First day of term 3

This morning we started off with a Wilson game - the hoop game.  After that we got to choose an activity out of maths - tessellations, science - chemistry, or art - painting.  I chose maths - tessellations.  A tessellation is where there are no gaps and no overlaps and you have the same picture repeating.  I did mine with birds.  It worked!  

T2 assessment

Today it is the last day of term. At about 10:00 we did a self-assessment for term 2. It had some tricky questions about this term. Earlier before that we played a Wilson game - you had to get in a group of 3, hold hands in a circle, and you had to keep your feet together.  Each time Darryn clapped, your whole group had to jump at the same time so that your feet all left the ground and then touched the ground at the same time.  Sometimes, Darryn would trick us and almost clap his hands.  If you jumped, you had to go back to the start again.  You had to work together to get all the way to a hula hoop and get your whole group in the hoop without touching the hoop with your feet!  Below is my self-assessment sheet:

Gifted week

This week it is gifted awareness week it is very important because it makes people aware of giftedness. We got cake to celebrate being gifted! We learnt the habits of mind. Some of them were: thinking flexibly, finding humour and striving for accuracy. In talent development we made a keynote with the process of what we did, and pictures of Canstruction. I just finished getting a background and virtual pets for my blog.

Red m&m

Today in Canstruction we  carried on with our  Activinspire M&Ms. We changed the colour to red because when it was yellow it was hard to see the M on his tummy.  We worked out how many cans are going to be on each layer, and how many cans we will need altogether, which is 382!

kowhaiwhai panels

Today at enrich we finished our kowhaiwhai panels next we are doing talent devalepment i am on maths. In maths today we used ActivInspire and started a new M & M drawing using can shapes.    After lunch we had passion time.  I did science.  We did an experiment with eggs and vinegar

Enrich

At Enrich today I played chess with Alana, Blake and Hyrum.  I won against Blake, but I lost to Alana and Hyrum.  I moved up the leaderboard.  I am now number 15 out of 32.  I was number 25 last week so I have improved!  For talent development we used Google Sketch Up.  This is a computer programme where we measured squares and circles to make a blueprint for our M&M design.

Canstruction

This morning we did Canstruction. We were learning about circles for our M&M's.  We were working out how many cans we are going to need to use - starting with the very first layer on the bottom, until the middle of the design.  We had to solve how big each circle needed to be.