Chillax

I bet you'd like to know how to cope with stress? Today Nicola was teaching us how to cope with stress. I know what it's like to be really stressed,  and it is awful when you don't know what to do about it, so I was glad that she was teaching us about it. Nicola read out some ideas that would help us to get rid of stress.

1. Get some exercise.

2. Eat healthy. Don't eat junky food.

3. Have some quiet time. Shut yourself up into your room and just relax.

After she told us this, she put on some relaxing music, and gave us a piece of paper to doodle on.

And, in other news from today.......

I crossed my fingers, I even crossed my toes. I really wanted to get in. At Enrich@ILT we have a newspaper, and Nicola was handing out invites to join the newspaper staff. I heard my name and all of a sudden I was relieved. I really like writing so I was really glad that I got in.

Bye! See you next week.

Oh no! There won't be enough room for the blue and purple! It won't be a rainbow now!

Today we had to write a goal for the term. Sounds boring right? It makes it sound like we don't do anything here at Enrich ILT. Every two terms we have to make a goal. Last term my goal was:
To complete an open ending project.
I have absolutely no idea of what that means. So this term I changed it and put:
To complete a usable dinner set.

We each got a card person (a girl if you're a girl and a boy if you're a boy) and wrote our goal on the back of it. We got to decorate the front of it. We had to decorate it with felt tip pens. The girl cards had dresses on them. I never wear dresses so I didn't know what to decorate it like. In the end I decided to make it RAINBOW!!

That's the end of term 2 for now!

Bye! See you next term!

Gifted what week?

Milo and delicious red velvet cupcakes with mountains of sweet flavored icing! Gifted awareness week must be pretty special. For those who don't know what Gifted Awareness Week is, the meaning is pretty much in the name. You show awareness for Gifted people.

People refer Gifted Awareness week to a tall poppy. They do this because a tall poppy stands out from a normal short poppy. If we use an example about people, Gifted people stand out from others because they show an area of strength.


Bye, see you next week!!!

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)

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!