Passion Time

Why hello. Today was a day of talent development/ passion time. Daniel and I chose passion time and I'm doing Art with Daniel. Our lesson today was to blend colours with cold red, blue and yellow and warm red blue and yellow and also white. We made greens,purples,oranges, light blues and light reds etc.My favourite colour we made was light blue and Daniel's favourite colour was the cold red/pink.

Jackson

Park excursion

Have you ever dropped a camera? Well, Enrich have. 

Today was the day we went on a big field trip to find patterns. Guess what?  Hamish and I found 96!!! It all started today when we were sorted into two groups. One group was with Katie and Jenni and the other was with Nicola.  I was with Katie. We got to go to the aviary, cactus shed and animal part. At the end we got to have a little play and then walk back to Enrich for lunch. 

I Enjoyed the plants the most.

Talent development tasters

I loved doing art with Darryn. We were making chess pieces and also doing music with Nicola. The music was all about learning how to do all types of notes in music. After we finished the sheet we got to learn this song called My Life Would Suck Without You. Now for Darryn's activity we learnt that there is a saying called 3 dimensions 3 directions. Then we got to use what we learnt and draw some chess men. I drew a bishop and a pawn.

Caines arcade

It all started this morning when Nicola showed us a video about this kid named Caine who made his own arcade out of cardboard. Sadly, he never got customers. Then a man came and tried it out and he thought it was entertaining so he put it on Reddit and facebook, then lots of people from all over the world to check it out. It got daniel and me to make one ourselves it is a game were you have to throw a ball into a tube of cardboard daniel called it catapult.      

Fractal maths

Fractals is a maths pattern where the same shape is used over and over in a bigger shape - Broccoli is an example of a fractal so is lightening and rivers and trees!

  When we started we drew a simple triangle then another one on top to make a "Star of David." 

You may think it sounds easy..... well I'm telling you it's not! Not at all! 

And then it goes from hard to really hard!

 Next we had to use a ruler and measure each point of the star into 3rd's then half the middle third. 

Then each of the middle thirds became another point on a smaller star.

 Confused?? Here is a picture of my Koch snowflake.

B.O.S.S!

B.O.S.S!!!  No, I'm not talking about the teachers here, I'm talking about pattern types!

B - Beauty

O - Order

S - Strength

S - Survivability

If you're wondering what they mean, I'll tell you... 
Beauty means that the patterns are beautiful to look at.  An example might be like how the sand ripples at a beach. Order means the pattern keeps things in a particular order.  An example is like a flight schedule at the airport, which will repeat again the next day. A pattern of strength would be the Sydney Harbour Bridge with it's cables and triangles. Last but not least, a pattern of survivability would be an owl butterfly. It is so clever that the pattern on it's wings looks like an owl so that when a predator comes along it will think it is a big owl and leave the butterfly alone!

Chess

Today we did some chess in the morning. I faced Alana it was a short first game but the second game was horrendous it was half an hour but in the end Alana had won it. So far this year in chess on the Leaderboard I have ended in 14th place that is the end of my last blog post for this year.

My favourite part of the year was doing fibonacci numbers and a bees life.  The most challenging part of my year has been the technology challenges and the must dos and picks.  I am hoping that next year we do less must dos and picks because I find them hard!