The WORST Day In History!

No one can help me overcome how sad I am. This is the most dreadful day at Enrich. Do you know why? Because it's my last day at Enrich. Not for the year, but for my entire life! 

I'm not the only one who is sad though because my teacher Darryn and his daughter Jemmimah who comes here too are leaving! 

I feel very sorry for the people coming next year because they won't have the opportunity to play chess with Darryn or get to know him which is very sad. 

I will miss Enrich because it is such an awesome gifted school! You get to do passion time, Wilson games, go to chess tournaments, learn new and exciting things, know yourself better, learn the habits of mind, study something for the whole year to understand it better (such as patterns and perspective) and lots of other things. 

If you get chosen to go to Enrich and you are accepted you are VERY VERY lucky. You will always remember your time here just like me. I wish that Enrich would run to year 13 instead of year 6! 

The things I have enjoyed at Enrich are:

Sharing your work at Enrich with the world on Blogger.

Playing chess and going to Dunedin two years in a row. Also winning the chess tournament this year and getting to go to Ashburton for the South Island Chess Championships. That was the best part about this year!

Getting to work on what you're passionate about in passion time (lino printing/writing) and doing performance with Nicola. My favourite part of performance was doing a dance and singing at a concert.

Having access to all the computers and iPads. My favourite app on the iPads was Bookworm, a word game.

Doing Writer's Studio twice. One was writing studio where we went around town taking notes about people and buildings and writing a story about it. Then the second writers studio was writing studio 201 which was harder because we had to get given a starting phrase, a setting and four words that we had to include in our story.

Getting to paint a kowhaiwhai panel last year.

Having sausage sizzles at the end of the year. One last year because one of the teachers Allanah was leaving and then this year because it is the last day of the year.

Well, bye for the last time!

Another Short Day!

I had my swimming competition this morning called Southland Champs where we race people all over Southland. I have made it into the final for 100 backstroke which I am pleased with.

I walked from Splash Palace to Enrich exhausted. I came in and we were into passion time which was good because I really wanted to get my lino-print finished. In the end it turned out great thanks to Darryn. He just did a few touch ups and afterwards it looked pretty great. I will probably have to do another print next week so I can learn and keep improving. I have really enjoyed doing lino-printing because I got to learn something new and it has been so much fun! Thank goodness we still have another week left at Enrich!

Another Choice!

Another choice had fallen on me. This was even worse this time. Maths/Art and writing 201! My two favourite subjects. I really want to improve in my writing and learn new things or maths/art which is my all time favourite. But when it came down to it I chose writing because I just love it so much and we never get to do this much writing at school a day.

Writing 201 has been awesome! I am so glad I chose it now. The first thing we did was get a computer and login. Next, Nicola gave us a notebook and pencil to keep. She then spun some writing ideas and then whatever it landed one we had to use in our writing. We had to have chosen our setting, starting phrase and four words that we had to use in our writing. Here were mine:

Setting- Super Bowl

Starting Phrase- The postcard said "Greetings to you all."

Four words I have to use- Moo, wrist, tumble and burp.

At first I wasn't that excited about my Setting when I found out my story had to be at a baseball game! My interests are swimming, music, maths and writing not baseball! I then thought that this is teaching me a lesson and how to be a better writer so I felt happier later on.
Here is some of my story for you(without being checked Nicola)

The postcard said “Greetings to you all.”

I felt so excited knowing that I would be going to The Super Bowel in California, America. The postcard was from my friend who lives in California and said that I could go with my sister Rue to the World Cup. We all love baseball and can’t wait to go watch the game between the billers from England and the pillars from London.  We all want the pillars to win because they are from our hometown and they are just so incredible to watch. 

Moo! Our cow Millie started to interrupt us from the very lovely postcard from Mila. Whenever our cow does that it means that she is hungry and wants food. Of course we couldn’t just leave her as cows need to be fed as well as us. Rue and I started to argue about who should go feed Millie because we both HATE doing it. In the end I had to do it because I’m the older one and Rue said that I have to be a good role model to her. My shoulders lay low and I dragged my body off the couch. I felt exhausted from completing a marathon earlier in the day and walked as slow as a tortoise. Millie continued to moo but became even louder. I rushed out to feed Millie as fast as I could while she kept on mooing. 

When I got back inside Rue was still reading the postcard as she is so slow! I snatched the  card of her and finished reading it. Rue kept on going on about how I  should be a good role model, but I didn’t take any notice of her because she is old enough to make her own responsible decisions.

You really think you know?

I start running to Enrich and was nearly at the stairs when suddenly I tripped feeling very embarrassed. It was  spitting with rain and I felt so excited to come into the Enrich door and then that just had to happen; I must be SO clumsy! The reason I wanted to get into the door so fast is because I came in at ten to one. You're probably thinking why I was so late, why I wanted to miss so much learning time, why I wanted to miss my favourite time of the day at Enrich, which is chess!

Well you're all wrong, I was actually going to James Hargest (the school I'm going to next year) for my new entrant day where we did lots of fun activities and got to know other people from other schools and what they're like. My favourite part was getting to throw chickens around!!! Not real chickens of course because that would just be mean - it was a toy chicken that looked like a turkey. The point of doing that was to learn other people's names as before we threw the chicken we had to say the person's name. Anyway, when I got to Enrich I got big hello's from everyone and then we started to learn about digital citizenship. This is about how we can be safe on the internet,  and what we think we know about the internet when we really DON'T! But the best thing about coming into the Enrich door was finding Nicola as she has been away for the last few weeks and I really missed her! Thank goodness she's back now! I can't wait 'til next week where I can finish my gifted study on Leonardo da Vinci and start Enrich at the NORMAL time which is 9:00am!

Blog you next week, Clara!

GIANT!

"Don't squish me!"

No, there is no giant it is just a GIANT crossword. I'm not joking, it's University standard! A crossword where we have to think of 54 words! 54!!!!! When I first looked at it I was scared. A huge blank crossword that we have to fill in by ourselves,  tough work! I started doing it and it wasn't actually that bad. You'd think it would be so hard but it really isn't. I am so close to finishing as I have only got five more words left to fill then I will be done. The hardest thing about the crossword was getting the big fifteen letter words and then adding little words around it. I looked so hard for them and then I finally found it.  It's so frustrating knowing that you've only got five more words left and you have to go do blogging!!! At least I'll have it done by next week! (hopefully)

 Affective Study (Leonardo da Vinci).............

Finished-

Introduction

Childhood

Verrocchio's Workshop

Inventions (nearly)

Habits of Mind he used

Bibliography (most of it)

What to do next-

Paintings

Timeline

Renzulli's and Gagne's model of giftedness 

Comparison with someone (maybe, as there has to be someone so brainy and smart to be compared with Leonardo da Vinci)

Conclusion

That's what I have for my Affective Study so far and have got most of it checked by the AWESOME Darryn which all went very well.

I can't wait to come back to Enrich next week because Nicola will be here as she was sick last week!

Leonardo da Vinci

  

The Excruciating Choice

The choice was fallen upon me as I had to choose between my two favourite things!


Singing 












And......



Writing












To make it more clear to you about what the choices were for - it was this. We were either allowed to choose between Singing201 or Passion Project. I really want to do Singing201 but I don't want to sing a solo.  I sing all the time but it is always by myself. Then, I absolutely love writing and just love using my imagination and putting it on paper. The reason why I love writing is because you can write whatever you want without anyone telling you what to do. Writing to me feels free and relaxing. Just you and the pen writing your heart out onto a bit of paper not knowing what will come out. When the choice came I still didn't know what to choose. Nicola thinks I should do writing,  and so do I but I really want to do singing as well!!!! What do I choose?

Clara

Hailing Music

"Ahhhhhhhhhh it's hailing with music!" I screamed.

"No it isn't!" said Nicola.

"Yes it is Nicola!"

"Don't be silly, there's no music falling from the sky!" Nicola said angrily.

"Nicola, I'm telling you the truth! Garage Band is full of music and it just keeps filling my ears!"

"Well that's different!" explained Nicola.

"OK I admit I was telling a lie. But I better get on with Garage Band."

"Good idea."

Performance was out OF THIS WORLD! 

We got to watch our performance from the sharing night and then we got to go onto the awesome GARAGE BAND! Garage Band is a music app where you can write your own music and make really cool songs using the different instruments. The selection includes; drums, piano, acoustic, beats and lots more. I have made a beat which I think sounds pretty awesome but other people might not agree.

Well it's time to say goodbye to Garage Band so,

Byebye!