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 at     clay,  

 I     painted all

 my pots.      I used the

 lime green paint the most

 because the     other green was all used    

up    so it wasn't available    for me to use. I only 

had two things to paint which were my spotty little pot 

that was handmade    and my lime green crocodile.                             

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

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Today was the last session of our affective study. We have to choose a gifted person and do a presentation about them. I have nearly got it finished. I just have to edit the slides on it. I did it on keynote. It is fun doing affective studies. My study is about Valerie Adams and how she compares with Nadzeya Ostapchuk.

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At Robotics we learnt how to make the robot follow the black line.  We had to use a program that helped us follow the line.  It looked really hard but then I found out that it was easy when you knew how.  Today I played Matt L in chess and I was doing very well because I had taken his Queen but then I made a silly move which made me lose. Here is the code to make a robot follow a black line.

Katie M, Darryn, Nicola and Katie R are going to get some very yummy things. I will tell you what they are sometime in the story and I hope you enjoy this blog!  Do you know the difference between a muffin and a cupcake? Well it is one of those two. Look at the title. That might give you a clue. I gave Nicola, Katie M, Katie R and Darryn each a banana chocolate chip cupcake and they liked it a lot. I hope you like them too!

Gifted Study

Search, copy, paste. Hello again! Everybody at Enrich is working on this. Can you guess what it is? If you guessed a famous gifted person study, you are right and that is what my blog is about today.  My famous gifted person is... Valerie Adams.  She is gifted because of her amazing ability at.  She persisted with her shotput, because she never gave up, and has been competing since she was 14 years old.  She remained open to continuous learning because she has has changed coaches, and she has listened to other people's advice about how to be the best at shotput.  She has definitely strived for accuracy, because she is now the number one female shotputter in the world!  She is the World and Olympic Champion! shotput

Pots and lots

Clay!  I made a new plate and painted and underglazed my other pots that I made. I do it for passion time. I try a way to make it without the wheel. I tried something different than I usually do. Madison's pot broke because she dropped it. since she dropped it she had to make a new one. The pot that she dropped was painted in black and white stripes with some purple on the inside. I liked that pot. A teacher liked my rainbow pot. I know it was Katie or Nicola. It was lots of fun making pots and I think that I will do pots next year.

Clay!

Really? Yes I did clay today with Grace. We made plates, bowls, cups, pots and pans. I have given you some photos of some of my work. I made three cups, three pans,  three plates and three bowls. As you might think, I am making a tea set. Madison has just joined us today. She made a pot with a lid. Madison, Grace and I  are the only ones doing clay at Enrich. We do it for talent development/passion time. I enjoy doing clay. Yup,  I have pretty much finished doing my blog today.Bye!

 

Art

Today we worked on art some more. I was ready to re-print my new lino block onto a paper print that I had already done so it would create a mulit-coloured print. I had to print green on top of my yellow print. I finished it in a whizz. I was probably the first person in my group to finish. I liked doing this type of printing the most.

Multi-coloured prints!

Today for art I kept working on my lino prints. Today I had to cut out the lines of my actual design so that I could use a paper print of one colour that I've already done, and then re-use it with the new based and another colour on my next print to make a multi-coloured print! Katie came over to see what I was doing and she decided to have a go as well.  She said it was really fun.  You have to be very accurate, as you have to chisel out every single bit so that your next print will turn out perfect!

Chess and Art

I am going to the chess tournament in Dunedin on Saturday because I am fourth on the leader board for the Wednesday group. I have learnt that you can play without the Queen because everyone was relying on their Queen to do all the work.  Unless the King was in check-mate.  For talent development I continued with my lino prints.  I printed 7 lino prints and used three different colours which were orange, pink and light purple.  They looked GOOD when I  finished.I still have to do eleven  lino prints.

i-Pads

"Poetry again". I said to myself. It was my last day of poetry today. Today we were publishing our poems on the i-Pads. We used the app called Pic-Collage.  I have written three over the last three weeks. One of my poems was about chess, another was about yucky KFC and the last one was about squishy, squashy, yummy marshmallows. Here they are in their published form:

The Pit

The Pit! This is a hole that you can fall into when a problem you are having gets out of control.  If you are feeling angry, confused, nervous, sad, or stressed, sometimes all these feelings can build up and put you in the pit.  You go from being very happy, and then maybe you are confused that you have a problem, and before you know it, you're in the pit.  You can get out of the pit by having strategies to help you.  These will help you climb out slowly.  One of the best strategies is asking for help, or telling someone about how you are feeling.

Can I please be the spare Queen?

Today at Enrich we played some chess.  I went with Katie to have a battle on the GIANT chess board!  There were quite a few kids, so we split into teams.  I was on the white team.  My first question topiKatie was "Can I please be the spare Queen?"  Katie reminded us not to set up whole lines of chess pieces - it's not a good plan.  Also, we had to think where we were putting each piece, and tell Katie what our game plan was.  I got to go first!  My opening move was to move the Queen's pawn forward one space - this made room for my bishop to get out.  By the end of the 20 minutes, our team had the white team in trouble! We had our Rook in position, backed up by the Queen.  We were only a few moves away from checkmate!  The answer to Katie's question was "Yes - if we need a spare Queen, you will have to jump on the chessboard!"

Chess

Today at Enrich we did some chess lessons with Katie. We could choose to do an advanced lesson with Darryn or a beginner lesson with Katie. I went to Katie's lesson. In Katie's lesson we spit into two teams.  I was on Katie's team - white.  Katie showed us how she starts her game of chess and gave us tips along the way.  The game kind of started getting interesting.  She said that you have to make sure you back up your players with another piece so that they are guarded. We all had turns to move a piece.  We had to say why we were moving the piece to certain locations.  You had to keep thinking ahead!

APPLES!

We did some sketching today.  We had some basic objects and we had to sketch them out on paper.  Next,we had to paint them.  I like to paint - it is one of my hobbies, but my best hobby us reading, but we're not talking about that now!  Back to painting.  I used black, white, yellow, green, red, blue and orange.  Can you guess what I painted today?  If you guessed an apple... you are correct!  The biggest challenge was to get the right shape of the apple!

Let's talk about art and Keynote...

Art today was with Jenni because Darryn wasn't here today.  We usually go with Darryn.  We kind of made a rainbow today.  I did all 3 colours today:  red, green and blue.  You had to make the dark shade of it, and then blend it out to the lightest shade.  The colours you had to work with were - yellow, red, blue, white and black.  We did this to learn how to blend your colours so that you get the right shade that you need.

After morning tea, we played chess.  I played Norton.  I won!  I went from 25th place on the leaderboard up to 10th place!

I went to the Keynote workshop with Katie.  She taught us how to make a Keynote which is to help you show your work to other people.  I learned how to make different bits of information fly in and out of my screen!

Art with Darryn.

Today was the first  day of talent development.There were three choices art with Darryn, Performance with Nicola, and MADE Awards with Katie. I chose art. Darryn asked us what the primary colours are.  We said:  yellow, blue and red.  Darryn said that those 3 primary colours can make EVERY colour.  Those 3 colours CAN'T be made from other colours. We spent some time today on basic skills - blending colours.  By the end of this project, we hope to have our own art exhibition set up.  There will be heaps of different types of artwork on display.

pattern trip

I had to go on a FIELD TRIP. We`ve got to find the patterns on the way . Jenni is going to help us. We had to pair up but there was an odd number of kids there. I had to go by myself. .I got heaps of photos. The pattern types are b.o.s.s beauty, order ,strength ,survivabillity.

Hey thanks Samantha, you were amazing today and you found so many types of patterns .

Drama was what we did this morning.My drama teacher was supposed to be Nicola but she was not here today. So Katie took us for drama today. She taught the whole class drama games. The first fun game we played was called 'One Word Story'.That one was my favourite game. You play this game by:  Getting 3 people up on stage.  One person starts the story by saying ONE word.  Then the next person adds another word, then the third person adds another word.  You have to keep going!  The next game was called 'Colour Line'.You have 6 people up on stage, and they have a colour.  They all say their colour and then the audience closes their eyes, and the colour line gets muddles up.  The audience then has to guess the new colour line.  If they get it right, then they get a new colour and join the line, and the game starts again.

bumpy games

BUMP!  Part of our drama today, was a game called 'Musical Bumps'.  It's a bit like musical chairs, but instead of a chair, you have to sit down really quickly on the floor!  It was really bumpy!  Another game we played was "I packed my bag, and in it I put..."  The aim of this game was to remember all of the things and say them back.  So, Nicola started and she said "I packed my bag, and in it I put... pajamas" By the time it was my turn, I had to say "I packed my bag and in it I put pajamas, a book, shoes, a hat, a soccer ball, a laptop, a soft toy, my clothes, a bag of make up, my house, a toothbrush, a hairbrush,a  big chocolate bar AND I ADDED... the world." It would have to be a really big suitcase to fit in the world!  After morning tea, we played leaderboard chess.  I played Luca.  It was a busy game, but Luca won.  It was okay though, because I was already lower than Luca on the leaderboard.

Wilson gane

Today at Enrich I played a Wilson game called the hoop game. There were three people. In my team I had Luca, Mat and I. There was seven groups. There was a coloured hoop for each team. We got a red hoop. The rules were you had to hold hands and keep your feet together.