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!!