Hi Jake.
Your first day back for Term 3 was great.  You were full of energy and ideas during our first writing session for Talent Development.  It was great to see you using your time wisely to compare and contrast two fairy tales.  You looked at all the elements and answered the questions with thought.  I'm please you are excited about this topic - I think it is going to be challenging, but at the same time lots of fun.  I'm pleased to see 2 workshops ticked off your Must Do sheet already!  You seemed to enjoy the drama session today and were fully involved in all the activities.  Well done Jake.
Katie.

Writing talent development

Today we got to choose what we wanted to do for talent development. The choices were art, writing and documentary. I chose writing because as soon as Alana said the choice a creative story popped in my head so I felt like I had to choose writing. My friend Max chose writing too. Katie is teaching the writing talent development group. We had a look at some of the movie clips from the competition we were going to be competing in for story telling. We had to do a task on two narratives. I did The three little pigs and Little red riding hood. I can't wait to do it next week.

Teacher comment

Jake, you have embraced the challenges you have come across each week at Enrich, with a positive attitude.  You have learnt valuable time management skills, which has enabled you to complete your must dos can dos, and increased your self confidence, well done!  It has been great to see your creative flair come out in your art talent development, your mosaics look fabulous! 

Alana

Mosaic tuatara with Southland flag backround

We used this picture for the southland flag

This week we are sticking the tiles onto our main mosaic which we are doing together. We are doing a tuatara with the Southland flag backround. Our colours are dark blue, green, white, and a whitish orange. We are using four tiles, two at the top and two at the bottom.  We used the tuatara picture (below) for sketching out our tuatara picture. 

HAPPY GIFTED WEEK!!!

 This week is all about letting our giftedness explode.  During the term we have learned about different models of giftedness, (Renzullis and Gagnes).  I think that being gifted means you think differently, and because you think differently, you want to learn more and you are motivated to do so.  I am lucky, I get to go to Enrich every Tuesday.  I get to work with other children who think and are at the same stages as me.  I have more opportunities to develop my talents - for example:  Art.  I am able to take these new skills and use them at my home school as well.  Renzulli says adults are gifted if you have all of the following: Above Average Ability, Task Commitment and Creativity.  Gagne thinks differently.  He says you are born gifted and have talents.  The enviromental influence means that family or people around you encourage you to explore your talents.  I think this applies to me and being able to come to Enrich.  

Talent Development

Tile Mosaic 

Today I did Talent Development.   I did art and we are learning about mosaic art. Mosaic art is when you use pebbles, rocks and tiles to make a picture. The first examples of mosaic art were made with terra cotta cones.  We are going to make some mosaic art.   First we are making an easy mosaic like a number.  On my first mosaic art I am using orange, red and black.  For my second mosaic I am making a picture of the gates at Queens park using white, black, red, orange, grey, green and blue. We looked at some websites on mosaic art. I looked on google  images and found some terra cotta cone mosaics.






Terra Cotta Cone Mosaic

Last day of Enrich for term 1

Today is the final day of Enrich for term 1. I have learnt lots of new things like P4C, Fibonacci numbers, Mental edge, History, Interactions and lots of other things. I liked the Fibonacci number sequence the most because it was maths that is different to what I normally do, and I like doing maths. Enrich is a great challenge for us and it is harder than school.  Chess is one of the hard parts of Enrich. Chess is a challenging game that gets your brain thinking. We all have great fun at Enrich.