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!!

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!