Creating our own instruments

We have been learning about sound and how sound influences how we feel. 

The song by Gary Barlow, "Sing" was our inspiration to create our own instruments. Listen to the song and watch the video to see how creative people are, in different countries and all over the world. 

Here is the link: Sing by Gary Barlow

We have also discovered that music is an international language and that you do not need to understand the words to understand or feel the music. 

Here are some of the instruments we have created. We played these instruments along with the song too. It sounded amazing. 

Olivia filled these tins with water and she made two symbals.

  

               

We have used waste materials like plastic containers, gift wrap, cardboard, elastic bands, shells, etc.  to create our instruments. 

Reading is all around us

We were finding out how reading can help us. This is what we found in and around the school. 





Reading can help us stay safe like when you read this sign.

This sign helps us to be kind to others. The pictures help us to understand the words.  

Sometimes pictures have words in them like this tree. This mural tells people more about Clevedon School and words and pictures were used in it. 

We can read numbers like the ones on this clock. Other numbers can be the numbers on a number plate or our telephone numbers. They are all important. 

                                            

We can also read symbols like these arrows. 

Making a Kazoo

We are learning about sound and how it is made. We have discovered that a sound is a vibration that travels through the air from one place to another. We hear the sound when the vibration reaches our ears. 


We wanted to create something that could show us what a vibration looks like so we made kazoos. You only need an empty toilet roll, wax paper and a rubber band.

Here is a video link for you to look at if you want to make one too.

How to make a kazoo

We experimented with tissue paper, foil, normal paper, etc. to see if we could improve the sound. Our conclusion: we liked the sound the wax paper made best. It didn't let the air through like the tissue paper and it wasn't too thick either. The sound did drive our parents a bit crazy because we some of us just couldn't stop playing these kazoos.

House Spirit Day

On Friday (15 May) we had our House Chant parade and competition. The rain stayed away from around midday to allow us to have this annual event.  Here are some photos to show you how it went. We had to practise every day to remember all our words and moves and in the end we tried our best and performed it all in the hall to the judges and audience. We showed resilience by practicing over and over again and reflecting on our efforts to see how we could improve. The performance was all about working together in a group (reciprocal) and our House Leaders had to be so resourceful. They wrote the chants and came up with all the ideas. They also helped us learn the chants, walk and perform together. 

                                              This year Tui won the competition.

          

             

A very proud player of the day!We can celebrate together. 

Anzac Celebrations

We have been learning more about why we have ANZAC day and how we celebrate the day. So many of the students in the class discovered that they have family links to the wars in some way or another and many students came to share these links in class. We saw some real war medals that Isaiah brought in with photographs of the soldiers who earned these medals. Many students shared photos and stories of their family members who fought or died in the wars and Dale showed us a photo of his mum when she visited Gallipoli and AZAC cove. These shared experiences made ANZAC day very real to us.

We were reading this book when we discovered a link to Clevedon School as one of the soldiers named in the book was a teacher who taught here in the early 1900s.

We also read some poems and other books.

Have a look in our writing blog for some of our own acrostic poems.

Here is the poppy garden that we have created to show that we will always remember our brave soldiers.

Maths

We are learning to find patterns in and around the school. We went for a walk on the field and in the school grounds and took photos of some of the patterns that we saw along the way.

Patterns can be seen in plants too. 

We have discovered that there are patterns everywhere in around our school!

Look at these.

The composting area 

A pile of wood

A drain cover

Wooden table 

Brick wall