My Trip To Queens Park

Today Katie took me and the Talent Development Photography group down to Queens Park. We took heaps of photos! Some people took over 1 hundred! There was lots of different things to see. Especially seeing all the ducks fighting. The ducks were actually really interesting but they didn't take a very good pictrure. The pictures of them turned out a bit messy. I have decided I love to take pictures of different sorts of flowers. They take an amazing picture and look really pretty. When we got back from Queens Park we imported our photos onto iPhoto and then chose our three best photos that had hardly been changed at all. These were my best ones.

Mind Mapping

Today I did mind mapping with Alana. Mind mapping is when you have a main idea in a little bubble and then you draw fat branch coming of it with lots of little ideas on little branches coming of the big branch. Each idea has a different colour. For example, we did one on school. Our first idea was students. We had to think of what a student's perspective of school was. All my ideas for students were in purple. Our next idea was teachers. We had to think of what a teacher's perspective of school was. These ideas were in blue. Our next idea was parents and what they thought of their children going to school. The colour I used for these ideas was green. Each idea had a little picture beside it. It was very fun!  

Passion Time

At Enrich today we did our very first Passion Time. Passion Time runs from 11:00am to 12:30pm. I chose to do science experiments. Izzy, Briana and Anais did it with me. The first experiment we did was called corny goo. Its like oopleck. First of all we needed 2 tablespoons of corn flour and 1 tablespoon of water. Then we mixed it. Throughout the mixing process we added a wee bit more water. Soon enough it was quite thick and creamy. We tried to pick it up and it was all sticky! We decided to put it in the microwave for 5 seconds. That did nothing. It only made it warmer. Since it was quite runny we tried adding more cornflour. We were trying to find out that if you squeezed the gooey stuff in your hand it would turn solid because you are squeezing all of the water out. When we threw it up into the air it turned into something like cookie dough. This was because it was filling up with air and getting more solid. Unfortunately we didn't want it to turn into cookie dough, so we added more water. Then we wondered what would happen if we put it into the microwave for 15 seconds. It turned a dark yellow and looked like rotten jelly! It was really fun making it and I can't wait to make something else next time!  

WOW

Today Enrich went on a field trip down to the museum to look at the World of Wearable Arts designs. There was a room that you could go in where there was glow in the dark dresses and if you were wearing white you glowed as well. There was so many different designs and ideas! There was even one that was made entirely out of copper fans. I loved seeing all the different ideas there was. I am a designer myself and it was really inspirational seeing the outfits. Everybody had a different perspectives for each design. My favourite design was called Firebird.