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

read and run

Hey guys Mia here with the last post of the year!

This is just going to be a quick post as were leaving soon to PERFORM!!

And if it looked like I yelled thats it's because I did, I'm just so exited, and for those who live in Invercargill it would be a good time to take you lunch break and go to rain cafe and have a look at the people preforming, especially the small girl with her in a plait who is also Brumbly the elf.

Hope to see you all down there!

Now signing off for the year

Mia

Rising stars

Drum roll please........

Im back and ready to blog!

Hello all you blog readers! Just to let you know,  I have not been ignoring you - I just wasn't here last week I was at a practice for a choir.  This was a choir that performed at the Civic in Invercargill.  We performed in a show.

It's Wednesday (imagine me singing that) so ENRICH! YAY!

It's 12:30 lunch time so we're halfway through the day.... we may only be halfway through the day,  but we've accomplished quite a bit.  I have almost finished my gifted study (which as you should know is about WALT DISNEY - inventor of Mickey Mouse and mega famous DISNEYLAND) I just have to put his death on the timeline and say how he used habits of mind such as persisting-sticking to a task

 and 

applying past knowledge to new situations- for example, you learnt something last week a maths strategy or something then you have a math test and you use that strategy.

We also did Singing 201 (imagine that with some cool backing track) and Nicola was giving out solos and guess who got the 

"We Wish You A Merry Christmas" solo? Drum roll please (dum dum dum dum chic)

ANNA 

and I got the second solo (YAY!)

That's all thats happened (so far)

Goodbye my friends-Mia

Singing 201

Hi!

We're back - it's week 2 of term 4

Sorry for not posting last week - we were just so busy and didn't get enough time!

Oh and I almost forgot something...

Don't worry it's good news actually - no it's not good news it's great news - you know how when one door closes another one opens? That is so true because when the performance door closed at the end of Term 3, the singing 201 door opened. (Well actually, they are both the same door as they are both done in the performance corner but you get what I mean don't you?) 

Anyway - I bet you don't know what singing 201 is. 201 is like 101 but 101 is for beginners, and 201 is for experienced people.  So for singing 201,  it's for the people who were in performance (but not just performance people as Rhea decided to join us today.)

Anyway for singing 201 we're doing some christmas caroling.....    so we're doing an 8 minute medley of christmas songs such as Jingle Bells and Deck the Halls. Nicola says we will be christmas caroling around Windsor-Invercargill so you might want to come and watch possibly? Another thing we will be doing is singing

Burn by Ellie Goulding at the year 6 leavers day for the year sixes such as Joey =(

By Mia