The Glove Hooter Band

Students are currently making glovehooters, exotic rooster-like hooters which sound a lot like foghorns! Students had to study parts of an instructional text and had to organise it so it had a logical sequence and then make their very own hooter. Some have actually made two. We have enough variety of pure notes and off-notes to compose something recognisable as well as something whacky. The band will perform at the final assembly of this term. The students decorated cylinders of varying lengths and diameters. They are currently learning the techniques to get the best sounds. It's a fun unit with quite a few variables. Here are a few of them:

Trying out the hooter

Nanami tries her glovehooter...

Mould Investigation: Science

 Students are setting up their science experiments tomorrow. Today we looked closely at science reports written by former students on other topics, honing in on the key features of this genre. Students have formed pairs or groups of three to explore some aspect of mould growth in bread. They have to design a fair test. Here are the expectations for the report. We read this through as a class and discussed the more challenging aspects. 

Group 2: sometimes it is best to turn off the flash

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Sorry guys, I can only put up the photos minus people, remember this is a science report not a who's who for The Mercury social pages. We need photos of the mould growth.

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The most important thing: occasionally take some calculated  risks and learn from your mistakes.

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Grooup 4

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