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.

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.

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).

 

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!

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.

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.

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.