Passport Activity: A-Z List of NZ Bands and Artists

For my passport activity I did a twenty point activity. It was an A to Z bands and music artists project. It was really cool to see all the bands and music artists from New Zealand. In the process of doing the activity I listened to the bands and artist's music. I really liked 'Don't dream it's all over" from Crowded House and "Rain" from Dragon. It was really cool to learn about those people.

Passport Activity

For the last four weeks we have a passport activity which means that we have to get two hundred points by doing activities. Some activities gave you fifty, forty, thirty, twenty and ten points. It's really fun because this year you had to learn about NZ music from new to old music. This activity is really fun because I like learning about history.   

Science: Spud Guns

For science today we did spud guns. It didn't exactly work because the straws kept bending. In my opinion the experiment was really fun because the potato went flying out occasionally. To make the potato shoot you had to push straw through the potato to have a thick rope of potato. After that you had to take the straw out. Then you had to get a narrow blunt stick to push the the potato out. The first time I did it, it didn't work out, but the second time it was flying out, it traveled at least 3 metres. It was really fun!

School Athletics

Yesterday my school and I did athletics. It was really fun, even though I didn't get a place. I always came 4th or 5th in every race. After an hour or 2 we did other athletic sports including shop put, discus and long jump. It was really fun, I came third in discus which was cool. When time was running out we did relays. For relays Cowley came first, Hillary was second and Blake was third. I was a really intense race. My house is Cowley and I was in the relay team it was really fun how everyone participated and had fun. 

Science: Bird Beaks

Today we did a science experience on bird beaks that were tweezers.We tried to pick up skittles, gummy worms and paper. So there were basically two types of tweezers. The first type was the flat to beaks. The flat beaks were good with skittles and paper because the flat top could slide under the paper which was easy to pick up. The same the happened with skittles too. The second type was a pointed and sharp tip beak. It was easy to pick up the gummy worms because it could jab into the worm very easily. I really liked this experiment because I am very interested into the life of birds. 

St. Peter's College

Last week the St. Peter's College orchestra came to Good Shepherd school. There were two orchestras, there was the symphonic orchestra and a string orchestra. They played Pink Panther, James Bond and a lot of other songs. In the symphonic band they had all kinds of instruments like trumpets, violins (string), clarinet, oboe, cello (string), piano and a whole lot of other drums. It was really cool because I love classical music.

Comics

 For art today we did comics, but this time we did comics that people have already drew but they haven't filled in the speech bubbles. So we had to fill up the speech bubble so we had write the story about what the picture looks like.