Hockey

What is hockey?

Hockey is a team sport, this sport is played between a group of two teams as long as

both teams have the same amount of players. The aim of the game is to use hockey

sticks ( Which have a hooked bottom with one flat side and one curved side ) and

using the sticks the team has to drive a small hockey ball towards and into the goal

of the opposing team. 

In each team there should be a defence which stays in their team’s half of the field.

Attackers are allowed to be anywhere beside their own team’s goalie circle. Last but

not least, the goalie stays in the goalie circle to defend their goal.

Unless you are playing in a real hockey team and only playing for a school sport you

most likely only need a hockey stick, Shin pads and mouth guard. Shin pads and

mouth guard are for safety purposes as you can get hit in the shin with a stick or a

ball easily. But when it comes to a mouth guard, Either you buy a mouth guard or else

you might have to buy a new set of teeth. 

Never use your hockey stick like you’re playing golf, just don’t be stuid we are NOT

playing golf. Try your best not to hit the ball up in the air, this can sometimes

happen when you hit the ball with your stick a little under the ball. Never lift up

your hockey stick above the waist.

While learning how to play hockey I learnt how to juggle with my hockey ball on my

stick, it isn’t easy and also isn’t too safe but that day we had plastic hockey sticks

and tennis balls.

If you may have any questions on how to play please ask away in the comments and I

will try to get back to you.

Hockey tips

 

When playing hockey  use both your hand to hold the hockey stick, use your non

dominant hand to hold the top part of the hockey stick, like this -

When it comes to mouth guard and how to mold them but when you do, do you

BEST to make it the perfect size because if you don’t it can be extremely

uncomfortable and for me it can make me sick.

To block balls have your stick down to the ground although sometimes it can be

tough to block like this but if you are a goalie you SHOULD block like this as it

makes it easier to stop the ball.

Masks in theatre

Masks in Theatre

Masks are used in theatre to represent a character in performances. The tradition of theatre masks goes back to ancient Greeks who would make masks to use in theatre to carry dramatic effect. Actors wear masks so the audience can see the expressions a lot more clearly. And from what I know it can also be good for comedy. Some masks can be made to use as an animal because it would be hard to train animals for pefromeses or other mythical creatures or people.

 

🔔Themed Bells🔔

Here at Hornby High school we don’t have ‘normal’ bells. Although we do only have them in the massive auditorium. But everywhere else, we have MUSICAL BELLS. Sometimes if there’s a special event that is going on around New Zealand the bells will change to fix the event.

This week’s music is from the band Six60. For the 17th to 21st of May is the song ‘All She Wrote’ And this song is based over a relationship break up. The girl leaves him and writes in a note about her departure.

The Six60 band has 6 members, Matiu Walters, Marlon Gerbes, Chris Mac, Eli Parwai, Ji Fraser and Hoani Matenga. The Band Six60 formed in Dunedin some time in 2008.

I love the Themed bells here at Hornby high school. Many other schools do have bells like these but at my primary school they only had one song all YEAR. So I’m very happy that this year we get to listen to all different types of songs.

Term 1 Reflection blog

 Term 1 Reflection Blog

Questions -

1. What were your Term 1 highlights?

2. What was challenging about Term 1?

3. What goals would you like to set yourself for Term 2?

Highlights

My BIGGEST highlight of term 1 was Mr Cairns. I don’t want to be rude Miss Beer, I still love you! 

I loved the classes with Mr Cairns because all of his classes were fun.

I liked music class with both Mr Cairns and Miss Bremner, I loved to watch the videos with Miss Bremner and it was super fun to play the music and most importantly the cup song.

Challenging

Be forced on my work, If it was something I didn’t really like I would almost never complete my work. This is something I want to work on for term 2 and well the rest of my life…

Goals

I would love to be more forced on my work like I said in Challenging. I can easily get carried away and do something other than my work.

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