Teacher Comment

Katie.

You have had a busy term at Enrich.  You have great friendships with a variety of children.  You have shown your creative side in both mosaic art, as well as stone carving in your own time.  You are learning to become more independent and seem more sure of yourself, which is great to see.  Your blog posts are always interesting and full of detail.  You have learned more about yourself as a gifted learner through exploring and unpacking different models of giftedness.  Keep up the positive attitude for next term.

Katie.

Enrich Term 2

Hello, it's me again. I'm doing this blog post about Term 2 at Enrich. This term has been fantastic for me. My two stars (good things)  would be: Getting to go into the art shed and doing my whale tail out of Oamaru stone, and finishing my mosaic. My wish would be to make sure Enrich never changes. I can't wait until next time I come, it's going to be wicked!

Mosaic Team!

Today we started on our Team mosaic and we're doing a kiwi and some ferns. I'm quite enjoying it but the only thing is that we've got to make sure that the most tiles are the same size and that they're spaced out evenly. The colours we are using for the kiwi are brown for the body and orange for the legs and the beck. For the ferns we're doing a black outline with a white middle. Hopefully we are going to be finished before the holidays. I'll put a picture of the mosaic on my blog when I'm done.

Stone sculpture

Every Thursday at lunch time Grace and I saw, cut and chisel out pieces of stone for our stone carving. We are carving out a whales tail. It all started about 7-8 weeks ago when Grace was talking to Darryn about a stone carving. I happened to be there at the right time and the right place because I got to start one too. This is what I've done so far.

Chemistry with Katie

Today I did chemistry with Katie. We were looking for ingredients to see if they were neutral, a base or an acid. This is what we had to do:


1. Get red cabbage and cut it up.


2. Put the cabbage into the bowl.


3. Drain the water into a bowl and leave it for 45minutes after the water should turn purple.


4. Chuck the cabbage out and pour the water into a few glasses.


5. Get ingredients that you want to test.


6. Pour or tip the ingredients into the purple water


7. If they go darker ( blue ) they are a base. If they go lighter ( red orange yellow) they are an acid, but if they turn green they are neutral.

What it means to me to be gifted.

This week it is Gifted Awareness Week.  To me, being gifted means to be talented in a area or subject but maybe not everything  For example:  Mr Einstein was gifted in science because he discovered the theory of relativity.  I think I'm talented in maths and spelling for my age but I'm not so keen on writing.  I like coming to Enrich because they do literacy and writing but in a different way to school.  For instance, school does writing in our writing books, but at Enrich we do typing instead and we are given the chance to attend writer workshops in small groups that focus on different areas to improve our writing.  At school, reading is done in groups with reading books, but at Enrich reading is included in most things we do and presented in a variety of ways.  Enrich is an opportunity of a lifetime and I'm glad I took it.

Art (mosaics)

Last week, I started my mosaic that I am doing for talent development.  I did the number 8 as my design.  The number 8 looks awesome because I have  put the colour yellow inside the circles in the middle and I have done the colour red for the rest of the design.  We are going to complete the backgrounds today.  I'm going to do the colour black so it stands out with the bright colours.  I wonder if I should do a tui for my next project.  What do you think?


Here is my mosaic so far.  I will update my blog again when it is finished.