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)

NO! It can't be!

No, it can't be. It can't already be the holidays. The term has gone by so quickly, probably because I enjoyed most of the learning that we have done this term.

Hi. As you may not know, this is my last day of Enrich. For the term. You might think I'm overacting a little bit. But I can't help it. I absolutely LOVE Enrich.

This morning we have been talking about our learning styles. There are three MAIN learning styles.

• Visual
• Auditory
• and Kinesthetic

Last year we had a test to see what our MAIN learning style was. My MAIN learning style was Visual. Which makes sense because I'm the kind of person that was told to do something they need to see it. To get an idea of what they are doing.

Kinesthetic means that you're very hands on. You love to move. You would rather act out a play then read a book.

And Auditory means that you like to listen to people. You like to listen to speeches and talks like that.

Bye! See you next term!

Finally some new school rules!!!

No bare feet, being made to wear our sun hats and having to sit down ad eat for ten minutes. You guessed it, they're just some of my school's school rules.

With Jenni (one of the Enrich teachers) we had to make some new AGREEABLE school rules. (or changes)
Here are my school rules (or changes):

1. You are allowed to take off your socks and shoes outside. (But you have to ask a teacher first)
2. The school years are;

Juniors - Yr 1 and Yr 2
Middles - Yr 3 and Yr 4
Seniors - Yr 5 and Yr 6

3. You don't HAVE to wear a sunhat on hot days.
4. You don't have to sit down and eat your lunch for ten minutes, you can carry it around with you or if you're not hungry you don't have to at anything at all.
5. The teachers vote for who would be in the school's Student Council ( NOT the Yr 5's)
And more!

Personally I think I would be a good Principle because I know what the kids want and what changes they would like.
Thanks for reading my blog. I hope you learnt something new about my day.

BYE!!!

Pictures that come to life!

The most enjoyable thing I have done today would have to be the rotations.

Here are the rotations

Rotations: Round 1

Aurasma. What kind of crazy thing is Aurasma? Well me, the amazing Madison will tell you!!!!
Aurasma is a really cool app that makes pictures come to life!

In our partners we had to create our own Aura (Aura is one of the pictures that comes to life).
What you is follow these steps down below


Lucy (my partner) and I made an Aura based on an interview. The interview was all about Enrich. The questions were like:
"What are your favourite things to here at Enrich?" Or "what are the top three new things that you've learnt since coming to Enrich?"
Aurasma is a really cool app and it's great for presentations.


Rotation: Round 2
Lorde - the 11 scholarly habits

There I go again, saying something that some people will have absolutely no clue what so ever about it!
The Scholarly Habits are some things that Scholars (which includes all the Enrich kids) do either everyday like a daily routine or things that they have to try hard to succeed.
Here are some examples:

Excellence - Scholars take pride in their work and seek excellence in their finished products.

Ponder Ideas - Scholars take the time to think about what they are learning.

We learnt how Lorde (a famous 16 year old singer) has used all of the 11 Scholarly Habits.
How she stuck to her singer and writing her own songs.


There. I'm finished. Thank you for reading my blog post. I hope you have learnt more about Aurasma and The 11 Scholarly Habits.

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.