The new term

Back at Enrich already! Man the holidays went fast. To start our first day back we had a game of chess and I challenged Madison and won, and now I'm just outside the top ten on the chess leader board. 

After that we had a talk about some of the models of giftedness. From that we learnt ability alone will not produce outstanding accomplishments. We also talked about Gagnes model of giftedness and found out that he and Tannebaum both think chance is a huge part of giftedness.

Next for the day was passion time and I got my email from cue TV. I'm going for a visit next Monday That will be awesome!!!! 

I also got a couple of people to come and give their vote while I recorded them on if they like marmite or not, sadly most people said no but one

person said yes.

Last day of Term 1

Man what a busy term!!! The time has come once again for a  two week holiday YAH!!! But lets get back to today. Once again we started off with passion time And I sent an email to Cue Tv to ask if after the holidays I can come in for a visit to see how they do their filming and how they edit their films and  now I'm waiting for a reply. I also got some more facts and progress for my documentary and I have a minute 15 seconds of film done and after the holidays I'm going to start filming interviews and stuff everything is going great!!! After morning tea we edited some of our pictures from our patterns field trip on iphoto and then we put them into a keynote. In my keynote everything was either beauty, order, strength or survivability and now after this I'm going to do my technology challenge. See ya, have a good holiday and drive safely.

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.

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As we left Enrich I wondered what pictures I might find of patterns. And as soon as we had stepped out of the building I saw Zillions of patterns "Man." I told myself this is going to be a long day.  First stop the libary. As I was walking down the road to the library we were stopping nearly every five steps because there where so many patterns. When we got to the library the amount of patterns was amazing. I had never realised that there where so many patterns. As we walked around I was snapping all the patterns I could see. This was awesome. Then just down the road was our next stop Wachner Place. One of the parents said "Hey look at" She was looking at something through her sun glasses that no-one else could see. I had a look and I though it was pretty cool so I put the camera up to her sun glasses and took a photo. Next stop Countdown. When we finally got to Countdown we had to put our cameras away because we weren't allowed to take photos inside the store. When that was done Max and I had taken at lest a hundred photos! Next stop, Enrich for a snack and to get our lunch boxes so that we could got to Queens Park for lunch. It was so cool there. We went to the Japanese garden, the cactus garden and the museum and now back here. What a day!

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"Yes!" I told myself. Finally I thought of my topic for my documentary......  THE MARMITE DROUGHT!!! Great I can get started. So I began the documentary on THE MARMITE DROUGHT!!!!!! Drag, drop and type was my pattern and boy that pattern was effective.  I now have 19 seconds of movie and most of my storyboard done. Now what to do next? "Check!" 

"Not now." Oh no Jayden has killed my bishop I must avenge it. Yes I have his Queen. "Checkmate Jayden. Good game." "You too Wilson." Yes I had bet Jayden at chess and moved 4 spots against my arch rival Max.

"Blue, Red, Green,Yellow, Purple and Magenta, Yes I had earnt my colour and that was cerise! The aim of this game is first you have 4-5 people standing up the front, and they have a colour on their back, (it is just a sticky note with a colour written on it). The people up the front stand in a line, and say their colour, and then everyone else has to close their eyes and the people up the front with the colours on their back swap places.  The audience then has a turn at guessing the order of the colours.  If they guess correctly, they get a colour, and they get added to the list of colours to remember! Can't wait for next week to come.

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Done!!!! Finally I had finished my passion time proposal, Now time to go show a teacher. I slowly headed over to Katie to get it checked but Oh no she was with someone else.
 Oh well I will just have to wait a minute, then, let down again!  All of a sudden I saw the five or six person line in front of me then inside I could hear myself crying NNNNNOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

Five minutes later the line moved forward, then two minutes later I was upside down chatting away to everyone possible.  Finally it was my turn,  a couple of minutes later I had to start again - oh well. At least I know what I want to do now, I'm going to film a documentary and enter this years MADE awards.
At the start of the morning we watched a movie call Caine's arcade, about a 9 year old boy who made an arcade out of cardboard! If you want to watch this video click the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faIFNkdq96U
After that we played a Wilson game  where there are four hoops and 4 bean bags and you have to chuck beanbags into the hoop within a 3 minute time limit. You need 2 - 4 teams each with an even amount of players. You can play the game in many ways like  - Get them in in order or with each hoop having an amount of points.

The day of adventures

Finally I'm back from my many adventures. Last week I was up in sunny Christchurch and the week before that I was at year six camp and the week before that I didn't get my post done so this is my first post in ages. The morning started with debatable truths and we had a recap on what we knew about patterns and then we moved onto the Wilson game,  Piccadilly Circus, the record was 28 seconds by the Wednesday group and our time was.....................31 seconds so close !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Next we had a discussion about the Polyfest competitions. Topics were T-shirt design, Art exhibition and Community Lei design. Well thats all folks, for now ....