War at Enrich

Welcome everyone to my blog post for today or should I say WAR. I set up my chess board ready to verse my friend Madison in the game of chess. I made my first move. I always start with the same move which is moving the pawn that reveals the bishop. As I had my next turn a plan finally fell into my head! Oh no she destroyed my plan and even though we had been playing for at least three minutes  I was nearly in check-mate. I played my move when Katie turned on the music so I will play it at lunch. So at lunch we carried on playing I was going well now because she had only taken four of my pieces and I had taken six or seven. 'I was going to win!' I positively said. It felt like I had been playing chess for a hour. Katie put on the music to do our blog post. Looks like no winner but I probably would have won. I can't for next term at Enrich so I can play more chess. Well for the end of the term I would like to thank everyone who leave comments for me. See you all next term!

Lucy

River deep mountain high!

Don don don are you ready to hear about my favorite thing of the day?!! Well it is performance group with Nicola. I love to sing dance and perform, so that's why I choose this group. So today we wrote down on paper what kind of songs, movies, and dances we like.

Then we voted for a song that we wanted to do. Nicola played the three songs and we voted. The song that won the vote is..... River Deep Mountain High by the Glee cast. I really enjoyed singing the song!! We did the song a couple of times then we stood up and did a wee dance to go with it.

After all that Nicola played some tunes on her awesome new piano - they were great. (Hey Mum, that's a wee hint for what I want for my birthday!)

To my sister Mary who broke her foot - I hope you feel better!

The long hot trip!

I couldn't  wait. Today is the day when we are going on a field trip at Enrich to Queens Park and the museum to explore more patterns outside and inside. First we got into our groups I was with Katie. The first step we took outside was patterns. It was amazing how many patterns there were. We got a piece of paper  and one camera and a partner. On the paper it had the 4 types of patterns we were looking at beauty, order, strength, and survivability. As we walked down the road we stopped every ten seconds  to write down a pattern. As we arrived at the museum we explored the patterns inside the museum. There wasn't as many patterns as outside but it was good. We went through the rose gardens with beauty filling up because there were heaps of roses. As we made our way over to the duck pond the ducks all there ducks has mostly 5 patterns each. Then we met all the other groups at the band rotunda and had lunch. Then my  group went to see the animals. It smelt but it was worth it. Then we went to the bird avairy and went through looking at all the birds and cages. Then it was time to head back to Enrich. I had a long hot day but it was worth it. Thank you Jason for coming on the trip and I hope you enjoyed reading my blog Mum. These are my three favourite photos of the day!

Maths, maths, maths!!

Do you think this picture is confusing? Well once you get it explained, it's not hard! But don't worry, Lucy is here to explain it to you!! Today for talent development I went with Katie to do maths. We did some 'guesstimating', oh whoops, I mean probability. Probability is all about working out the chances of something happening.  It goes like this. We used a box of Cadbury Favourites and we 'guesstimated' the chances of pulling out each type of chocolate.  First we had to work out how many chocolates we had in the box, (27) then we had to work out how many types of chocolates there were (there were 11 different types).  From this, we got a percentage of how likely it was to pull that chocolate out.  We all took turns to pull out a chocolate - we did this 50 times. We used the telly marks to say how many times that chocolate type was pulled out.  Then we added up the telly marks and worked out the percentage. To get the percentage we had to double the numbers because we did it 50 times, but we wanted to know what the percentage was. Like three plus three would be six percent. It was really fun!!  Cherry Ripe and Turkish Delight came out a lot more times than we thought it would.  Thank you for reading my blog (Mum and Jason!)

Talent development tasters!!

Tasters mmmm how yum trying all the hot fresh baking [ stick to the subject Lucy]. What I mean is how we did talent development tasters today. There were three choices they were music with Nicola, art with Jenny, or maths with Katie. I did music. We did first some sheets about music while listening to some songs. Next we sang a song called 'My Life Would Suck Without You! Then we went outside and made up a dance to the chorus.  It was crazy! We danced all over the car park!! All together our voices sounded great!! I had a crazy talent tasters!!

Morning drama!

Drama!! No I'm not talking about Enrich, I'm talking about how we did drama this morning. We did three awesome games to help our  thinking, cooperating, team work, speeding up your reaction, and using our listening skills. Here are the games!! First we did the suitcase game, this is how you play. We started with Nicola she told us what she put into the suitcase and the next person would have to say what Nicola put in and say what you put in. When it got to me I had to do six people and myself.I put in a hairbrush.Then we played the hoop game. We all got into a circle and held hands and put two hoops into the circle then we had to get the hoop around the whole circle without it touching the ground and holding hands the whole time. I found it easy because the person I was beside helped me a lot!!! (co-operation)Then we played my favorite one out of the three - musical bumps!! Its like musical chairs but when  the music stops you have to sit down with your legs crossed, last one to sit down will go out of the game. 

I did really well! I had a great morning at Enrich.

Week 2

Hello everyone! Well today we started with the Wilson game called Picadilly Circus -  it is really fun. First you get into a circle and someone will hold a ball then you try pass it around the hole circle with a time limit  once you have had the ball you sit down you can add more balls. It may sound easy but here our the rules. You can not talk, you can not drop the ball, and you can not give the ball to the people beside you. We did 28 seconds with three balls!! Then we did a sheet all about ourselfs so Katie Darryn  and Nicola could find out more about us. I found it a bit tricky but fun. Then it was morning tea time. After that it was then Katie told us our topic for concept curriculum it was patterns! So we got into a group and wrote down what we know about patterns then we wrote on a sheet of paper that Katie will hang up here our some patterns a chess board, clothes, are, and lots others.Next we did a I am poem that had sentence starter like I dream and you have to write something in that line - that was quite fun.