. We can brainstorm ideas together
2. We can develop a 3-5 paragraph description of a moment in time individually
3. We can share our writing with peers and with the teacher, focusing on what we are pleased with
4. We can co-construct the learning for week 2 in English as a class.

Brainstorm:
Stanley
snek
SNAKE
SNACK
Snake

Somebody smuggled a snake into the country. The police want to capture any snakes they find, because their venom can cause you to go bald and age 173% faster. They have a whole team of policemen and one woman (she was dead inside thinking about how close she was to losing her precious hair), to capture the snake, but four of the men have already been bitten and lost their hair, (the snake is gay but likes men more, that’s why he targeted the policemen and not the woman). Now they were even more determined than ever to capture the evil snake.

The snake managed to evade capture for days, but finally the police created a trap that the snake was sure to fall into. It was a large wooden box, just like the snake loved. They planned to cover the snake with white and yellow sheets to subdue and kill it, but it ripped through the yellow one, so the police had to quickly throw it onto the floor and resort to only using the remaining one. They grabbed the snake, despite their fear of losing any hair they had left, and managed to wrap it in the sheet.

Once the police had killed the snake and mourned their hair, they tracked the person who had smuggled it into the country. They had to hack into many systems and search through many countries, but eventually they discovered that it wasn’t just one man who had smuggled in the snake; it was a secret, underground organisation. It was called the Illuminati, and they were breeding new and improved snakes, because they loved them. The snake was a top-secret undercover agent for the Illuminati, he went by many code names, including: Stanley, Snek, Snack, Snake and Snake Daddy.

Once the policemen contacted the Illuminati, the organisation promised to exchange secrets as long as the police reveal to the public that they existed, or that they were experimenting on snakes. The police agreed, and the Illuminati disclosed that the four men, who looked creepily similar (especially now that they were bald,) were actually clones. They also revealed that over two million men become bald thanks to the venom every year. However the Illuminati traded for the snake blood, since it could permanently cure the baldness caused by the snake venom.



(also illuminati confirmed this is a true story)

Thursday, 1 June 2017

Electrical Invention

I worked with Zara and Hayley, we made a cardboard house and made a lighting system.

We started by making the house out of cardboard boxes and making walls and a 2nd floor for it.
Then we started experimenting with the wires trying to find the best way to fit the system in the different rooms. After we made the circuit we taped it to the house and hooked up the switches.

A positive thing about making our invention was we got it done quickly and it worked amazingly because we all worked hard.

A minus thing about making our invention was we didn't really work as a team and we sort of did our own thing because there weren't very many jobs.

A interesting thing about out invention was we had to try different ways of getting the system to work because it wouldn't fit inside the house.

Click here to see our worksheet.

Wednesday, 24 May 2017

Music - Reflection

I think our group did amazingly, we can play in time with the drums, guitars and singing. Were still working on our piano part and getting it to match the rest of the song but otherwise we are on track to be able to preform at the end of the term. I did my techniques well and I think that it's getting easier to play them in time and at a good sound level.

Wednesday, 17 May 2017

Music - Performance Techniques

Today i'm going to learn how to play the beat in time with the guitars (Kate and Julia) and make sure i'm using the correct techniques.


Tuesday, 9 May 2017

Music - Chords

Today in music we learnt about chords. We practised on a piano and we did "Common Chord Progression" We learnt how to play a few chords and then we played them back to a partner who had to guess what chord it was. We learnt the difference between major and minor, major is mostly bright and happy but the minor is more dull and dark.
A chord is 2 or more notes played at the same time.
We learnt the chord progressions:
C, F, G
Am, F, G
G, C, D
Em, C, D

Monday, 8 May 2017

Music

Today we learned about the different time periods of music eg: Classical, Baroque, Romantic and others.
We started learning about structural charts to learn how to write our own music and hear the different instruments in songs.