Christmas Orchestra Concert

Today we went the the Christmas Orchestra in Edinburgh.

 it was amazing and it had a lot of Christmas songs and a ballet called the Nutcracker in a nutshell.( they cut it shorter than it normally was)

 The two presenters where very funny and made me laugh. They dressed in tutus for the sugar plum fairy song.

We went to tge concert because we have been studying Orchestras in music and looking at all the sections and instruments.Though I did notice they didn't have a euphonem in the orchestra. We also had great sets for each part of the concert.

It was very good. I enjoyed it a lot and would rate it 9/10 it was amazing. Then at the end they had there own song called “the 12 tunes of Christmas” it was super fun. 

Music Lesson 9 - Classical Music

Classical music is the music that an orchestra plays. 

Did you know that Here comes the bride is a classical piece?

Famous musicians who wrote famous classical music are called composers. They include Mozart and Beethoven. They lived a long time ago.

I'm not a big fan but I like the Christmas classical music because it's amazing when it's about Christmas. I also like the more exiting music. 

Here is the top 20 classical music pieces. 

My favourite one is by Greig and its called In the Hall of the Mountain King. 

I like it because it's exciting and you can imagine people running away from the dangers in the Trolls Cavern.

Here is a You Tube clip of the top 20 pieces.

Math lesson 9 areas square rectangle triangle

Areas are the opposite to perimeters. Areas are whats inside the space.

This is also another good strategy for a architect.

To work out an area of a square you have to do side squared - thats how long the side is and times it by itself.

 For a rectangle you have to times the width by the hight so its w Times h.


Here are some of my practices

Square - side = 4  Area = 16
side = 10  Area = 40
side = 24  Area = 96

Rectangle
width = 2  hight = 4  Area = 8
width = 6  hight = 10  Area = 60
width = 12  hight = 30  Area = 360

	Triangle Area = ½ × b × h b = base h = vertical height			Square Area = a2 a = length of side
	Rectangle Area = w × h w = width h = height			Parallelogram Area = b × h b = base h = vertical height
	Trapezoid (US) Trapezium (UK) Area = ½(a+b) × h h = vertical height			Circle  Area = π × r2 Circumference = 2 × π × r r = radius
	Ellipse Area = πab			Sector Area = ½ × r2 × θ  r = radius θ = angle in radians

Note: h is at right angles to b:

Battle of Bannockburn (my experience)

Today we went to the Battle of Bannockburn and got to go into the 3D experience.
It was amazing. We also got to see the battle on a board that had the map marked out and it had the mountains surfaces and  rises. Then after that we went head to head with the English team in a battle game that we got to play as the Scottish commanders.

The battle game was a computer generated game which was controlled by a game master who told us what our moves looked like. He was very good at describing things.  It was sort of like playing warhammer.

Our job was to beat the English so they can't get to the Castle of Stirling so we could win freedom of the Scots. It was super intense and we won in 1 day instead of wining in 2 days as that's what happens in real life history.

Then we got to go and stand where Robert the Bruce set up camp. We also stood in front of the statute of Robert the Bruce.

Edinburgh Castle

Today we went to Edinburgh castle and we looked at the canons, cells, the view, the stone of destiny and the Crown Jewels of Scotland. 

It was very cool looking out on the city, especially when it was all misty. 

It was very dark rainy and cold. But that didn't stop us from looking in the cannons and around the place like in the cells.  The cells were recreations of when prisoners were there in 1788

It's not as light as it looks :)

This is Mons Meg. It is 500 years old.

? Where does this cannon shoot ?

Sooo cold and wet. but this is where the Edinburgh Tattoo is done :)

Music lesson 8 - Percussion

Percussion are instruments that do have strong and are not brass without having to blow on them. They are usually played by hand. 

They are things like the triangle and xylophone as well as all types of drums.

This is a drum set. They are  the loudest percussion instruments. 

Wallace Monument

Today we went to the Wallace monument.  It celebrates William Wallace as  a national hero. He was not a hero when he was alive as most thought he was a rebel at best. In the 1800s Scottish people began to feel nationalistic so this monument was built.

We climbed the 264 steps and saw the sword and many others things that had to do with the battle of Falkirk and William Wallaces other battles.

It's was very high I thought it was amazing if look very well shaped by the architect. It was very fogy from the top of the monument but well worth it.