Enrich

Today at Enrich has been busy. In the morning we played leaderboard chess, and then had some passion time. After passion time was break, and then we had a look at a piece of writing to do with being green. It was basically about how young people criticise people of older generations of not looking after the planet and doing the "green thing. But people of the older generation also didn't have all of the things we had today. They walked to school everyday.  They didn't drive the two blocks to the supermarket. It was kind of sad. Then we did P4C and blogging! Today was the last day of Enrich for the term, and then I only have one term left!
Which is also kind of sad!

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Today at Enrich I have had a pretty fun day. We have played chess, looked at air pollution, worked on our enviroment projects, and played Piccadilly Circus. To play Piccadilly Circus you need a decent number of people, otherwise it isn't that fun. You also need a few balls and (optional) a stopwatch. You need to be in a circle. The rules of the game are that you need to be pass the balls around in the circle, and when you get the ball you sit down. However, you can't pass the ball to people on your immediate left or right. We first started with one ball, and it took us 1 minute and 8 seconds to finish. then we did it again and tried to shave 20 seconds off of our time, but we only got to 57 seconds. Then we started adding balls, and it was even more complicated. It took a lot of brainpower, but it was fun.

3D Drawing

Today at Enrich we had high interest stations again. I was in 3D Drawing with Darryn. 3D Drawing is an illusion because you are drawing something to make it look like it is a 3D image. One of the things that make it easy to draw 3D images is to remember that 3D not only stands for three dimensional, but three directional. It was hard at first beause I wasn't sure how it was going to work but at the end I was pretty confident I knew how to do it. Today we also played bulls eye (a wilson game) and worked on our enviroment projects. This is my drawing:

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Today at Enrich we continued the high interest stations that we did last week. Last week I was in biology which was looking at ordinary things throught the dinoscopes, and this week we turned them into comic life pages. First we had to crop them because we didn't want the whole desktop in our photos. Then we had to open up comic life and put the photos in. After that came speech bubbles and colour, and we had a comic! It was heaps of fun, and I like how mine turned out.

Biology

Today at Enrich I have had a lot of fun! Today we had high interest stations again. There was biology, which was looking through the dinoscopes at intersting things, like flies, or even our own skin! There was also art, cartooning or science, chemistry. I chose biology and I am glad that I chose it. It was very cool, because we got really close up images, but it was also really gross! It was suprising how interesting things as simple as hair look through the dinoscope. Can you guess what these images are of?

Today at Enrich

Today at Enrich has been very busy. We have spent a lot of the day planning what we want to do to improve Invercargill. There was a lot of ideas to choose from, but a group of kids and I chose livening up the airport. We are planning to make a childrens area for the kids who visit the airport to play in, because right now there is next to nothing to do except for running up and down the stairs. It is going to take a bit of work, but it will be worth it to have something to do at the airport.

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Today at Enrich we got to pick a high interest of ours out of three choices. There was Maths - Tesselations, Science - Chemistry and Art - Painting. I chose science. It was lucky I chose science because we were going to do something really fun... like making elephant toothpaste! First we all needed to put on gloves so that we didn't hurt ourselves while making the elephant toothpaste.  First we filled up half of of the test tube with hydrogen peroxide. Then we added a few squirts of sunlight dishwashing liquid. After that we added some drops of food colouring and mixed it all together carefully. Then in a seperate beaker we mixed up a teaspoon of yeast with 2 tablespoons of warm water until all of the yeast was dissolved. Finally, we added the yeast to the test tubes and it started erupting. It looked really cool and it was a lot of fun.