Week2-Talent Development

This week for Talent Development we started planning our story. We looked at how you use a narrative structure.  There are usually 8 parts:
1. Status Quo. Is how the story started.
2. Initial Problem. Is the beginning of the problem.
3. Exposition. The initial problem starts to grow.
4. Complications. The little problems that build up to the crisis.
5. Crisis. Where all the action is.
6. Turning Point. Is pretty much the happy ending and it's where everything starts to go back to normal.
7. Denouement (day-nu-moan). This is the part of the story where you can just take a deep breath and relax. The wickedness is all over and the good guys have won!
8. Description of the new Status Quo. What happens after the denouement.
So, that's what we learnt in Talent Development today. I wonder what we'll be doing next week!

First Day Back At Enrich! New Talent Development!

Finally, back at Enrich again! We've already got our new talent development. There were three choices once again. Documentries, art and storytelling. I chose storytelling which is narrative writing. We write a story and then film it and act it out. First though we had to watch a couple of Made Award winner's stories.  Then we had to make negative and positive comments about each of them. Then we had to choose at least 2 fairy tales from 6 choices. They were, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Snow White, The Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood. I chose Beauty and the Beast and Cinderella. Then we had to complete some sheets about them. The first sheet was about the main character's personalities and their qualities. On the second sheet we had to write down what the problem in the story, the resolution and what we liked and what we'd change. On the third sheet we had to make a flow chart of the settings in the story in order. There was a few more sheets but I didn't get to finish them all. I am so looking forward to the next session!  

Teacher comment

Anna you are self motivated and organized and you have embraced the new challenges that Enrich has provided. You use your time wisely and effectively to make the most of new opportunities and you willingly go the extra mile in all the work you do, and you definitely live up to the expectations of working in a high trust environment. Great start at Enrich!

Little Red Riding Hood Skits

This afternoon we had to do Red Riding Hood skits. Skits are little plays that can even be done by 2 or 3 people. we divided up into groups of 3 and 4. I was with Henry and Theone. We wanted to put a twist to the story so we thought that the grandma, (which was me!) could do karate! Theone was Red Riding Hood and Henry was the wolf. I really enjoyed making up the 1 minute skits. Some of the other group's plays were really funny. I think that everybody did really well for just 1 minute skits.

P4C

As usual, I'm having a great day at Enrich! So far I have done P4C. This week P4C is about 'do little things bother you?' To start off Katie explained to us what 'stoic' meant. It means that if you are a stoic person it means that it takes a lot of work to annoy you. In other words, you are tolerant and accepting towards other people and little things don't bother you. Katie asked us some questions to find out if we were stoic or not. For example, one of the questions Katie asked was, would you be able to still concentrate on your work even if your classroom was to hot or to cold. Another one was, if your friend, not your best friend but somebody you knew in school was teasing you often. Would you be able to resist the urge to tease them back? So, if you are stoic you would answer the first question yes and so on. 
Are you stoic?

Talent Development- Contact an Expert

Today for Talent Development we had to contact an expert. I contacted Wellington Zoo by emailing them. Now I just have to find their email address. We had to ask as many questions as we wanted to. We had to say how old we were just incase they sent us something inappropriate. Hopefully I will get some more information. Once we've got all the information we need on our Talent Development keynote we have to print out our best page of information in colour. I am going to print out the one about the red panda. I know, it sounds like a lot of hard work. It's fun though and great new learning.
GO TALENT DEVELOPMENT!!

Adaptations...

Not just any adaptations, animal adaptations! We have been going further and deeper into our progress of learning about animal adaptations. My interest has grown about animal adaptations and I think that finding out about animals is really quite fascinating. Last week we looked at the skulls of some predators. The cat, the seal, and lots more! We had to make a keynote about an animal of our choice and write about it and it's adaptations. I chose pandas. The red panda, and the giant panda. They seemed like the most interesting sort. I've been having a really fun time with this study and I know that we will be learning a whole lot more today and I'll be back to tell you about it soon!