Music 4 - Orchestras

An Orchestra is a band of instruments.

That are softer then rock and pop. It has 4 sections brass, wood wind, string, percussion.

I was in the brass and the brass instruments are buzzed to make sound.

English lesson adverbs 5

Adverbs are adding to the verb. Like running = slowly running. Normally they end in LY.

Jumping - quickly jumping

Driving - slowly driving

Stopping - enigeticly stopping

France Geography Report Draft 1

France is best known for its wine, cheeses and perfume.

France is located in Europe under Belgium and on top of Spain.

France is 640,679 km² big. 

It has 66.03 million people living in it.

In France they speak not only French but 34% English, 13% Spanish, 8% German, 2% Italian. 

The government that France has is

This is the French flag.

In France they use euros as their money.

In France their national animal is a rooster.

In France they have the same shapes roofs as England. It is pointy so the snow doesn't stay on the roof as much. Alot of people live in villages and the houses are very old and small.

As a tourist, you should go to Paris first to see the Eiffel Tower.

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Well done Morgan, I can see you are really trying with your spelling and research.

You've missed a few questions though and I'd like to see some things expanded to explain more. ( food, Festivals, famous people, famous things that have happened there)

Remember - you have been to France a few times, so you can comment on what the food is like and some of the things you can see. What about the Palace of Versailles? 

Downe house - Charles Darwin

Today we went to Downe House in Kent. It was the home of Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin was a naturist, scientist and an explorer in the 1800s.

He came up with the Theory of Evolution.

He also found out about the theory of Survival of the fittest and Natural Selection

When he was 22 he sailed on the Beagle for 5 years around the world. He collected bugs, tribal people and animals from his visits.   He studied them and drew them on his books. Then he found out what family they came from and categorised all living things.

He published a book called the Origins of the Species. It took him 20 years to publish it because it had alot of things in it which went against Christianity and their beliefs about God and creation. But he still got yelled at and was hated by many people.

This is a painting of him just before he died. We saw the painting in his house.

Math lesson 4 equivalent fractions

A equivalent fraction is a fraction that is the same as an other but its written differently. Examples are  1/2 and 2/4 are both the same.

This is useful to know do that when your working with fractions you can simplify them.
When you add fractions, you need to simplify them so you can add them. they all need to be the same.

Here is an example of equivalent fractions to half.

England - Geography Report

England is know for fish and chips, the Big Ben and it's long history.

England is located above Europe.

England is 130,395 km² big. It go into Australia 58 times. Can you believe this?

53.5 million people live there. WOW. Thats over twice as many people in England.

In England they speak English. 95% of people speak English as thier first language.  Other languages spoken as a first language here is Welsh 1%, Polish .5%, Punjabi .5%,, Hindi .5%, French 23%. Spanish 8%, German 9%.

In England they have a monarch government. This means that there is a Queen, but she is just a head of state and has no power over the rules in the country.

In England they use pounds as their money. England is in the the EU but keeps its own money.

Englands national animal is a lion.

The other national animal is a unicorn.

This is the official emblem.

Some of the famous people from England are King Henry the 8th. He is famous because he chopped off the heads of his wives because the church wouldn't let him divorce them. He became the head of the church in England let let people divorce their wives. He also took all the churches money away from them.

Queen Victoria is famous because she ruled for over 63 years. She was very cranky because she was very sad because her husband Albert die when he was young. Lots of her kids died too.

In England they have bangers and mash, beef cobbler and bubble and squeak.

Bangers are sausages. Bubble and squeek is left over vegetables that are fried up in the morning.

If you go to England you need to see the Tower of London, Stonehenge, Windsor Castle and lego land.

There are lost of old houses and mansions and castles to see in England. The gardens are amazing.

Music lesson 3

Todays music lesson looks at different and wierd musical instruments.
We went to Siegfried's Mechanisches Musikkabinett in Rudeshiem.
Most of the instruments here come from the Black Forest in Germany. 

This is a band in one. This needs electrical power. It has 19 instruments in it.

This is a organ it gets wound on the side and makes very good music. They usually had is monkey to dance and they would get money.

This is a music chair when you wind it up and sit on it... It makes music. I think this is very cool and a very smart idea. 

This is a smokers music box. When others wound up and the button is pushed the six sides come out and they hold things and it play music. I think that they can put things in it other then smokes.

This is a organ grinder and I got to play it. 
You wind a handle around and around to make the organ play.

England Geography Report Draft 1

England is know for fish and chips, the Big Ben and it's long history.

England is located aboth Europe.

England is 130,395 km² big. 

53.5 million people live there. 

In egland they speak English. 

In England they have a monarch government.

In England they use pounds as there money.

Englands national animal is a lion.

In England they have bangers and mash, beef cobbler and bubble and squeak.

If you go to England you need to see the Tower of London, Stonehenge, Windsor Castle and lego land.

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Great first draft Morgan.  Things to watch
Capital letters for proper nouns.
Spell the country correctly.

Questions still to answer
What other languages are spoken here?  percentages?
How does England compare in size to Australia? (how many times would it fit in there?)
what famous people come or came from England?  What are they known for?
What are the houses like? What is the plumbing like?

Your opinion  - Isn't it a bit weird that the emblem is a lion?  There is actually another animal - what its it?  Put in the photo of the emblem.

Pictures of the famous places

Extras I'd like to see:
Explain things alittle more - What are bangers?  What is mash?

Grammar lesson 3 - adjectives

Adjectives are describing words.

They are used a lot to make good sentences. Here an example. “The kids played in the park.” Then with adjectives it could be “The daring kids played in the local slide park.” See how it changes how good it makes it so much more exciting?

Maths lesson 3 times tables

Times tables are another essential thing to math. hey are the building blocks and without them, you can't really do maths.

Times tables are use often to work out big answers and hard numbers.

We have to know all of our times tables this year.

Book review (the mystery of captainsparklez)

Today I read a book called the misty of captainsparklez. This book is from kindle and it's free.
I thought that this was a good book to read if you have 1 hour to spare and it's pretty exiting. I don't want to spoil to much so I'll not go into detail. This book is about a miner called Steve and his three friends and there story of how he got out of a bad  situation.

It would only be good for people who know minecraft.

Spain Geography Report

Spain is best known for its bull fighting, a tomato festival where they throw tomatoes at each other and its good food.

Bull fighting is cruel to the bulls. They all die and are killed horribly. Its just for entertainment and its disgusting.

This looks like a sticky situation. This is the tomato festival. Did yo know that in one town they had to stop people coming in when they had 20 000 people throwing tomatoes. 

They grow a special type of tomato for this. They aren't very  nice to eat. I don't like tomatoes anyway.

Spain is on the left side of Portugal and under France and is in Europe.

Spain is 504,645 km² big. It can fit into Australia 16 times.

The population of Spain is 46.25 million .

Other than Spanish they speak Arabic, Romanian, English and Germany to list a few.

In Spain they have a Monarchy government.

The Spanish flag has one stripes of red and yellow.

In Spain they use euros as there currency.

Some of the famous food in Spain are pinchous and paella.

Pinchous are little dishes. We had this alot for lunch on the camino. You buy them in bars.

Paella comes in a big wok.

Famous people in Spain

Tourist spots?

What are houses like?
 and perhaps talk about if you go to Spain I would highly suggest to do the camino....

Music lesson 2 - instruments

There are lots of types of instruments. 

I used to play an instrument called the Euphonium its a brass instrument.  the trumbone and the trumpet are also brass instrument. The brass instruments are all buzzed and they have a mouth piece called the reed.

Can you guess what they are?

1. The ________

2. The ________

3. The ________

Answers 

1. Trumpet

2. Euphonium

3. Trumbone

Did you get 3/3 😃

Grammar lesson 2 - verbs

Verbs are doing word the can tell the reader what a setting thing or person on the book is doing. Verbs include jump, run, fly and swim. Verbs are very important to a book as it tells what's happening.

Spain Geography Report Draft 1

Spain is best known for its bull fighting, a tomato festival where they throw tomatoes at each other and its good food.

Bull fighting is cruel to the bulls. They all die and are killed horribly. Its just for entertainment and its disgusting.

This looks like a sticky situation. This is the tomato festival. Did yo know that in one town they had to stop people coming in when they had 20 000 people throwing tomatoes. 

They grow a special type of tomato for this. They aren't very  nice to eat. I don't like tomatoes anyway.

Spain is on the left side of Portugal and under France and is in Europe.

Spain is 504,645 km² big. It can fit into Australia 16 times.

The population of Spain is 46.25 million .

Other than Spanish they speak Arabic, Romanian, English and Germany to list a few.

In Spain they have a Monarchy government.

The Spanish flag has one stripes of red and yellow.

In Spain they use euros as there currency.

Some of the famous food in Spain are pinchous and paella.

Pinchous are little dishes.

Paella comes in a big wok.

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Great first draft Morgan!  great details.
Just a few things you forgot to reserach
Famous people in Spain

Tourist spots?
What are houses like?
 and perhaps talk about if you go to Spain I would highly suggest to do the camino....

Maths lesson 2 number sentences

A number sentence is like spelling a word in English and is just as important to maths as it's important to English.

Number sentences are used when doing math so you can find out what the answer of the question is.

You have to learn how to read a number sentence and what its asking you to do. 
This is a simple one.

A harder example might be

If Morgan, Lilly and Xander were given 15 lollypops. How many each would they get?

What its asking me to do is: 15 divided by 3

Germany - Geography Report

Did you know that in Germany the invented the press for printing? We visited it in a museum in February, so if you've been around for long time on my blog that was the Gutenburg post.

Germany is in Europe next to Poland and beside Belgium and the Netherlands.

The capital city is Berlin.

Germany is 357,168 km² big. It could fit into Australia 21 times.

There is 80.62 million people who live in Germany.  Thats nearly 4 times as many people in Australia.

In Germany they speak German, English, Russian and French.

In Germany they have a democracy government.

They use euros for there currency. The Euro is used all over Europe.

There national emblem is a eagle.

Germany has alot of history. It was settled by the Romans 2000 years ago. We have been to some of the forts castles still standing. There have been lots of wars involving Germany, including the 1st and 2nd World Wars which were started by Germany.

The famous foods in Germany are bratwurst, black forest cake and their famous pumpernickel bread. One of there famous beers is a black beer.

You see these Barbecues everywhere as fast food in Germany. I love bratwurst best.

In Germany they have different roofs for the snow and ice that they have to deal with. So the houses have steep roofs.

Did you know that in Germany they have a few events on the ninth of November? In 1918 the monarchy was overthrown and replaced with the democracy government. They also have a night of remembrance from the second world war and the berlin wall coming down.

If you were going to be a tourist and want  to visit this country I would suggest to see the Neuschwanstein Castle, go to Oktoberfest and Brandenburg Gate.