Student Blogging Challenge Week 8: Count out Three

Hi Edubloggers,

This post is going to talk about which blogs I commented on for this week’s challenge.

 

The first Blog I commented on was Olivia’s Blog. I commented on her blog because she wrote a very interesting post about the Gods of Olympia. Here’s what I wrote.

Hi Olivia,

This post was very informative yet concise. I really enjoy reading myths about certain lore and this expanded my horizon of knowledge. Here’s my Blog.

Cheers,
Hmschad

 

I then commented on Marianna’s Blog because we shared similar hobbies such as reading and was intrigued by her Child Labor Prevention Post. Here’s what I wrote.

Hi Marianna,

I really like you blog decor and agree that Child Labor should be ended. It was a very concise post.

Here is my Blog!

Cheers,
Hmschad

Finally, I commented on James’ Blog which he talked about where he lived which coincidentally helped me in a Geobee Competition.

 

Hi James,

This was a very interesting and informative post. I live in Hawaii where it has been pretty rainy lately but is synonymous with being tropical. Did you ever hear about the Geography Bee, it is similar to a Spelling Bee but is like a trivia overload. This post actually helped me answer a Tiebreaker question.

Here is my Blog that talks about Japanese rituals which are popular in Hawaii from plantation workers.

Cheers,

Hmschad

Bye,

Hmschad

Student Blogging Challenge Week 7: Commenting Activities

Hi Edubloggers,

 

This week’s Student Blogging Challenge is all about commenting and visiting.

For the Commenting Activites section, I commented on Sean’s Blog where he talked about the recent school shootings. I agreed with him saying how they weren’t secure and safe enough from those crazies and asking what are we going to do about security in the future.  I then commented on Mitchell’s Blog where they talked about the litter in our ocean and how it is drastically affecting marine life by killing 100,000 marine animals annually. Here is his blog

 

 

For the Visiting Activites section, we were required to visit some blogs to visit and comment on some blogs.  I visited…
  1.  Olivia’s Blog.: I visited and commented on her blog because she wrote a very interesting post about the Gods of Olympia.
  2.   I visited Marianna’s Blog because we shared similar hobbies such as reading and was intrigued by her Child Labor Prevention Post. She put a lot of effort into it.
  3.   I finally visited James’ Blog which he talked about where he lived which coincidentally helped me in a Geobee Competition.

For the Writing Post Activities section, we needed to write a post that gives guidelines or how to do something or expresses an opinion. I wasn’t completely sure about what to do so I just pasted my Commenting Guidelines.

Bye,

Hmschad

Student Blogging Challenge Week 5: Shinobue

Hi edubloggers,

 

This Free post will be about Shinobue.

 

Shinobue (篠辺絵) is a high-pitched bamboo flute native to Japan and used in many of Japan’s music including Ohayashi (Old Tokyo plays: Noh and Kabuki), Matsuri and Obon ( Festivals and Bon Dances.) The word, shinobue is consist of “shino” and “bue”. It is also used in Uta which means music in Japanese which is a semi-western influence fusing singing, Shamisen Playing, (Three stringed guitar,) and Shinobue soloing and playing in Nagauta music. The Shinobue, unlike a recorder is played on its side like a typical flute. There is a larger fue called a Shakuhachi which produces lower pitches.

Shino is named after the bamboo called shinodake, which is the material of the shinobue. Bue is just a suffix of fue, which means flute in Japanese. So, you can just call it shino or fue. Similar to Nohkan, which is the more associatable type of Fue used in Noh drama, which are smoked dry resulting in its high pitch.

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Besides Nohkan, there are many more types of Fue like the different tuned pitched Fue ranging from one hon choshi to 12 hon choshi, (twelve being the highest.) When playing, you can close the holes to change the pitch. It’s called tsutsune sounds. For 8 hon choshi that is tuned in C, opening a fingering hole one by one, the pitch goes up from C to D, E, F, G, A, B …. (the order of do, re, mi, fa, so, ra, shi.) Another piece of information is that it can go up to three octaves the lower being Ryo-on, the middle being Kan-on, and the highest and hardest to play being Daikan-on.

 

I hope this was a very informative reference to the instrument

 

 

 

Student Blogging Challenge Week 4 Activity 4: “The Wise Monk”

 

 

Long ago, a wise monk had a vision of a rice field with a lot of abundant stalks, yet a lot submerged under the goopy mud that the essential plant grew in. This message signified the people who were in desperate need of food. The people who had access to fresh food and clean water lived normally, which let them grow abundantly, however, the people who were suffering were submerged in the mud and were suffering.

 

He saw a old gaunt derelict lying painfully on the street of a boiling sun. Other peasants started to kick him which lead the monk to go to the vegetable patch to offer him some food which he sympathetically accepted. This made the monk want to assist those who are in need. The next day, he went to Ethipia where hunger is a problem.

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The first thing he did he did was see a mom and her child starving and holding a cardboard sign reading, “Please offer money for education.” Not only did he offer them food, but he made a kind offering of money. He then saw a man selling the rest of his supplies for hot meals from its cold neighboring country , Djimata. His cart was very rusty and broke when a cow ran into it, so the monk offered to help him and give him water since he was really dehydrated.

The last thing he did before he left was he started planting food in greenhouse areas since it was too arid to grow things, made a water pump to give them fresh water, and made a treaty with Djimata to stop taxing the country. After that fateful event, the monk pictured a full rice field ready for harvest.