Reflection sheet

This is my reflection sheet for this year.

Ragkill finished!!!!

Today is a great day for the world Ragkill is finished. I didn't like the spots that use to be on it so I decided to repaint him with green and put small orange dots and they looked much better.

Band rotunda

Today at Enrich we started to make a miniature scale model of the Band Rotunda. One meter equals five centimetres. At the moment all my group has is the base and one pillar because we couldn't get the diameter right for the base.

Talent development

Today at talent development we made scale pictures of 2D pictures. We also started a scale birds eye view of enrich meaning we had to measure everything. We also had to measure the diameter of circles we made with a compass.

Talent development change

Today instead of doing art talent development I switched to maths talent development and it's all about measuring and making scale models. Our big goal is making a scale model of he band rotunda in Queens Park to donate to the Invercargill library.

Ragkill update

Today Eddie and I added some finishing touches to Ragkill by putting more muscle on his tail and leg. After that we put papier maché on him and next week we are going to paint him.

Talent development "Ragkill"

Today we added thigh muscles, spikes and some feet to Ragkill and slowly he is looking more like a lizard. It was really difficult to add in the thigh muscle because the newspaper kept falling out. For the spikes we used wire and shaped it out then used tape to give it more effect.

Talent development

At talent development today Eddie and I started to add muscle to our lizard. Before it looked like a roadkill armadillo and a rag doll. Then we decided to call it Ragkill. We also added eyes and next week we will put in thigh muscle.

Science

Today at science we learned about the Mobius strip and the Klein bottle. The Mobius strip is a one surface circle. The Klein bottle is a bottle without any inside or outside.

Today at enrich

Today at enrich we did talent development Grayson, Eddie and I started to make a paper mâche dinosaur. We made a big mess of things like we made the legs too small and the body too big. When Darryn came he gave us a paper pipe to use as a base for the main body so then it's not to heavy.

Talent development

Today we started talent development. We had three groups to pick from, they were art, documentary making and free writing. At first I was going to do documentary making but all the spaces were full. So then I did art which I thought was going to be a drag but then I found out I really liked it. What I liked bout it was that we got to sketch things around us and we went to the museum!

Teacher Comment

Isaac.

It was great to see your creative side come to life through your passion project. Your idea to write your own story and to record it onto an audio CD for the children in Christchurch effected by the earthquake was awesome. You persevered with this topic which is a great skill to have. You use your time at Enrich wisely and remain on task throughout the day. You have a polite, relaxed manner which allows you to interact with other children easily. Keep up the hard work for next term.

Katie.

Passion project finished!

Today I have finished my passion project! I have recorded my story in Garageband, now I am going to put it on a disc and send up to Christchurch to the Foundation for the blind.

The two stars of my passion project (two good things) are being able to write my own story and knowing it's for a good cause.

I wish that I could have written more than one story.

Jack and the beanstalk

I have recorded 4 pages of my story today I now need to do two more pages and then I'm done. Here is two more pages of my story.

So Jack went upstairs to his little room in the attic, and sad and sorry he was, to be sure, as much for the monster's sake as for the loss of his supper.

At last he dropped off to sleep.

When he woke up, the room looked so funny. The sun was shining into part of it, and yet all the rest was quite dark and shady. So Jack jumped up and dressed himself and went to the window. And what do you think he saw? Why, the grenades the monster had thrown out of the window into the garden had blown a big crater which went down and down and down 'til it reached the the middle of the earth. The grenades had blown quite close past Jack's window, All he had to do was to open it and give a jump down onto the the crater which ran down just like a big slide. So Jack climbed, and he went down it 'til he reached the bottom. When he got there he found a long broad road going as straight as a dart. He walked, 'til he came to a great big tall house, and on the doorstep there was a enormous big tall woman.

"Good morning," says Jack, quite polite-like. "Could you be so kind as to give me some breakfast?"

"It's breakfast you want, is it?" says the great big tall woman. "It's breakfast you'll be if you don't move off from here. My man is a giant and there's nothing he likes better than boys broiled on toast. You'd better be moving on or he'll be coming."

"Oh! please, do give me something to eat. I've had nothing to eat since yesterday morning, really and truly," says Jack. "I may as well be broiled as die of hunger."

Well, the giant's wife was not half so bad after all. So she took Jack into the kitchen, and gave him a hunk of bread and cheese and a jug of milk. But Jack hadn't half finished these when thump! thump! thump! the whole house began to tremble with the noise of someone coming.

"Goodness gracious me! It's my old man," said the giant's wife. "What on earth shall I do? Come along quick and jump in here." And she bundled Jack into the oven just as the giant came in.

He was a big one, to be sure. At his belt he had three calves strung up by the heels, and he unhooked them and threw them down on the table and said, "Here, wife, broil me a couple of these for breakfast. Ah! what's this I smell?

fum-fo-fi-fe,

I smell the blood of an Englishman,

Be he alive, or be he dead,

I'll have his bones to grind my bread."

"Nonsense, dear," said his wife. "You' re dreaming. Or perhaps you smell the scraps of that little boy you liked so much for yesterday's dinner. Here, you go and have a wash and tidy up, and by the time you come back your breakfast'll be ready for you."

So off the giant went, and Jack was just going to jump out of the oven and run away when the woman told him not. "Wait till he's asleep," says she; "he always has a doze after breakfast."

Well, the giant had his breakfast, and after that he goes to a big chest and takes out a couple bags of Pyrite (fools gold), and he sits down and counts till at last his head began to nod and he began to snore till the whole house shook again.

Then Jack crept out on tiptoe from his oven, and as he was passing the giant, he took one of the bags of gold under his arm, and off he dashed till he came to the crater, and then he climbed up and climbed up till at last he got home and told the monster and showed her the pyrite and said, "Well, monster, wasn't I right about the grenades? They are really magical, you see."

Passion project

Today there is only three weeks to go until the end of the term and I haven't even started recording my story. But on the bright side I have finished writing my story with 1,857 words and 6 pages. Here is more of the story. P.s this is page 2 of the story.

"Go along," says Jack. "What would I do with grenades?"

"Ah! You don't know what these grenades are," said the man. "If you pull the pin and chuck them out the window then in the morning they blow right up to the sky."

"Really?" said Jack. "You don't say so."

"Yes, that is so. And if it doesn't turn out to be true you can have your rat back."

"Right," says Jack, and hands him over Scabber's halter and pockets the Grenades.

Jack goes back home, and as he hadn't gone very far it wasn't dusk by the time he got to his door.

"Back already, Jack?" said the monster . "I see you haven't got Scabber, so you've sold her. How much did you get for her?"

"You'll never guess, monster," says Jack.

"No, you don't say so. Good boy! Five pounds? Ten? Fifteen? No, it can't be twenty."

"I told you you couldn't guess. What do you say to these grenades? They're magical. pull the pin and chuck them out the window-- "

"What!" says the monster. "Have you been such a fool, such a dolt, such an idiot, as to give away my Scabber, the best milker in the parish, for a set of grenades ? Take that! Take that! Take that! And as for your precious grenades here they go out of the window. And now off with you to bed. Not a sip shall you drink, and not a bit shall you swallow this very night."

Jack and the beanstalk.

At Enrich for my passion project I have started making the storyline for Jack and the beanstalk. I have changed it around so it is different to the normal Jack and the beanstalk.

Here is a snippet of my story:

There was once a poor monster who held a boy named Jack prisoner and a rat named Scabber prisoner. All they had to live on was the milk the rat gave every morning, which Jack carried to the market and sold. But one morning Scabber gave no milk, and they didn't know what to do.

"What shall we do, what shall we do?" said the monster, wringing her tentacles.

“Dunno” said Jack.

"We must sell Scabber and with the money start a shop, or something.” “Jack sell Scabber and give me the money or I’ll eat you”

So Jack took the rat's halter in his hand, and off he went. He hadn't gone far when he met a funny-looking old man, who said to him, "Good morning, Jack."

"Good morning to you," said Jack, and wondered how he knew his name.

"Well, Jack, and where are you off to?" said the man.

"I'm going to market to sell our rat there."

"Ewww ," said the man. "I wonder if you know how many grenades make five?"

"Two in each hand and one in your mouth," says Jack, as sharp as a needle.

"Right you are," says the man, "and here they are, the very grenades themselves," he went on, pulling out of his pocket a number of strange-looking grenades. "As you are so sharp," says he, "I don't mind doing a swap with you -- your rat for these grenades."

I am going to record my story in a podcast for blind children who have been affected by the christchurch earthquake to listen to. I am doing it by using garage band.

Gifted week

This week is gifted awareness week. I think being gifted is cool and also has a downside. It's cool because I get more opportunities like enrich. It also is a downside because everyone expects you to get everything right and you receive comments like "I thought you were smart".

Passion Project

At Enrich we have started passion projects (we actully have been for a while). At first I was going to research the computer programme Scratch, but then Alana and Darryn told us we had to do something for that would help Christchurch or Japan because of the earthquakes. So now I'm making sound recordings of fairy tales and myths for visually impaired kids in Christchurch.

p4c

Today I did p4c with Darryn but today we had only 1 question which was can you lie to yourself?

I reckon you can but you just don't believe it. But we weren't allowed to go into the realms of craziness because they would lie to themselves which would be the reason they were crazy.

fibonacci numbers

At the start of this term Alana hosted a workshop called Fibonacci numbers. What is Fibonacci numbers you say. Its an order of numbers where you add up a number with the one before it and then you write the answer. Here is the first ten numbers in the Fibonacci sequence:

1(start with one)

1(1+nothing=1)

2(1+1=2)

3(1+2=3)

5(2+3=5)

8(5+3=8)

13(5+8=13)

21(8+13=21)

34(13+21=34)

55(21+34=55)

Those are the first ten Fibonacci numbers.

p4c

This week I did p4c (philosophy for children) which is very hard and fun at the same time. Two weeks ago I did it as well, there were 2 questions, power or self pleasure? and wealth or friends?They are easy at first1,but when you hear reasons that everyone else are saying, your brain goes in circles.

Multiple intelligence chart

This is my multiple intelligence chart saying what my strengths are in different areas. I am more body smart than anything else and I am less myself smart than anything else.

chess strategies

These are some chess strategies that I found and made up. I found most tips on chess kids and thought of some that are really good.