Eleventh on the chess leader board!!

"Madison" said Paul. He was calling out the names for chess. When your name gets called out you have to pick someone to play a game of chess with. I decided to play someone from the top so I could get a chance to get into the top six. The top six get to go to a chess competition, and I really want to go.

I decided to play Natasha. She was eleventh from the top.
After a couple of moves, Natasha said check. "Oh no!" I thought to myself silently. I can't loose this! After another couple of moves I had taken a couple of Natasha's really important pieces like: her queen, both of her rooks and one of her bishops. Natasha kept on getting me in check, so I decided to try a different plan since my old one wasn't working very well. It worked! My new plan got Natasha into checkmate! It felt like a big boulder had just been lifted off my back!

Hopefully the next person that I play will be easier to beat!

Bye see you next time!
(P.S. Dad, I am going to play you when I get home!).

Finally I won

"Checkmate! I won!" I said to Lucy. We were playing chess as I had blocked her with my Queen and my Rook. She couldn't move anywhere other wise she would be in check, and she only had her King left on the board and I had my: King, Queen, Rooks, Bishops, one of my Knights and most of my pawns. I had finally won against my friend.
On my first year of Enrich I was really good. I kept on beating her until, one day she either got really good, or I just got really bad. I'm not so sure. Hopefully I'll beat the next person that I play next week.

Today I finished my last round of Personal Development. In case you don't know what Personal Development is, it is when you find out more about yourself. My group went to the session Over excitabilities with Paul. We learnt about some things that we did when we were excited. I found out that some people started to get competitive (me), someone said that they start to spin around while standing up and some other people said that they start to talk non stop!

Well that was my day today. I hope you liked my blog.
Bye!

Hi again! Sorry I didn't post last week. It was just too busy. The whole day was action-packed!

This morning we had our second round of Personal Development. Personal Development is when you learn more about yourself or something that you should know about. For example last week we had to be split into groups. Once everybody had been put into different groups, we went off to our different stations. My group went to Katie, who was teaching us more about Renzulli's and Gagne's models of Giftedness.

Renzulli's Model of Giftedness

Renzulli's Model of Giftedness is the easy one. It's not as meaty as Gagne's. Here is Renzulli's model of Giftedness.

See what I mean when I said it's easy to understand?

Renzulli thinks that you need:

• Above average Ability
• Task Commitment
• and Creativity

to be gifted. Katie said that this model is more aimed at adults then kids, because we are developing these skills as we get older.

Gagne's Model of Giftedness

Gagne's model of giftedness is more specific than Renzulli's, because Renzulli's just has three big ideas when Gagne's has lots of small parts that when put together means that you're gifted. Here is Gagne's Model of Giftedness.

See what I mean by Gagne's is meaty? Katie taught us that when you understand what you are reading then it's not so meaty and hard to understand. But I still think it looks confusing.

Bye!

See you next week! (hopefully)