Last Day of Enrich Forever!

HI EVERYBODY!

Today is the last day for me at Enrich forever! The year has been great and I will miss coming here. So, this means this post is my last ever entry! I'm going to do a PMI on the Enrich year. 

P=Postives
The positive things about this year are:
I really enjoyed Passion Time because it really helped me develop my skills a whole lot further. I also really liked the Wilson games because they were so much fun and really interesting. I enjoyed working on computers as well because I'm very interested in them. 

M=Minuses
The challenging and the not so great things about this year are:
The computers sometimes got really annoying because they wouldn't load!!! I also didn't like the fact that we couldn't finish off our Environmental Project because we weren't actually allowed to set the possum traps in Seaward bush in the first place. 

I=Interesting Things
The interesting things about this year are:
The eye dissection was very gross, but very interesting! Also the Affective Domain was interesting and learning about the habits of mind. It was really interesting learning more about computers and technology like that. 

As you can see I have had a pretty great year coming here and it's a shame it has to come to and end. 

Farewell! 

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Ciao!

I have done an Animal Rights P4C today with Katie. I definitely wanted to go to this workshop the minute I heard about it because I really love animals and I believe that they should have all the same rights as a human. First of all Katie read us a short story about a boy who was treating his dog really badly because it wouldn't jump through a hoop of fire! That's really cruel. I really enjoyed listening to the story because it showed me how animals are really treated. After that we discussed what humans need to survive and no, not all the luxury stuff that we 'need' if that's what you're thinking, but what we need to survive. Such as

• Food 
• Water
• Oxygen 
• Shelter
• Warmth

Then we had to think of the things that dogs need to survive. I found that what they needed was pretty much exactly the same things as what humans need. Katie then played us a wee snippet of the movie 'Babe'. We then had to think of the good things that was happening to the animals, like they weren't in cages they were running around freely. Then we had to think of the cruel things that was happening. That was the part I didn't enjoy so much.

I really enjoyed this workshop and I have one more thing to say...

I LOVE ANIMALS!!!!

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Hola Amigos!

One of the things I did at Enrich today was the Ridiculous Key workshop with Katie. What we did, was Katie said a ridiculous statement, like the whole world had the same timezone, and then we had to come up with the benefits of this statement. This is some of the things I thought were good about...

Whole world had the same timezone

• If you go overseas you wouldn't get jet lag. 
• If you wanted to call someone overseas you wouldn't have to figure out what time they'd be awake, because it would be the same time over there as it was here. 
• If you wanted to go to Australia for a holiday and you wanted to plan what you would do at what time, you wouldn't have to figure out what the time would be. 

Only had to go to school once a week

• You would pretty much get a never ending holiday if the day you went school was a public holiday. 
• It wouldn't cost as much to go to school.
• We'd get to do lots more things with art supplies because usually the teacher would have a certain amount of art supplies and they'd have to make that last over a whole year. If they only had to make it last over say 40 days then that would mean we get to do a lot more stuff. 
• The electricity bills wouldn't be as high.
• We would get more sleep because we could sleep in most mornings. 
• We could get more friends over. 

There was a no shoe policy

• You wouldn't have to buy shoes or socks.
• You wouldn't have to buy products like 'Gran's Remedy' to keep our feet from smelling!
• It would be good for all the manicure and pedicure places because if people's feet were on display, they'd want them to look nice and pampered up, so they'd go to those sorts of places.

I found this workshop really interesting and a lot of fun! 

 

S.C.A.M.P.E.R

Hi everybody! Today I did a S.C.A.M.P.E.R workshop. I have told you about what this is in my past posts.

Substitute

Combine

Adapt

Mega/Mini

Put to other uses

Eliminate

Reverse

We had to think about how we could improve Invercargill environment and town using these 7 things. Sarah and I thought that we could S.C.A.M.P.E.R Wachner Place. We didn't have to use all 7 letters. Just the ones that we thought could make an improvement. This is what we thought:

Substitute graffiti for fun pics for your family to look at.

Combine a tree house with a tree.

Adapt it to a picnic place by putting some picnic tables in as it's right next to Hell's Pizza.
Adapt it to a play area by putting in a swing set.

Minimise the stage to make it more kid friendly.
Magnify the gardens.

Put to other uses by making it a picnic place for your family to enjoy.

Eliminate the concrete and add some grass in.

We didn't think we could reverse anything.

I had great fun doing this and I hope we can make these ideas into reality.

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Hello everyone! It's great to be back at Enrich. We had a really interesting Affective Domain session. It was about an American 12 year old girl who is extremely gifted and has the vocabulary of an adult! Her name was Adora Svitak. We watched a clip on her on YouTube. Adora was talking about kids who stop pursuing their dream just because they think they can't accomplish it because they're kids. She was saying that the children are the next generation of the world and are the future. children have bold, creative ideas. For instance, if a child wants to make a glass sculpture, they'll just say "I wanna make that. That'd be cool!" Where as an adult would probably say "Oh no, that's too hard and it costs to much money. You're too young to do that anyway." Adora thought that what the adult says isn't right. Children can accomplish anything if they work at pursuing their dream. Here's a great example, Adora published her first book when she was 6!! This is because her parents were encouraging, and rang up a lot of children' s publisher companies who said 'No, we don't work with children." Adora thought it was a bit silly that a children's book publishing company didn't work with children! Finally, one company had trust in this little 6 year old girl, and agreed to publish her book. It was called 'Flying Fingers,' and had over 1000, sales worldwide. So you see, if you work hard, you can accomplish anything! Even if you are a child.

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Kia Ora everybody! 

Today at Enrich we  did a technology challenge. It was based on MacGuyver. We split into groups of three. The technology challenge was about MacGuyver getting stuck in wet cement. He saw a chisel and hammer 2 and a half meters away. Each group had to design and make a contraption that would help MacGuyver get to the hammer and chisel. We weren't allowed to move our feet from a small marked square. This is because we were stuck in cement. If the person who was using the contraption moved their feet their team would be disqualified. 

The equipment that we were given to work with was:
3 full sheets of newspaper
3m of 15mm wide sticky tape
3.5m of string
4 paperclips
1 plastic shopping bag
 In my group was Ella, Sarah and I. We rolled up two pieces of paper and crossed them over to make an x sort of shape. then we taped them together and tied them up with some string to make it nice and firm. Then we tied string onto one end of the cross so we had something to hold onto. Our plan was to throw the contraption out holding the string and that hopefully the cross would be able to catch onto the chisel and hammer and we would be able to reel it in. Unfortunately not everything went as planned, although we were very close to getting the hammer and chisel! 

I really enjoy doing technology challenges and this might be the best one yet...

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Hi there everybody!

Today is the last day of Enrich for term 3 2012! Luckily, it's been a really good last day! I started the day off with a game of chess. I played against Ella, but we didn't finish our game. After that we did our Key Competency assesments about our contributing and participating in P4C and debating, and our thinking skills. Then we had a break and some morning tea YUM!!!! Passion Time was also a highlight. Ella and I made a really yummy chocolate cake. We sprinkled it with icing sugar and put marshmallows on it. It looks DEVINE!!! 

The Wilson game we played today was great fun. It was called Bullseye. We got divided into 4 teams of 7 or 8. We had to try and throw the toys and beanbags into the hoops. There was 4 hoops. If you got something into the closest hop, you got 3 points, the second hoop, 6 points, the third hoop, 9 points, and the farthest hoop, 12 points. Our team won overall. 

I can't wait to come back to Enrich next term!