Bouncy Ball.

Awesome day at Enrich firstly we did some presentations for the Affective Studies I think Norton's one was the best of the morning. She did hers on Steve Irwin, and she had loads of information, and I found it really interesting.  For Passion Time, Katie and I did this really awesome Stykz animation.  It's not quite finished yet, but it's about a man named Bruce and a very bouncy ball that gets away from him because he bounces it too hard, and it flies up and hits his hand and runs away from him!  I will post it on my blog next week when it is finished.

STYKZ

What an awesome day at Enrich today I've had.  I think my affective study on my gifted person is finished.  Yeah!!! For talent development I worked on my Stykz animation.  I have got two people free falling and another one parachuting.  I have learnt how to create an animation on stykz.  It looks great as it is my first animation.  

Animations

At Enrich we did passion time. I know that you are thinking that I am going to type that I did the tiger lino print,  but No! Instead of the tiger lino print,  I did some animations on Stykz,  I did one about parachuting and one of free falling. I loved doing the animations.


That is all for this week see you next week!

Albert Einstein had speech problems...

Today at Enrich we played chess and I played against Matt S and I won! So I moved up about ten spaces on the leaderboard so now I am sitting in 17th place out of 26.  I spent some time working on my affective study. I found out that he had speech problems.  He would say something, and then he would pause to consider what to say next, so he paused a lot.  We just finished passion time, and I'm still working on my tiger lino print.  I cut out my tigers head, so on my prints it will stay gold.  The background is going to be black.  I've decided that once I'm finished with my lino print, I won't do clay, I'm going to make a lego or a clay animation.  I know how to do animations, because I did a little bit on it last year.

Tiger

At Enrich for talent development I continued with my tiger lino prints.  I printed 5 onto paper and they look awesome.  My next step is cutting out the tiger and leaving the background.  This way I can keep the tiger gold and make the background black.  The hardest part is lining the print up for the double printing.  We have got robotics after lunch. My group will be starting again so we don't have to use another groups.  I have learnt how to mindstorm and how to get the robot to move using the sound sensor.

My fierce tiger!

At Enrich I did some more of my lino printing. I have finished carving out my tiger, but it took the whole session to get it done.  Katie is doing a lino print of a cat, but I think that my tiger would eat that cat for breakfast!  My tiger is pretty fierce looking.  During chess time, I played against Matt L, but I lost.  Matt got me into check, so I had to move my King because I couldn't block it, but that meant that my Rook was in line, so he took my last Rook!

13 kids in the class today...

Today at Enrich we did a technology challenge.  We had such a small class today - only 13 of us at roll call! Katie changed the day a bit, so that's why we did a technology challenge. We had to build a shelter out of newspaper, string, tape and a plastic bag!  Ours didn't work, but if we'd had more time, we probably could have got it done.  I am doing doubles on my penguin lino print.  That's what I spent my afternoon doing. 

penguin lino

 Today at Enrich we did our last migration workshop.  This time it was different, we did our finger prints.  We were looking at forensic patterns.  I learnt that no two people have the same pattern and no two fingers have the same two patterns either. For lino printing I am going to start my rock hopper penguin.

Lino printing and mind mapping!

At Enrich for talent development we did some doubles on our lino prints. I also learnt how to mind map, which is not a cloud with lines sticking out of it, nor is it a list! It is a picture of a topic with the name of it underneath. It has branches sticking out of it that show all the different parts of this topic. Should I show you a pitcure of my lino print?  Here you go...

test

Today at Enrich we did some passion time and I have to dig out the background of the dog and do 10 one colour  and I chose light blue as my colour.
We also did a multiple intelligence test. I came out as a kinesthetic learner.

Lino prints

Today at Enrich I have done more lino prints in Art, they are looking Good. I managed to get 5 lino prints done today. I had a go at trying different colours. I have finished my reflection sheet for Katie, which was about what we have learnt this term. It is amazing how much I have learnt this term.  I did debating, the topic was "How good behaved we are today and what will we be like in 100 years".  I think they will be naughty as they won't be punished as much.

Dry Ice

Today Enrich was awesome! For science we did some experiments with dry ice. Dry ice is frozen carbon dioxide. When  you put dry ice in cold water it bubbles and makes steam!  It's actually the cold bubbles escaping and mixing with the water in the air. When you put hot water in, the dry ice makes lots of fog. If you put liquid soap in, it goes all bubbly. You have to be really careful with dry ice, if you put your finger on it, it hurts a lot. It's so cold it will burn you!

Bye for now !!!

Art gallery

Today at Enrich we went to the art gallery for some of our talent development time.  The reason we went was to look at a range of artwork. We had a look around and chose our favourite piece of art to stand beside and to get a photo. When we got back to Enrich we started on our lino prints.  I have decided to do a dog's face.  It took me a bit of time to get the size of the dog's face right.  Next week, we will have to chisel out all the detail, and then it will be ready to print with.

The Pit

Today at Enrich we did some passion time I did art .It was still life. I only did one picture because I took so long. It was hard. We also had a talk about the pit.

Art with Jenni

Today at Enrich we played some chess. I lost my game against Bruno. We had Passion time/Talent development. For art we had to sketch a funny drawing and it had to be exact. Mine is pretty good. After we did that we finished our apple picture.

Bye for now!!!

First day of term.

Woohoo! Today at Enrich we are doing a technology challenge. It's not until this afternoon, so I don't know what it is going to be. Anyway, this morning, I played chess against Charlie twice and I lost twice! Charlie is now top of the chess leaderboard, so lots of people want to play him so they can get the top spot! I also played Matt L and lost again!!! We did talent development before lunch, and I am doing art. I started my apple painting again. It takes a long time. I still have to paint my plate that the apple is sitting on.

See you next week!!!

Last day of enrich for the term

Today at enrich we started the day with Talent development/passion time. I did art with Darryn. We painted an apple on a plate with a black background, we had to sketch it first. I chose to work on it through morning tea, it felt like I had cramp when I stood up it hurt. 

I learnt that you have to paint the light colours first and that you start with the things that were there first.

See you next week!!! 

My Awesome Day at Enrich

My day at Enrich was awesome!!! It was awesome because we started doing passion time and planning. I'm doing wood carving and starting off easy making a sword. I plan to chase my little brother with it because he's only five and I should be able to catch him.

I loved doing the Wilson game because we came second. I was the last to throw with only two seconds left. I threw it randomly and to my amazement, it got in. My whole group shouted and screamed when it happened.

Out and about in Queens Park...

Whew!!! Today at Enrich, we went on a walk to Queens Park.  This was part of our concept this year - PATTERNS!  I was in Jenni's group.  My partner was Luca.  We had a clipboard with our pattern types on it:  BEAUTY, ORDER, STRENGTH, SURVIVABILITY.  We also had a camera.  We wrote down the patterns we saw, and took photos of them too.  My top 4 patterns for the day are:

Beauty - The roses in the rose garden.
Order - The bricks in Enrich building.
Strength - The hub-caps on the car wheels.
Survivability - The mushrooms growing near the stumpery.

Caine's Arcade!

Today we started the day by watching a video about a boy called Caine.  Caine was from eastern LA and he had to spend a lot of time at his Dad's autoparts shop.  He made a whole games arcade out of cardboard.  His first game was a basketball one.  The first person to play it, was a man who had come to get a handle for his car door.  The man made a movie about Caine, and posted it on the Internet.  Caine is really famous now.  For 5 turns, it would cost $1, but for a Fun Pass, which is 500 turns, you had to pay $2!  Caine likes to build things out of cardbaord, I like to build things out of wood and cardboard as well!  If you want to watch the YouTube clip, here is the link.  Click on this to watch it!
http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/faIFNkdq96U

Second day back at Enrich

We have got some super cool new equipment at Enrich called 'Imaginz" - Imaginz is like adult sized lego.  We have got 4 tubs full of it.  On the first day back, I made a big house, except I didn't quite finish it because I ran out of time.  You have to slide all the pieces together and put a special piece in that is like a join, and that helps lock all the pieces together.  I love building, so last week, I forgot about my lunch because I was so busy building!  There is an instruction book with a list of things you can build.  If we had finished the house last week, Samantha would have been able to stand up inside it!  My goal is to get the house finished one day this year!

This is a picture of the house from the 'Imaginz' website.