Reflection post

This is the reflection sheet I filled in to reflect on the whole year.

It is so hard to believe that it is the last day ever for me at enrich because I am a year 6!!

Art

Today I finally completed my stone carving this morning. I just had to sand it, but then Darren gave me a fantastic idea make the bottom of my carving like ground. So I chiseled some of the stone underneath the foot and now look how it looks!! (I even used effects on I-photo, now you can see it clearer).

Art

This week I worked on my stone carving and made the detail lines deeper. Also I painted my coil pot purple and red. I also printed my lino print. I did lots today and I'm proud of my work.

Next week I will be doing the last coat on my coil pot and sanding my stone carving.

Art

This term I have been working on my stone carving, it is a crocodiles foot.

I am at the stage of adding the fine detail this is a slow process so it will take a while.

When I have accomplished the crocs foot I will paint my clay coil pot .

Both these pieces will be going in the art exhibition.

Cartooning

Today I finished cartooning. I drew a dog out of the cartooning book and the whale from the video clip. I think that the dog was better because I could take my time. The video was too fast for me I couldn't keep up and missed some things out. But over all I enjoyed myself doing the activity.

Talent Development

Today for talent development I worked on my clay sculpture which is meant to be a coil pot and it is going to have lots of different dragon body features like eyes and feet and they will be coming off of it.

drama

Today Karen and I did drama. For drama we were an electric mixer I was the bowl and Karen was the mixers. The point of this activity is what you can hear so you actually know what we are acting out. (here it is below)

Talent Development

Today for talent development I used clay to sculpt a chameleon foot (it is the one above)

I think a goal for me would be to work on the texture so it will look more effective.

I am going to practice at home to help me improve. To add texture I am going to use a drawing pin and try to use the bottom of a sifter to get a scaly affect.

Talent Development

Today at Enrich for talent development I went on an ipad and looked up pictures to sketch like the one above it is a chameleons foot because they fascinate me . Next week I am planning to do a paper mache chameleon foot like the one above.

First Day Back

This is the first day back at Enrich for term 3 .

This morning we started talent development I chose art. We went for a walk to the museum to see the tuataras and sketch them. We also went to the art exhibition.

For art the main thing is dragons. Later in the term we are going to make clay sculptures of dragons and sketches .

This afternoon we were doing must dos and picks which is like must do can do except you only have two weeks to do them instead of the whole term and its checked off on a piece of paper by the teacher.

Teacher comment

Olivia you have learnt a lot about time management this past term, and how to balance your project with the must dos can dos. You have a positive attitude towards the tasks you are set, and when you are sure about what is being asked of you, work hard to achieve these goals. You are building some good friendships with a variety of new and returning students of a range of age groups.

Alana

2 stars and a wish

It is the last day of enrich for the term and I am reflecting by using two stars and a wish.

My two stars are:

*I completed my must do can do sheet

*I made a great poster that stands out for the book drive

My wish is:

That I could have managed my time wiser than I did by planning out what to do each week .

Book Drive

Last week I put some posters up about a book drive at my own school, Myross Bush School. If any students from Myrosds Bush School are reading this post, please donate a book! There is a box in the office to put your books in. These will go to a school in Christchurch called Discovery 1, they have been affected by the earthquakes and they are now holding their school in the back of St Johns hospice .These books will help them out a huge amount. thank you if you do donate some books!

Today

Today Pyper and I telephoned our principals to ask if it was ok to put posters up for our book drive for Discovery 1 - a school affected by the Christchurch earthquakes . We also made our posters for the book drive they look fantastic I think . I also went to the profiling workshop we finished of profile 5 and 6 .

Gifted Week

This week is Gifted Week. What exactly is Gifted Week? It is raising awareness for gifted people. To me, being gifted means you think differently to other people. I am lucky that I get to go to Enrich. Here, I have more opportunities. I work with other people who are like-minded. This challenges me and makes me work harder.

The top model of giftedness is that of Joseph Renzulli. He says that you have to have above average ability, task commitment and creativity to be gifted. The second model of giftedness is that of Gagne. He says that you were born gifted and the things around you like your environment and positive and negative impacts, motivation and your personality will help you develop your talents. Gagne also says that with all of that, you need chance as well. I like Gagne's model of giftedness best. I was born in Invercargill and I had the chance to come to Enrich, which is helping me to develop my talents even further.

Current Affairs

1. Why has school bullying been highlighted in the news in recent weeks?

Because it has been very bad bullying .

2. In the boys bullying article who do you think is in the wrong and why do you think this?

I think that Ritchard is wrong because he is the one that threw down Casey.

3. What do you think should happen as a result of this? Explain why.

They should both get expelled because they both were doing some thing bad. Ritchard punched and threw down Casey. Casey was bullying Ritchard.

4. What do you think schools should do to stop bullying?

They should have a guy and he puts security cameras and monitors them in a room and if he sees some thing happening like a fight he will go and split it up.

I did this for current affairs one week and it was about the bullying that was happening and we had to read the articles on these web sites.

Feel free to read them from these websites .

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10715019

http://www.odt.co.nz/news/world/152715/internet-school-bully-im-victim-too

Internet Searching

Today I did a work shop about internet searching. I found out how to see how many web sites you have found in a search and I learnt how to lower that number down using advanced searching so that you don't spend all day looking through a billion sites.

How to advanced search...

Under google on the right it says advanced search click on it.

Using Stickies to Organise My Day

Today I went to an ICT Questions and Answer workshop. Now I know how to get stickies into my tool bar as you can see in this screen shot and now I can plan my day on a computer instead of paper or my mind because I forget lots of things and I don't want to carry around a book because it just gets in the way.

My Finished Indian Ink Art

This is my finished painting out of indian ink and tempera paint. I am pleased with how it turned out . My favourite part was painting it with indian ink because I liked the way it flowed on the paper and you didn't have to press down hard and you could just do it softly . The worst part was IT STAINS REALLY BADLY!!!!!!!!

Indian Ink

Today we were using Indian Ink, it stains really bad!!!!!

We are painting cats.

I was going to do the black leaping cat (3rd picture) but it was too tricky so I deceided to do a ginger cat (2nd picture) that is sitting down but you can only see his head and chest.

The top picture is the one that I painted with Indian Ink based on the second picture and next week I will add colour to it using tempura paint.