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.

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Today at Enrich I did a workshop where we had a look at Tannenbaums model of Giftedness. It was very interesting. It is in the shape of a sea star, and there is 5 arms on it. They are: General ability, Chance, Enviromental supports, Nonintellective requisites, and last but not least,  Special aptitude. Basically this is what they are: General ability is your talent/giftedness. Chance is the chance that you will get to do things like coming to Enrich, where you can develop your ability. Enviromental supports is the enviroment around you.The enviroment around you matters a lot if you want to develop your gift. Nonintellective requisites is you, and Special aptitude is your passions. It was really fun looking at Tannenbaums model of Giftedness.

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Today the people in photography took a trip to Queens Park. We took lots of photos using different camera angles and settings. Then when we came back we imported our photos into iphoto then used the edit tools to make them look their best. Once we were done we chose our top three then emailed them to Katie. We then took photos using the green screen and put ourselves into one of our photos. It was heaps of fun.

Passion Time

Today at Enrich we did something called passion time. At passion time we get to do something we really enjoy or want to try out. We get to do almost anything we want to do (within reason). I did Pottery. Last week I made a clay mask but today I made a coil pot. A coil pot is where you make a circle base, then make some logs and attach them to the base. It is a lot of hard work, and it's harder than it seems. It was great.  

WOW

Today we went to see the World Of Wearable Arts exhibit at the Museum. I thought it was pretty cool. They had touch screens near the exhibits so that you could see a clip showing what it looked like while it was being worn. They had lots of different outfits, but my favourite was called Into Thin Air. It was a giant face that lit up under UV light. In the clip the person wearing the face was wearing a black suit that doesn't show up in UV light so it looked like the face was floating. The face was in a small room which had UV lights, along with some other cool costumes. I had a great time.

Last Day!

Today is the last day of Term 1 at Enrich already! It feels like the time has gone really fast. We had to fill out some sheets today, and we didn't have a Must Do's worksheet, but other than that the day was pretty normal. One of the sheets we had to fill out was a learning wheel. It had five spaces. One was for writing what you wondered this term, one was for what you learned and one was for what you tried. The other two were for what you felt and used this term.