Counting the beat - ukulele

 Counting the beat - Ukulele

Hola! Today, I’ve been tasked to make a post about the amazing instrument - The ukulele.

There are many types of ukuleles, small ones are called sopranos and big ones are called baritone. Also, with Mr Crains, we TRIED to play the ukulele. My fat fingers won’t work for just that small ukulele.

One out of the four different ukulele’s ( soprano concert tenor baritone ) one is more popular than the others, and that is the soprano. When most people think of ukuleles, they would usually think of the soprano.

The thing that makes ukuleles different from guitars is the fact that their strings are made from nylon, sure there are others differences between ukuleles and guitars but those would be the most notable in my opinion.

But the reason ukuleles are so similar to the guitar is because they are in the guitar instrument family. 

Thank you for reading and have a nice day :D

Please leave a comment if you enjoyed and or found a mistake because I will be happy to fix it!

Gummy Bear Osmosis

Aim:

I want to find out what happens to Gummy Bears when we put them into different liquids.

Predictions:

I think that Gummy Bears will shrink or grow in the liquids.

Method:

Equipment:

• Three solutions - Water - Sugar - salt
• Four Gummy bears of the same colour
• Two Petri Dish
• Marker Pen
• Electronic Balance
• Measuring Cylinder
• Beaker 

Instructions

• Get your equipment
• Label Petri Dishs with dry, water, salt water, sugar water
• Weigh the Gummy Bears and record their weight on the Petri dish
• Add 40mL of the solution into the Petri Dish

Results

I tried to write B+S Because I was too lazy to write me and my friend's name but it ended up like Bts

Before for all of the gummys and the after for the dry gummy

	Dry	Water	Salt Water	Sugar Water
Starting Weight	5.11g	5.11g	5.11g	5.11g
Final Weight	5.07g	7.07g	5.89g	6.77g
Final Volume	0ml	31ml	22ml	29ml
Water Lose	0ml	9ml	18ml	11ml
Weight Change	-0.04g	1.96g	0.78g	1.66g

Orchestra

 Orchestra

Hello and welcome! In hur 2 with Miss Bremmer and Mr Cairns we have been learning about instruments, and this week we have been learning about the Orchestra. Last week it was all about guitars.

An Orchestra is a group of musicians ( although they can also be called instrumentalists ) usually play classical music with a combination of four instruments: Woodwind, percussion, brass and last but not least, strings.

Woodwind, believe it or not, need wind to use!.. That was funny was it :c

Although brass instruments also use air to use, a woodwind just looks like a fancy stick. Flutes and clarinets are some of the most popular woodwind instruments.

Percussion, are instruments that when hit or shaken, will make music. Things like xylophone, maracas, piano and many types of drums are all the percussion family. Do you remember those little triangle things back in preschool? They are also percussion!

Brass, are similar to woodwinds as if you blow into a brass instrument it’ll make music. They are usually made from some type of metal or sometimes wood and most have a funnel shaped mouthpiece.

Strings, are instruments that have strings so any instrument which uses string to make music would be a string instrument, mind blowing isn’t it! So this means instruments like a violin, cello, banjo and even a harp are all string instruments.

Well, thank you for reading my post and I hope you have a great day. Also, while learning about orchestra’s and the instruments orchestras use we also watch this video! Check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=owOcW6mjl6Y&feature=emb_logo

Pizzas

 For 17th and 18th of March we had Food Tech where we made two quick and easy types of pizza. The first one we had made was on Giannis pita bread, or so I think. The next pizza that we made was using tortillas. For both pizzas we used almost the same ingredients, red onion, capsicum, cheese, ham and salami. Sure a little plain, but both were amazing! Now that you know the ingredients that we used, it’s time for the preparation. We started off by dicing the capsicum and red onion. While two people were doing that someone else went up to get the pizza sauce and after that we had to get the cheese. The vegs were cut on a green board and the shredded cheese on a white board. Now we got out our brown board and we diced the meat. Now all the ingredients have been prepared we would add them onto our pizza’s base. We would add the vegs first then meat and then the cheese. Then right into the oven for a while and once the pizza was taken out of the oven it was almost ready, just gotta let it cool down.

Sadly I didn’t have the first pizza we had made but the second pizza did taste amazing, according to my mum. Apparently it was very cheesy.

Have a good day and bye!

Skittle Colours Experiment

 Skittle Colour Experiment

Aim

I want to find out what happens when you mix Skittle colours.

Method

Equipment

• Skittles
• Petri disk
• Warm water
• Beaker
• White background

Instructions

1. Get your equipment
2. Place your petri dish on the white background
3. Put your Skittles around the edge inside the petri dish
4. Pour warm water into the middle of the petri dish, gently.
5. Observe what happens.

Prediction:

I think the colours from the Skittles with slowly blend into the middle, all the Skittles will lose their colour and turn white.

Results

The Skittle's colour fell of the Skittle and when into the water go into the middle.After a little the colours merged.

Discussion

1. The colours dissolved (when a solid is mixed into a liquid, creating a solution).

Why did the colours spread?

2. Once the colours dissolved into the liquid, the high concentration of colour moved into the middle where the there a low concentration of colour. This is called diffusion.

Lighting a Bunsen Burner

Lighting a Bunsen Burner

Steps

1. Get heating equipment and place the equipment on the bench.

2. Get and then wear safety goggles.

3. Place the heat mat onto the bench near a gas tap.

4. Take the bunsen burner and place it onto the heating mat.

5. Connect the hose from the bunsen burner onto the gas tap.

6. Turn the collar on the bunsen burner to close the air hole.

7. Light a match or lighter and hold one of them over the bunsen burner.

8. Turn on the gas.

9. Then once on, turn the collar to open the air hole.

10. When turning off the gas make sure to turn the collar to close the air hole.