War!

'Oh no'. Should I risk it or should I still go with my plan. I thought. I took the risk. 'Few'. She wasn't going to do what I dreaded her to........ Oh no. She noticed. I was playing chess with my friend Lucy. I really didn't want her to beat me. "This is war'' I said. Tic toc, tic toc. Went the clock. That was good and not good. She might not beat me in those few more minutes we had or she would. She might want the chess game to be on reserve or not.  The loud music blared from the speaker. ' Finnaly' I personally thought. "Can we reserve it" Lucy said. "OK" but my head was filled with horrible thoughts like: she's gonna beat me, she will be above me in the chess leader board. But there was just one good thought and that was; I'm going to beat her. At lunch we went back to our game. All my pieces were getting wiped out. After a while the music turned on. Lucy asked me if you had taken more pieces than your opponent then you beat them. This is only if you haven't finished your game. I said no. She asked Katie and she said no as well. ' Yeah'. She didn't beat me. She better watch out for next time because..... well just because. 

See you next term.

Bye Bye

Art

Blue and Yellow and Red. To start of this glorious blog post I would like to say Hello. For our passion time and Talent Development [please tell me that you know what it means] well we did some Art with Jenni since Darryn is away. We did some blending with the colours red, blue and yellow. The primary colours. We had a piece of paper and we had to go from the lightest of the colour you could get until you got to the darkest colour you could get. When you had done all the colours you could do you could paint an apple. I was the only one that got up to that.  That was all we did for art. 

Passion Time/Talent Development

The big thing of the day was Passion Time and Talent Development.  Talent Development is when you work on your talent to improve it with a teacher and Passion Time is when you go off on your own and work on your passion to improve it. The options to do with a teacher are: MADE Awards - with Katie, Performance based - with Nicola, and Art - with Darryn. I went into art because I LOVE it. We started at the beggining and mixed the three primary colours [red, blue and yellow] to make different colours and tones of colours. We are aiming to hold an art exibition at an art gallery.  There will be heaps of different types of artwork.

This one is the wall                     This one is a spider web

in front of the play                       in a bush. I think this is                          

centre. I think this                        a pattern of survivability.

a pattern of strength.

Yeah. It's finally time. We were going on a field trip to Queens park and the Museum. I LOVE the museum and the park. We were going there because our Concept Curriculum is patterns. We were going to look for patterns in the outside world. Outside Enrich, I mean. Also we went there to learn about patterns. I learnt the difference between man-made or natural patterns. We got put into groups. I was with Katie. It was a lloonngg walk to the Museum. On the way the first pattern that I noticed was the parking metres. They are a pattern of order and time. I never knew that tooth picks were a pattern but they are if you think about it. By the time we got to the Museum I was all patterned out even though we hadn't even started the actual trip. There are so many pictures like the one up the top of the fence of the playcentre. And also the one up the top again of the spider web in the bushes.

Thank you Dad and the rest of the parent helpers for coming along and helping us.

Tasters

Mmmm tasters so yum [stop it Madison keep to the schedule] "Sorry Miss Bossy Boots." "Oh sorry myself." Back to the subject or maybe a different one? Well today we did some talent development tasters they were: art, maths and music. 
I chose maths because I hadn't done it. The sort of maths we did was probability. In other words "guesstamating" which is when you guess and estimate. We did it with a box of chocolates- yum. Anyway we wrote down what sort of chocolate it was and under it we put how many chocolates of that sort there were, and then worked out how much of a percent out of 100 it was. This is what it looks like;

Caine's arcade

We watched a video clip on YouTube about a 9 year old boy called Caine who made a games arcade out of cardboard boxes. It all started off we he went to a real games arcade and won a little basket ball hoop so he then got the idea of making his own games arcade. He started of by making one game then it got bigger bigger and bigger. By which, I mean that he made more and more games. At his Dad's shop, he took over the whole front of it and put his games in it. He made game passes. If you paid 2$ you got a fun pass and got 500 turns on any game. How cool is that? Anyway, his first customer was someone that needed to buy a door handle so he went to George's shop.[Caine's dad], and saw the game's arcade. He bought a fun pass. On Facebook he told all he friends that a 9 year old boy had made his own game's arcade. Next thing, Caine's Dad took Caine to a real games arcade and by the time they got back to the shop, there were lots of people there waiting and cheering ready to play his arcade games! When Caine got back he was very surrprised and happy. To watch the clip go to youtube and type in Caine's arcade.

Yum! Notes

I'm not talking about notes being 'yum' here. I'm talking about apples here. OK you think I'M crazy. A teacher called Nicola used apples for music notes. I'll explain later. Today we did some activities around the classroom. If you don't understand here's a little simpler explanation: everyone got into groups and went of with a teacher. The groups were; fractals, survivability and music [the one I'm in]. These are all patterns related workshops.Now the thing you've all been waiting for [ well not really, but anyway] Nicola showed us some music notes and put the correct size apples ontop. For example; a whole note gets a whole apple, a half note gets half an apple etc. That's all for today oh woopsie one more thing;