Simple Physics

Bonjour and welcome back!

Today I am going to talk about chess. I was at the bottom of the leaderboard and I went up 15 places!!. Next I went to the i pad work shop and we looked at the new apps. My favourite one was simple physics. You have to build a bridge and it had to be strong enough for a train to go over it. The bridge was my favourite structure to build.  

A human washing machine...

Aloha! Welcome back to my blog. Have you ever heard of an activity called '10 Second Objects'? Well, today we played '10 Second Object'. It's when you have a group and you have ten seconds to make a object that the teacher calls out and you have to make it using yourself and your group members. We had to make a washing machine, a sandwich, and a breakfast on a Saturday morning. Then we played another game called 'There Is Only One Liar'. We had to sit in a circle and close our eyes. Nicola went around, and tapped someone on the shoulder.  We then opened our eyes, and we had to point to the person we thought she tapped.  We played two rounds. The first round, Nicola didn't tap anyone, and the next round she tapped EVERYONE! The first round, Nicola was the liar, and the second round, we were all liars because everyone pointed at someone else, even though each of us had been tapped.

THE PIT!!!!

Hello and welcome back to my blog today. I am going to talk about the pit. The pit is a pit that you can fall into if you are unorganised and tired. The pit is really bad to be in and it is hard to get out of. Darryn demonstrated how you can get in here. Some ways to get in can be from being tired, being unorganised.  Once you start feeling this way, you can fall deeper and deeper into the pit. We talked about how to get out of the pit - you need to tell someone what the problem is - that is often the hardest thing to do!

Renzulli and his model of giftedness.

Aloha and welcome to another blog post. Today I am going to talk about Renzulli's model of giftedness. Renzuill says you need 3 things to be gifted. He said you have to be creative, have task commitment (sticking to a task like sticky jam), and have above average ability (your working at a higher level than your age). They are the three things he says you have to have to be gifted. Okay, now lets move on to chess today. During chess Daniel challenged me to a game of chess and I won! I moved up no spaces because he was at the bottom of the leaderboard anyway!

Advanced Chess lessons with Darryn

Hello welcome back to my blog... I hope you all had great holidays. Today at Enrich we watched a quick video about a cat and a big box.  It is called Marus and the big box.  Then I played a game of chess as I went to Darryn's advanced chess. Lessons we learnt were something called Scholars,  checkmate - you can win a round of chess in four moves. I was going to challenge someone but everyone was playing.  Later we are going to do a technology chalange. BYE see you next time.

the last week of the term

Aloha I'm back for another blog post. Before we started writing today,  Nicola told us to have some sentence starters hidden in our blogs.

Here are the ones i remembered.... i love..... if i had a magic wand. 

Now lets move on to something else. Today we did passion time and I was finishing my sketch. I am sad that we will not go to Enrich for two weeks. -_- goodbye.

Stone carving prep

Hello and welcome back to my blog. Today I starterd my sketch for me to make for my stone carving.   This is my passion project. I am going  to make a beaver chewing on a piece of wood! At first I was going to do a weasel but then I chose a beaver for my passion project. We got a long time to work on it this morning. When I finished my sketch, I told Katie it was morning tea because she had forgotten!  The sketch was quite tricky because you have to sketch it out in 3-D (3 directions!)  I am looking forward to getting out in the stone carving shed and getting started ._.