Would you like to see a photo of Poochy? asked Katie.

Kandinsky's circles

Today with Katie we made circles. (Or that's what Katie called them.)They were in a big swirly pattern with a backround.  Mine was using yellow, orange, two different shades of red, light brown, dark purple,green, greeny blue, blue, dark blue and black. Wassily Kandinsky was the person who created this art by listening to music. Here are some examples...

   

Clay Stamps

Hi everyone! Today with Marie, a clay expert we made mugs. They were really tall and since we were very lucky, Marie let us use her templates! Each one had a different pattern and it seemed that the most popular was supposed to be the flower, but today it was the city. Almost everyone in the group used the city template! It was red and had some buildings on it. Here's what it looks like pressed into clay...

KLUNK, KLUNK, KLUNK

KLUNK, KLUNK went my boots this morning. On I went to the computer to see my daily email. Katie had put on a link. The link was http://www.memory-improvement-tips.com/tetris-puzzle-game.html. It was a memory game. I clicked on the link and it took me to a game. My hi-score was 910. Suddenly the music came on. I rushed to the mat ready to start the day...

I took one look at the flip chart and realized it was gifted awareness week! That was why there was a poppy on the flip chart. First we talked about gifted awareness week. Then Grace, Luca, Madison and I went with Marie, our tutor, to do clay pots. She told us to sketch our pots. Next it was morning tea. YUMMY! The teachers provided us with free morning tea. We each got a cupcake and a cup of milo. Then we had bloging. Right now!

Clay today....Yipee!

Clay today, Horay. Today I was doing clay with Grace and Madison as  part of my Passion Project for the term. I made three things so far but they're not very good. I hope I will be able to make better ones. I was at least hoping to get this. Never mind, I'll try harder  next week.

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BOOM goes the rook on the chess board, taking the queen. The pawn moves to take the rook but the time had run out. So far I had a pawn and a queen, while Katura only had a pawn and a bishop. Phew, if she had took my rook it would havebeen a tie! Oh man,when I went to change the leader board I found out she was just under me on the leader board. If only she was on top of me I could have moved my name!

Last day of term 1

 Another

 exciting day at Enrich.

   It's week 11, the last week of Enrich for    

the term. It's nearly Easter as you know so are you 

excited? I am! Right now it is just before lunch time and every 

Monday from now on at lunch I'm going to school to practice for netball. At Enrich just now we were doing a sheet which we 

had to write if we wanted to keep the BIG ideas or take

them away. We thought up a BIG list of ideas 

what we might need for

 discovery. 

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Hoop-a-rooney! I can't believe it! We beat our record! By 33 seconds! YAY!!! Hoop-a-rooney is a very strange name, but a really fun game to play at the start of the day as an energiser. This is how to play...

RESORCES:
3 DIFFERENT COLORED HOOPS, A GROUP OF PEOPLE, A STOPWATCH

RULES:
1.NO LETTING  GO OF HANDS

2.NO CHEATING

AIM OF THE GAME:

1.TO GET THE HOOPS AROUND THE CIRCLE BACK TO THE START BY GOING THROUGH THE HOOP WITHOUT LETTING GO OF HANDS

SET UP:

1.GATHER EVERYBODY TOGETHER INTO A CIRCLE HOLDING HANDS

2.PUT A HOOP IN BETWEEN THE THREE PEOPLE THAT WOULD BE ON THE LINE IF YOU CUT IT INTO THIRDS

HOW TO PLAY:
1.START THE STOPWATCH WHILE YOU SAY GO

2.PRESS STOP ON  THE STOPWACH WHEN ALL THE HOOPS ARE AROUND THE CIRCLE

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Aurasma the great app for I-pods, I-pad minis and I-pads was shown to us lucky Enrich students today!Hi people out there in the world, Aurasma the great app is out now, so go and download it! It can change certain pictures so they come to life.If your child goes to Enrich they would have got some instructions of how to make a picture on their day. Kady and I made one of beach photos piling up on top of each other.

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Broom, Broom went the car on the way to Enrich. We finally got to Enrich and I walked to a computer to check my Email from Katie. I went onto http://www.picassohead.com to create a person. Suddenly the day started! We either went to Katie or Paul to do a workshop. I went to Paul's workshop and we had to write 10 questions for an interview. Crunch, read, boom morning tea time over! I was in a group of three, with Kady, Max and me. We had to interview a person using the 10 curly Questions. finally blogging time. I am writing this. I hope you've enjoyed my blog!

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Wuzzles, puzzles whatever. Hi everyone, I hope you are having a great start to 2014!!! If you are wondering what wuzzles are, they are puzzles with a W instead of a P. For a warm-up we had to try and make as many words as we could out of the word BASKETBALL. I made 14 words out of it. My favourite wuzzle was the unscramble words wuzzle.

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 Today,

 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.

Darryn's Pig's Eye Workshop.

Yuck, Yuck, Yuck!  A pigs eye!  Today I went to Darryn's eye dissection workshop.  We studied a pig's eye!  We studied the parts of the pig's eye.  My favourite part of the pig's eye was the blind-spot - which your brain fills in for you!  Your eye actually has some goo inside the coloured bit of your eye, (that is the iris).  The goo is liquid inside your eye that helps you see.  Outside your eye there is a lot of fat that connects your eye to your head.  We looked at the pig's eye close up and everything was really big because we used a dinoscope, which is not a scope that a dinosaur uses - it is a tool that you use to see things close up.  The dinoscope was attached to the computer, so we got to see everything that Darryn was doing on the computer screen.  We cut up the eye with a razor-blade so we could see all the parts inside the pig's eye.  I did not like the part in the middle because it was a bit like jelly and it frightened me!  Darryn also got a piece of paper with a yellow  square and a green square.  On the yellow square, there was a cross (x) and on the green square, there was a dot (.)  Darryn put the piece of paper in front of us.  We had to look at the cross and then he moved it closer to us until we couldn't see the cross anymore.  This was showing us that we have a blindspot and where it is.  Most people were too scared to go and see the eyeballs, so only about 10 or 9 of us did it.

My busy day today...

Today, this morning eye parts was a before school pick. You had to drag the eyeball parts to the different boxes and then when it was finished, the eyeball repaired itself.  At environment time we worked on our mural.  Katie got us a big big of plywood and she painted it white for us.  Then, Daniel and I painted it blue and then Emma and Rhea did another coat of blue and then they put a bit of white in it as well.  It was a really nice shade of blue.  When we washed out the paint brushes, we saw a beautiful blue river flowing down the drain. We did Thinkers Keys after morning tea.  I went to Katie and Darryn's one.  Katie's was the RIDICULOUS key - Katie would say something ridiculous and we had to say the benefits of it.  One of them was 6 YEAR OLDS ARE ALLOWED TO DRIVE CARS.  Darryn's one was the BRAINSTORMING key.  Some of the brainstorm ideas were how to cool down:  I thought of putting ice in your coffee and maybe going to Antarctica, a water playground, have a freezing shower, stand outside in the wind and have a bath filled with ice.  Now I am going to dissect a real pig's eye with Darryn!  I wonder what it will look like?