Read it, Watch it, Love it....

Bonjour my fellow people, did you know that there are only five days of Enrich left for me ever? My time at Enrich has been so amazing so I'm trying to make these last weeks worthwhile. At the moment I'm finishing my passion project which was the model of the Solar System but a few weeks ago I decided to change it.  My passion project now is showing everything I've learnt this year about  Astronomy in a website called Prezi. Also my affective study which is all about studying a gifted person (I chose Thomas Edison) has been going really well for me. Everyone has only got one more week to finish the study on a gifted person. Hopefully I get everything finished. Well that's me, Aloha.

Smashed

Half-way through term 3 already, time goes by so quickly you need to make the most of your time.

Today at Enrich I finished a planet of the Solar System. It was Mercury the most boring, dull planet in the Solar System. It doesn't even have an atmosphere which means no weather. I have now done three planets.

You may be wondering why I used 'Smashed' as my title. It is because I played Darryn (my teacher) at chess and I got smashed, not physically but mentally. And on the third of September I go to Ashburton for my chess.

And last of all today a boy called Miro who also goes to Enrich, his sister came in and talked about her life in the.............. CIRCUS. Her name was Lauren. She showed us videos of her doing acts in the circus. The circus goes around all New Zealand and it's called the Aoteroa Circus. She is really talented.

Until next time, see ya.

Migrations Workshop

"Who knows about migrations?" Darryn asked. I was clueless as I had not much of an idea of what migrations were but I had heard of them before. 

Let's go back a bit. Everyone had to pick a workshop, it was either Time- with Katie, Writers studio- with Nicola, or Migrations - with Darryn. Anyway, today I learnt  about migrations. Migrations can be as small as 40 kids moving to another school or 1000s of animals moving to another country. 

One of the tasks Darryn gave to us was to put these pictures in categories. I learnt that so many of the pictures to do with migrating have so much in common with other things, For example protesting about refugees and a passport have so much in common if you really think about it. Until next time see-ya.

My busy day!!

Today at Enrich I finished my final chess workshop that I was running. I had five people attending the workshop. I talked about sacrifices in a game of chess and ending moves. I think everyone learnt something new and had a good time.

Remember that the chess tournament in Dunedin is coming up on the 6th of July and at the moment I am first on the chess leader board.

This week is a special week because it is gifted awareness week which helps people out there to understand what giftedness really is.

Today I attended a workshop with Darryn. It was about i-Pads. One app on the i-Pad that really caught my attention was one called Simple Physics. On that app you have to create structures and see if it will withstand certain weights, for example:  tree house, stairs, a roof to hold snow, and a dam barrier. If it breaks you have failed. That is only one of the new apps that Darryn showed us today.

It has been an amazing day at Enrich. See-ya!!!

Eddie and the Bad Move

''Boy that was close,'' I exclaimed to myself!!! 

 To get you on the right page..... I decided to challenge a friend called Eddie to play chess against me.  In the middle of the game I made a terrible mistake, as I moved the wrong piece somewhere and I lost two very good players. 

It wasn't looking very good for me until Eddie did a bad move and it ended up with a stalemate (draw).

 I was thrilled because I'm number one on the leader board and Eddie is second, which means if I had lost, he would be number one at the chess competition. It has been a great day at Enrich. See-Ya!!

Chemistry

Max's workshop.

Now you may be wondering what Max's workshop is about, well it's about chemistry the nerdiest thing on the planet, (just kidding). I found his workshop really interesting. As you should know the person who ran the workshop was Max.

 There were four people attending his workshop including me. Max mainly talked about molecules and atoms. Almost everyone knew about Max's big passion for chemistry. It has been ongoing for years.

The other thing I will talk about is that I played chess once again with a friend called Kavarn. It was quite a long game but in the end I pulled out a win. I'm doing a lot of chess because the chess tournament is coming up in July.

It has once again been a brilliant day at Enrich. Until next time see-ya!!

Passion Time

MY PASSION TIME

Now to start off there will be something different about this blog it will be good for a change. To begin I will talk about my main thing I did today, it was PASSION TIME. 

My  passion time is my favorite time of the day because you get to do what you love doing and you have everything to do it with. For my passion time I'm making a scale model of the Solar System.

To make my scale model I'm using giant literally giant round balloons and I will papier mache them. Once I've done around five layers and it's all smooth I paint it.

Today I'm finished with a proper scale model of the Solar System.  And last thing of all I hang my scale model and will be able to share it during sharing night this term. Hopefully this blog  was good. Till next week see-ya!!