The Interview!

Hi!

Today we had to write out 10 questions. They had to be descriptive and open. 

Incase you don't know what an open question is an open question is when you  have to answer in a sentence. An example of an open question would be:

If you had to eat one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be and why?

A closed question would be something like:

Do you like chicken?

So if you answer a closed question it would only be one word.

After we wrote out the ten open questions we had to interview someone with them.

I had to interview someone called Brianna.

My ten questions were.

Madison’s Interview with Brianna!

Was there ever a time that you were so excited that you were scared? If yes when was it?

“ Yes, at the Aerobics competition”

How would your life be different if you weren’t afraid of heights?

“ I would be able to jump of the highest diving board at Splash Palace”

If you had to eat one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be a and why?

“Hot dogs and chips because they’re my favourite food”

If you had one question that could be answered truthfully, what would it be and why?

“ If pluto was a real planet or not”

How are you like a shredded piece of paper in a rubbish bin?

“ Sometimes I don’t have any friends and I feel left out”

If one of your dreams could come true, what would it be and why?

“ Going to California and living there. I would want to go there because Disney World’s there and California’s a really cool place”.

If you could become best friends with someone from the past, who would it be and why?

“ Albert Eistein because he’s really smart”

What is your best subject at school, and how?

“Spelling because I can spell some hard words that I use in my writing”.

What is your favourite sport out of: Netball, Soccor or Rugby?

“ Rugby, because I can’t shoot goals in Netball and I used to play Soccor and I just don’t like it”

What do you think your worst subject at school is and why?

“ Handwriting because I’m really messy”

So today I have learnt the difference between an open question and a closed question.

I also learnt more about Brianna!!!!!

See you next time!!!!!!!

The Spider

Hi!
As you should know this is my first blog post of the year. So it may be different!

In the morning everyone was split into groups (I was in Nicola's group), and we went with the teacher that we were chosen to go to.

After we got there, we started talking about giftedness, and started to put people into boxes that meant if they were: Gifted, Could be Gifted and Not Gifted. Nicola gave us some statements like:
If someone at school was a distraction to others and misbehaves, but can answer a really hard mathematical question in a matter of seconds, were they gifted?

When Nicola asked me what the answer was to the question, my answer was:
" There's a really big spider on you Nicola!". Nicola jumped up and shook the spider off her top and stomped on it!
Everybody started laughing. It looked HILARIOUS! When Nicola jumped up and yelled "ARRGH" you just couldn't help it!

This isn't the actual spider.

Yay it's finished

Today I presented my gifted study. Leonardo Da Vinci. "YAY!"

At Enrich we had to choose a gifted person and do lots of research on them. We had to include information like when they were born, how they're gifted and a model of giftedness. A model of giftedness is like Renzulli's model of giftedness.

We had to explain how they had creativity, task commitment and above average ability.

It shows how they are gifted.

After morning tea we did talent development/passion time. I helped Norton on the potters wheel.

Bye!

Big Bird Lover

Writing 201

This afternoon I am going to be doing Writing 201. Writing 201 is very advanced writing.

The kids at Enrich are in groups: Writing 201 (with Nicola), Maths/Art (with Darryn) and Science/Chemistry with (Katie/Jenni).

I am looking forward to Writing 201 because I LOVE writing. I like to make up stories and stuff.

Affective

'Yay'. I have finally finished my Affective. (My Gifted Person). 

Did you know?

• Leonardo was a very big bird lover that he bought a  lot of cages of parrots, sparrow etc. so that he could free them.

He was left handed and due to his disability to read and write words properly, many of his good paintings left unfinished.






Can YOU figure out why this blog post is called Big Bird Lover?

First time on the Potter's Wheel

When I walked into the door to Enrich, Katie said "Are you excited about the clay today Madison?". And I said "Yes". I had NO idea what she was talking about.

When it was time to do affective, Katie told everyone but the clay kids: Briana, Samantha and I, to start on their Affective. I remembered that Marie (the person that was coming to Enrich to teach the clay kids stuff on the wheel) was coming in.

When we went over to the shed, I was wondering what a potter's wheel looked like. I thought it was a big black like plate on top of a spinning cylinder. But no, it didn't look anything like that.

While Marie was making a bowl, she talked us through it. She told us all the tips and steps.
Of course we all wanted a turn on the wheel first, so Marie made us pull a number out of the hat. I was number three, which meant I had to go last.

When I hopped onto the wheel I had to make it spin flat out and throw the little ball of clay into the middle of the spinning plate shaped thing. After that, I had to make the piece of clay turn into a tall cone. To do this I had to hold my hands together like a tunnel and move them up around the clay slowly. At first I wasn't really good at it but now I've got the hang of that. Next we had to push the clay down until it looks like a ball of clay with an almost flat surface, while the wheel was spinning. It sounds like it's really easy, when really it's not.

After a couple more steps I was up to the fun part, shaping the clay into the shape of a bowl. To do this I had to get a little sponge, hold my right hand on the outside of the clay, and with my other hand on the inside of the clay bowl I pushed the sponge outwards.

I was finally finished. After I'd finished my first one I made a second one.

I like pottering on the Potters Wheel. It's fun.

My favourite art: Masking Tape Painting!

 Finally. It was time to do art with Katie. In the last few weeks the whole class at Enrich has been doing Teacher-led workshops. A Teacher-led workshop is when you go to a workshop and get taught by a teacher in a little group. Also, in the last few weeks we have been learning new types of art. Like: drip painting, masking tape painting and impressionist. On the last week of the Teacher-led workshops, Katie gave us the choice of doing a: masking tape painting, drip painting or impressionist painting. Everybody in the art group chose to a masking tape painting because it's so fun.

As you can see, in my picture I have used the four colours: yellow, blue, red and green.

This is my group painting our masking tape paintings.

This is me and my second masking tape painting.

My Mask

Hello everybody!

Today for passion time I did clay again. First Darryn gave us a little lesson on how to score two pieces of clay together. You have to score (scratch little marks) on the piece of clay you want to join onto the bigger piece of clay. You also need to score the piece of clay you are attaching it to. After that, we started to make a mask. We made a mask because we can practice scoring.

In the end I thought that my mask looked quite cool. (For someone that hasn't made a mask before).

This is my mask: