Making instruments

We made instruments. I made a guitar. Matthew made a drum kit set and James made pan-pipes. It was cool seeing everyone elses instruments and trying to play them.

Then we made band groups and we learned how to play four beat music, then we learned how to play three beat music. We wrote our own music and then we practised and me and James and Matthew were playing our instuments.

We sounded so good that we got to play at senior syndicate singing.

By Daniel

Ukulele with Mrs Coop

At school we have been doing ukulele with Mrs Coop - we love Mrs Coop!

We are learning how to hold the ukulele and have been learning hard chords like

C,F,G7,D7,Am,A7 and G.

She has also showed us different strums.

We play lots of different songs like

"Hush Little Baby", "Shortlin Bread", "Quarter Masters Store",

"He's Got The Whole World In His Hands" and "You Are My SunShine" .

But my favourite song is "Quarter Masters Store" cause it rocks.

Today we learnt how to pluck on the ukulele which is sort of hard but fun.

By Nicky

Albert Park

After we have been to the Art gallery we went to Albert Park to have lunch before we went to the Orchestra.
I had my sandwichs for lunch and lots of other stuff to eat for my yummy lunch.
Then later on I climbed into a big hollow treewhich had lots of ways out of it. It was big...really big that you could sleep in the hollow cause it was like a cave.It was so much fun climbing into the biggest tree I have ever climbed in.
Then I walked all the way to the big cannons to have a look at them.
It was so cool, looking at the big cannons and climbing the enormous tree.
By Kaleb

Auckland Art Gallery

After the library we went to the Art Gallery. First we saw Goldies paintings - they were so realistic they looked like photos but they weren't.

Then we saw the modern art and the sculptures. There was one that had two pitch forks, rope and the back window of a land drover ,it was my favourite piece of art.

One piece of art was wiered because it was a red and yellow half circle .

There was also a piece of art that had hills and a bird, it was by Don Binney - I really liked that one too. The art gallery was really cool.

By Joseph

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

On the 10 of September rooms 4, 5 and 6 went to the symphony Orchestra in Auckland. The Orchestra was really cool with all those instruments such as the great Bassoon, the Flute, the Violin, the Violas and the cellos and my favourite was the great Doublebass - but there were many more.
The Conducter was so cool aswell. There was a really funny part when everybody was starting to clap but it wasn't finished! So the conductor put his hand up to say stop clapping.
After that it was time to go back to school. I really liked the Orchrestra it sounded awesome.
By Abbey

By Abbey

Musical instuments

Book character day