Aboriginal art

The task for art was to create a story using Aboriginal art.

Aboriginal art come from Australia. Most of Aboriginal art tells story and people call these "Dreamtime stories". Dreamtime stories have what the Aborigines believe. We watched video's about how a kangroo got it's pouch. Then we looked at aboriginal symbols.

The first thing we did was practising aboriginal simbols with dots. All the simbols represents a things. For example: a circle with dots around it is a representation of a star. After practising the symbols, we started using dots to tell a story on the other side of the piece of paper.

Our good copy told a story that connected to us. We used paint and cotton tips to create the dots. To majority of the paint took most of the space on the paper .

L.I To create art that tells a story with traditional methods. 

Properties of sound

Sound is a noise that can be heard when it travels to a person's ear. Property is a characteristic or attribute that something owns.

One property of sound is that as sound travels it dissipated (gets weaker and weaker). This was proven because Mr Wong clapped on one side of the classroom and the meter on the other side recorded a quiter noise than the one closer to Mr Wong.

Another property of sound is that sound travels the same in every direction. This was also proven to be true because the meter recorded the same decibels from behind, in front, left side, right side and above.

The last property observed of sound is that sound can travel corners. This is because Mr Wong clapped in another area of the classroom and the meter was still able record the sound.

LI: To observe the properties of sound.

Adjectives

Adjectives are the describing words for nouns. There are three types of adjectives, they are: absolute, comparitive and superlative 

Absolute adjectives describe something by itself for example: the smart boy. Comparative adjectives describe something compared to another for example: the smarter boy. Superlative adjectives describe something that is in the highest level for example: the smartest boy.

The different kinds of adjectives can help people describe and clarifed. 

LI: To learn about adjectives  

Nouns, proper nouns and pronouns

There are three nouns. Nouns, proper nouns and pronouns.

Noun are the words given to an object. For example the following words are all nouns: bat, tv and a chair.

Proper nouns are unique things, for example Samoa. There's only one Samoa. 

Pronouns are the general words given to an objects, person, or group of objects or people. For example the following are all pronouns: she, it, they, he. Those are pronouns.

South Pacific Beats Quiz

The Patō is a modern version of the lali drum. Rachael Hall is the designer of the Patō. In Rachael's final year at Massey's University, she wanted to create a musical instrument that connected back to her Tongan heritage. 
Rachael made many different versions of the lali and ended up with the Patō.

Rachael used a milling maching and a lathe to create the Patō. Patō means to strike something in Tongan. 

The Patō has many different unique things in the drum like: the pitch adjuster, volume dial and the microphone. 

There is only one version of the Patō drum so Rachael is working on making more Patō on a daily basis.

LI: To read, understand and recall the article South Pacific Beats.

I took a test about my understanding of the article.

Measurement-Length

LI-To explore standard forms of length

Length is how long an object or item is. The standard forms of measuring length are km (kilometres), M (metres), cm (centimetres) and mm (millimetres). 

To measure these things, people use: rulers, meter rulers and tape measurers.

Using different tools explore the measurements of items in our everyday world.


To convert centimetres to millimetres, times the number by ten. To convert centimetres to metres divide by ten. The place value house can help people convert. If the measurement is 18 cm, then multiply by ten the numbers shift to left. 

Identifying Direct and Reported Speech| Writing

Direct speech and reported speech can be used when telling a story.

Direct speech is when someone says something for example, "Hi how are you?" asked Sam.

Reported speech is like this: Matt replied with a smile.

LI To know the difference between direct speech and reported speech

Commenting

Today I Comment On Viliami's Blog About His Commenting. He Commented On Someone's Elses Blog.

Timestable Patterns | Maths

Patterns are repeated designs and timestables are multiplying digits in order to get an answer.

The pattern shown below is the six times tables. The number sequence found was 6, 3, 9. This is because 1 x 6 = 6 (0 + 6 = 6), 2 x 6 = 12 (1 + 2 = 3), 3 x 6 = 18 (1 + 8 = 9), 4 x 6 = 24 (2 + 4 = 6), 5 x 6 = 30 (3 + 0 = 3), 6 x 6 = 36 (3 + 6 = 9) and ect.

Patterns always connect back together, so if the shape doesn't connect back to the start then it isn't a pattern.

Patterns can be useful in learning the timestables because people can end up remembering the answers quickly.

LI: To identify patterns in our times tables.