Bobby Jojo

Oh, Bobby! You messed up again!

Helloooo people! Today was the last day at Enrich for term 1. Aawwww. But today we did passion time. Yaaay!

My passion time project is a story I'm writing calle Bobby Jojo and the three sheep. My story is about this guy named Bobby Jojo and he is very clumsy. He goes to a sheep's house because he smells this very nice smell, which is New Zealands delicious kiwifruit muffins. The sheep leave to go for a walk because they are waiting for their kiwifruit muffins to cool down (and their hot orange juice). So Bobby eats one of the boiling muffins, silly Bobby! Because the muffins are hot his mouth becomes very hot. Then he sees the orange juice. He thinks it is cold so he drinks a little so they didn't  notice that it was gone. The juice was very hot, so he burns his mouth even more. 

Yes, that is where I'm up to at the moment. Yes, Bobby is very silly. Do you think he will somehow learn from his mistakes?

The Pattern Fieldtrip

'Snap, snap', 'scribble, scribble'. Today we went on a fieldtrip to Queens Park, Countdown, The Library and Wachner place and all around town. We had to take photos and write down some of the patterns we saw. The different typs of patterns are beauty, order, strength and survivability. I was partners with Luke on the trip. Luke wrote down the types of patterns we saw and I took the photos. If you didn't know, there are lots of patterns, in fact, MILLIONS of patterns, no, there are patterns EVERYWHERE. Yes, they are all around you. Like wheels on car is for beauty, and the stripes on a zebra are for survivability. But its not like you're going to see one of those around town anyway. Well, you shouldn't see one around town unless the zebra is blind and swam from Africa to New Zealand. But anyway, I think I've run out of letters so all I can say is.....          The end.

Passion Time

What is your passion? Can you use this time wisely? How will you display it?

These are some of the questions we got asked when we were deciding what our passion projects would be. I thought, and thought and thought. I could not think of what I could do for a passion project. That's when a lightbulb flashed in my head. I could finish off my story from last year, "The unheared story of Goldilocks and the three.... Okay, I might not know what to put there yet, as I need a pretty large NZ animal for my bears. I'm thinking about tuatara, na, too small. If you have any ideas what I could use it would be more than helpful. My story is like Goldilocks and the three bears, but in a NZ way, and, It's about Goldilocks's aspect of the scene. Like her mothers away to get some wood for the fire and she runs out of kiwifruit so she goes to see the           to get some kiwifruit and so on. To display my story I will probably make an animation or something and enter it in the MADE Awards.

The realm of Blokus

Defend your tower, defeat your enemies and win in this very challenging game called... 

THE REALM OF BLOKUS. I, Jake the jaguar, Miro the monkey and Max F the meerkat are in battle against Blokus the bat. To play you must be able to keep your territory, get into others domains and take their village. We are a team named J.M.M trying desperately to try and defeat Blokus. The rules of the game are to make sure your pieces are always diagonal to your other pieces. Your pieces can touch others pieces as well. The aim of the game is to try and trap your opponents, ( which in our case is Blokus) so they cannot put another piece in place. Today, the J.M.M team finally defeated Blokus and earned the placings of village knights for our bravery and thinking.

Chess

Today I moved from 2nd last to 4th on the chess leader board by beating Max F in a game of chess. Max was very hard to beat because he had a lot of strategies and was always trying to kill my queen. I checkmated him with 2 queens becaue I got my pawn to the other end to get the 2nd queen. At the end of the game there was only our kings, my 2 queens and another one of my pawns.

Patterns

Today is the second day at Enrich for 2013! Today we found out what our concept for the year is, if you bothered to read the title you would already know. Our concept is patterns, which means we will be learning what all the definitions are and how people/humans use them. For example, a black and white striped pattern may not be good for a zebra if its in the desert on its own. But if its in a huge herd of zebras the lion/predator won't be able to catch the zebra as its focused on all the zebras instead of having its eyes locked onto one of them. Its the same with sharks and fish, and people trying to shoot ducks the animals go straight over/around them and they will always miss as they are not commited to the one animal, well to make that story short, thanks to the pattern on the animals the predator was not able to turn the animal into animal pie. That is one of the main concepts of patterns, survivability. The other three are beauty, strenghth and order. Order is like the pattern you use in your day, for example, order is like the routine you use for your day, like what classroms use, they always use the same boring sequence for the day, but luckily for Enrich students, their day is always different in a way. Well, that is my post until next week. Please comment.

Hello and goodbye blog watchers, this is going to be my last blog post for the term. Thank you for viewing my blog, I'll see you all next year. =)

I'll tell you about my favourite subject at Enrich, passion time. For passion time I made a scooter with my friend Max. The first thing we did for our scooters was to see if we coulld get a welder to come in. The welder said "yes" so that started us off. Next, we started planning our scooters, then we gave the designs to our welder to make the scooters. After that Max and I decided that we would spray paint our scooters. It was quite a ong process to do our spraypainting because we had to scratch out scooters up with metal sponges. Once we had did that we had to cover the parts which we were spraypainting.  Darryn, then showed us how to spraypaint our scooters.  This is what they ended up looking like: