Today at Enrich

 Today at Enrich we did passion time. For my passion time I was writing a book of poodle facts for children. I had to go on Google heaps. It was really easy for me because I know a lot about poodles. The best part of my passion time was writing the  book on ActiveInspire. First  I  found  a picture of a really gorgeous pink female poodle. I can't wait till I  finish the book. Here are some facts about poodles. They are the second smartest dog in the world.  They are the second most popular pet in USA.  They are hypo-allergenic.  This means that people how are allergic to animals because of there coats, wouldn't have a problem with poodles because their fur is more like hair than fur, and they don't shed as must as other dogs.

Today at Enrich

 Hi it's Violet! Today at Enrich I did the rest of my charcoal drawing with Jake and Bruno. All I had to do was my tree ,lake and two hills. After that happened I did find where Henry tuatara is. My favorite question was where did Steve Irwin live? I knew that straight away because I am Steve Irwin's biggest fan.Then we all had lunch. Now it is blog post then later on it is my favorite things passion time and spanish! Hope you had a great halloween .BYE.

Charcoal painting

 Today I did charcoal painting  It was hard but fun   first we had to rip paper for the peak's of the mountain.It was hard for me because I kept ripping my paper in half . Next we had  to paint the sky with the charcoal powder then  we had to paint the peak's with the powder and use a left over bit of paper.After that we watched a video about how do charcoal painting it did not take that long to do half of it.Then we had a break for lunch before all of that happened we had passion time  for passion time I wrote a book my story is kinda like paranormal based book.Hope you enjoyed my post see you all next week p.s enrich is awesome!.Bye.

Term 4 week 1

Hi it's Violet here. At Enrich today we did a technology challenge that was based on the t.v hero MacGuyver.  It was very hard because we only 15 mintues to make a thing to get the hammer and the chisel to get us out of the concrete! We got 8 sheets of newspaper, 3 metres of string and cellotape, 4 paper clips and a plastic bag.  Our contraption broke half way through the challenge. Nobody managed to get the chisel and the hammer, so nobody won. Right now I am doing my blog then, it is passion time.  I am going to keep going with my writing. I hope you have a great day and I will see you next week, BYE.

Week 9 at Enrich

Today we had chess. Hamish  and I had two rounds of chess. The first round Hamish won.  The second round it was a tie. Later we watched a video on air pollution. It was very sad to see people suffering to live in their city.  The majority of the cities were in the Middle East. Luckliy, Wellington is the cleanest city in world. Which made us all happy. Have a great day. P.S:  You are AWESOME!

seaward bush

Today we went to seaward bush to see if we caught any possem's in the 2d trap we  caught a male possem. It was very big and i got to have photoe with it the end.

video

This video is about going to seaward bush

Creative writing.

Today we did creative writing. We all had to make a character up for a picture of a clown.  I said my clown was age 57 and his name was Willy the Silly.  Willy's home is a mental hospital.  We also had to write about something that was memorable.  I wrote about going to Queenstown for two weeks in the spring time.  I 

Elephants toothpaste

Today at Enrich I was in a science group and we worked with Jenni to make a chemical reaction called Elephants toothpaste. It was really cool because when you mix the ingredients it all foams up and pours out everywhere.  I worked with Tara.  The colour of our elephant's toothpaste was yellow.We all   mixed  the yeast with hot water and this type of chemical (hydrogen peroxide). My one exploded! It was the coolest thing I have seen in my whole life. Bruno's red elephant's toothpaste was the bomb because his one looked like lava. It was awesome because all of them exploded.

Day 1, Term 3

Today I did art with Katie. We were learning about the famous artist Claude Monet - he did impressionist painting.  Today we tried to paint a lily pond.  You don't want too much paint on your brush and you "tache" (which means touch in French) it onto the paper.  We have a new concept for this term - Environment.

Reflection at Enrich

 Hi it's me Violet. Today at Enrich we did our reflection sheet - have a  look. It was really hard to do because we had to think back over the WHOLE term!

Teacher Comment

Vi you are making the most of a range of opportunities that Enrich offers, and are clearly enjoying things like Spanish with Paola, and the drama talent development. It is important to plan your day to make the most of all the opportunities enrich offers.
Darryn

Making pancakes with Tabbitha

Today for Passion Time, Tabbitha and I made pancakes.  We were experimenting with different types of flour.  Last week we made ones with normal flour and corn flour.  This week, we used rice flour.  Our results:

Normal Flour - Really good, smooth and tasty.

Corn Flour - Gritty, sticky and yuck.

Rice Flour - Really good, a bit gritty, but delicious.

Next time, we are going to make muffins using a variety of ingredients to make them gluten free.

Hi Violet

What a chess challenge we had on our hands this week! Good on you for working with me to learn scholars, I hope you get to use it in a game soon!  It sounded like you were really enjoying drama for your talent development choice.  I wonder what stories you do for readers theatre??

See you next week

Alana

SCAMPER

Today  at Enrich   I learnt how to do SCAMPER.  SCAMPER is an activity that involves thinking outside the box.  In groups of three we had to pick an object to SCAMPER, and then we had to take photos of what we did with the item.  The things we had to do to our object (a pink fluffy cleaning thing)  were:


S = Substitute - We substituted it for a hair brush.
C = Combine - We combined it with a computer to make a fluffy mouse.
A = Alter - We altered it by taking the fluffy section off the handle and using it as a head band.
M = Mega/mini - We made our item small and it became a cake trowel.
P = Put to other uses - We used it as a handbag.
E = Eliminate - We took away the handle and made a pizza slicer.

R = Reverse - We reversed ours by turning it upside down so it looked like an upside down hairbrush.