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.

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!