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.