Canstruction

Today at Enrich a man called Neil came in to help 6 of us design our canstruction building. Canstruction is a competition where different schools compete by making big models out of cans. We were coming up with different ideas for what our model could be. Including: a heart, a hippo, a tiger, The Water Tower, a burger and a chess piece. In the end we were deciding between a burger and a chess piece. Now we're going to make a burger!

Talent development

For my Talent development this term I am making a documentary with Kate and Claudia for the MADE awards. Our documentary is going to be about Southland icons. Today Kate rang Tim Shadbolt to ask if we could interview him. We are also going to look at things like The Stags and The Big Umbrella, I can't wait to start filming!

Teacher comment

Phoenix you were very organised and motivated to make difference for others through your passion project and through your determination and hard work you have defiantly achieved this. I was very impressed with the way you met each new challenge and found ways to overcome them. It was also great to see you engaging with like minds in a range of other areas on each day.
Darryn

End of Term 2

This term has been a really long term! I've finally wrapped my passion project up and I'm finishing all of the other things I have to do. I can't wait for the holidays! I can just put my feet up relax and come back next term ready! Here are my two stars and a wish* about this term:

Stars: I liked the thinking tasks we had today where we went around in pairs doing different activities such as: finishing a rubiks cube in 5 minutes and trying to get as much pieces of a puzzle together in 5 minutes as we can. My second star is I finished my passion project! Yay!

Wish:I wish that next term I can finish my Talent Development earlier.

*Two stars and a wish are a way of reflecting. Because the two stars mean two things that you liked and the wish is one thing that you would change about something you did.

Thank you for reading.

Phoenix

My card for the library

Here are screenshots of the outside and inside of the card that I made for the Invercargill Library staff.

Gifted Awareness Week

This week is Gifted Awareness Week. All of the children at Enrich were asked to write what it means for us to be gifted. It feels really good to be gifted. Because you know you are special and nobody can take that away from you. I am gifted because I think differently to other children my age. I really enjoy all the subjects that I do at school, and by coming to Enrich, I get the opportunity to do different activities, which makes me learn more.

At school everyone is asking questions like "How do you do this?", "How do you spell that?" and "Whats the answer to that question?" which gets really annoying and if you don't know everybody says "You shouldn't go to Enrich". But at Enrich you feel free because nobody is asking you questions all the time.

We are trusted to plan our own timetable for the day so that we learn to self-manage ourselves. We get the chance to do passion projects, which are always quite challenging.

Thank you for reading this post.

My Passion Project So Far

Today Claudia and I walked to the Public Library with Katie(teacher). We walked to the Library because earlier this morning I got an email from a librarian saying I can come down and look at some books. As I emailed the library the week before asking for books.We need books because Discovery 1 school in Christchurch needs books as they have no library after the earthquake. When we got to the library there was a big tray full of books that we could choose from. The books were in that tray because they were not issued in a long time. In the end we decided to get all the books we were very thankful. I told them that I am going to say something about them on the radio and my blog (which I'm doing right now) to say thanks. THANKS INVERCARGILL LIBRARY YOU ROCK!!!