Ink and Fingerprints...

Hi Everyone! 

Today we had our last rotation with the teachers. The rotations were all about patterns.

Instead of learning about migration we learnt about fingerprints. But first of all here's some information about migration. Migration is when a group of animals or people travel somewhere to look for a better life, safety, land, or food. We have learnt that there is a lot of migration happening up in the Middle East I think. They have been going on boats to Australia. Why would they go to Australia you may ask? Well, that's an easy question to answer, it's because Australia isn't very far away.  

I should start talking about what I did TODAY. Here it is....

We first had to print our fingerprints by using ink. After we had gotten them perfect we got out a dinoscope and looked at our fingerprints. I also looked at my scabs. They didn't look very pretty. And also freckles look a bit disgusting. Look at this picture. 

Doesn't it look a bit disgusting?

And did you know that none of your finger lines on your fingertips are the same. Well, you wouldn't really know though. It's not like somebody's going to go all around the world and look at every single person's fingerprints on their fingertips to see if they're the same. 

Bye, see you next time!

Chisel Chisel Chisel.

Chisel, chisel, chiseling. Thats right I had to chisel out a lot of my Lino print. The WHOLE THING! Nah, just kidding. But I did have to chisel out a lot of my lino print. All the others were printing their lino print. Which SUCKED! Although it was kind of fun.

I finally got up to printing. I was very far behind from everyone else because I was only up to my test print. A test is well, a print that is a test. Not an exam test thing though. By then EVERYONE (except me) was up to their over print. An over print is a print that has printed on top of another print. Sounds confusing but it's not.
I'm still not up to my over print.
Bye, for now.

Patterns of Behaviour (Part Two)

Did you know that you can change behaviour? One example of some behaviour changes is: Ok, imagine there's a cat. The cat really wants to go outside, so it climbs on the kitchen bench (because there's a window), and climbs up a fly screen. We watched a clip, and a vet had to come along and put an electric thing on the bench. When you touch it you get a small electric shock. On the fly screen he puts a sheet of plastic on it. In return he gives the cat (called Harry) a cat scratcher that is up high so the cat can see outside.  The vet altered the way the cat reacted - the screen meant the cat could no longer climb up the fly-screen, the electric sheet meant the cat didn't jump up on the bench anymore, and the cat scratcher still allowed the cat to see outside, but he was no longer damaging the people's furniture.

I have learnt that you can change behaviour.

Check out these videos. In them are some clips of some behaviour changes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0AbQSE4ZKvk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zSiHjMU-MUo

IT'S A GREEN VOLCANO

Yes, yes,yes. A green volcano. But it doesn't really matter what colour it is. Today for science we did about five dry ice experiments. One of them was about seeing water freeze on a spoon, another was making our own dry ice volcano like thing, and another one was to see what the difference was when you put dry ice in hot water and when you put dry ice in cold water. I'm not saying the rest.

My highlight of the science today was....

Getting to make my OWN dry ice volcano thing.

Today was funny and ICY!

Click on the video clip below to watch how to do the experiment with dry ice volcano thing.

Dry Ice Fun - Cool Science Experiments

The Art Gallery and the Lino Print

My favourite paintings

Why I like the birds: Because how it is all bright colours and I think it has a 3D effect.
Why I like the horses: Because a)  I LOVE HORSES. and b) The way the horses are leaning over looks as though it's a hot day and they need a rest.
Why I like the house: Because of the way the grass leads the way into the house. Also the house has an effect that makes it look 3D.

"Amazing, amazing. I wish I could do that", was the first thing I thought/said as I walked through the doors of an art gallery today.
"How can they do that?"  I thought again. We walked to the art gallery on Don Street because we needed to look at real artist's artwork. My three favourite ones ( as you can see up the top) are: the one with the horses, the one with the house, and the one with the birds.

The refreshing, cold breeze on the way back to Enrich wasn't very inviting. As soon as we got back we got ideas for our lino print. A lino print is basically just a big stamp. My one is going to be an owl. I picked an owl because I LOVE them!

How About a Healthy Snack?

'Hmmm'. Do you want a healthy snack? Well your not getting one from me. Why? Because I don't have a healthy snack. Well I sort of do. I've got one on a piece of paper. You wouldn't eat paper. Would you? OK now to what I'm supposed to be writing about. The rain poured down the windows of the Enrich building. Nice and snug inside it was Talent Development time. For Talent Development today we drew.......  I'm not telling. Read on to find out. As I was saying (typing) we had to draw something today. We drew a still life drawing of a........ healthy snack. And in that snack was: A red pepper, a green pepper, an onion, and two courgettes.















My Picture

I reckon it was hard to draw. I think that I am better at drawing man-made objects. The curvy lines are a bit of a struggle to draw.

By the way Hi Mum, and Dad.

Bye bye.

The Pit

The Pit is a problem solver. It is a way of learning confidence and new strategies for when you strike a bump in the road, like when your friends throw a hissy fit, or when you are worried about things.