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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.