SIT VISIT

Monday, Monday, Monday Already!!!

Hello! Today Jacob and I went to SIT (Southern Institute of Technology) with mine and Jacob's expert, Warren. Warren showed us around SIT and it is pretty cool. There is all sorts of different subjects you can choose to learn about. 

After the tour we went to the carpentry and joinery department where we were going to do our work. Then Warren told me some bad news. Sadly the type of wood we were going to use was too small so Warren was going to sort that out during the week.

So we decided I could just help out Jacob with his project today. We took a camera with us so we could get some images to show the class.  We cut out all the pieces for one of the boards in the right size and sanded them.

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Type, Type, Type!!!

Type, Type Type!!!

Hello! Today we did newspaper with Nicola. It was so exciting because I have thinking of an idea for the whole week. It was about the upcoming international staged rugby. I was talking about the 2015 rugby world cup. It is going to be held in England from the 18th of September to the 31st of October.

Today my helper from SIT (Southern Institute of Technology) came in. He told me I could come with him to work next week. All we have to do now is choose the colours I am going to paint it, get all the pieces of board I need, cut out the shapes and put it together.

This afternoon I am working on my family past project. At the moment I am making a family tree. On my Dad's side of the family I am going up to the Great Grandparents and on my Mum's side I am going up to my Great-Great Grandparents. Their personal information includes their date of birth, date of death if they are not alive, date of marriage if they got married, their job, where they died if they have and where they were born.

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Discover My Past!!

Hello!

In discovery today I started on my country of importance which is Scotland. I am suppose to write down multiple important facts about Scotland. Things like, Capital city, other big cities and the population of this country.  I found out when and who played the first ever football match that was played in 1872. It was England who played Scotland in London. The score was 0-0.  I also found out that there is over 300 railway stations across the whole of Scotland.

First Day Back!

Hello, it is the first day back from the holidays!

Today we started off the term by playing Piccadilly Circus. We haven't played it in a while so it's good to be back playing it again. Our high score with one ball was 29sec so that was pretty good. Our high score with two balls was 33sec.


After the game we started a new rotation. But this time we did all three in one day. I am going to talk to you about Katie's rotation. We were having a discussion about Tannenbaum's model of giftedness. This one has 5 points to it. Renzuli's model of giftedness has 3 points to it. The other model of giftedness is gagne's model of giftedness. His is real meaty and has a lot of information in it.

The 5 points to it are chance, environmental support, general ability, special aptitude and nonintellective requests.

What a great day back at EnrichILT!

Excellent Adventures Day!

WEEK 9 AT ENRICH

Passion Projects

Today Warren my helper came in and gave me a list of things to do for the rest of the week. I am working on my layout. Where all the rooms are and what walls would go up where. I have done all my measurements of the height, length and width of the house. It is going to be two storied with a balcony and a single doored garage.

Discover My Past

Today I started typing my 15 questions out onto pages. I interviewed my Auntie Belinda and she gave me good full answers. 

See you later!

First Week of Passion Time!

Hello!

This week it's our first week of passion time. Passion Time is when each student does a project about their passion.  That could be...

Clay, Robot-ix, Green screening, Painting and the one that I'm doing, building a doll house!

But I prefer to call it a miniature home. Doll house sounds a bit girlish.  It is going to be very detailed because it will have a chimney, different coloured paints, real glass for windows and opening and shutting doors.

Today I sketched what it will look like. It was hard because I barely knew how to draw 3D.

I e-mailed my helper who is hopefully coming in.

See you next week!

Passion Projects Getting Sorted!

Finally, Passion Projects!

Today we are going to sort out all the things we need for our passion projects and what passion project everybody is doing. I'm planning on making a little doll house out of wood. But it isn't confirmed. I was looking to do stone calving but I changed my mind.

Before blogging we did a reflection sheet looking back on the list of big ideas that we made before we started are discovery. What we had to do was list if we didn't or did use each big idea (throughout the term), and write how. Since we had 22 big ideas we obviously had to consider 22 BIG ideas. If we didn't use the big idea, we had to write down "no I did not use this big idea".

See back in Term 2!