Today I did the what if challenge and chose a paper and that’s what i’d write about my paper said “What if there was no school?” This was hard to write about cause I had to think really hard but this is what I ended up writing:

In our time almost everyone goes to school, but a lot of people hate school. Back in the day only boys went to school, so girls were home bored doing house work, they wanted to go to school, but now not a lot of people like school, but the question is what if there was no school? Well we wouldn’t learn to do normal things, like how to be good at talking to people, how to spell, how to read ansd most importantly there would be no tech classes like food tech. And people couldn’t work many jobs, like doctors, mechanics and I don’t wanna write more jobs. People world be bored and out of routine and sleep in for hours and hours, but also stay up for hours and hours, and parents would have no alone time and complan, but not everything would be bad, kids would be less stressed and get more sleep and kids would be happy to spend time with their friends not at school. 

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This is my Matariki pixel art, it is of my friends and I sitting on the beach, looking are the Matariki star, these friends are Niya and Aria, this was really fun to make but not easy I had to color every single pixel, which took forever but i’m done now. I hope you like it!

Yesterday Nanogirl came to our assembly and she showed us different super powers but as science which was really cool, she put a cup on Anikas head and shot it off with air hoops, and another part that I really liked was when she put a tennis ball on a hairdryer and then put a bigger ball on a leaf blower, it was so cool to see the balls fly. This was a really fun and now I think science is cool! Thank you Nanogirl!!

This term we learnt about articles and then wrote one, mine was about music, then I had to break it down into four topics about music, these topics are, music history, music today, people and instruments. And I learnt about conclusions which just sum up everything. This was really fun to learn about.

Music 

  Music, fun facts and more.

Music History

The past of music. Music was made in the 40,000’s BP. They first made music without instruments by singing, clapping and hitting a hollow tree to see what noise it makes. The oldest instrument is the Neanderthal flute, which was found in a cave.

Music today

What music is like today. Pop and rock is the world wide most popular type of music. Some of the most popular Musicians are Madonna, Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Britney Spears, Melanie Martinez, Billie Eilish, Eminem, Etc.  Most of these musicians are pop artists. They are singers/ rappers, pop and rap are one of the most popular music genres, but rap is a bit of a streo type because “only a type of skin tone can rap or do hip-hop.” anyone can do rap or hip-hop no matter their skin tone! 

People

Musician that beat records. The Musician who made the most money is Jay 2 worth 2.5 billion USD in 2023. The creator of the most played song is Irving Berlin’s song is white christmas. The most famous rock artist is Elvis Presley, he is known as “the king of rock and roll.”  And the most famous rap artists are Eminem and Kanye west. 

Instruments

Now and the past of instruments. Piano is one of the most played instruments in the world because of its beautifully unique noise. The first instrument was made 60,000 years ago. It’s called the Neanderthal flute. It was found in the cave of Divje Babe in slovenia.        

Conclusion!

In this article we have learnt about the history, people, instruments and music today. I wonder how much music will evolve, will it evolve to be better? Or worse… Keep listening 5to music and having fun, try something new and listen to a music genre you don’t normally listen to! Research about your favorite singers/ musicians and learn something new!

This term I’ve been a part of a theatre/ drama group.

We have been using our voices and different movements with our bodies to play a variety of drama games. The activity I enjoyed most was when we got given 3 pieces of paper that said different things and we had to walk how we thought they would walk because it was fun and funny! The most challenging part for me this term was not talking to my friends the whole time.

It was a really cool chance to have fun a learn at the same time! (:

1: What did you think of softball as an action station?

I thought it was pretty cool that I got to learn a new game I’ve never played before, and other people get to learn too.

2: What did learn / do in this action station?

How to play and catch with the gloves and how to throw properly.

3: Did you enjoy/ not enjoy it? why?

A bit of both I don’t really like sport but it was fun playing with my friends.

4: What did you find challenging?

Learning how to play and not really knowing what to do.

5: What was your favourite part?

hanging out with my friends and running faster than one of the boys.

6:Would you choose it again if this was put forward for next year?

No, like I said I don’t really like sports and I like to try new things anyway.

On Monday we did something new we did a fire dancing program with Josh and Chris they taught us many things about fire dancing like throwing the stuff in the air and watching it spin and catching it, letting it roll around your neck to the other side, putting the staff on the floor and putting your foot on it and pulling your foot back really fast so it will go on your foot and then you can kick it up and catching it and throwing it under your leg and catching it or throwing it under your leg and catching it and then throw it in the air and catching it again. At middle break me and Sanchia were at the climbing frame and we noticed they were about to light up their sticks so they can spin them around and doing tricks one of the guys were walking around recording Me and Sanchia were on the side watching. It loved the cool tricks that they do I love seeing all the kids watching them spin fire. You can go watch them on Monday do tricks and even try spining them.

Sound travels to the Ear and goes through the funnel to the Eardrum and goes to the Cochlear and travels to the 3 bones- anvil, hammer and stirrup the 3 bones hit each other and vibrate and there’s a maze like thing that the sound travels through to get to the nerves that send a signal/ message to the brain.

If you put a rubber band on a can you watch it vibrate that’s how you hear sound is a vibration. The vibration vibrates the air particles like dominos.

Ear parts

Cochlear helps with balance, Eardrum, Nerve, Outer ear, Inner ear, Ear Canal, middle ear and the 3 b

On Tuesday and Wednesday we did a performance called Te karoro karoro we practise for most of the term. In the performance there was a seagull/ Charlie and then Tawhirimatea/me and his wind they hold  two pieces of fabric attached to a stick as the wind it’s a pretty gray colour and then the animals like kingfisher, blue duck, eel, hammer head shark/Sanchia, me and Faolan. Before going on stage I was bit nervous when I was on stage I happy, scared, nervous and after I was tired happy excited and falt accomplished and happy I finally done it. My masks were really cool because the hammerhead was really cool because the mouth was wide open with pointy teeth which made it look like it was a live pretty much and the Tawhirimatea was made by Zeta it was crazy cool it had big pinty gray hair with a bunch of cool tattoo art thing’s but it was really cool. My favourite in our performance was the part were the animals go up to the front.