Enrich@ILT newspaper

Yay yay yay!
Guess who's going to be writing for the Enrich@ILT newspaper, second edition! Me that's who, oh you already guessed that? Way to ruin a mood! But this year only 30 kids of the 165 kids at Enrich@ILT were chosen! I can't wait until I'm back in the performance room on the computer looking at old newspapers and seeing what we might need in our paper. Alright it might not sound like much but if you read the last edition of the Enrich@ILT paper you'll know that eight weeks in the performance room really pays off, and by reading the posts I do for the next few weeks you will see how fun it is or at least how fun I think it is!

Mood Swings

G'day

Quick question - would you read a book written by a 10 almost 11 year old?

You would? (excited scream) Well I'll let you in on a little secret.... the writer is me and I am actually writing a book. 

Oh you're not going to read it now because you think that it'll just be another autobiography and you hear enough about my life already through my weekly blogs?

 Well now I'm sad for two reasons..... oh and now you just expect me to tell you the other reason that I'm sad because this is my weekly blog and I'm supposed to tell you everything about my day here at Enrich?  Well I'm not!

Oh so it was just your annoying friend Bob that was mean, you say? Oh well in that case I'm sad because this is the last week of term:(! 

Boo Hoo! Today has been full on with one whole hour devoted to Passion Project in which I finished my book Yay and since you all want to read here it is.........

Ha ha! No-one gets to read it till its published!

here and back again all in one blog!

Blog One 

Howdy y’all

If your reading this it means my blog was found.

What? You didn’t know, well how did you expect me to you with my blog going AWAL! Sorry about that Im just sad because “sniff sniff” my blog and I we... we were so close and then ... and then he was gone (tear!)

But on the bright side if your reading this he’s back (yay yay yay.) Happy dance come on happy dance with me don’t be embarrassed just happy dance woohoo!

O.K. maybe I’m a little too excited but today I went to a over excitability work shop with Paul.  I realized that I get over excited with a lot of things. But my blog coming back is something to get extremely excited about but theres something else.... I should and am excited about Mia’s going to Hawaii. So this is the first and last you’ll hear from me for a while.=( Something that will most definitely make you think is this

http://www.ted.com/talks/questions_no_one_knows_the_answers_to

Its really interesting

Bye y’all 

blog two

Aloha

Im back from my Hawaiian holiday, three weeks of lying on white sand beaches surfing those narley waves and shopping, shopping, shopping! Reality check Im back at home in my onsies drinking hot chocolate and watching movies!

But one of the perks is that now Im back and blogging (well now that its been found). Wow its been almost 2 months since I last actually blogged! Where has the time gone? Well speaking of things back from dead... at Enrich we're learning about people who are dead! Sound creepy? Well it's not were finding out things about our ancestors, such as when they immigrated to New Zealand or where did they come from or did they receive any awards such as one of Tessa's relatives who won a gold medal in the Olympics!
Mahalo for reading
Aloha
(Aloha means hello, goodbye and love!)

time to stretch the old gray matter

Time to give your brains a workout!

Howdy all, last blog post of the term =( how time flies by...

back to the topic) a brain workout!

"A brain workout? Whats a brain workout ?"

Glad you asked. A brain workout is "a workout for your brain".

Yes thank you random blog reader that some how shouted through the screen.

Yes, it's stretching your brain to make you smarter and it works whether your gifted or if you have had a stroke or something. One of the "easy" tasks we did was this:

Yellow green blue red black black yellow yellow 

pink orange blue red red black green blue

yellow yellow yellow black green

Exercise one: read the word.

Exercise two: say the colour of the written word.

It's harder than you think.

Happy easter.

Bye

Informercial Hour With Mia!

Have you ever felt like some school rules can be boring and unnecessary? 

Like perhaps your not allowed to be inside unless it's raining?

Or seniors aren't allowed to play with juniors because they need to find friends their age?

Or no talking in class?

Well what if there's a really cold wind and you just have to stand outside shivering because your teacher locked you out?

Or what if your just helping one of the little kids find a friend or playing with them because they're lonely?

 And what if your just leaning over to ask for a pencil or something else work-related?

The point is, is that some school rules seem like they're unnecessary but they're really there for the greater good. Like teachers don't want you inside if it's a lovely sunny day, or some kids become too attached to their big friends that they don't even bother to find friends of their own, and nobody likes working in a class room that sounds like an elephant on steroids!

Well that's what we did for our brain booster today, the perspective key. It was all about school rules the ones we like the ones we don't and the ones we would like to change. Most people talked about school uniforms and how they're not allowed to wear coloured jewelry or how the uniforms are too dark and on hot days you just sweat and sweat like anything and others said that they were just plain boring. If they were Principal you would be allowed to wear whatever you wanted as long as you wore something!

By Mia

now you see it now you don't

Now you see it now you don't.

thats the case with the brand new app we used today, Aurasma .

For those of you that don't know what Aurasma is, its an app that turns a ordinary picture into a interactive video clip!

If you've seen any of the Harry Potter films you would have notice how all the photos move thats a lot like Aurasma. There are certain images that will work so you can't just take a random photo and scan it. Her's how to create your own Aura. 

So first you take a video on your camera (make sure its saved). Then go onto Aurasma and click on the little triangle 'A'. 

Then a little new page on top of the Aurasma page should appear. Press the plus button down the bottom which will take you to a different page again. This time in the top left hand corner there will be white '+' in a purple square click on it and select camera roll. Choose what video you want to use and give it a name.  Last step, take a photo preferably one of something that will stay like that  FOREVER and take a pic. Then you just need to name it again and load it and your good as gold. The only thing you must be careful of is if you make it public anyone in the world can see it whereas if its private only your device can access it!

Have fun making lots of different videos!

first post

Hello my flappy penguins

I'm back and ready for another fun filled year of Enrich and blog posting!

This is my third week at Enrich for this year. Last week instead of writing a post we updated the blurb at the top of the blog as you can see it no longer says that I am a year 5 in my second year at Enrich. I'm a year 6 in my third year at Enrich!!

Anyway Today at Enrich we did a thinkers key session with Nicola! We did personal key witch was a big rush since we had to do a 1/2 an hour session in 15 minutes!

here are the questions we had to answer...

bye from Mia (mama penguin)

1. I wish
2. I hope
3. I never
4. I am worried about
5. I want to
6. I love
7. I want to see
8. I enjoy
9. I get upset when
10. I always
11. I might
12. I promise to
13. I have to
14. I used to
15. Im happy about