Thursday, 16 May 2013

The Three Rings

Guess what we did today? Here's what we did. We had a part of the morning doing Affective Domain. Katie brought up an image of three rings. This is a model of giftedness by a man named Joseph Renzulli. The three things that he says you need to be gifted are:  Task Commitment, Above Average Ability, and Creativity. Next, she showed us another model of giftedness. That one was about Francoise Gagne's perspective.  His model is REALLY big, but if you had to say it in one sentence - you are born with a gift, and you need to work hard to grow your gift.  Along the way, good and bad things can happen, but you have to keep persisting!!!

Thursday, 9 May 2013

3 Dimensions 3 Directions

Just now I was learning how to sketch with Darryn we started with a face for lesson 1. Then we scrolled down to lesson 2 and did another face that had lots of different parts to draw. The final lesson was of a person holding a pair of balloons. Darryn drew a pair of apples on a plate then he showed us 3 dimensions which mean 3 directions. The secret to good drawing is keep looking at what you are drawing - don't guess what you think it looks like. This is part of my passion time - I am exploring ART!

Thursday, 11 April 2013

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

Thursday, 4 April 2013

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.


Thursday, 21 March 2013

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.

Thursday, 14 March 2013

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.      

Thursday, 7 March 2013

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.