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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!

King of the Table

Hello!

31/3/14   Wuzzles/King of the Table

WORDS WORDS WORDS! Today we did Wuzzles with the one and only NICOLA! At the start of the session we did a warm-up. First Nicola says a word and the group has to make as many words out of that word. Sounds confusing. But anyway after three minutes we counted our total. Charlie came first with 20 correct words. (The one in the middle in the photograph). So he got the silver hat. Then there's Thomas that came tied second with me with the score of 19.( he's the one on the left) So that leaves me on the right side.

We have to wear these hats for the rest of the day!

                   

Everybody Was Puzzled!

Um um, everybody was puzzled. Completely brain washed about the Scholarly Habits this morning. What we had to do was say a scholarly habit that we have used during the past week. Since we were so brain-washed, and couldn't really remember any of the habits, Katie said that we have to name all the scholarly habits by the end of the day. Luckily we had a session about scholarly habits with Nicola. We watched a one news video clip interviewing Lorde's music teacher. We had to tick all the scholarly habits that Lorde uses. In the end we ticked all the boxes. A big one that she used was Academic Humility. For example,  when she found out she was going to the Grammies she didn't rub it in other peoples faces. Then we had to tick the ones that we use regularly and write down an example of us using it. All the ones that we don't use, we just put them on a wee sticky tab and put in our book and look back later in the year.

The scholarly habits are...

1.Ponder Ideas       2.Intellectual Risk Taking

3.Preparation        4.Excellence

5.Academic Humility  6.Curiosity

7.Save Ideas         8.Multiple Perspectives

9.Perserverance      10.Varied Resources

11.Goal Setting

When you are nervous, what do you do?

When you are nervous what do you do? 

Today we had to write down ten questions and interview a class mate for them to answer. It was all about open and closed questions. For example, a closed question would be a yes or no answer and a open question would be a full sentence answer. My class mate was Thomas. After that we had to open up pages and write the questions we asked and the answer they said. We used a head set so everyone didn't have to listen to there interview over and over again. 

A couple of questions I asked were...

Whats your favorite animal out of a cat and a dog?

While your in a running race what are you thinking about?

See you next week!

First blog for 2014!

Hello

This is the first blog for 2014! There is a new teacher this year and his name is Paul. Today I had Paul as my teacher in three sessions. They were; the invention key, tangrams and what is giftedness? 
My favorite session was what is giftedness so I will tell you about that. What we had to do was for each statement go to the place that we think showed if the person was gifted or not. There were three places on the continuum: not gifted, sort of gifted and definitely gifted. My passion project this year is going to be stone calving. This year my goal is to stay at the same task and finish that task.

I hope you liked the first blog for 2014!
Good Bye!