Maths

1. Jumbo the elephant had 52 peanuts and was so hungry that he ate 27. How many are left?

2. Zac the zebra had 75 black stripes and 83 white stripes. How many all together?

3. There were 15 rugby balls and 21 soccer and 4 rugby games were about to start and 6 soccer games how many balls were left?

Maori phrase

listen to ‘Katie’ on Audioboo

Speeches

Here is my speech about my fantasic furry friends.
I'm really good at using eye conntact and expression.

I need to work on more getures and make my speech come alive.

How we hear sound

Here is a digram of an ear.

This is how it works  First something makes a sound which makes sound waves. It goes into your ear canal and then goes through the eardrum and into the ossicles. Finally through the cochlea and makes  electrical pulses to the brain.

My mini speech

This is my mini speech about my terrific tramping adventure!!
I am really good at using exspression in my voice and eye contact.
I need to work on using gestures to make the audience interested.

Exploring sound

Room7's topic for term 2 is exploring sound.
This is what I already know......

1. sound travels in waves.
2. Instruments are shaped differntly to make different sounds.
3. When you blow the air goes through holes to make sound.

What I want to know......

1. I want to know how the music goes through water because sometimes you can haer it under the water?
2. How does the music get through the instrument so fast?
3. How does the music get made high and low?