If I Had A Magic Wand....

If I had a magic wand I would do performance for Talent Development. Ta Da, I'm at performance group now. My magic wand worked.
I wish I was more like Violet at performance because she doesn't care what anyone thinks when she's singing and dancing around. I wish I could be like that. Not caring about what anyone thinks of me. But at the moment, I can't - although Nicola said I relaxed a lot today.

I need to show more expression when I am singing and really get into the groove of things when I am performing. I love being in the performance group with Nicola, even if I do have to work on things. That helps me because then I can focus on one thing at a time, and then when I have completed it, I can move onto the next thing that I have to focus on. That makes it much easier for me, instead of trying to focus on all of them at once. As I will probably forget all of them anyway. 

The first thing I am going to focus on is expression. Then Nicola can tell me what can work on next. I hope I remember to focus on expression next term! 

That reminds me. It's the last post of the term. That disappoints me very much because I absolutely love blogging. Blogging is one of my most favourite activities of the day at Enrich. I don't know why though. I think it's just because I love writing so much! When I leave Enrich I will definitely remember my time blogging at Enrich. Especially with Nicola helping us making our blog GREAT!

'Til next term,
Bye!

Reflection Of The Term

Why do we write reflections at Enrich? I know! I think we write end of term reflections so when we do the full end of year reflection we can look back at our sheet to see what we did in whatever term.  It also helps us think about what we have learned. 

You probably have no idea what the sheet looks like, so I have added a chart below so you can stop imagining it in your head! (scroll down to see). We had an hour to fill this sheet in with everything we have done over the term and put the activity under one of the sections. 

But there was a twist. We couldn't just put the activity - we also had to put what we had learnt beside it. That made it harder! Below I have made a list of things you could put under each section.

Affective Domain;

Wilson Games, Caine's Arcade, What is intelligence?....

Mental Edge;

Mental Edge games, Chess, Wilson games, Technology challenges...

Talent Development/Passion Time;

Whatever you're doing for passion time, or what activity with the teacher you are doing. For example; Performance group, Art group, or MADE Awards group.

I went to performance group and we had ten minutes to share something with the group. I did the keyboard but then Nicola said I had to come up with two lines to sing to the group. I was so frightened because I hate singing in front of people but I am fine singing in a group. If I didn't sing I wouldn't get into the group.

I didn't sing, because I was scared that everyone would think I was bad or I was too quiet and so I wouldn't get into the group.                                                             I changed to passion time and decided I should finish stone carving my rabbit as it is nearly done. I don't mind doing it but I would rather be in performance group without singing in front of everyone alone. 

I better stop writing now as you are probably getting bored of all my LONG as stories!

'Til next week,

Bye.

Queens Park BOSSES!

Did you know you can use 'BOSS' in Queens Park? Yes you really can, I'm not joking! If you don't believe me I'll make you pay, so you better watch out! No I'm joking, I won't pay you back!  Anyway back to the MAIN story. (You must be thinking what a crazy title? But I bet you will be interested, no doubt.)

I think I might have told you what BOSS means already, but I'll remind you again so you keep it in your head and have some more knowledge. 

B stands for Beauty.

O stands for Order.

S stands for Strength.

S stands for Survivability.

You probably have no idea what this has to do with Queens Park, but just be patient and you will find out after you have read my blog!

Since our concept curriculum this year at Enrich is patterns, we thought that instead of looking at pictures online we could find some ourselves. This would've been a great experience for Visual Spatial people (not me though!).

You have probably guessed from the title that we went to Queens Park. That is probably one of the best places to go in Invercargill to look at patterns as Queens Park has a lot of activities to go to, whilst one is studying patterns. Some examples are: The bird aviary, The Japanese Gardens, the plant aviary, the duck pond etc....

Anyway, we went in two groups, one group was with Nicola and Daniel's mum, and the other was with Jenny, Katie and Josh's dad. I was with Katie's group and was joined up with Thomas. The reason why we paired up with someone was for someone to take the photo, and the other person was going to record patterns that we saw under each word, Beauty, Order, Strength and Survivability. We got to swap turns so we both got a go at taking a photo and recording the pattern. I think Thomas and I worked well together but I think next time we need to work on staying together as a team instead of staying separated from each other. Below are some examples of patterns under each letter of BOSS. 

1st photo: Survivability

2nd photo: Strength

3rd photo: Beauty

4th photo: Order.

I better go now,

Until next time, Bye.