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  Hello.  Or preferably goodbye.  It's the last day of Enrich@ILT for the year.  Which means the last post.  Which means that no - one can update my challenges.  And trust me, sometimes, there are big challenges.

  We began the day with a game of musical bumps.  I don't react to quickly so I got out soon.

  Everyone was waiting hungrily for the shared lunch.  Unfortunately, there was enrich has got talent in the way.

  Some amazing talent I must say, and then we had the shared lunch.  Skip ford a bit and we are where we are now.  And I would bore you to death by saying everything that's happening in the present, but soon we have a tech challenge!!!!!

  Bye, but the opposite greeting next year!

Milk Man Wishes You The Best!

My Day

  Hey, hello!  As you can see from the pic (below) I am very excited to see you again after a challenging day.  I went to a workshop called BAR, which is like SCAMPER.  B stands for bigger, A stands for add, and R stands for replace.  So we BARed Enrich and any teacher.  So for teacher I made their patience bigger, added extra smiles, and replaced telling us off with giving us (the students) food!

Good day to you.  Hey, it wasn't so hard after all!  Bye bye (for now...)!

Hello Over There...

Hello, fellow blog readers.  What an breath-taking, puzzling day so far (only half of my day is done).

  We started off with 'Brain Boosters,' which was our last session, which I spent with Jenni, doing P.4.C. (Philosophy For Children).  We talked about what has changed, and that was a very interesting topic.  We came over the idea of parenting (that changed because of the no hitting rule) and also schooling (which has changed since the 'no whipping rule'.

Next I went to Sumo Cubes, which was the puzzling part of my day covered up.

  After morning tea, I went to Performance with Ginny.  We did some Christmas carols and most of my energy was drained so it was literally breath-taking.  We got some really awesome songs!!!

  So there, that is my day broke down into bits.  Have a lovely afternoon!

  Bye!!

Goodbye Katie!

  So..  How was your long weekend?  Well, our Monday session got cancelled because of it.  We were going to work on our Q&A for our passion project session, so I have quickly prepared myself for the questions.

  We are going to have a shared lunch and I can already smell the delish food that's making my stomach grumble.  Can't wait!!

  As you might know, Katie is leaving today and for the rest of the year.  That's why we are having this wonderful going away lunch.

Welcome back to Term 4

  Hello (again)!  How very nice to see you all today on the first week back (okay, it's actually the second week back, but the first post this term).

  Anyway, Marie has just left and I'm sad to say, was the last clay pottery session of the year.  We have something else to fill the gap and I can't tell you, because I have no idea what it is!

  Also, I have to set myself a goal.  So my goal for this term is....

  Getting my important ideas out there, and learning to define the important from the information that isn't so urgent.

I'm so excited!

  I'm running just a bit late so this will be a quickie!

 Today I finally got my clay pots back from Marie and I am so excited!!!  Nicola says that she would buy one of my plates, and Katie wants to use her crackers and dip in them!!

  Anyway, us Monday kids get an advantage with our 'Discovering Your Past' by getting an extra session next week!

  We can now start counting down from 14 days till the spring fling!

Chocolate... Yum!

  Today I made a really awesome...

  Hey!  Wait a sec, I didn't even say Hello!  Hi, and today I made an awesome cup that was kind of a unicorn, which, by the way, is Scotland's national animal.  I thought I would bring that up, as we are still doing family history for discovery.  My presentation is very neat and pretty.

  At the end of passion project time, I tidied up the whole place where we were doing it, and now I get a chocolate treat!  How amazing!!!

  I'll tell you how delish it was next week!

And I'm giving it to...

Rolling rolling, rolling rolling a cup.  In fact, it was a mug.  Yes yes, it is common to get these messed up.  And I was rolling a mug.  For passion time.  Can I get on with the blog now?  Also the designs Marie brought along with her were spectacular!!  The patterns showed halloween, sky-scrapers, beautiful flowers and guess what?  More and more patterns!  And  also, I promised a few things last week.  The order the table goes is:

Pearl and Briana, then Samantha and Luca and finally, Madison and I!!!!!!!

Hey, I thought that I was gonna talk about newspaper and what happened today.  Yes I am.

  Today we just well, wrote.  Wrote and wrote and wrote.  Just about what I'm doing right now.  Except my news article will be in a newspaper!!!!  Nicola is going to publish it properly!!!

And for the other secret, I'm giving it to...  My teacher.  Not here, at my school I attend to 4/5 days.  My teacher.

Everything seems so cute!!

Had a good day?  I did.  Today well...  I under-glazed!!!  It was so exciting!  I had already drew pencil on my plates so I was ahead.  I had drew a duck and a pig and they look so cute!  I love the thick black outline makes it stand out.  I also have a replica of a smiley face orange that is also adorable!  I also have a gift for someone (I'll tell you next week).  I love everything about what I painted (or under-glazed your choice)!

Also I have to sort out a time-table for the pottery.  I'm going to sort it out in whatever order I like.  So see me next week (also about the present) and you will know the order.

Speaking of the time-table, I have to do it!  And know is the best time!

See 'ya 'lats (for see you later)!!!

Hello Again!

Hello.  Oh I'm so sorry, I'm in the middle of roll call.  Oooo...  My name is coming up soon...

"Grace!"
"Sorry, here!"
"What's your favourite 'must see' place?"
"Greece!"

Yes, that was the beginning of my day.

Before I say anything else, this is the first blog of Term 3.  Big achievement, getting this far?  I think so.

So anyway, Katie was saying about how we need to say:

"Here!  My must see place is _______________."


So that's what we did.  Moving on...

Picadilly Circus was quite fun actually.  So many people failed to win the game for us.  Now I'm sorry, but I can't tell you the rules because Katie said so.  But I can tell you we made a pretty good score (except for the times where we got disqualified).


Passion Project Update!
So it's almost time to go do my ancestry but I need to give you an update.  We... We...  Didn't do basically anything.  But at least we got to fill in a time table.  Well sometimes you've got to look on the bright side, don't you?  Next week, we're continuing with it!  And Marie popped in to say that we will under-glaze next week.  I can't wait for next week now!


Goodbye (But Welcome Back To The Blogs)!

Guten Tag, I like farm animals!

Guten Tag.  That's German for hello.  I've been studying Germany today.  You know discovering your past, right?  Well I come from Germany and I have a last name to prove it.  Mine means 'Weaver'.  Anyway I know the ideal decoration for my passion project, which, by the way is clay.  It's...  It's....

Farm Animals!

Yep, that's correct.  Animals on a farm.  I've already started planning.  A different animal for each product.  I've already done a pig and a duck.  It will be the cutest thing ever!

Also it's the end of Term 2 and we've have got homework to do over that time for our Discovering our Past project.

Guess what?  I'm basically the expert with clay without our clay tutor.  She wasn't here today so I had to teach some girls the basics of clay.

Oh, well that's the end of the Term.  I guess, well, bye!

My goal is...

Aloha...  And greetings to all.  Aloha is the hawaiian word for ' hello'.  I'm talking to you about...  Um... Oh yeah!  Goal setting.

  I did 'goal setting' with Nicola. We set goals for the second half of the year.  

Here are my goals that I set for my mid year report :

• I need to focus on my time management for passion projects (I’m doing clay), reflection (reflection of my time doing pottery) and blogging.  I can hardly manage my time in this area of work.  I could potentially be slowed down with Marie as she has a number of people to work with. However, I could fill in my reflection sheet at home.

Then I changed it into a smaller goal for our goal tree and this is my varied and smaller version of my goal:

• For my goal I need to focus on my time management in the area of pottery.  I will need to be more independent.  Grace W.

  Now it is sadly time to go.  I will say a hui (goodbye) as I share the exciting news!  Marie has just arrived and it's 11:00 and I'm so excited!!!  So a hui again.
And also mahalo (thank you).

A cow.

Today I got so excited that Marie was coming around and.....  Oh...  Hi!  I was just thinking about what to do for my blog.  And Marie came in this morning and told us to plan what we were doing and can you guess what I'm planning???  A  tea set!!!

Can you guess the other thing I'm doing.  It's amazing!!!!  A......

Cow.  I said A Cow!!!!  It's so awesome and amazing.

Also today I've got a few answers to some of my Q's (remember last week?)  Can you think of 5 Qs to ask?  Think quite deeply.  I hope you come up with something interesting!  After lunch I gonna plan my awesome teapot!!!


Catch ya lats!

Discovering your past!!

Why didn’t my Great Grandad go to the Mount Casino battle like his twin brother?  

That is just one of my 'Discovering Your Past' questions.  We had to do 15 open ended questions!!!  I have  just finished mine!  Here are some other Q's to ask!!!

What side came to New Zealand first?

When did we lose our ancestors traditions?

How did we lose our traditions?

Which side of the family got into the most trouble of all time?

Which countries followed on from Dutch, British, Scottish and German???

What is one of the most important family members in our ancestry?

Are there any hidden family members that I do not know of?

What are other countries connected to me starting from the third generation and back?

How long back does our family go (as you remember)?

What are some of our traditions that we have carried on?

Got to go so, well, bye!  Passion projects!!!

Passion Projects are up and running!

Good morning or if your reading this past 12 good afternoon.

  It's quarter past 11 as I'm writing this to you!  Anyway, today we've already done some great things.  We've had a refresh from last weeks big announcement; do you know this term we are doing discovering our past!  We had to name 1 thing we have learnt about our family and from the timeframe so many people couldn't answer the question!!  And then we had to do a personal development session and I was with Katie following on from 'The Pit'. We also have some delightful people in at the moment from up North.  Did you know they are looking to have their own Enrich?  That's pretty cool.  You know whats even cooler?  Passion Projects are here again!  And that means that now I need to do mine and get it up and running again!

  Catch you later!

Hey I'm back!!!!

Hi!!!!!!

How was your holidays?  Mine was great.  But now it's back to excellent Enrich to do our Marvelous morning email.  We have already done Perfectionism with Jenni.  We had a terrific test on perfectionism and it turned out I like more things to be perfect than things I don't care about.
  I still have to do Thinking on my feet with Jenni and also Brain boosters with Jenni.  It's quite funny that I had Katie Katie Katie then Paul Paul Paul so looks like I'm left with Jenni to go into.  Guess what I'm doing for my Passion project???

CLAY POTTERY!!!!!!!!!!!
WOW!!!  AGAIN?!?!?!

 Yes.  I truly am.  And I'm so excited to have my first blog of the term done.  But if I said done, I mean goodbye.  See you later!

ANOTHER EPIC HELLO/GOODBYE FOR THE TERM!!!!!

It is the end of the Term that was gone in the blink of an eye!!  As you see another epic hello by me!  I don't know whether to say hi or bye!  Anyway, back to my day.

Today I had to zoom back to the past and remember what learning style out of:

• Auditory - Enjoy listening to a speaker, but also you may hear things that distract you.
• Kinesthetic -Enjoy learning that involves movement or, hands on projects.
• Visual - Seeing pictures in your head and imagining what your finished product will look like.

I AM VISUAL!!!!!!!!

Basically three quarters of the class were visual.  I would of thought that I was kinesthetic because I'm very good with hands on stuff.  But the more I think about it, the more I think I am visual.

Today, we also did some brain training exercises.  It's good to have a learning style that works for you, but it's also important to try and improve the others that you might not be as strong at.  My favourite brain training game was called 'The Game You Can't Stop'.

That was fun.  Now it's time for the EPIC GOODBYE FOR THE TERM!!!!!

Epic Day at Enrich. Please read on......

EPIC       HEY!!!!!

I've had the awesomest day yet of the week (and all the other records of the week; It's just the start of the week anyway).  So I think I've got one rebus correct out of the few on the whiteboard.  Do you want to see it?  Okay here it is:

There are two ducks in front of two ducks.
There are two ducks behind two ducks.
There are two duck in between two ducks.
How many ducks are there?

I think.....


Two ducks in front, two ducks behind would equal four ducks.  Then in between.....  That wouldn't make sense.  Maybe there's ten ducks or eight or six....  I think there's six.

That was only part of my day.  You should of seen brain boosters with Paul.  It was so cool.  I love tangrams.  We made all these animals and people out of:

Two small triangles
A mediam triangle
Two big triangles
A square
A paralaragram

All laminated.  You might also need a sheet to tell you what shapes you need.

I still think the answer is six.  I'll tell you later......

EPIC       BYE!!!!!

Discovery

Hi.....  Again.  Although I do have exciting news...  Our new topic is........  DISCOVERY!!!  Yeah.  Discovery.  And we HAVE NOT started passion project yet.  But yes, I am doing clay this year (again).  Last week, we didn't do a post.  We were too busy.  We have got some cool activities to go.  We are doing this very cool thing around discovery...  Immersion Discovery.  There are ten activities but you only have to do eight.  Four last week, four this week.  They are planted all around the classroom.  But that's still to come.  
Today, we learned the difference between open questions and closed questions. Open questions require a bit of thought and usually a long answer. Closed questions have a simple one word answer.   we had to conduct an interview with a buddy and eventually develop a biography of them. I interviewed Violet and this was one of the ten questions I asked her:  If time didn't matter, what period of time would you be in?                      
I look forward to you seeing my post next week.

I'm back!!

Welcome back!!!!

I didn't get enough time for a post last week. I'm here now!  We have got a new teacher called Paul.  I can't wait to get my passion project up and running. Yes, thats right, I'm doing pottery again.  Today we did brain boosters.  I was doing wuzzles (word puzzles) with Nicola this time. We did it last week to.  It was super hard.  I got 3/12, and those were all the ones that Nicola gave clues for!  Next we did thinking keys.  I got to do it with Paul.  We got to do the invention key.  I can't wait to get my clay pots home!