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!