Drama

As I have not been telling you about inquiry I suppose I should now. After having taster sessions of the different types of art (dance, visual art, music and drama) I decided to go with drama. I must say I have only attended three of the many sessions (as I have been away a lot this term) I have learnt tonnes of stuff about drama. For the art sharing event at school we are going to produce three short plays about things that have recently happened in New Zealand the rugby world cup, the Rena disaster, and the Christchurch Earthquake. Last session we worked on the rugby world cup and I can't wait to work on the other plays we are producing.

Week 2 Reflection: Inquiry-Music

Last Thursday and Friday we did a taster of music in room 7. We have been tasters of different kinds of art because art is our inquiry for this term. The four kinds of art are dance, music, drama and visual arts. We did it to help us choose what kind of music we are going to work on. In music we experimented with percussion instruments. We learned the four different elements which are to music beat, rhythm, pitch and tempo. I think I might do music and if I do I will like to make my own tune/beat using the drums.

Water & Ice

Water and ice are in ways the same kind of matter. Water is a liquid and ice is a solid and is really frozen water. But how does water turn to ice?
There are three main types of matter. There are liquids, solids and gases. Matter contains atoms (things that are so small that cannot be seen by the naked eye). Atoms make the world go round and are in everything. The atoms in gases are spread apart and are full of energy. The atoms in liquid are still got lots of energy but are more compact. The atoms in solids are basically touching each other and hardly move (they basically only vibrate).
When water turns to ice it freezes. The temperature water turns to ice is zero degrees Celsius. When water turns to ice the atoms slow down and become more compact.
Some examples of ice are hail, icebergs and ice-blocks. When the temperature of the clouds goes to zero degrees Celsius or lower the rain turns to hail. Icebergs and ice-blocks also gothrough the same process.
In conclusion water is a liquid and turns to ice which is a solid when the temperature is zero

degrees Celsius or lower.

How a candle works

A candle is an object that produces light and a bit of heat. A candle is made up of wax, a wick and a flame (which you need a match to light). But how does it work?

The wax part of the candle act as the candles food. The other food for the candle is oxygen. The candle needs these to make it go. The candle absorbs the wax by melting the top of the wax to make it liquid wax and then soaking it up the wick to the flame. It eats the 'nutrients' (stuff it needs) and leaves the rest in its liquid form. The effect is you have used a match, heat, liquid wax, some smoke and burned oxygen.

Safety Town

As part of our inquiry of 'safety' room seven and eight have been making a 'safety town'.  'Safety town' is a mini town which we tried  to make look like a real town.  The reason it's called 'safety town' is because as well as trying to replicate a real town we had to try and get rid of the hazards which we have in the real world.  Doing this would put to use the learning about safety we have been doing this term.

First of all we got into groups of four which would make a part of the safety town.  Then we made a plan of the 'safety town'.  My groups main things on our part were houses, an airport and some bridges.  Then we went on a trip around town to identify hazards which we would prevent in our safety town.  Then it was down to making it.  We finished making it yesterday and tomorrow we will take pictures of safety town.  I am very proud of it.

Emotional Safety

The world can be a very danderous place. So you need to know how to be safe. One of the ways you need to be safe is 'emotionally' safe. Emotional danger is when somebody tries to hurt your feelings. Some examples of being hurt emotionally are name calling, pointing, and laughing at people.

Here are some ways of staying emotionally safe:

-Bring a friend.

-Change the topic.

-Crack a joke.

-Change the place where it's happening.

I suggest you try these if you are getting bullied emotionally.