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Friday 27 June 2014

The Beatles Band !

This week we have done our weekly quiz. This week I was fascinated in writing about the Beatles and how they started their career. I have heard of the Beatles before because they were famous so people always talk about it. So this week I am doing a visual question. I hope you can learn more about the Beatles.    

The Beatles were an English rock band back in the day in 1960’s. They formed in Liverpool. In their group there are 4 members they are John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. they became widely regarded as the greatest and most recognized they became widely regarded as the greatest and most era.

Thursday 26 June 2014

Nikki and Ana's instrument explanation


Guitar
When you pluck the rubber bands, it vibrates the inside of the box making a sound from the box. If you pluck a different kind of string, the sound will be different because of the length or weight of the rubber band.  


Paper Flute
When you blow into the top of the flute, the air will vibrate and come out the other side but since there is a small hole in the flute, the air has two places to come out so the vibrations inside are coming out different sides so the sound is different


Harmonica
When you blow through the holes in the harmonica the air molecules travel  through and come out the other end so we can hear it. The longer the straw is the higher the pitch is that is because the sound waves are high so the sound is high too.

   

Tuesday 24 June 2014

Nikki and ana musical instrument


Hi my name is Nikki and ana and I have been making our own instruments made out of things that we have just found and a lot of research went into making this movie. I hope that you like our movie and. Please comment on my blog and tell me what you thought of our movie thank you and enjoy.

Nikki book review -Invisible Vinnie (By Jenny Nimmo)


Book Title: Invisible Vinnie
Author: Jenny Nimmo
Reviewer: Nikki class 4
Grand total of books read this year: ? 11 ?
Book Genre:

Fiction
  • Science fiction
  • Drama
  • Romance
  • Mystery
  • Horror
  • Comedy
  • Series
  • Fantasy
  • Other (state)

Non-Fiction
  • Biographies/Autobiographies
  • Historical
  • Instructional
  • Other (state)
Insert photo of book cover here:

Reading Level:
  • Easy
  • Medium
  • Advanced
Rating:

✩✩✩✩✩
Review:
This book is about a girl and she has her uncle Vinnie who has an idea to make a bullies at her school scared.
Excerpt: 
"Zack's not scared of anything. But everyone's scared of him."


Friday 13 June 2014

My writing sample (going to Australia)


As I woke up with butterflies in my stomach and tingles down my spine I got ready to go to Australia. I woke my mum, dad and twin brother up and said”  wake up wake up don’t forget we are going to Australia”. Suddenly they all woke up getting ready for the flight to Brisbane Australia. When I started to brush my bushy and ruff hair my mum said” Oh no you are not going to Australia with your hair like that” so we had to go to the hairdressers before we go to the airport, so we packed our bags put them in the car and went to the hairdressers because we were going to the airport straight afterwards.

As soon as my black and brown hair got a nice trim my mum didn't have enough time to do her make-up so she had to do it in the car on the bumpy ride to the airport. After an hours ride in the hot car we finally got to the airport that's when my brother and I had huge butterflies in our stomach’s. my dad pulled the bags out of the car and put it on a porter trolley. We were waiting a long time for the plane so we decided to go to Starbucks for a coffee. When our order was done we went to the gift shop and get some pillows you can put on when you are on the plane. “I am so excited to go on a plane I love the feeling when I get butterflies” my brother lee said.

Shortly after we went to the gift shop we went to watch the planes come in and out of the airport. About an hour or so our plane arrived we heard the speakers say “Air New Zealand to Brisbane is about to take off all the passengers on this plane please make your way to the plane thank you” So we all had to go on the plane ready for take off. As we were in the massive waiting room we went right through to the walkway in the big Air New Zealand plane. Then we saw the Air New Zealand crew and they showed us to our seats which were number 9, 10, and 12 on the other side.

Walking to our seats shockingly I wanted to cry because I was scared of going on a plane. Everyone on the plane had to buckle their seatbelts and put their windows up. I looked out the window and saw that we started to move and go higher and higher into the air. 5 minutes in the air my mum, dad brother and I got a bit cold so we asked for a blanket. So we were finally comfortable. I looked at my dads side and he was watching a movie called Black swan and then I looked at my mum’s side and she was playing Who want’s to be a millionaire. My brother was right next to me so I saw that he was watching cartoons. Then we got to eat some food and it was awesome. After and long 3 hours we finally made it to Brisbane and meet the amazing family.

 

Monday 9 June 2014

Nikki book review


Book Title: Glubbslyme
Author: Jacqueline
Reviewer: Nikki class 4
Grand total of books read this year: 8
Book Genre: (Highlight)

Fiction
  • Science fiction
  • Drama
  • Romance
  • Mystery
  • Horror
  • Comedy
  • Series
  • Fantasy
  • Other (state)

Non-Fiction
  • Biographies/Autobiographies
  • Historical
  • Instructional
  • Other (state)
Insert photo of book cover here:

Reading Level:
  • Easy
  • Medium
  • Advanced
Rating:
✩✩✩✩✩
Review:
When Rebecca wades into the witch's pond after a row with her best friend Sarah, she meets a very unusual new friend a huge, Water toad! And Glubbslyme is no ordinary toad.






U.S states ?!

This week is week 6 term 2 and we are doing our weekly quiz. I am talking about the 50 states in the united states.  The united states must be big to have all of those states.


Here are the 50 states in the U.S and the capitals:
  • Alabama
  • Alaska
  • Arizona
  • Arkansas
  • California
  • Colorado
  • Connecticut
  • Delaware
  • Florida
  • Georgia
  • Hawaii
  • Idaho
  • Illinois
  • Indiana
  • Iowa
  • Kansas
  • Kentucky
  • Louisiana
  • Maine
  • Maryland
  • Massachusetts
  • Michigan
  • Minnesota
  • Mississippi
  • Missouri
  • Montana
  • Nebraska
  • Nevada
  • New Hampshire
  • New Jersey
  • New Mexico
  • New York
  • North Carolina
  • North Dakota
  • Ohio
  • Oklahoma
  • Oregon
  • Pennsylvania
  • Rhode Island
  • South Carolina
  • South Dakota
  • Tennessee
  • Texas
  • Utah
  • Vermont
  • Virginia
  • Washington
  • West Virginia
  • Wisconsin
  • Wyoming

Wow That was a lot of states.

Nikki book review - (Lets do the Pharaoh)


Book Title: Let's do the Pharaoh!
Author: Jeremy Strong
Reviewer: Nikki class 4
Grand total of books read this year: 11
Book Genre:


Fiction
  • Science fiction
  • Drama
  • Romance
  • Mystery
  • Horror
  • Comedy
  • Series
  • Fantasy
  • Other (state)


Non-Fiction
  • Biographies/Autobiographies
  • Historical
  • Instructional
  • Other (state)
Insert photo of book cover here:

Reading Level:
  • Easy
  • Medium
  • Advanced
Rating:

4 out of 5
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Friday 6 June 2014

A cold Freezing morning

When I woke up I grabbed a blanket shivering down the stairs as I yawned, I got changed ready for school. I took one step out of the door and started to shake so I quickly grabbed my puffer jacket and zipped it right up. Then I thought to myself I not going to enjoy this walk to school and finally walked out of the door and started to walk.

As I was halfway down the street my body started to numb up so I rubbed my hands together hoping to warm up. My teeth started to chatter and my hair started flapping. I looked to the other side of the road and saw everyone in their cars going to school. When I went around the corner I saw my school so I started sprinting to school, and I ran into the classroom taking off my jacket standing under the heaters.

Wednesday 4 June 2014

Nikki and Braeden science experiment


Nikki and Braeden instrument.



TITLE
1. QUESTION/OBSERVATIONS
: Does the rubber band thickness/tightness affect the pitch?
2. HYPOTHESIS
Yes it will change.
3. EXPERIMENT
Rubber bands book
Process/Method: Describe in steps the process you will go through to carry out your experiment.
1. Put the rubber band round the book horizontally.

2. Flick it on the book

3. Take the rubber band off

4.Put the next one on.
4. CONCLUSION:
Explain what conclusions can you come to from your results? Yes the thickness and thinness of the rubber band effects the sound of the guitar

Tuesday 3 June 2014

Psy's award winning song ?

This week is week 5 so we are doing week 5 weekly quiz. This week I am doing Psy and his most popular song so I am going to tell you what song is the most popular song of his.

Psy is a Korean musician who was only released in July 2012 as the lead singer of his sixth studio album, and debuted at number one on South Korea's Gaon Charts.
On December 21 2012 Gangnam style became viral on YouTube.

By the end of 2012, the song had topped the music charts of more than 30 countries including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain, and the United Kingdom.