Waihopai river planting with Bruce

Today at Enrich we went to Waihopai river to plant some plants. We went on a bus. When we got there we had to walk to where we were planting. We had to go in groups of two. My partner was Agustin. We went in a big circle and the Anastazia showed us what to do.  Darryn brought his dog along. His name is Bruce and he is relly cute, but he kept running away! Here is a picture of me patting Bruce:

Hey Brucey Brucey!!

Today at Enrich

Today at Enrich we played a Wilson game again. It is called All or Nothing. It is a reslly fun game. We did not win - our team got second. After that, it was passion time. I starterd a new activity. I started a stone carving. I am carving a love heart. I think it is very good so far. We had a lot of time to do the carving. Before I starterd to carve I had to draw it but both of the sides have to be perfect.

Today at Enrich

Today at Enrich we played a game called All or Nothing. There were 3 teams. I was in team 3 team 1 won. Later we are doing a technology challenge. Last technology challenge I did not win. We came 4th out of all of the groups. The team that wins today gets a bit of chocolate.

Today at Enrich

Today at Enrich we played a game of chess in the morning then we had some passion time I worked on   alice 2.2.   You get to create your own world, you can put a lot of things in the world. Here are three themes; medieval, spooky, and controls. Here is a picture when you go on to it.

Today at Enrich

Today at Enrich we started the day with a game of chess. I played two games, I won a game and lost one. After we watched a video about air pollution. The least polluted city is Wellington and the most polluted city is Ahvas. I wondered how do animals survive there?

Today at Enrich

Today at Enrich we watched a clip about water pollution.  It was very sad because marine life is dying.  A lot of animals are dying because people are making the water dirty by pouring waste  into it and littering it with rubbish.  Some species of turtles and tortoises are at risk of becoming extinct.  One of them had two shells because they got some plastic stuck around them.  This caused their shell to grow in a strange way.  Here is a picture :(

If you would like to see this clip, here is the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YAoyTsyM7M

Kiaora Max,

I was really impressed with your decision to make a 'strong choice' when maths was frustrating you today.  You have really grown in your self management during this year!  The goal you discussed in relation to your environment project was very appropriate.  You are very self aware about what you need to work on in relation to group tasks.

Keep up the great progress and attitude Max!

Alana

Today at enrich

This video tells you about the maths I did today.

Chess

At the start of the day we played chess.  I faced Katie M and Katura. I lost against Katie, and then I challenged Katura and won! I went up three spaces on the leaderboard. After lunch I played against Nathan who is on the top of the leader board.  I lost hardout. Today was the last day to get in the teams for the chess tournament.  I was gutted because I did not get in the top 6 who were going to be on the chess teams.

Teacher Comment

Hi Max.

You were so engaged during your “passion time” last week - working on a lego animation!  You learned some valuable skills, which will help you to continue with this task next time.  You worked patiently through the Keynote task last week.  Keynote is a fantastic presentation tool - it was great to see you grasp the build in, build out and transition effects so easily.  Keep up the great work Max.  Katie.

Passion Time:

Today for our passion time, I chose pottery.  First, we watched a You Tube lesson about how to make a coil pot.  Next we go our area set up.  I got a board, and put a little bit of water on it.  I had to throw my big slab of clay down on the board until all the clay was flat, and there was no air bubbles in it.  I rolled my clay out with a rolling pin.  We used a round plastic container to help make a round shape for the bottom of our pot.  Next, I had to roll out heaps of snakes to use as the walls of my coil pot.  I had fun and at the end we got to make patterns on the very top snake.

Term 1 Reflection.

Today at Enrich we did a reflection on our first term.  Here are my thoughts on my time at Enrich so far:

Canstruction

Today at Enrich we did some Canstruction. Canstruction is when you get a lot of cans of food and you put them together to make for example a kiwi.


We put all of our ideas of what to build on a large piece of paper.  Some of our ideas were Elmo, M & M people, a smurf, cookie monster and angry birds.  Together our group decided we would make M & M people!

Hi Max,


You have had a great day this week! I was really impressed with the ideas you contributed during debating.  You had carefully considered the perspectives of different groups of people which is not always easy.  I hope you are ready to rock during maths talent development...Canstruction is going to be a big challenge!


See you next week


Alana

Mixing Colours

After lunch we had to do our Picks. My favourite one was mixing colours. You had to get the primary colours - blue, yellow and red. With these colours, you had to mix them to make secondary colours. They were green, orange and purple. After that, we had to mix the colours again to make tertiary colours. The tertiary colours were light orange, light purple and light green. It was fun mixing the paint, but it did take a long time to get the colours right. I didn't get them exactly the same as the colour sheet, but at least now I know how to mix colours properly.

Chess

Today I learnt about pins and skewers in a chess game.  Pins are when a piece cannot move, because it will put it's King in check if it does.  Skewers are when you move half way around the King to prevent getting in check.  After the workshop I played against Callum.  We didn't get time to finish our game, so I might challenge him next week!