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.

Week 1 Reflection: 3D Shapes

Over the last couple of days we have been working with 3D shapes. 3D stands for three dimensions and the three dimensions of a 3D shape are length, width and depth. The parts of a 3D shape are faces, edges and vertices (corners). The first pic below is a pyramid made out of sticks and glue tack. Pyramids have 5 faces, 8 edges and 5 vertices. The second pic is off a diamond. Diamonds have 8 faces, 12 edges and 6 vertices.

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.

Week 7 Reflection: Chunking

In the last weeks I have been learning a strategy in maths which is 'chunking'. Chunking is a method for 2-4 digit multiplication. The purpose was thatI could have another strategy under my belt for later in life. Now when I am figuring out math problems one of the strategies I am going to use is chunking.

Animation

Over the last few weeks we have been making animations. They had to have a theme, ours was persisting. Persisting is when you don't give up and below is the animation