Reflection 2011

	Name:      Ella                       Date: 1/12/11
Look back What did you do? What could you improve?	This year I have done the ICT Talent Development with the robotics Also I did the documentary as well as the maths talent development. I need to take more risks
Questions What questions have you answered? What questions do you still have?	In robotics I learnt how to programme a robot  In the documentary learnt three things  1 how to interview someone  2 how to use iMovie  3How to spell documentary!!! In Maths I learnt how to scale things down and I never want to be and architect At high school I want to do more art  and robotics
Pull it apart What factors contributed to your learning? What challenged you?	The things that contributed to my learning were the computers and teachers because they were amazing (the Teachers) The things that challenged me the most were doing the maths and doing the independent tasks.
Make connections What did you learn to do better? What sort of thinking helped you?	This year I have learnt to be more organised so I get more done. When I was working with other people  it helped me get all of my work done
Make judgements My progress was...	My progress this year was getting more confident in my self and getting better at rebuses.

Today in maths

Today in maths we drew circles with a compass to make a small scale model of the band rotunda. I worked with Kate and Jaimes. It was fun.
I stabbed my self 2 times with the pointy bit of the compass. IT HURT
Today we also did a game and it was fum because we had to pass on a word by writing on some ones back.
My team got the word wrong both time but it was still fun.

CHESS

Today I played chess against Alana  and I lost!! :(
It was really funny because I had everything set up so I could take her queen/rook but the she did something and I had to move one of my pieces.

This is a picture of my set up

Today

THE MORNING

This morning the maths talent development group went to the band rotunda in Queens Park. We were measuring the band rotunda so we could make a scale model of it for the library . My partner was Kate, our job was to measure every aspect of the step. it was fun.

THE AFTERNOON

This afternoon Georgia, Declan, Jack and I went out to Otatara school to tell some 5 year olds about robots . Before then we had to programme the robot to do something. Georgia and I made it react to sound which meant it stopped moving when it heard alot of noise (Declans clap).

Last Day For MADE Awards

Today was the last day for the MADE Award entries to be finished. We didn't know if we were going to finish but we did and I was so happy :) :) We had to use the green screen because we forgot to do some filming last week. We also had to change the music because it almost made me fall asleep!!
I hope we win!!

My 2 stars and a wish

 My 2 stars for this term would have to be

1. Finishing my documentary (also learning how to spell documentary)
2. When we had the must do can do sheet getting it all finished almost every time

My wish for next term is 

1.To have more student run workshops/have more 5 minute challenges

Filming and Other Things

Today for Talent Development we started our filming.  We recorded our introduction we also organised for my mum to take us down to the museum next week. We still haven't heard from Tim Shadbolt yet.Also I have done all the picks that I need to do and also I have done my before school pick from my sheet. For one of my picks I did Cartooning it was when you had to draw a picture from the cartooning book then watch a video and then draw another one. I drew a beaver then a mad bunny/rabbit.

My Sheet

My before and after

Today at Enrich

This morning the documentary groups had 2 visitors. A lady called Gussy and a man called Steve. Gussy talked to us about how to use your voice and Steve talked to us about filming. We also emailed Tim Shadbolt's PA as well. Also after lunch I did "What am I" with Jemmimah. We did it on Bede's glasses case. We had to use the Dinoscope. When we did the pictures, Katie helped us. Also I did drama at lunchtime and we did a piano which was really cool . Kate and I did the game and we played "Islands".

Library

Today Jaimes's dad took us down to the library to find out some more stuff on The Water Tower and the Invercargill Museum. There were 4 of us in total,Jaimes,Wilson, Jaimes's dad and I. We went to the information centre. When we asked the lady at the desk for information on the Water Tower and The Museum we got heaps of information. We got some photocopied stuff and some facts written down.  

Hi Ella,

During talent development this week you were super organised with Jaimes, getting your ideas underway.  I was impressed that you kept an open mind when deciding on a context and continued to refine your ideas until you were both happy.  I hope your trip to the library provides you with lots of useful information!

Alana

Talent Development

Today for talent development we figured out what we are going to do for our documentaries and figure out our groups. I'm in a group with Jaimes and Wilson H. We are doing our documentary on "Top 5 icons in Invercargill". Today we contacted the Southland Express to see if one of their reporters could come down to Enrich to teach us how to interview people. We have also contacted Jaimes's dad to ask him if he could take us down to the library next week. He said yes.   

1st Week back

Today is the first week back and it was fun. The first thing we did today was chess. I played Georgia. She won! :( After that we had to choose a topic for talent development. The three choices were Story Writing with Katie, Documentary making with Alana or Art with Darryn.  I'm doing documentary making with Alana. Alana gave us four immersion stations to think more deeply at about documentaries and Southland.  I did a drama workshop this afternoon.  We played "Hot Seat" - you have 1 person sitting in a seat, the other children have to ask this person questions.  They are not allowed to answer "yes" "no" or shake or nod their head.  It was really hard!

Teacher Comment

Ella.

You have had a great term at Enrich.  You have such a positive attitude and always work to the best of your ability.  You have excellent time management.  This was evident when completing your Must Do / Can Do sheet after each session to track your learning.  You enjoy new challenges, particularly with your ICT Talent Development and building a robot.  You enjoy helping the new students when needed which shows your caring side.  I am looking forward to another busy term with you.  Well done Ella.

Katie.

2 Stars and a Wish

Since today is the last day of the term we have to do our blog post on our two stars and a wish.  The stars are the things that we are most proud of, or felt we have done well at during the term.  The wish is something we want to try to achieve or work towards for next term. My first star is doing ICT talent development especially when we made the robots. My other star was when i finished my This week in history task on the elephants in Kenya. My wish for next term is to be more organised and manage my time better. Also to do more of the five minute speed challenges.

ICT Talent development

Me and the Mindstorm

Today during ICT Talent Development, we started making our tutorial videos. I was doing mine on how to use Scratch but it was taking too long. So I decided to do it on LEGO Mind storms. I'm working on showing how to make it drive in a square. I also have to write my script and record the video.  I will complete this next week. 

Today at Enrich

Today for ICT talent development Grace and I programmed our robot so that it would follow the line and swing at a ball. It's really cool and it took forever. When you thought you had it you just downloaded it on to the robot then tried it out. It was more trial and error than anything else, it took a lot of problem solving to get it right!

Today I also went to Gifted Profiling with Alana. We went over profiles five and six. I was most like profile six because I highlighted everything! I also highlighted a few things in  profile five!!

Gifted Awareness Week

This week is "Gifted Awareness Week". What I think it means to be gifted and come to Enrich is... being gifted is where you're not perfect but you are above average at something like I'm not very good at writing but I'm good at maths and reading and also spelling. Coming to Enrich is really special because here I fit in and at school if someone gets a better score than me they say "now I'm the smartest in the class."but when we come here we don't do specific subjects like reading ,writing ,spelling and maths we still do that stuff just in a different way. Also at enrich we have self management which is where we do what we need to do in our own time. Something else there is is Renzulli's model of giftedness which is three rings interlocking with the three words Task Commitment, above Average  Ability and creativity.There is another model which was invented by Gange. He says that you start out with natural ability then chance and the environment  affect how your gifts develop. Also then there is the development process itself then the skills that are developed in the end . Gange's is the top one and Renzulli's is on the bottom.

Scratch

Today and last week during ICT talent development with Alana we watched tutorials from YouTube on the computer programme Scratch.  We learned how to make a Sprite (a character on Scratch), by making four circles, a few lines and colour.

Here is a copy of my robot sprite:

You can click on it to make it bigger

Today At Enrich

Today I did a chess workshop, an ICT workshop, an art and maths workshop and more. In the ICT workshop we did some short cuts on the macs. one of  them was to make the screen negative you press control option command and 8 at the same time and it makes the screen go Negative. Also in the Chess workshop with Darryn we learned about playing the middle of the game and how to start the game.  In the Art/Maths we did tessellations and learnt about tessellations. The most important rule is that there is no gaps or overlaps with your shape.
Here are some of them...

Cutest Blog on the block

Today I did blogging with Alana . First I did my description which is basically just  information about you, and about Enrich. After that, Alana showed me how to get an awesome background using Cutest blog on the block . I learnt how to add gadgets , change the colour of the words  and change backgrounds. 

Invasion of the Cats

Today I did art with Darryn. We used indian ink and tempura paint. We were painting Cats. This is my picture. We were trying to get a sense of movement or expression.

Todays Learning

Today we watched a Simpsons video for interactions. It was the episode where Homer made a toaster time machine. Then we did a Posistive Negatives Questions Sheet (PNQ). I also did Fibonacci Numbers and a blogging work shop and Word and Pages workshop with Sarah.  It was a very awesome day!

Fibonacci Numbers

Today I learned about Fibonacci Numbers. It was very confusing especially when you're writing Fibonacci Numbers up to the twentieth number.


When you do Fibonacci Numbers you add the two previous numbers together to get the next number. The first 15 numbers are... 

1. 1
2. 1
3. 2
4. 3
5. 5
6. 8
7. 13
8. 21
9. 34
10. 55
11. 89
12. 144
13. 233
14. 377
15. 610