Investigating sound

We have been doing lots of investigations over the last couple of weeks about how a sound is made and how it can be changed. 
Here are a few of the things we found out.


Emma explained 2 ways in which sound can be made:

Leonna found out that sounds are made when something vibrates:

Jihyun applied what she had found in the rubber band investigation to plan her own musical instrument. She knows that to change the pitch you need to change the thickness or the length of the string. How tight or loose the string is also affects how high or low the note is.

In the next part of our topic, we will be making our own musical instruments and writing instructions for how to make them. Maybe you can make our instruments following the instructions we write!

Changing sounds investigation

We have been learning about how a sound is made. We have played different instruments and found out how each one makes it's sound.

We were then looking at how the sound can be changed.  We did an investigation into how to change sound in some way. Here are some of our findings:

(the sound quality is not too clear as other groups were using the instruments as we were filming!)

by Toby and Rion

by Orion and John

By Jeremy A, Krish and Benjamin

By Alice, Wen Ting and Poppy

Carnivale time!

This week saw us getting dressed up for Carnivale. This is a European celebration to mark the beginning of Lent. The theme this year was 'Your favourite book character'. We had lots of fun and colourful costumes. We paraded around the infant and junior playground before watching some clowns entertain us.  
To end the morning, we went back to the class to eat crepes - yummy!

29th February - Blogging the Leap Year!

This year is a leap year and to mark the occasion, there is a going to be a special blog set up for the day.  We have to opportunity to leave our thoughts and comments for others around the world to see, comment on and add to.  We will be using part of our morning composing our posts and will view what others have posted later on in the day.
This is the blog site, if you want to read the information that is there:

http://feb29th.net/ 

So, the only thing to do now is to think about what you're going to say! What do you want the world to know? 

New topic: The Sound of Music

Welcome back after the Chinese New Year holiday - I hope you all had a good time!


We are ready to start our new topic on The Sound of Music! In this topic, we will become sound experts as well as musical instrument makers! We will be listening to music from around the world and from different periods of time.


I have made a Wall for you to post questions, answer questions and make comments about what you are learning.  For our Quadblogging friends - if you would like to leave questions, answers, comments etc, please feel free.

Lion Dance photos

This afternoon, we had a lion dance and acrobatic performance from a local troop. We hope you enjoy seeing some of the photos. Have a good holiday week!

Chinese New Year

Chinese new year is a celebration. when its Chinese new year you can see Dragon dances. by Rion

from Julia

on new years day my family gives me money and i keep it in the bank! Chinese new year is great fun!   Emma

WISH YOU GUYS A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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from John