Kiwi Inventors ( Hurumanu 3)

 Kia Ora Readers!

For the last few weeks in hurumanu 3 we have been learning about kiwi inventors and what New Zealand has created. It was very interesting to see what New Zealand has created throughout the years. I first choose my three things I wanted to read and do some activities on I choose electric fence,   spring free trampoline ( which I already blogged) and  Pavlova. The first thing I focused on was the electric fence I read the story then I created a powtoon for the activity. Then I did the Pavlova activity at home so I can get more ideas and do it for longer. I choose to blog about my powtoon  because I think I did better on it and put more effort on it. Have you made a powtoon before?

Here are three facts about the electric fence:

- The electric fence was made because a horse had an itchy back and rubbed their back against a car,

- Its portable and can move around,

- It helps organise  animals around farms. 

Here is my slide:

Trampoline design

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This week in hurumanu 3 with Miss Bancroft we have been reading stories about inventions that were made in New Zealand. First we had to pick a invention to read about and some tasks to. I firstly choose the spring-free trampoline I was surprised when I saw spring-free trampoline in the list. So I had to go onto Hapara workspace and begin or task. First I read the story about how a New Zealander created spring free trampolines, then I answered the questions about the story and after that I had to create my own trampoline and create a poster explaining how it's better than normal ones. First I created my trampoline on a google drawing, then I added it to a separate slide. Making the trampoline wasn't that hard but I traced some parts from a image to my design and then changed it up. The making of the poster was very fun, I added some more detail to it then I was supposed to. 

Here is the slide:

Bird Masks ( Drama)

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In drama we have been making bird masks and acting like birds. We have also been starting to learn about the movement and emotions. Next we got into groups of four or three and thought about the movements, the people in my group were ... Hollie. E, Venice, Amanda and me.

 We all had to think about our movement plan and how we would move around the space then act out with each other. Since me and Hollie were both flightless birds we started acting out first, then Amanda and Venice came around us with their movements and sounds. Venice is a barn owl for her act, Amanda is a We had also finished our masks already so we didn't need to do anything around that. But next time I need to add some elastic to make it fit my head. Have you ever experienced acting before?

Here is Hollie and my bird mask mine is the penguin Hollie's is the kiwi.

Violin 🎻 (Counting The Beat)

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This week in counting the beat we have been learning about the violin. First we learnt about  sizes, there are lots of different sizes of violins some of them work differently then others. Next we learnt about the families which are Violin, Viola, Cello and Double Bass. We  got taught about parts of the violin,  some  parts are.. bow, turning pegs, finger board and end button. There are different types of violin like electric, next we watched some videos of talented people playing  violin such as Vanessa Mae .  

After that we got to feel, look and pass the violin around the class. For me the violin is ok I don't love it but I  like but the people who play are very talented. The way that Violin is played is very interesting to me because there are many ways of using Violin and playing. The reason why is because I don't really love the music that comes out of it. What is your favourite instrument and why? My favourite instrument is the piano because I love the sounds and the music you can make,I really want to learn how to play and have been for a while. 

Here is the slide we did our work off: 

Orchestra ( Counting the beat) 🎤

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This week in counting the beat in hurumanu 2 we have been learning about orchestra, a orchestra is a group of stringed instruments. The first thing we did was look at different instrument family's  in orchestras the first instrument we learnt about was the woodwind, a woodwind is like a flute it blows wind and was originally made out of wood, the next instrument we learnt about was the brass, they are sort of like a trumpet but with a different shape, music is made from your lip vibrating onto the mouth piece and some other parts. The last type of instrument we learnt about was ... the percussion family. The percussion family include instruments similar to pianos such as.. xylophone, bass drum, snare drum etc. Then we watched a  you tube video of a orchestra  the video was this group of 1000 students, they did the orchestra during lock down and the music beautiful they played the song "Jupiter." Next we got to see some instruments in real life we got to feel them as well, they were instruments  that would be in a orchestra in person we got to see the violin, flute, recorder and some other instruments but I forgot their names. My favourite instrument I got to feel was the big flute because it was something new for me. Have you learnt about instruments before?

Here is the slide we did our work off:

Automobile timeline

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In hurumanu 3 this week with Miss Bancroft we have been focusing on inventions of automobiles. First we got a piece a paper then we had to draw a border next we had to write "timeline of the automobile" at the top of the page. After that we had to draw a line on the piece of paper for the timeline. Then Miss Bancroft played a video about the history of cars and how they became better throughout the years. The most interesting part of the task was seeing how cars were back then and how they weren't as safe to drive. Have you made a timeline before?

Here is my timeline:

Invention of the mouse

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This term with Miss Bancroft in hurumanu 3 we have been learning about inventions and what they do for the world. One task we had to do was read a story on epic called "forgotten history of every day inventions" then we had to pick one invention to answer questions about. I choose the mouse ( not the animal the mouse that works with computers) after that I made a slide answering all the questions, some of the questions were: why was it needed and how does it help people. Each time I answered a question I tried adding some images to do with the questions. The hardest part about doing this activity was finding the images to match the questions. Have you learnt about inventions? 

Here is my slide: