Poor Unicorn

Guess what, last week I smashed my amazing unicorn cup. Wasn't that a bit silly. But when I was painting it and smoothing it off, it fell apart. So I squashed it up into tiny little pieces and made it into paper clay. Paper clay is clay mixed in with paper. It is used to stick things back together again if they broke. Too bad my unicorn broke into too many pieces that I could stick them back together again.

Unicorn on the run!

Welcome everybody to Enrich@ILT News. Today there has been an outrageous rumor going around. (I personally think that the rumor is true). The rumor is....

There is a unicorn on the run!

Hi everybody. I'm Madison, and yes, I do believe that there is a unicorn on the run. 

Today for passion time, I continued making my mug. Last week I made; the base of the cup, the horn (you probably think I'm weird putting a horn on a mug) and the handle (like all mugs have). This week I had to smooth of the rim of the mug so that I would be able to drink from it, and paint it. 

Oh, sorry, I forgot to tell you what I'm making. I am making a UNICORN!! See what I mean about there's a unicorn on the run? The unicorn's face colour is maude, it's nose is purple, it's mouth is red and it's eyes are purple and the handle colour is maude.
I had to add some paper clay to it because the horn was falling off and a big piece of clay fell off.

In the end I thought it looked pretty cool.

Bye! See you next week!

What do YOU think will happen in 1000 years?

Today for the Newspaper at Enrich@ILT I started writing an article about 'What do YOU think will happen in the next 1000 years?' 

Next week I am going to interview some people and put their answers in the Enrich@ILT 2014 edition NEWSPAPER!

I think...

In 1000 years I think that there will be lots of new inventions. Somebody would have probably invented an invincible pill! Too bad I won't be around to take one. I also think that there will be a lot more electronic devices. 

Nobody would care about school. All of the schools would get vandalized and broken. The people that do care about school would probably get home schooled. There might be a really big meteor that will hit the earth so fast that all of the humans and animals will go extinct! (Hopefully that won't happen).

Comment below what YOU think will happen in the next 1000 years and your answers might get put in to the Enrich@ILT 2014 edition Newspaper!

Bye! See you next week! Hopefully I get some answers to 'What do YOU think will happen in the next 1000 years?'

Minnie Dean

She took babies into her care and then killed them when nobody was around. She got hung at the Invercargill Gaol. She married Charles Dean and they had six kids together.
That's right, she's Minnie Dean!

Minnie Dean was the first (and hopefully the last) person to be hung in New Zealand. She was hung for the murder of three babies (there were two more but the police weren't sure if they had died of a disease that couldn't be cured, or if Minnie Dean had killed them).

Minnie Dean was born in 1847 and hung in 1895. She emigrated to New Zealand in 1868 and then got married to Charles Dean.

Before Minnie Dean moved to New Zealand she had two kids. They were girls and nobody ever found out who the dad was. Also, nobody ever found out what happened to Minnie's two girls.

For our newspaper today we had to write out one of our articles. I did......
MINNIE DEAN!!
I must admit, it's quite interesting finding out about a criminal.

BYE! See you next week!

We were stealing!

Today we went around the library "stealing" things. Things like handbags, phones and wallets. No we weren't, I was just kidding. We went to the library to "steal" ideas from the library's newspapers for our Enrich@ILT newspaper 2014 edition!!

Before we left we were given a notebook and a pen. Either red, or blue. I picked blue. We headed off on the long walk (it wasn't too long, but it felt like ages)!

When we got to the library we went up the escalators and into a little room at the top of the library. Nicola said it was called the Reference Section. There were newspapers from all over the country, and special desks and tables to read them from. We were supposed to get heaps and heaps of ideas but I only got three. This was because I picked a few dud newspapers, and the newspapers kept getting stuck in the special holders.

At least I've got some ideas. Nicola told us that the ideas had to be new, because the newspaper will be published in about 8 weeks.

I'm really looking forward to next week because we're going to start writing our articles then!
Bye, see you next week!

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!