We are so lucky to have Mitchell as our classroom journalist.  He takes fantastic notes which he uses to write his reports for us here.  Great job, Mitchell!  🙂

On Wednesday 22 June the Year 3’s were lucky enough to be visited by John Budeselik.  Mrs Veary found a Spinning In Space song website and the class listened to one called Planets.  Then John helped them make their own space song by giving an example line of a song and asking for suggestions to change and improve it.  He gave some tips about rhyming and rhythm in writing songs, and how a song can tell a story.  It didn’t take long before they had written a song about space and with some music from John’s guitar it sounded great!

John also sang them two songs that he had already written.  One was called Willy the Wasp and it was about Willy flying back and forth to gather mud for a mud brick home in John’s shed.  The other was called The Slide and it was about the new slide in the park that was so fast that kids had to wear two pairs of jeans and three pairs of underwear so that their bottoms didn’t get burnt!  Both songs were extremely funny and also some of the best songs that the class had heard.

Finally John talked about how to get inspiration for songs in case the class wanted to write any songs at home.  His ideas included places, events and even how to draw and record ideas to be used for writing songs later.  John was very funny and entertaining during the visit, which everyone enjoyed.  They were also all very happy with the class song.

by Mitchell