Us at the Education Centre

A group out of the Blog Kids went to the Education Centre on Friday the 20th of November. We went there to present our blog. Some of us were nervous about presenting in front of about 40 teachers. We really enjoyed eating the cupcakes because they were delicious. The presention was really fun and we all did a great job. Miss Lewis is very proud of us the Blog kids.

Here is a short video of us playing the drums in our presentation.

How to play the drum

This week we are going to show you a video of students learning how to play the drums. We hope you enjoy it!

Time to put on the skin

The materials needed are goat skin, small string and long string. The wet goat skin is a little bit smelly. There are 24 holes in the goat skin. First you thread the string through the goat skin. Secondly you tighten the skin so its not all floppy so the top of the skin is flat. If you touch the wet skin it can make it bumpy. Your drum will be ready the next day.

Comments

'it was interesting'

'it was fun helping others'

'it was hard tightening the strings'

'it was hard putting the skin on.'

Designing the drum.

First they drew a design on the drum, then they paint it. The students think it was really fun. It takes one day for the paint to dry because they used water paints. The name of the drum making teacher is Brook.


Comments from the drum making classes.

'painting the drum was cool'

'it was great having friends helping me'

"i enjoyed playing on the drums when they put the skin on"

First stages of making the drums.

We asked students from rooms 10, 14 and 22 about how they have made their drums so far. Each student is given 24 staves (wooden pieces). The students put their staves in a fan shape. Then they put them into groups of three. Next they glued the staves together to make a cone shape. After they had glued the staves together they wrapped the rubber bands around the glued staves. You need to put sticks in the rubber bands and twist them around to make it tighter.

Welcome to our blog.

This term the blog kids will be informing you about the drum workshop at Pennington Primary School. We would like to introduce ourselves. Our names are Deng, Harley, Chau, Shayonna, Jessica, Saophea and Betty. We look forward to sharing our news with you.