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!!

Today we had Thinker Key Cards. Darryn was doing the Brainstorming key, Katie was doing the Ridiculous key, and Alana was doing the Variations key. We only got to rotate once so I missed out on Alana, (ohhh). The first thing we had to discuss in Katie's one was, 'What if every county had the same times'. The little twist was you were only allowed to say positives to the question. One of the good ideas for this was at least on Facebook or emailing someone, you wouldn't have a delayed response. At Darryn's one we had to brainstorm the ideas for it. Hannah and I picked "Use other materials to make clothes". Some of the ones I came up with were: Meat, paper and Money.
I don't know about you, but I would love a money dress!!

This is the Nisshin Maru, the Japanese factory ship

Today a guest speaker came and talked to us. His name was Grant. He is apart of the crew on Sea Shepherd. Sea Shepherds protect the Whale Sanctuary in the Ross Sea near Antarctica. He talked to us about the Japanese Whalers. It wasn't illegal to hunt whales until the International Whaling Commission (IWC) stopped whaling in 1986. The Japanese found a loophole. You were only allowed to kill whales if you used them for research. So they were killing them once again. Fortunately Sea Shepherds have set off on a mission "to stop the Japanese once and for all". The good thing about Sea Shepherds is that they don't just protest against it, (not that that's a bad thing) but they head out and do it themselves - they are proactive!

Waihopai River Restoration

Today at Enrich, well, it wasn't really AT Enrich. We spent about half the day planting down along the bank at the Waihopai River. My partner was India. What we had to do was create a 'wedge' in the ground, (which is really shoving the spade into the ground the rocking it back and forth). 'Wedging' is easier in our case because if we dug the hole it would loosen the ground, which wouldn't  help with the sticks we put in. It's a bit hard to explain, so here is a photo.

We planted Toi Toi's, Flax and Cabbage trees. We planted these because when the river floods it goes into a wee pond area which drags mud into the river. This is supposed to help catch the mud and hopefully make it cleaner.

I was surprised that only four girls planned it because it was properly thought out, planned and put together. Thanks Kate, Hannah, Hannah and Madison, I had fun!!

First day back

First day back!! Yeah!! What a rush. We played a game and it was called "All or Nothing". Have I ever told you guys about Bulls-eye?? All or Nothing is sorta like that except you trying to get the Beanbags into a bin. If you get it in the bin, you get to move it up a hoop and throw it back to the next person. My team was Team 3. In Round 1 we got up to the third hoop and we went to throw it to the next person but they dropped it. We didn't care though, that just motivated us more. If the next person drops it you have to move the hoop back to the Start. Round 2 wasn't so flash for me. We got all the way up to the 4th hoop and Max went to chuck it to me, but I just dropped it. WA wa waaa. But as for Round 3, no offence, but we smashed it!! Maddison made the throw of the day because she threw it and she got it in!! The only thing was that I missed the last catch, so I was definantly pressured. Here she goes, its flying in the air, coming down, I get ready, here it is, CATCH!!

I'm so sad it's the last day of the term. It wouldn't actually be the last day, but we're the only day that hasn't missed a day yet so now it is our turn because next Tuesday are the workshops for entry selection to Enrich.
         
We started off with Leader board Chess. I played Katlyn and man she gave me a run for my money!! Thank heavens we had the chess clock though, it saved my life! In the first game Katlyn was left with around 9 players and I think I was down to about 4 players, and for the second game it was about the same. 

Next we went on to Passion Time. My Passion is Painting but because of the mess me and a few other people made last week we weren't allowed to paint, I think that's fair enough though. So instead of painting I sketched a mountain. To be honest I think I might keep to painting because sketching, doesn't look to good when I do it. 

We had a little morning tea and then went into P4C.  The topic for P4C was "Do we have the right to Pollute?". My answer was... Half of the Pollution we can't help, example: showering, toast and waste. For showering some of us just stand there and think about our day when the water was running. It takes electricity to warm the water and the longer the water is running the more electricity it uses up. On the lines of electricity, there is TV.  Ahhh the great plasma or flatscreen, but whats the difference between radio and TV except for the picture?? Yes it's alright to have a TV but don't blow all your money on a flatscreen. All anyone needs is just a small one. Think  how much packaging it takes to wrap a flatscreen TV, and now how much it takes to wrap one half the size?? Plus all the plastic it takes to wrap it, where does it go because it takes about 80-100 years roughly to decay into the ground. 

So pretty exciting day. Adios Enrich........ Until next term.....

Today we watched a sad and a little disgusting video. It was about the 10 Most Air polluted Cities in the world. At the start it said about how Las Angeles had 25 micrograms of Filth every cubic meter, and thats in the air!! I will now tell you one-by-one the 10 Most Air Polluted Cities in the World.

10: Kampour, India
9: Yasouj, Iran
8: Gaberone, Botswana
7: Peshawar, Pakistan
6: Kermanshah, Iran
5: Quetta, Pakistan
4: Ludhiana, India
3:Sanadaj, Iran
2:Ulanbataar, Mongolia
and finally the most air polluted city in the world is...
1: Ahwaz, Iran

When it showed you how polluted the air in Ahwaz was I felt sick to my heart. This was because when you looked at the air you couldn't see the towers or anything. I think that it would probably be unnatural to die of old age when you live there. After we watched the very sad clip of it, we had to do what we learnt and what we wondered. For what we learnt I put that sometimes instead of wanting things that you should be grateful of what you've got instead of saying 'I want this, I want that'. My wondering was.. In so many years time will cities almost be as bad as competing for the title 'Worlds Most Air Polluted City'. As we got further and further into the situation we looked up the Worlds Most Cleanest City and guess what...... Wellington was the most CLEANEST, Go Wellington!! And so on that happy note,
LONG LIVE CLEAN GREEN NZ!!