Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Paper Cranes And Haiku

So this week all the classes were assigned to make paper cranes because of the belief that making enough will make a wish of yours come true. The legend says one person must make 1000, but i don't think we are sticking to close to it. So each student was assigned to make 10. (I think) Mrs. J told us they would be going in her room as well as in the Green Room, which will also look nice.
The other half of the assignment was to make a haiku, meaning to make a short poem with 5 syllables on the 1st line, 7 syllables on the 2nd, and 5 once more on the 3rd. It also had to pertain to the holiday season in a way. So here goes mine:

My Computer Broke
In The Winter, Cold Winds Blow
Candy Canes Are Good

My computer did actually break, i dropped it on cement right outside my house on Sunday with a candy cane in my mouth. Maybe the wind blew it. Anyway, that's the reasoning for my Haiku.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010




Circles...
Circles have a very contributing part in music. In most (or popular) song forms a certain pattern must repeat in the song in order to have a certain catchiness to it, making it enjoyable to be listen to. There is also a Baroque form called Rondo in which you repeat the beginning of the piece at the ending (ABACABA), making circular ideals even more musical. Another example would be that The Circle of Fifths is written out in a way that you are always going back wherever you started in the keys signatures (Clockwise or counter clockwise).