Music through the Decades

 Hey Readers!

For the past few weeks in "Counting the Beat " we having being learning about famous singers and music. In this weeks lesson we focused on the change in music throughout the decades. My class watched a video about how the music has changed which included people singing. After we watched the video we had to get into no more then a group of four. My group which was Venice, Amanda and me.  Then make a presentation about the change in decades between 1900 to 2010, they all had to have a slide. In each slide it had to have the genre that was popular or new, a famous singer from that decade,  the clothing that was popular in the decade, a iconic item,  a famous song and a re released song ( if you could find one). 

I then made a google slide and sent it to Venice and Amanda. Next we begun adding the information and facts. At first we got a bit confused but then we read what we needed to include in the slide and got the hang of it. Once we finished all the slides and checked if all the videos worked. We  also made the slide show have a specific theme, for example: my group theme was pastel colours and adding shade to the images etc. 

Here is the video we watched :

 

Here is the amazing slide my group and I created:

What is your favourite song and when was it released?

Needs and Wants

 Hey Readers!
This week in Hurumanu 3 we have been collaborating with another group to learn about needs and wants. We firstly learnt about needs, a need is something you need in life to survive, then we learnt about wants a want is something you don't need but you want/think you need to survive. After that we got put into two groups, I got put in the group called John Britten with Miss Costello teaching. My group read a story called fostering felines it was about how a dumped kitten would grow up to be a adult. 

In the text it included differences in weeks, something that I learnt from reading the story was that all cats are born with blue eyes and once they have lived for seven to eight weeks their eyes change to their adult eyes. Once we read the whole story we had to write a blog post with three new terms and what they meant ( I already included them throughout this blurb.) What would you do to help animals?

Here is the text:

Lemon Sugar Scrub

 Kia Ora Readers!

Yesturday in Miss McLeod's reading group Jk rowling my group were making lemon hand scrub. The first thing we did was we read with Miss Cornish ( student teacher!)  the story was called up the pipe. The story was about these children who did an experiment about what type of home supplies  have chemicals in them or not. After we read the text we planned the steps of making the lemon scrub. We added the ingredients and steps of making the mixture. Once we got into the wet space we got into groups of four or three. The people in my group were, An, Sophie, Jed and me.  Then we got started I first added 1 cup of vegetable into the mixture. After that I squezed some lemons with Sophie, into a bowl. Once we finished adding everything into the mixture, we started mixing it all together, we all took turns until it was perfect. Then my group got to try the lemon hand scrub, we first washed our hands next we used the hand scrub. The scrub felt very ticklish but also very relaxing on my hands when in the moment. After we washed our hands we all added some lemon hand scrub into our containers we brought.  

Here is the ingredients:

2 or 3 lemons 

2 cups of sugar

1 cup of vegetable oil 

Mix everything together and if you want you may zest a lemon to change the texture a bit. 

What I found challenging was making sure I didn't make a mess, what I found easy was mixing the mixture together. 

First Light : The History of telescope

This week in collaborative literacy In group Mawhero  . we have being reading a book called first Light:The History of telescopes . The book included History science and telescopes  in it . It was interesting  reading it  . My favorite piece of the writing is when it said ,The only trouble was that theses telescopes needed to be very long to create a clear image. Our group which  is Mawhero , had to make a telescope with labels. It was challenging I tried to make it look like a image in the book. 

   

The telescope in the book                                           Telescope I made