Tuesday 5 November 2013

Chess and passion time

Hi.  Today at Enrich we started off with the roll and admin.  3hours and 40minutes later.......    Now I am playing Chess against Bruno.  Check I call out.  2 minutes later....   Checkmate Bruno I call.  The top six on the leaderboard now are:  Darryn, Me, Bruno, Matt L,  Lucy and Joey.


During Passion time I worked on my sewing.  I am working on a T'shirt for the summer.  I got measured and next week I will be able to start making my shirt and it will be done by the end of the year or will it..........

Tuesday 29 October 2013

Art and Chess

Today at Enrich we started off with Chess.  I played Ali.  The game took about 10-15 minutes.  I ended up winning but the first part of the game was very close. The top six on the leader board are:  Darryn,  Bruno,  Me,  Matt L,  Lucy and Joey.

During art today we were working on a style of art called abstract art.  It was a type of art when you have masking tape and paint.  First you put down the masking tape down in a pattern of your choice.  Second you paint in the gaps with different colors.  Last you carefully pull of the tape and it should look really cool.

Tuesday 24 September 2013

Sewing and Chess.

At Enrich today we started off with Chess.  I played Matt L.  I won the first game and then we didn't have enough time to finish our second game.  The top six on the Chess leader board are: Bruno, Me, Matt L, Lucy, Rhylee and Mia.

During talent development and passion time I was doing sewing.  I finished an apple and have nearly finished my fish that I am working on.  The hardest part with my sewing is threading the needle, which I seem to have to do every single time!

Tuesday 17 September 2013

Sewing and Chess

This week at Enrich we started off with Chess.  I played Norton.  She took out my Queen and Rook but then I came back to win with a Rook and two Queens.  The top six on the Chess leaderboard are: Bruno, Me, Matt L, Lucy, Mia and Katura.

During Talent Development/Passion time I was doing sewing.  Today, I had Sharleen come in to help me with me sewing. I learnt all the basics and I made two pin cushions out of bright red fabric.  I made the two pin cushions because I didn't have one and Enrich didn't have one.

Tuesday 3 September 2013

Technology challenge

Today at Enrich we did a technology challenge.  The idea of this technology challenge was to make a structure to be able to fit three people inside without it collapsing.  In my team we had me, Bruno, Matt L and Travis.  Our group ended up winning by 1 point over Ali, Rhea and Emily.  The structure we made was a teepee like thing.  We managed to fit two people inside, but it was a bit of a squeeze!

Tuesday 13 August 2013

Talent Development and Chess

Today at Enrich my favourite part of the day has been Talent development.  Because guess what we did today......?  We finished our commercial!.  Since we have finished our commercial, we have to do passion time now.  I have chosen to do sewing for my passion time.


At Chess today I played Matt L.  I won the game because I moved my bishop into a place so wherever he moved, he would lose his Queen.  After I played Matt L, I played Luca.  I won the game by using a move I made up myself.  I call it multi-scholars.  The top six on the leader board are: Me, Matt L, Mia, Katura, Rhylee and Travis.

Tuesday 6 August 2013

Mind mapping.

Today at Enrich we started of by doing something called mind mapping.  Going into this activity I didn't know what mind mapping was.  It can be about anything you want.  But for us it had to be about someone gifted. I chose J.R.R Tolkien because he has creativity, task commitment and above average ability. Mind mapping starts with one big idea and then you use the branches to break it down even more.

Tuesday 9 July 2013

Chess

Today at Enrich It started off with..... Chess.  I challenged Liam Watkins.  He went to the Chess tournament in Dunedin last Saturday.  Right back to the game, Liam got White, that was the colour I wanted to get.  Oh Well at least I got Black.  He tried to open up with scholars but I blocked it. Liam nearly got me in check mate already but I blocked with a pawn.  If he took my pawn he would lose his Queen so he moved it back to something like E3.  In two moves I'm going to get Liam in check mate but oh come on Katie just put the music on and Liam destroyed the board.  At least he was below me.

Tuesday 2 July 2013

Chess and Talent Development

Today at Enrich we started off playing Chess.  At the moment I am very happy because I have just gotten into the Enrich Chess team for the Otago/Southland Chess competition in Dunedin this weekend.  I played Matt S today and I won. Straight after that I played Liam and I was about to win but, Katie just started the music so I actually didn't win. The top six are: Matt L, Bruno, Me, Liam, Matt S and Luca.

Today we also did talent development. For MADE Awards we started to do our filming. All the filming we did was at Enrich. We were meant to go to Waihopai School,  but it was pouring down with rain and Norton wasn't here. My favourite part was filming because I love using the video cameras. We have already used up 2 minutes of filming and we are only allowed 45 seconds, so we have to edit a lot of our footage.

Tuesday 28 May 2013

Chess and Talent Development

This morning at Enrich it all started with chess.  Bruno challenged me. It was a good match but some one had to win. I was so unlucky to lose because the game went for 3/4 of chess time.  The top six are now: Bruno, me, Matt L, Matt S, Darryn and Travis.

Just before lunch we did Talent Development. Our goal of the day was to practise videoing the other pair interviewing each other. We were practicing using different camera angles, and filming smoothly using the tripods. At the end of that we imported our video into
I-movie. Travis and I made our video 1minute and 30 seconds.  We will edit this footage next week.

Tuesday 21 May 2013

The Pit and Talent Development

Today at Enrich we did something called "The Pit". It was about how you shouldn't let a problem get out of hand, otherwise you might fall into a pit! We need to think of strategies to help problems get out of control.  You could tell a teacher or tell your parents straight away before it gets out of hand.

Just before lunch we did talent development.  Our focus was to do a bit of our screenplay.  A screenplay is a script for the actors to use in the commercial we are doing.  We also made our characters, my character is BILLY, Norton's character is LUNA, Travis' is BJ and Rhylee is BELLA the bully proof kid.



Tuesday 7 May 2013

Chess and Talent Development

Today at Enrich we started with Chess. I played Bruno once and Reid twice. I beat Bruno which meant I moved to the TOP of the leader-board! After that, I beat Reid both times as well. The Chess tournament is in a few weeks, and Katie said Enrich can only take about 5 teams, which would be the top five players from each day. The top five for Wednesday, currently are: Me, Matt L, Bruno, Matt S and Travis.

At Talent Development we did some planning for what our commercial will turn out like for the MADE Awards. We are focussing on anti-bullying. The characters are: Me and Norton as school kids, Travis as the bully and Rhylee as the bully proof kid! We are trying to get this message across...

         DO NOT BULLY!

Tuesday 16 April 2013

Talent Development

Today at Enrich we started with Talent Development. I was looking foward to talent development because we were going to go on a field trip to Oreti Beach so that we could take photos for the MADE Awards. 20 minutes later... Yes we are finally at the beach. 'O.K you can go anywhere where we can see you, but not by the sand tunes'. I took heaps of photos along the beach using the following angles:  birds eye view, mouse view, worms eye view and close ups.  'Nearly time to go' said Katie. 'Can we go into the sand tunes for ten minutes?' asked Travis. 'Okay'. Wow look at the view from up here its amazing! 'I don't want to jump down' wailed Norton. 5 minutes later... O.K its time to go said Katie.

Tuesday 2 April 2013

Talent Development

Today at Enrich we started our talent development. I chose to do MADE Awards with Katie.  The MADE Awards are a national competition for primary aged kids.  There are different categories to choose from. I like making movies and this is a big part of this competition so it sounded like something I would like to do.  We are going to make a commercial. We spent the morning planning our project and thinking of what we want to sell. I am thinking of making an extreme bouncy ball that will bounce higher than usual.  There are 4 of us working on this project - Travis, Rhylee, Norton and I.  We have to pick the best idea for a commercial.

Tuesday 26 March 2013

Pattern field trip.

Today at Enrich we went on a field trip to learn more about patterns. There were three groups, I was in Jenni's group with Matt S, Tessa, Katura, Reid, Luca, Samantha and me. The three parts we were going to look at were the glass houses, the museum and the animals. We started with the glass houses followed by animals then lunch and to finish off we had the museum. My least favourite part was when we went to the ducks because they kept on chasing me. My favourite part was at the animals because I saw some of my favourite animals like the turtle (the shell is a pattern of survivability and strength) and the wallabies (are a pattern because their fur is to help them camouflage from predators).
 

Tuesday 12 March 2013

Maths and a Wilson game.

Take four hoops, four bean bags and what do you get?... A complicated Wilson game! It's called 'Bullseye'. The aim of the game is to get the four beanbags into the four hoops. The rules:

  • No toes over the front of the line when your throwing
  • If your beanbag touches the hoop after landing, it's a no throw!
Each hoop was worth a certain amount of points.  The first hoop was worth 2 points, the second hoop was worth 4 points, the third hoop was worth 6 points and the fourth hoop was worth 8 points.  Our team came third - we need to work on our strategy for the next time.  I think we should use the flat beanbags that do not bounce for the first and second hoop, and then use the beanbags that bounce for the third and fourth hoop.

After morning tea, I did a maths taster session with Katie. It was fun because Katie said that at the end we could all have a chocolate. So then we worked extra hard. We looked at probability today.  Probability is predicting if something will happen.  We worked out a lot of percentages.  We did an activity with rolling 1 dice, 2 dice, and then using a spinner with colours.  My favourite part was when we did the dice rolling because we got to use tally marks and I love to use tally marks.  The last part, Katie had a box of Cadbury Favourites.  We had to work out the chances of pulling out each flavour.  Then we chose chocolates at random to see if our predictions were correct.  We pulled out picnics the most!

Tuesday 5 March 2013

Chess and Drama

Today at Enrich we did drama. My favourite part of drama was when we played musical bumps because I came second and second! The rules were that when Katie stopped the music you had to sit down and cross your legs and if you were last to sit down you were eliminated. I was very pleased with myself because I love to win!

We also played chess after we did drama. I played Matt L. We played one game and he won it. I'm used to losing chess because when I play my dad he usually wins.

(I've only beaten Dad twice: one of the times it was just pure luck, and the second time he wasn't feeling so good.)

 Anyway. Back to today's game.....It was extremely close but in the end he won by one move. He is now 5th and I am now 6th. The top six on the leader board are Bruno, Matt S, Travis, Liam, Matt L and me. We play chess to sharpen our brains.

Tuesday 26 February 2013

Wilson game and Chess


Today at Enrich we played a Wilson game. It was called the Hoop game. The rules were that you had to have a group of three. You had to hold the other peoples hands on your team. In my group I had Bruno and Katura.

Today we also played leaderboard chess. I played Grace and we played two games and I won both of our games. Since I won that game it put me into second place but then Matt S bet Liam in first so he is now in first place and I had to move down to third. The top six are Matt S, Liam, Me, Grace, Darryn and Mia.

Tuesday 19 February 2013

Wilson game and the 4 corner stones

Today at Enrich we played a Wilson game. The rules are that you were not allowed to talk. We got the best time of the week so far, our times were 21 seconds with 1 ball, 34 seconds with 2 balls and 28 seconds with 3 balls.

We also talked about the 4 corner stones. They are... Mental edge, Concept Curriculum, Passion time and talent Development and Affective Domain.  My favourite one is mental edge because I like the mental edge games.