Music workshops

We've had some music workshops this week to complement the work everyone has been doing for their musical performances.

Rob came in and performed on the bagpipes for us in the courtyard. Everyone got into the spirit of this and joined in a jig, then marched. We also listened to a 'quieter' piece (Amazing Grace), then Rob spoke to us about how the bagpipes work and the different sounds the drones and other parts make. Thanks Rob, we all really enjoyed learning about the bagpipes and listening to you play!

WBS marching to bagpipes from Matariki on Vimeo.

In the afternoon, Ray came in and talked to us about his experiences listening to the guitar as a child then learning to play, joining bands, performing, and then learning to make guitars and building this skill into a career. He showed us a beautiful guitar he had made, with paua inlaid around the edges and penguins inlaid, and showed us the pieces he uses to make a guitar. He also talked to us about the different types of wood he uses, and why he chooses them. It was really interesting and we were treated to Ray playing a piece at the end. Thanks again Ray.

Assembly 19.8.16

Thank you to our wonderful presenters!

We shared some of our poems.

Well done to everyone who got a principal award!

Preparing for the music festival!

There are so many things we are thinking about in creating our musical piece for the Music Festival. First we each chose the elements we wanted to include in the production. We chose dreams, outer space and emotions. From there we each brainstormed and shared our ideas about the story our music  represents.

Here is the story our performance is loosely based on....

STORY NOTES

Someone goes to sleep and dreams of going to outer space. He dreams of finding a new exciting thing in the galaxy. He feels nervous and excited. When he brings that new exciting thing to his rocket, the new thing brought him to the edge of outer space and when he went there he found a time portal and teleporter.

When he was driving towards the teleporter the new exciting thing accidently pushed the steering wheel to go to the time portal. He felt scared and terrified. The time portal let the boy choose what time he wanted to go to. He said that he wanted to go to the past when the rocket was first made. And guess what! He was the first one to go to space. Three, two one, BLAST OFF!! When he went to outer space he landed on the moon and named the new exciting thing the time GPS. When the boy woke up, his dream came true.

By Catilynn H

We have composed our own music, collaborating in small groups, to tell the story. We have also reflected on which character strengths we will need to bring to our learning - common threads have been creativity, zest and courage.

Recording

Recording voices and All Sorts of Sound for the Music Festival.

We have been incredibly creative over the last week recording voices and all sorts of sounds for our piece.  The wind, birds, rocks rolling down the slide; it’s all inventive.

We are also turning poems into chants and songs.  There is a great deal of learning going on around the recording process, layering sound and arranging these layers into a cohesive piece.

Lucas is concentrating on making his music sound good.  Fingers crossed!

SportsFest

On Tuesday we were lucky enough to have four teams in the regional sports fest: hockey, netball, football and basketball. The aim of the day was to focus on the 3 F's: Fun, Fairness and Friendship. We were so pleased to have awesome weather on the day and everyone had a great day. All teams were impressive in the way they demonstrated fair play, sportsmanship and teamwork. 

A big thanks to all our parent helpers who got us to all four venues and supported us through the day. We could not have done it without you.  

 

 

  

  

  

  

   

  

  

 

Poetry, Storms

Poetry Writing:

We have been writing poems: about storms, about what happens when we are sleeping, about what the city does in the middle of the night and we have been writing poems for Peace Week.  We have been writing some crazy songs too but we will share some of those later.

We used a William Blake poem about caring for each other and caring for our World as a model.

Long Live

                               Long live our unextinguished zest

                                     Long live our forever love

                                   Long live our love for animals

                                     Long live the scarce green.

                            Long live what little freedom we have

                                  Long live the buzzing bees

                                       The colorful flowers

                                     Long live the coral reef.

                                    Long live the white rhinos

                                   Long live our brown  world

                               Long live our undented courage

                                 Long live our beautiful world.

                            Long live the freedom women have

                                   Long live the compassion

                     that has led us to both destruction and victory

                               Long live our love for learning.

                                       Long live our hope

                              Long live the good in people

                                Long live the kelp forest

                          Long live our precious rainforest

                                

                                  Let our passion wonder

                         Let the unreasonable fighting stop

                           Let us thrive in green and blue

                                   Long live the peace.

                                      Long live us!                                      By Danielle

                              What Happens When We Are Sleeping             

                         The basilisk roams around in the middle of the night 

When you are sleeping sneaking through streets

                            Snatching, eating, gobbling, slithering, he whispers

                            In Parseltongue   kill      kill       kill      KILL

                           

                              Cats meow, dogs bark, wind flows, rain flys

                             Trees drip, noone sees the monsters

                              Roaming feet thudding houses crushing

                               Water rising, trees falling, ground ripping

                               

                                People growing, ideas flowing, time spinning

                                Coming going in and out, blackness falling over

                                Mountains growing, trucks towing, rivers

                                 Flowing things roaming.   By Flynn

Storm by Dani

Grumble rumble, treacherous churning

Raging howling thundering funnel

Clouds coiling, pots boiling

Wind smashing, trees clashing

Dark sky darkening, inside apple pie

Krackle crash smash bash, kersplash

Hail piling up outside

No one dares no one tries

Pitch black, then lightning crack

Thump whump plop throup

Rain stain, what a shame

Krackle bash bang

Clouds munching, sticks crunching

A black monster, a white fright

Which is day, what is night?

Scary fork, stabbing light

Curled up, book in hand

Wind blowing, heater going

Tv on, all together

Disaster strikes, what a night

Last night I saw the City…..

Last night I saw the city thinking,

couriers zipping along, like nerve signals,

boats drifting like ideas,

Tiny thoughts in the harbour of the city’s mind.

                                                                             by Ben

What Happens When We Are Trying Sleep…..

The leaves scatter from the wind

As cars hurry past your house

The trees sway, the sounds

Get deeper into your mind.

You struggle to get to sleep

You wonder what it’s like

On the other side of the world?

Were the murderers creep

                                                      Were the devils speak

And the monster peek into the

Bedrooms.      

                                                                 by Haare

Maths Strategies

We are delving into multiplication and discovering new strategies to solve problems. 

These are animal arrays. Some of us have been using these to support our multiplication problem solving. 


We are learning to use repeated addition to solve multiplication problems. 


We are also learning to use 2 different strategies to solve 2 digit multiplication problems: place value and rounding and compensation.