Safety in the lab

 Rules

1. You must follow the instructions given by the teacher.
2. You must enter the lab without being asked to.
3. Report any breakages.
4. Shoes must be worn at all times.
5. Do not eat or drink in the lab.
6. If you spill something let the teacher know.
7. Always wash your hands after experimenting.
8. A heat proof mat should always be used when heating.
9. If in doubt ask the teacher.
10. Never taste or smell chemicals.

Other rules

1. Liquids do not go into the bins, because it could

2. Solids do not go down the sink because it could clog.

3. Wear safety glasses when you do experiments,

because something could explode in your face.

4. Put your chair under the desk, and stand at the bench

when you do experiments, because someone could be holding some chemicals and you could trip up and all the chemicals will go on your face.

5. Bags do not go on the desks, because it could get chemicals spilt on your bag and it could get 

6. Long hair should be tied back, because your hair could get caught on fire and you will be bold or die.

7. Do not smell the chemicals, because you could poison yourself and die.

8. Walk, don’t run around the room, because you could fall or slip or trip over and hit your head on something.

9. Do not eat or drink in the lab, because you could get chemicals in your food or drink.

Counting on the beat music through the decades 1930s to

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Hi guys welcome to my blog and today I will be showing you what me and my friend Gerhold have been working on.

Political Decision making

 Hi guys and today I will be showing you what we have been learning about the parliament.

The government have five main priorities.

• 1 to represent the people of New Zealand.
• 2 to provide a government.
• 3 to hold the government to account.
• 4 to create laws.
• 5 to improve how tax pay money is spent. 

Then the people of Aotearoa get to vote twice, one for who they want to represent them locally, and two for which party they want governing  New Zealand. 

The party vote determines each number of seats and the government is formed by party or parties, in that house.

Then the prime minister selects mp's from that party to become ministers, they are given responsibilities to manage health,

Police, education, and transport.

The governments job is to run the country, purpose policy and laws and choose how tax pay money is going to be spent.

The  Oppositions  job is to hold the governments account and provide an alternative government waiting.

In my class we made a class treaty we split up in little groups and got a piece of paper and wrote some things for the treaty on it then shared it around with the other groups and they got a chance to rearrange the wording of the ideas, that is how they do it in the government.

Counting on the beat, Orchestra.

 In Hurumanu 2 my class and I have been learning about orchestra.

Usually there is about 100 people in a symphony orchestra a Chamber Orchestra usually has about 30 to 40 people in it, and they are all lead by one person, the principal conductor he or she is the person that stands facing towards the group and makes different movements with their hands and they usually have a stick in their hand that is called a Baton.

An Orchestra has heaps of different  types of instruments including

• Clarinet
• Bassoons
• Violins
• Trumpets
• Trombones
• Drums.
• Cello
• Basses
• Flutes
• Oboe.

 The Orchestra was created by a man called Claudio Monteverdi on may 15 1567 then he sadly passed away in November 1643.

Counting on the beat, Ukulele

In Hurumanu 2 we have been learning about the Ukulele.

The Ukulele was created in Hawaii by Spanish people that couldn't

find enough wood to make a real guitar so they made a smaller version and that was when the Ukulele was created.

There are also different sizes of Ukulele and there are electric Ukuleles as well.

Most Ukuleles only have four strings on it, and the string are made of nylon so they are softer for your fingers and they wont hurt as much.

There are all sorts of varieties of Violin like,

• Tenor,
• Baritone,
• Concert,
•  and Soprano. 

You can make Ukuleles out of anything like a surf board or maybe even a random table I think, the Ukulele is reffered  to jumping flea 

in Hawaiian 

Counting on the beat

 In Hurumanu 2 we have been learning about recorders, recorders are similar  to flute. 

  We tried to play the recorder but we were not very good at it.

The Recorder is a instrument where you blow into it and by using the holes on the recorder you can make different tunes.

In the old days people used to make recorders out of wood,

you can get a bunch of different types of Recorders like,

• Soprano,
• Alto,
• Bass,
• and Tenor.

Most Recorders look the same but their just in different sizes.

You can even take the Recorder apart and make different sounds with those pieces for fun, did you know that the Recorder dates way back to the middle ages that's way before the Clarinet, Harmonica and Tuba  .

Recorders were carved out of Ivory wood, 

Counting on the beat, Violin

 In Hurumanu 2 we have been researching about the violin.

The violin is like the guitar, but except the guitar usually has six strings, and you hold the violin up in your neck and instead of play it with your fingers you play it with a bow that is mad of horse hair.

But there are certain sizes of violin for certain ages.

You an even get electric violins.

Their are heaps of different varieties of violin like,

• Baroque,
• Stroh violin,
• Electric Violin,
• five string Violin,
• Fiddle.

Violin also have to sound holes that are pretty thin,

Violin don't have frets like guitars and have different bodies and different bridges than guitars.