Panting Painting Painting

"Painting... Painting... Painting.... All I can do is Paint... I love Painting...  Painting is how the world turns around... Painting is all I can talk about... LITERALLY" I said to myself as I started painting a picture. "Now you've got to use the whole brush, Katie, let it do its job," Haley told me. "Okay," I said. I am learning so many different techniques with Haley. She is sooooooooooooo helpful!!!! "So when do you think we would put the exhibition together??" I asked her. "Well," she said, "We need to have at least twenty paintings in the exhibit." Man.... I thought. Twenty!!!! I wonder if I could sell them?? "Haley," I asked. "Yes," she replied. "Do you think I might be able to sell some of my paintings??" "Well, you probably could but it all depends on whether or not someone wants to buy them," she said. YESS!!! I thought.... Hey.... What if I do sell them???? Then I could be RICH!! Some painters sell some paintings for hundreds of dollars. But you have to be pretty good at painting to sell some. That would be amazing if I could sell some. Well I'll just have to practise. You know what they say, ' Practise makes perfect'. I see how well I go next week...

Landscape complete!

"Ahhhhhhh, hello my dear friends". Last week of term one already. WOW!! That went fast. I can't bare to leave Enrich. It's so scary!! Three terms to go and then never coming back to Enrich, ever, again. :(
It's not far away at all.......... But still three terms away...........

On a happier note Hayley came in again today and together we created a masterpiece, (don't mean to brag). Here's my watercolour picture....




It's a landscape. I partically like lanscapes. Next term Hayley and I are going to look at painting an image of water. Then hopefully we will paint water with land. I won't hold you up, so see ya' next term.......

Right, I'm tired so I'm going to make this quick.

Today we went here, there, and everywhere around town because of Patterns. You may not think so, but trust me, there would probably be one pattern for each of the stars in the sky. 

Firstly we got split into three groups. Next we had a bite to eat. We had to get cracking because we had a lot to do. We went to the Library first because the Art Gallery we were going to was shut, (Great, NOT!). The main idea was to get photos of patterns and write them into their right category. People think there are only four category's for Patterns, Beauty, Order, Strength and Survivability. But I think there are five, Beauty, Order, Strength, Survivability AND Random. 

Anyway, after the Library we headed to Wachner Place. I found heaps of Patterns there - even more than my age, (but I'm only ten). We went to Countdown and then back to Enrich to grab our lunch. After our lunch, you won't believe this, but we walked, yes, WALKED to Queens Park, after walking for about forty-five minutes. We had lunch at Queens Park then looked at the museum's art gallery and toodled on back to Enrich and here I am. 

I better be getting on... (yawn)
See ya next week

Polyfest

TOOT TOOT!! Her Royal highness is coming through. Wait a minute...........the Queen??? Oh no, no, no, no, just me!! Today Pippa, Claudia, Hannah and I made a Royal Throne out of the amazing lego. Although if thou comest onto thy royal throne I will accompany you to an amazing world called Enrichland. Today my fellow students and I talked about Polyfest. It is a festival where people can enter competitions, and share things for example Kapahaka. For the competition thou can enter in T-shirt design, Art  exhibition and Community Lei. Thy are going to try the so called 'T-shirt Design' and the 'Art Exhibition'. Thy can't wait!!
I bid thou goodbye for now, and hope we meet again.
Sincerely Katie

Drama games

Da, da, dada, da, da, daaaaaaaa, SIT! Dadadadada, dun, dun, dun, da.......SIT!
We played a drama game called Musical Bumps. What we had to do was...... We danced the most wildest dance to music and then sat down when the music stopped.

Green?? No...... Yellow????? No..... Blue??? Yes........
Today an Artist came in and gave me a few tips on Watercolour Painting. She is coming in again next week to work with me, I can't wait!!! She's going to teach me different techniques on how to use watercolour. This is one of the things she showed me how to do......(pictured right)
I really like how it can have four different backgrounds on separate bits of the paper.

One, time, I, went, to, the, shop, to, buy a, OUT!!
This was yet another drama exercise we experienced. There were three people up on the stage and they had to make up a story but only using one word each. It was challenging, but not that hard.

Nicola is very good at coming up with drama games.......... I wonder what ones will be next week!!

Slap!! Splotch!! Squelch!!!

YES, YES!!!! I'm finished!!

Painting, ahhhhhh, how I love it so much. This is probably what my days at Enrich will be like for the next eighteen weeks or more. We were sitting on the mat when Darryn said, "Right, on to Passion Projects now". I started thinking about my passion, painting. ( Duh?? I've talked about it for ages now) Anyways, I pictured myself painting trees while sitting under trees! 

Katie.........Katie......... It was calling me. "Katie!"  I finally came back to the real world. Darryn was reading my passion proposal. "So Katie" he asked, "what are you going to do once you've learned how to paint properly??". "Well" I answered, " I was thinking of putting some of my work in the gallery or setting up an Art Exhibition right here".

I went away and planned what I was going to do for the next few weeks. I'm trying to find an artist I could contact. It's kind of hard trying to find one in Invercargill, but I'll get there.

I can't wait until next week. Painting..........Painting.........

Ahhhh, back at Enrich, a dream come true!! 

Today we found out what the Concept Curriculum is. Last week it was a mystery' but this week all was revealed ............... Patterns!!! We wrote down our Prior Knowledge about patterns, then went with another group and wrote our combined answers on a big sheet of paper. That took about an hour and a half. After that my head was pounding with Patterns of Patterns!!! So that was when we went onto Poems. We had to fill out a sheet for the teachers to get to know us. Then we filled out a sheet called 'I am...'. We could share it with other people or if we didn't want to then we wouldn't have to. During the day we also went over the 4 Cornerstones. (Affective Domain, Mental Edge, Talent Development/Passion Project and Concept Curriculum). We also played a game of Piccadilly Circus.

It was a great day at Enrich!!