Badminton Session :)

Badminton 1st Session :)

As we walk into the hall to start our first Badminton session. We first played a game of stuck in the mud, just for a warm up. At first our Badminton coach named Bobby, introduced himself to the class before we even started. Bobby was only gonna be here for 4 weeks to coach us.

Mainly half of the class have played Badminton, also me. By starting off our first Badminton session, we had three

rounds of stuck in the mud for a warm up.

As time runs out, Bobby gives the class advice and lessons of how to hold a badminton racket. Which are forehand and backhand. Forehand is a  grip that is used to hit shots that are on the forehand side of your body and around the head shots. Backhand grip is used to hit shots that are on the backhand side of your body.

Then after every single student goes and gives it a try, some fail at first but. As you still practise and practise many times it will somehow turn into success. To finish off our session we have a one on one compertition to see how long you can go with out stopping or dropping.

Then after having a little fun to finish off, we finished it off properly by saying a big thank you to bobby for teaching us the importance during badminton, and also looking forward for next week.

What I discovered in Sound Between Low and High :)

Experiments with High and Low Pitches

Yesterday during inquiry times our class got onto sites that were compared to sound, what we did with these sound wave sites was, we had to match the sound wave with the other. And also see what changes the Guitar, Pipes, and drum to either go high or low.

Drum: What I've had experienced using the drums was that, by tightening the main part of the drum where you tap, has a high pitch also known as high sound. Also I learnt by loosening the main part of the drum, and tapping it, turns to a low pitch. Why does is it like that? well

Pipes: Experimenting with pipes were very interesting, because what I learnt was, that it wasn't depending on how wide it is but it is mainly depending on the length. Using Pipes was confusing but actually easy, during the game I had to click on all pipes then see if they all had the same pitch as the other, but one thing was that they were all the same length but different wighth but still sound the same. So having different lehths of pipes is what changes the pitch when you blow through it.

Guitar: On the guitar, I learnt that the thinner the string, the high the pitch is when you strum it. Also the thicker the string is, the low the pitch is. Mainly when you strum a guitar all threads sound different, that's because all threads are different sizes.
Using all Sound Wave sites helped me learnt a lot about sound.

 If you want to try the game just click on Sound . try it out it's really helpful :).

Serenity's Scientific Investigation Process

The Scientific Investigation Process

Step 1: Question - A statement that requires an answer, about what you are going to answer, needs to be something about what you can measure. Also pacifically starts with what when where and why .

Step 2: Research- use resources such as books and the Internet to perform background research on your question. Gathering information now will help prepare you for the next step in the Scientific Method.

Step 3: Hypothesis - Using your background research and current knowledge, make a guess that answers your question. Your hypothesis should be simple statement that expresses what you think happen.

Step 4: Experiment - Plan your procedure and conduct an experiment that tests your hypothesis. The experiment should be a fair test that changes only on variable at a time while keeping everything else the same. Repeat the experiment a number of times to ensure your original results weren’t an accident. Always do a fair test when you are experimenting. Variable is when experiments are different.

Step 5: Data - Collect data and record the progress of your experiment. Document your results with detailed measurements, descriptions and observations in the form of notes,  journal entries, photo, charts and graphs.

Step 6: Observation -  Describe the observation you made during your experiments. Include information that could have affected your results.

Step 7 : Conclusion - Analyse the data you collected and summarise your results in written form. use the information to answer your question, Do the results support your hypothesis.

Last step (Step 8)  Communication - Present your findings.

Immersion Assembly

Immersion Assembly

Saying ‘Hi’ to everybody and asking how was their holidays? I was Amazed to be back to school. After the morning bell rang, students headed off to their classes to start off Term 2.

This morning we had an amazing Immersion Assembly, inside the hall there were duct taped helium balloons on the walkway and also on the stage. Looking around the hall, where the decorations and outfits were all relating to the theme for term 2.

As we got told from Mr Burt saying, that the topic for this term is “I LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT”. After Mr Burt’s talk, every team gets to show what they will be learning about this term. For term 2 every team gets an topic that relates to Science.

As Mr Burt said that this Term its mainly about things that relate about science, so then Mr Burt had a few balloons tied up to his stuffed yellow taxi-cab, and asked how many balloons does it take for his stuffed yellow taxi-cab to go up into the air, at first there was 14 helium balloons, but then we added two more balloons to Mr Burt's yellow taxi-cab, then as Levi Samuels lets go of it, the yellow taxi-cab got stuck on the ceiling of the hall.

Team 1’s Topic is going to the Zoo tomorrow and learning the environment of animals. Team 2’s topic is about Flights and mainly Gravity. Team 3’s topic for term 2 is about colours, how and why rainbows are formed. Team 4’s topic is about what things can and won’t sink into water, and last Team 5’s Topic for term 2 is about Sounds, what we can use to make different kind of sounds.

As I know that this term is going to be Awesome