What a day today has been. Between the sound of saws, bellowing baloons and the thrum of drums, we managed to kind-of write and reherse a new song for our performance.

I'd love to hear what you thougth of making today's instruments in your comments below.
Blue oboe
Rubber glove bagpipe
Trumbone
Diddley Bow

Sarah's trumbone

Carter and a piece of his trumbone - future horn player.

Luke and trumpet.

Victor's metal chimes. Yet to make the frame.

Jared and Xam with oboes.

Marcel's morris dancing stick

Harry and horn.

Nidhi and her oboe.

Nadia's oboe.

Arjun on drums.

Siana's oboe.

Yashv and Dannel, drums.

Fin's beats.

Sam Jnr, Milan and Sam with their (soon to be) electric Didley Bow guitar.

Kimberly and Zoe-Jade blow oboe.

Paloma and Ava's drums.

Georgia's trumbone - minus it's horn.

Leave your comments below.

Arts Attack - Junk Music Song

Junk Song
based on Black Horse & a Cherry Tree (KT Tnustall)


Junk Song
(Based on Black Horse & a Cherry Tree (KT Tnustall)



Woo Hoo, Woo Hoo, Woo Hoo, Woo Hoo

Well my eyes looked down and they saw some things
I said "Hey baby hey, gunna make them sing!"
Woo Hoo, Woo Hoo, Woo Hoo, Woo Hoo


I saw that stuff sitting on the ground
Heaps of junk lying all around.
Woo Hoo, Woo Hoo, Woo Hoo, Woo Hoo

I kicked a can that was full of dents
I thought, that can be my instrument
Woo Hoo, Woo Hoo, Woo Hoo, Woo Hoo

CHORUS

And I said
Oh, oh, oh oh oh oh
I said
Oh, oh, we're gonna make you sing!

And I said
Oh, oh, oh oh oh oh
I said
Oh, oh, we're gonna make you sing!



I pick up a bottle and I pick up a pipe
And put them together – oh so tight.
Woo Hoo, Woo Hoo, Woo Hoo, Woo Hoo

I grabbed my hammer and I grabbed some nails,
My teacher said, "You cannot fail."
Woo Hoo, Woo Hoo, Woo Hoo, Woo Hoo


Gonna make some music, gunna make it LOUD,
Gonna make my myself Oh so PROUD
Woo Hoo, Woo Hoo, Woo Hoo, Woo Hoo

Gonna move a little here, gunna shake a little there
Gonna blow and rattle - EVERYwhere.
Woo Hoo, Woo Hoo, Woo Hoo, Woo Hoo


CHORUS
And I said
Oh, oh, oh oh oh oh
I said
Oh, oh, we're gonna make you sing!

And I said
Oh, oh, oh oh oh oh
I said
Oh, oh, we're gonna make you sing!

Arts Attack - Drum Roll

Not bad for a first effort.

We all managed to make a drum. Victor and Nadia sawed up aluminium pipe into different lengths to make a celestial chime. They will make a frame for it in the next day or two. Meanwhile, Carter has shown he has a remarkable ability to blow a trumpet. The 20mm electrical conduit piping was a perfect match for his size and showed his wonderful embouchure (lip shape for blowing).

Harry and Marcel will make fine Morris dancers one day. Good work with the bottle tops guys.

Tomorrow we add the guitar. Let's see if a wilder rhythm starts happening.

What was the best part of the day for you?

Arts Attack - Everything is Rhythm

When you walk, work, play, where is the rythm in you?



Everything is Rhythm

Arts Attack - Some really interesting instruments

Ever heard of a diddley bow? What about the instrument of pipe? Or the glockenspeil made of old tools?

What do you think?



The Diddley Bow (Watch the first 90 seconds only - unless you love the blues!)




PVC Pipe Instruments




Tool Glockenspeil




How to make a Diddley Bow

Arts Attack - Talk about junk!

What do you think of this load of old rubbish? Do you have anything like this that we could use?


Talk about junk!

Arts Attack - Take a look at these Cool Kids' Instruments

Interested in making this cool stuff? I am. Bring your junk along and let's see what we can create and play.



What do you have at home that we could turn into fine music?

Arts Attack - Junk Orchestra - Day One

Our home-made junk orchestra is happening right here.

Each day we will post updates on our musical adventure. Keep looking to see how we're doing.

Take a look at these videos will give us some ideas for different to make our musical instruments.


Please comment with your ideas of what would be a good instrument to make.

Room 20's Inquiry Topics

Room 20, you've given yourselves some really challenging areas to investigate: bioluminescent blooms, aurora (Northern Lights) ad Brinicls.  The Padlet you have created gives your whole class plenty of material to get started with. 

Please comment at the bottom of this post:

1. Which part of the Padlet-making task was best and which part was challenging?
2. Which person in the class had the most interesting notes and websites and why did you find them interesting?

You will be using these tools in your inquiry topics. 

Created with Padlet

Room 20 is a mainly Year 5 class.

Room 16's Inquiry - Space

Room 16, your task was to find the best web pages you could about space. You were asked to post them onto the Padlet Wall and to write a note for each web page you found. Your note had to tell us something interesting you discovered on that web page. You had to create a note that had your Main Point.

Please comment

1. Which part of the Padlet-making task was best and which part was challenging? 
2. Which person in the class had the most interesting notes and why did you find them interesting?

Created with Padlet

 Here's our class Pearltree, take a look at what we all created on our Inquiry topic.

Icy Tea makes my brain freeze

This is where the kids in my ICT classes get to practice transforming ICT skills into real learning back in their 'real' classes.

I'm not that interested in technology because it's there - I am only interested in using the fantastic web tools to transform our learning.

An ICT class is really a misfit and doesn't suit how kids think about technology. This is a journal to record the shift in our school from a stand-alone ICT class to a fully integrated e-Learning pedagogy.

Enjoy the ride. Let's see where I'll get to.