My life today

"Passion time, Yes!!!" I told myself this is great. I get until morning tea time to work on my documentary. For the next hour I was making plans and adding pictures and words and now I have just over a minute of documentary. After morning tea we had to fill out this Reflection sheet and we had to write a topic for each of the corner stone and it was not easy and it took the rest of the time until lunch time.
This is my reflection sheet.

We watched a video about a boy called Caine and he made his own arcade out of cardboard in his dad's workshop. And it all started with a small plastic basketball hoop he had won at an arcade. And then he made heaps more games and set them up in his dads workshop. then one day a guy came into  Caine’s dads shop to buy a new handle for his Mazda and he played Caines Arcade. Then he made a page on facebook about Caine’s Arcade because he was Caine’s first customer and he organised a flash mob for Caines arcade and when the day came caine had the shock of his life when hundreds of people came to play caines arcade.  Caine is realy gifted and he had lots of self motivation. Canie had lots of inspiration and he gave me a lot of information and I learn’t that if I stick with something I can achieve great things. I have learn’t lots of things from caine like if I purse my personal best I will achive lots of things.  We also did this task called what is intelligence where we had to say if we thought it was intelligent or not. And I learnt from this that everyone is intelligent in some way. 

Mental Edge...  Most days in the morning we have a game of chess and this involves quick thinking, sacrifice, logic, strategy and to learn from your mistakes. It also requires lots of concentration because if you accidentally touch a piece that you don’t mean to, this could make your whole plan fall apart.      We do Wilson games each morning. These games require a lot of concentration, teamwork, friendship, and pursuing your personal best and sometimes that can be really hard. You also have to be really brave to participate to progress because if you are not brave you will never get anywhere. 

Concept Curriculum... We went on a field trip to the park and around the town to find patterns and help us realise that patterns are a universal concept. While we were out on this field trip we had a camera and a clipboard with a sheet and we with a buddy had to write down what patterns we could see and take photos of them. We noticed patterns that we walk past everyday with out noticing them. I learnt that patterns are a universal concept.

 Talent Development/Passion Time... during passion time we get to do whatever our passion is and we get to explore our passions in depth and learn new things about ourselves. I find this time is really great because I get time to do things that I don’t get to do at school or have time for at home. and this is all about self motivation and sticking to the task because if you do that you achieve great things. 

After lunch we did two rotations To start I was with Darryn and we did this thing about Gagne's model of giftedness and then we did this newspaper thing where we had a story starter and we had to type a story from that in 15 minutes and send it to Miss Nicola.I hope you enjoyed reading about what happened in Wilson's life today.