Mixed Emotions!

I have no idea how I'm feeling! I don't know if I'm excited or sad, because guess what? THIS IS MY LAST BLOG POST! As a year six unfortunately I have to go to high school and leave Enrich :(

Paul had some very exciting news for us. Katie has had her baby!! She named it Pippa and it was born on 29 of November! We did a chart a couple weeks ago and we all guessed Katie's baby's name, date of birth, weight and gender. The winner was the person who got the closest to all the information and they won a box of Favourites chocolates and guess who the winner was ?.... ME!!  Then we did some reflecting! We had to write down four things we'd learnt this year. My four were chess, performance,  thinkers keys and Ancestry.
After morning tea we had (drum roll please) ENRICH HAS TALENT!! I was in the performance group and we performed Santa Claus Is Coming To Town by Mariah Carey! There were a couple other performances, but once we had that all wrapped up we finished off our year six slides.

Now for my favourite part of the day.... We had a shared lunch! After munching on yummy food the music went on, and here I am now typing up my last blog ever!!

I have learn
t so much over the last three years at Enrich, and I have always looked forward to going. I will miss Enrich heaps!!
 

Performance is back!

Hi!
I am very happy!! Seeing Nicola can't be at Enrich@ILT I thought we wouldn't be doing Performance anymore (which I was very upset about). Anyway Ginny is now doing Performance!

We got spilt into three groups, we could either choose Art, Performance or Engineering. Anyway of course I am doing Performance, and today we showed Ginny some of our songs from last year, then we learned a Christmas song. We made up a dance to Mariah Carey "Santa Claus is coming to town" and "All I want for Christmas is you"!  We might be performing Santa Claus is coming to town next week to the rest of the class.

I can't wait till next week!

Last day with Katie teaching!!

Hi everyone! I am just going to give you a quick review of my day!
This is the last day Katie will ever teach me seeing she's going on maternity leave and I'm leaving at the end of the day!
Anyway we started of with brain boosters and I did sumo cubes. I am not really good with making shapes and things so I got very frustrated but in the end I made a cube and a couch!
Then we did thinking on your feet. I got to do one of my favourites, debating!!! The subject was "there should be only 25 students in a class per teacher''. My team was against that. In the end it was a tie and surprisingly there was not much shouting.
After morning tea we did newspaper and I am so glad to be done both my articles! Be sure to pick up a copy once its published because its guaranteed to be amazing!!!!

My end result!

I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders! Before the holidays we presented 3 minutes of our discovery! I thought it would be terrible but when I got up to present it was actually really fun. I have really enjoyed doing this and I am super proud of my end result! On the day I came dressed in a tatty dress and tatty pants so I looked like a kid from Ireland when their potato crop got ruined. I brought soda bread which is a type of bread that they ate when they didn't have potatoes.

Also today I finished my passion project! I ended up entering a picture of a spider web on a wall. I got some editing help from a amazing photographer Rachel Kelly! Unfortunately I didn't get a placing but I am still proud of my ending product.

I am going to set a goal for this term seeing its my last term of Enrich@ILT! And because it might help me a bit along the way.

My goal this term is to contribute more to topics! 

I am going to make this last term at Enrich@ILT amazing!

Under Pressure!

Oh no! This week is our last week to get our discovery project done! I am pretty much done and I am very excited about presenting what I have found out but I am also a bit nervous.

I have really enjoyed doing the project and I now know things all about my great, great, great, great, great grandma! My favourite thing that I learned was all about what it was like in the olden days. Instead of electronic cars they would use horses to get places, and instead of using Iphones to communicate they would just talk head to head. The world has changed a lot over the centuries!

Here are some of my questions that I asked family members...

What are some unique and amazing things my family has done?
My Dad was very brainy e.g he would have a test and he wouldn't study but he would still beat everyone in his class. He also came up with lots of inventions like on my Nana and Poppa's farm their troughs get filled with slimy stuff, so my Dad spent some time in his shed turning the lawn mower into a trough cleaner. He somehow made it suck up things so he went around cleaning the troughs! My sister has won most of her races since she was seven. She recently won the Southland under 13 girls cross country! During world war 2 my great Grandpa's airplane  got shot down over Germany and he spent a year as a prisoner of war and yet he still survived.

Where is my first and middle name from?
My parents just liked them, I could of had the name Annabelle but at the last minute my name was changed to Lucy and my middle name is now Annabelle. If I was a boy I would of been called Timothy Keith Thompson.

Has my family ever opened their own company?
My Nana and Poppa own a 1000 acres farm.

I have loved learning about my families history and I am excited for sharing it!

Making my brain sore!!

Do you want to make your brain sore of thinking?? Well if you do I suggest you carry on reading!!

Today in the morning email Katie sent us three riddles that we had to solve. I sat there for ages re-reading the riddles and I just couldn't get them. After about 5 minutes of hard out thinking I got the second one!!!! Then I got the third one, but I just couldn't get the first one. 

These were the questions...... 

I have streets but no pavement,I have cities but no buildings,I have forests but no trees,I have rivers yet no water.
What am I?


I am small as an ant and big as a whale,I can soar through the air like a bird with a tail.I can be seen by day and not by night,I can be seen with a big flash of light.I follow whoever controls me by the sun,but I fade away when dark fell like a ton.
What am I?


When I'm young I'm tallWhen I'm old I'm shortWhen I'm alive I glowBecause of your breath I die
What am I?

I will include the answers in next weeks blog!! 

Newspaper 2014!

The music played in the background as I stared at my blank page. My brain was trying to think, I could hear it ticking away along with the noise of other people typing their ideas. The newspaper group was in the studio typing up newspaper articles because we all had to have one finished in two weeks! After a few minutes of thinking I started to get ideas and soon my fingers were spread out on the keyboard typing them up. I wish I could tell you my ideas but its a surprise, but I can tell you that the Enrich newspaper 2014 is going to be amazing!

Step on a crack, you marry a rat!!

I skipped along the pavement clutching my notebook and pen, dodging the cracks as I went. The Enrich@ILT newspaper group were on their way to the library to do a bit of looking at published newspapers from all over the South Island. We were getting ideas for our own newspaper!

I scribbled down my ideas as I flicked the pages of the newspaper. The nice smell of the newspapers made me feel relaxed but focused. It was dead quiet in the library. I could hear others people's pens jotting down ideas, and the soft breaths of the other people in the library. After 7 or 8 newspapers we decided to go back to Enrich. I now have six ideas of what I might do in the newspaper and I am very excited about starting to write it.

Fingers crossed

My fingers were crossed as hard as they could cross!! Nicola was handing out invitations for helping write the newspaper, I really wanted to get in and it was getting down to the last three invitations "Lucy" Nicola called out. I did a little scream inside and got my invitation. I was relived and so glad to be in. I can't wait till next week to start!!

Round and round and round goes my pen!!

Today I wrote a new goal, for the remainder of the year, for the goal tree. We first got a little paper person and we decorated it to look like us. I designed a beautiful rainbow dress for my doll, with squiggles. On the back of these dolls, we put our new goals. My goal for term three is To Complete A Successful Project about my Families  Past.

See you all in Term three!!

Tricky day!!

Hello!! I thought I would give you all an update on how my passion project is going!! A reminder of what I am doing is MADE awards which is a competition on entering photos. I am going to take some photos this week and hopefully show you all!!

Today I printed off some editing sheets so I have ideas on how to edit my photos!! Some new editing things I learnt were that cameras have a button that makes your whole photo in black in white!! I was meant to be editing my photos today but I had some problems of taking the photos and things so I plan to do that next week.
I also printed off a sheet to take home with photography tips so I can get a really good photo and hopefully win!! (Or at least get a placing).

My project I am doing can be tricky because sometimes you can have troubles along the way so you have to re-plan your day I had that problem today.

I can't wait to show you all my photos!!!!!!                                        

Gifted Awareness Week!!

The soft icing covered in love heart shaped sprinkles melted in my mouth as I munched on my red velvet cupcake, and I sipped away on my hot  milo!! This week is Gifted awareness week and to celebrate we had a small morning tea, and man was it yum. For those of you who don't know about Gifted awareness week, its a week when we celebrate about peoples Giftedness. Have you heard of the saying A Tall Poppy this is all about gifted people stand tall and don't care what others think. Some people cut down those poppies so they are all the same but really we should let them shine.


P.s If you have any ideas of what I should take a photo of for the MADE awards then please comment thank you!!

Click Click Cheese!

Yay!!! Today was our first week of passion projects!! This year I am entering a static image into the MADE Awards. For those of you who don't know what the MADE Awards are, I will explain. It is a contest that is on every year, and you can enter all types of photos, documentaries and that kind of thing. If you want to check out what people have done over the years then you can go to www.madeawards.com and see for yourself.

This week I typed up some photography tips,  and some good ideas of good things to take a photo of. Here are some hints on how to take a great photo.....

A plain background is good so your object stands out more.
On sunny days turn your flash on so the sunlight doesn't effect your photo too badly.
On cloudy days turn your flash on full mode (if it has one).
To make your photos come to life a bit more,  aim your camera slightly off-centre to the main part of the photo.
Don't like the sunlight?  Then take your photos in the morning or the evening.

Hope that helped you a bit. It helped me a lot because I hope to go to Queens Park soon and take some photos using them tips.

I think and hope my MADE awards project will work out!!

Check Mate!

Boom Madison's rook planted itself right in front of my kings face. Unfortunately, I couldn't take it because her Queen would kill me. So my brain ticked away while I was playing chess with Madison trying to think of a plan. All I had left on the board was a king and a pawn, and Madison had a queen, her king, her rook, her bishops, and some of her pawns.

There goes my pawn I mumbled to myself. This game wasn't going great and the worst part about it was that I was higher then her on the leader board, but not anymore. In the end Madison got me in check mate and that was the end of chess.

Even though Madison bet me I think I still have enough skill to bet you maybe Jason....

Titanic!!

"Go SCAMPER"!!! Said Katie. I grabbed Madison (my buddy) and we went off to do our SCAMPER on Titanic. Before I tell you anything else you are probably wondering what SCAMPER is?? To SCAMPER you choose a main project and do these things to it.....

S stands for substitute so you have to change something on your project. C stands for combine so you combine your project with something else. A stands for alter so you change something that you don't like in your project and make it something that you do like. M stands for mega/mini so you would change something big in your project to something small and something small in your project to something big. P stands for put to other uses so you would use your project as something else. E stands for eliminate so you would take away something from your project. R stands for reverse which means you put the thing in other order.

Anyway Madison and I are doing Titanic as you already know and we have done............

Substitute= Change the rats running down the hallway on the boat when its just started to sink, into ice cubs to make the water colder. 
Combine=  When the ice hits the boat lego bricks from the Lego movie come and patch it up, but seeing the water is so strong they get knocked down and the boat still sinks. 
Alter= When Rose slips she is so close to the water but she's just holding on to a ladder, that Jack comes down and saves Rose before she slips.
Mega/mini= change the hole in the boat to make it a bigger hole so they don;t have as much time to get everyone on to a life boat.
Put to other uses= The steam things make hot air come out and keep the boats surroundings warm and possibly melt the ice. 
E=eliminate= At the start of the movie when the are at the pub we have eliminated the parson punching the other person. 
R=reverse  Rose is late getting on the boat and by the time the get to the boat it has already gone, so the boat has to go back and get them seeing they are so important.

So this is how Madison and I have improved the movie Titanic!!

End of term one :(

Man has this term gone fast!! It is the last day of Enrich for the term and I'm quite excited about the holidays but really excited about coming back to Enrich for term two!!

The day started normally we did the roll and when Katie called out our name we had to say what we were excited for in the holidays!! I pondered and when Katie finally got to my name (we were over time because so many people were excited about lots of things). Anyway I said about how excited I was about going camping in Mavora with my family, then going up to my Nana's and Poppa's house in Te Anau!!

I could actually hear my brain ticking because now we were doing brain training and it was hard!! We watched this video all about how to get your brain ticking and then we went on this really cool website with lots of activities to make your brain smarter. The website is www.gamesforthebrain.com.

I can't wait for the easter holidays but I also can't wait for term two!!

Pieces everywhere!!

Yay!! I say because at Enrich today I went to a brain booster all about chess!! What we did is Jenni and the group set up a chess game and went over the simple rules. E.g how many points the pieces were worth, some good moves to start off with. While we were doing it someone said its a good thing to do scholars!! I had no idea what that was, but I found out it is a way to get your opponent in check in four moves!!

When we had done that we got a buddy and played a game of chess. I was with Mia. In the game there were pieces everywhere and I think Mia and I just wanted to kill as many pieces as we wanted to. So we never got to finish the game but we counted up the points we had so far. I got seven points and Mia got ten points so Mia won!!

Today I have learnt new moves in chess that will be very handy. I am also more confident in chess so watch out Jason!!

Royals!!

"And we'll never be Royals" sings the fantastic Lorde!! But you may ask what am I talking about?? 

Well At Enrich today we rotated around three stations and the one I quite liked was one about Scholarly Habits with Nicola!! We got a sheet with all the scholarly habits on it. Some examples of them are excellence, saving ideas and curiosity there are 8 more as well. Anyway we watched a video about Lorde's music teacher talking all about Ella (Ella is Lorde's real name incase you don't know). 

As we watched the video we ticked of the scholarly habits that Lorde used. She used all 11 of them!! I will give you an example of one. Academic Humility: Lorde used this because when she was younger she got a lead role in a play and she didn't go and brag in front of the others in the play, but she played her role really well by being confident and loud and she probably just wanted to make the play the best it could be!!
 
Then after doing that we had to tick off our own Scholarly habits of what we did and we had to give an example, mine was. Goal Setting: I used goal setting at the start of every year and one of my goals is to go on the X-Factor when I am 14!! 

This lesson really helped me to learn my Scholarly Habits and I found it really interesting!!

Open Questions!!

Do you ask open or closed questions?? To be able to answer that you might want to know what they are.....    This morning at Enrich we have been learning about open and closed questions, a closed question is when the answer is one word and a open question is when the answer can be long.

So we had to buddy up with someone I budded up with Rhylee and what we had to do is ask them 10 open questions!! So it was like an interview to find out more about your class mates.

My favourite question was
Lucy: Describe a time when you felt like you would burst into tears you were so happy??
Rhylee: When my parents told me we were going to Fiji in four days!!

So I learned two things today. More about Rhylee and how to write open questions!!

So I'll see you on my next blog.

I love the world ending???

Hello!! I have loved the start of Enrich this year and today has been really fun!!

 We got put into groups last week and are rotating around doing Thinker's Keys!! Last week I did the Invention Key with Paul and this week I did the Personal Key with Nicola.

We made a list of things that we worried about, and things we would wish to happen..... why don't I just show mine?......

1. I wish that I had a pet puppy.
2. I hope to travel the world when I am older.
3. I never want to die.
4. I am worried about the world ending.
5. I want to become famous.
6. I love to sing, dance and act.
7. I want to see the world.
8. I enjoy going swimming.
9. I get upset when a sad song plays that brings up sad memories.
10. I aways have a shower every one or two nights.
11. I might have a milo when I get home.
12. I promise to aways try my very best.
13. I have to feed my cat.
14. I used to do piano lessons every Monday.
15. I am happy about my family and my life.

After that we switched number 4 and 6 around so it says..... I am worried about singing, dancing and acting AND I love the world ending!!!

I really enjoyed doing this because I love to answer those kind of questions and think about my life.