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.

Today at Enrich

Today is week 9 of Enrich. Today I did a Multiple Intelligences workshop. We learnt what logical, linguistic and lots of other intelligences mean. There are 8 different types of multiple intelegences. I am strong at Intrapersonal, because I like working on my own, because I don't like people talking and taking over my ideas. 

I also went to interactions. We talked about what the word meant  to us and then we made a mind map about human interactions that have happened in our life like  in sport, school and home.  

Enrich

Today I learn't P4C which is Philosophy for children. We learnt what about getting awards and what we do when we get a reward like a sticker. None of us liked getting a sticker for a reward because they would throw it in the rubbish or flush it down the toilet. I would throw it in the rubbish. We talked about if we wanted to have a teacher that gave us broken toys or a teacher that makes us level up.

Room 7 at Enrich

Today is week 8 of Enrich. On Friday my class came to Enrich to learn how to film and make movies with imovie. First we watched some other people's movies to see what we were going to do. First we planned our movies then we went to film our movie. My partners were Nathan and my friend Mitchell. We filmed our movie out the front where the colourful couches are. Our movie was about interviewing a pro motocross rider called James Stewart. I was the news person, Mitchell was James Stewart and Nathan was James Stewart's Dad. Nathan wore a hat and sunglasses and Mitchell wore a police helmet for a MX helmet and shiny sunglasses. I wore some real glasses. We had a great time making our movie. After we finished we got to put music and sound effects on our movie. My sound effects were a motorbike revving and a racing car going by. My music sounded like country music. In the end we went back to school on the bus and talked about our fun day.      

Week 7 of Enrich

Today is week 7 of an 11 week term. 

At Enrich we learn new things. Most of them are so interesting like history and P4C. My favourite part of Enrich is making new friends and the maths workshops. I liked the Fibonacci number sequences because they can create patterns on paper by following the number sequence. 

History was interesting because we were learning about space shuttles and what they did, how much they cost (over $3 billion dollars to build) and one has just been retired - the Discovery. The Discovery Space Shuttle was special because it took the Hubble Telescope into space. The Hubble telescope takes all sorts of interesting photos in space which we looked at today too. They were impressive.