Hi Bede here this my last blog post of the year and for ever...

I'm not a year 6 ?

I'm moving to Nelson.  : (   : {

So this final blog post ever so I've done alot in the past there years.

I started in 2010 and left in 2012.

But through out the years I've made alot more friends at Enrich than at my home school.

So here's some thing which I was very proud of in 2010.

The making of my stone carving,

and it had a injury too.

Here's what  I did last year and I was very proud of it was a kidpix podcast sorry I couldn't put it in my  blog it was to big!

Here's what I've been proud of this year.

My pink pig and my mosaic.

Bye from Bede@Enrich. : )

Week5 Term4

At Enrich today I did allsorts of wonderful things, but here are  my favourites of the day.  My first favourite I did today was Plant Biology.

For Plant Biology John and I buddied up and guess what! We dissected a plant aka a flower,

and I'll put some pictures up.  I got to see the stigma and the ovary with eggs inside.

And heres my favourite,

it was,

Clay sculpting!

11 other students and I were makig money boxes,

I made a piggy bank and I'll but up a picture up too.

It was pretty challenging at points but the rest of the way it was easy.

Cioa from Bede@enrich. :)

Week 4 Term 4

This a Movie of my day. :)

Term 4 Week 1

Today at Enrich I had a complete different day than the other students?  

So my day started off normal.

Then we talked about sustainability.

There are 4 types of it:

1.  Economic

2.  Enviromental

3.  Social

4.  Cultural.

Then we did a rating of the most sustainable mode of transport to school.

There was walking, biking, stakeboarding, car, bus, or a horse

Walking was the best.

Then Alana, Hannah and I

taked to a bunch of old people about

how canstuction works and we told them what we did last year

and this year and we showed them what we made.

Then we handed the cans to Brenda, a worker at the Salvation Army.

Then, just before lunch we played a new Wilson game - All or Nothing.

Invercargill City Chambers

Today at Enrich we did all sorts of stuff but the best part of the day was....

GOING TO THE INVERCARGILL CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS!!!

Each group went up and talked to Darren Ludlow and Bill Walters.

We are still waiting for our results for each proposal. :) :| :(

Then they treated us to Morning tea, They gave us muffins and juice.

I hope we are succsesful.

From Bede @Enrich.:)

Week 10, Term 3

Today at enrich we did all sorts of wonderful stuff but today I did all kinds of things and here's the order of things I did today.

 First thing I did was before school pick it was called letter bubbles it kind a hard it has all these letters and you've got to type them in and it includes numbers from zero to nine.  Then we did chess and I challenged Alana and I got wasted then we did passion time and I decided to dump making an app and I made a animation instead and it is pretty good and it's pretty cool.  Then we had morning tea and instead of passion time we did environment we practiced our speeches for next week at the Invecargill City Council Chambers!!!

Then lunch I had Pita pit and it was nice.  Then enviro again then blogging and then I had to miss some time for Spanish and then the Wilson game Picadilly Circus and then home time.

Adios from Bede@ Enrich. :)

Teacher Comment

Hi Bede.

Your group made great progress with your proposal for mosaics to be added to Wachner Place.  I’m pleased to see you have got your ideas sorted for what you would like to include in your mosaic - great organisation by you!  I know you were just as disgusted at me watching the clip on the top 10 most polluted cities in the world.  Clean air is something we take for granted here in NZ, but as we discussed, we all have to share that air but the solution for putting a stop to air pollution is a puzzling one.  Great to see you spending your lunch time on your idea of creating a gaming app - I look forward to seeing this progress!  Well done on a busy day Bede!  Katie.

Week 9 Term 3

Today at Enrich we all sorts of things but heres what we did the whole day ...

First thing in the morning was are weekly things like before school picks and have a chat to Alana Darryn and Kaite.  Then we did chess and I challenged Alana and I lost by miles.  Then we did our Enviro project and Im still working on making a mosaic.  Then we had morning tea then after that we watched the worlds Top 10 most air polluted cities in the world and the worlds most pullted city is 

Ahvaz, Iran. The pollution in the air is 372 micrograms per cubic metre. Then we played a game called Piccadilly Circus and it is very challenging but we did finished it .  After Lunch we are doing blogging where I am now. Next is Spanish and then home time. : )

Week 8 Term 3

Today at Enrich we did all sorts of things.  First thing this morning we did chess and I was playing Harley and guess what... I won!! Now I'm only 18 spots from the top of the leader board!   Then we did enviroment projects and now I'm doing mosaics of New Zealand icons like the rugby ball and the fern and we did  Keynote about it.  Then we had morning tea and then back onto enviroment and we watched a wee clip about polluting water and then we did some thing called a told us and made us wonder.  Then we had a break for lunch and now I'm on here, next we are doing passion time and then I'm going to spanish. Adios from Bede@Enrich. : )

Physics...

Today at Enrich we did wonderful things.  We had 3 new high interest stations to pick from:  Physics, Fibonnacci numbers and 3D drawing.  I chose physics.  We made parachutes for physics today.  We had to construct the parachute so that it was the same as each others, but the only difference was the material we used.  We were wanting to find out which material would make the best parachute for an egg to travel in.  I worked with Caleb and we used flannelette material.  The rest of the parachute was made with:
- Our choice of material
- Polystirine cup
- 4 strings which measured 50cm each
- Bamboo skewers (to make holes in the cups)
We named our egg "Double-head Donut".  Our parachute floated to the ground, but the force of the egg hitting the groud meant we had a few cracks in our egg.  We decided that the best material for a parachute was not too stiff, but also not too light.  Next week, we get to design our own parachutes - custom made - and we will launch them from the same place.  I think next time I will have skewers at the top of the cup so that the egg won't come out, as well as some tissues so it is a softer landing for the egg.  Here are our photos:

Enrich Term 3 Week 3

Today at Enrich we did wonderful things including Chess, Enviroment, and Tessellations.  Tessellations you heard from one of my Blogs it's no gaps and no overlaps.  It's quite challenging but when your finished it off you'll be proud.  My tessellation is birds it's black and brown with blue and green eyes. I like doing tessellations even though they are quite hard.  From Bede @ Enrich. : )

Tesselations ?

I can tell, you have no idea what a Tesselation is.  Well a Tesselation is a mathmatical problem with no gaps or overlaps.  It's harder than meets the eye sometimes you just have to do some patterns then you  you find something ,then off you go.  I've done a tesselation before and it was roosters, but it was challenging.  Adios from Bede@Enrich.  : )

Today is the last day of Enrich for this term.  We started with a Wilson game - the Hoop Game.  Youhad to work in a group of 3.  You had to hold hands and jump at the exact same time as each other.  You had to jump across the walkway and try and get your whole group in the hoop at the same time without touching the hoop.  If you didn't jump together, or if you jumped before Alana clapped, you had to go back to the beginning!  If you think it sounds simple, it's not!  Next - It was Reflection time! It comes and it goes every term and this term, we used a Sentence Starter sheet.  Most of them were easy to answer, but some of them took a bit more thinking.  Seeyou next term.  From Bede @ ILT. : )

Angry Quicktime ?

For Enrich today I did canstruction with Alana. We made a folder called Angry birds and made a Keynote about our learning for canstruction which I then exported to a Quicktime which is here on my blog. If your wondering how long it is it's 3 minutes and 20 seconds.  Well see you all next week.  From Bede @ ILT.  : )

Canstruction

 Well this time the picture shows most of the plan for canstruction for talent develoment and we did our blue prints but blue prints are blue but why don't we call it a scale model of the front.  Here is the front of the Yellow Angry bird its just a draft but I did my best.  And we did a table for how many cans we had and we did the maths for the price and colours for the cans.  See you all next week. From Bede @ ILT. : ) 

Talent Develoment

Today at Enrich I did 2 rounds of Talent Develoment like last week and this week we did all the maths for the angry bird,and guess what had to  do  all maths over again! The Maths group did some talking and the maths group decied we would do the maths all over again.  So it use to be 175cm height for the angry bird so we drop it by 55cm so now its 120cm. Well we did it all over again so it was a lot easier so now we have all the  mesurements now.  I really like maths because it fun at my home school, but its tricky here at Enrich.  Well Adios until next week.  From Bede at Enrich@ILT.

Talent Develoment

Today at enrich I did Talent Develoment and if you think I was tricking you I'm not! We didn't do passion time.  Well at Talent Develoment I did maths and today was when it got hard.  We did the model of the this Angry Bird and we did it in gogle sketch up and if it sound easy it wasn't.  It was really hard it was 100% hard and about half way through Alana told us that we could do it in active inspire and it was a lot easier, but still hard well at lunch we stopped Talent Develoment and then did must do's and picks.  
Well See you next week From Bede @ ILT.

Passion time

Today at Enrich we did passion time and at passion time I was doing making my own cricket bat I watched some youtube clips of making cricket bats and I rung SIT and emailed Tony Lemin and Phil Johnstone they have'nt replied so I don't know if their not doing it with yet.  Later in the day I did Spanish I learned how to say 11 to 20.  Well looks like I don't have any more time see you next week from Bede @ ILT.  : ).

Canstruction

Today at Enrich I did Canstruction. Today we dedcied the length and width of the yellow Angry Bird.  We had a man named Regan came in and he helped us to sort out all the cans we will need for our design.  For the beak of the Angry Bird, we're having maroon, for the feathers we're having fluro yellow and black cans for the hair and eyes.  So until September there will be lots of stacking cans! See you next week from Bede @ ILT.

Look at that those bras

Today I went to the Southland museum and guess what looking at, NO not dinosaurs we were looking at the wearable art. Wearable art is like bizarre bras AWESOME dresses and they were made by bizarre materials.  The WOW is a competion done in Wellington the WOW museum is in Stoke, Nelson there are all sorts of different  dresses but my favourite  is Pershphine on cuba st.  I hope you enjoyed this blog post Adios until next week Bye Bye from Bede @ ILT.  : )  

Reflection wheel

This is my reflection wheel of term one. It has: I felt, I tried, I learned, I wondered, I used, and you write what you can remember from the beginning of the term. So here's my Reflection. The best thing is it's the last day of Enrich and thats mean's Bye Bye  for two week's.   From Bede at ILT :). 

Hi Bede,

Your time management this week was much improved! It was great to see you planning out your day, and working through each task to completion.  I am excited about our maths talent development canstruction! I hope you have some ideas about how we can construct our object, there is going to have to be lots of critical and creative thought go into this!

See you next week

Alana

Bobo & light

Bobo & light is a very cool programme on the ipads and it is all different ways to see light. It has lasers, Auroras,  Reflection and a lot of other things.  There's another programme and it's called science hub. It's a New Zealand app and it comes from the University of Waikato.  It has ceramics, fossils  and all kinds of other  things too. The best news is   its only two weeks to the HOLIDAYS! Well, see ya later from Bede at ILT :)    

Bio poem

This is a bio poem. A bio poem is a poem about yourself. A bio poem is your perspective of yourself.

Enrich today

At Enrich today we started off with chess. I played Alana and I committed suicide and I was 11th on the leader board and now I'm 12th! We played a game after morning tea. It was when there was 2 people and 1 person would blindfolded and the other person was a navigator to navigate the person. The object was to navigate the person who is blindfolded to get both their beanbags. The 1st 2 people to get both of their beanbags got 3 points, 2nd got 2 points last got 1 point. 

Theatre sports

Today I did Theatre Sports. It isn't a sport like cricket, rugby or soccer, it's when there are 4 players and 2 props and 2 players work as a team and think of wacky ideas for the use of their props. They need to talk like they are in character as well. At the end of each go there is a buzzer to give the other pair a turn.  You have to think quickly to come up with lots of different uses.  You have to do it, or you will lose your turn. Today we used:  2 swimming noodles, and a bath mat, dust cleaners and swimming noodles with a piece of rubber attached to them.

spanish

Today I went  to Spanish and I learnt how to say Mr, Mrs, Miss, good morning, good afternoon & good night.  There were talent development tasters and they were Drama, Computer programming and Documentaries. We did a documentary on Katie's cat Pooch Magooch.  In Drama we did theatre sports and we thought of random things like I was an old man and all sorts of things like mad person, policeman, a smurf a shopkeeper a witch and all sorts of stuff.

Learning Spanish

Today, one of the kids that goes to Enrich, his Mum came in to teach up Spanish. I learnt how to say "Hello. My name is Bede." Hola. Mi nombre es Bede! We looked at Spanish words that seemed similar to the English spelling.

We also did taster sessions for talent development. We did:

Maths - Canstruction sculptures.

Science - Making a tornado in a bottle.

Art - Working with water colours.

I spent some of my spare time today working on my Top 10 Cricketers Keynote.