Reflection 2011

Today's the last day of enrich for the year. We had to answer the questions on the sheet above. This is my one. 

Talent Development

Today at talent development we made sherbet. The ingredients were,
Icing sugar
Raro
Baking soda
Tartaric acid
Citric acid.
We mixed it all together in a bowl and Katie gave us some each in a resealable bag.
It looked liked this:

It tasted really good.

We also made some bread. I'm not sure what the ingredients are but this is what it turned out like.

Well done on a productive session during science talent development last Wednesday.  You have been an active member of our group throughout the term, showing your interest by questioning the activities we have been completing.  The lava lamps showed an instant reaction, whereas the steel wool and vinegar would have taken a lot longer - but great to see the start of this reaction by using the heat sensor and the data-logger.  You are beginning to detail your hypothesis more by explaining why you think something is going happen.  Well done Hyrum.

Katie

Talent development

Today at Enrich we chose a new group for talent development. My group is science with Katie. Today we looked through the science lab that we will be using. You can plug in some sensors like a thermometer and a light sensor that measures how bright the light is. Katie said that it was kind of weird that one of yesterdays groups results was the opposite to ours today. Today one of the experiments was to test if different types of light were constant or fluctuating.  We tested the lights of a lamp, a candle, a remote control and a dinoscope.  We found that the dinoscope and the remote control fluctuated the most and the lamp and the candle were the most constant.

Term three reflection

This term my two stars would be first learning how to use iMovie. I know how to use it because that's what we made our documentaries on. The second one is making a documentary.  Before the start of this term I hardly new what a documentary was. My wish is that we could make another documentary next term about what we wanted to because I would do mine on animals.

Talent Development

Today my talent development group interviewed Richard Dickel. We filmed it and put it on the computer. I think we have one or two more weeks to finish our documentaries. We are thinking about going to Stadium Southland to talk about it and how the ILT helped make the velodrome. One of the questions that we used was "What would the Sharks be like if you didn't have the ILT?"

Talent Development

Today at talent development we interviewed Tim Boys. Tim Boys is a rugby player. He's in the Southland stags. We were interviewing him about how the ILT helps the Stags. Also what the Stags would be like without the ILT. He said that there might not even be the Stags if they didn't have the ILT! We recorded it all on the video camera, then put it on the computer.

We also filmed our documentaries introduction as a group.  It was hard trying to remember what to say, but it was easy importing our footage onto the computer.

Talent development

Today At Talent Development I sent an email to Badminton Southland. I emailed them to see how The ILT helps Badminton Southland. I am waiting to hear back from them. The email said
Hello I'm Hyrum from Enrich@ILT. I was wondering if you would answer some questions. If thats okay thanks. The first question is in what ways does the ILT help Badminton Southland. Does the ILT help provide coaches. Does the ILT help to pay for shuttles. Is there is any thing else that the ILT helps support you with. I look forward to your answers Thank you Hyrum.

Talent Development

Today at enrich for talent development Steve came in to talk to us about filming a documentary. He showed us a video. We did an interview. Ken and Claudia were the ones in it. We tried different camera angles -  high, down low and a normal view. Tom was the camera person. Everyone was watching him.

Hi Hyrum,

You have worked hard with your documentary group this week, to organise an interview with a member of Rugby Southland.  I hope you hear back from them soon!  What questions are you going to ask in your interview? Who is going to be the interviewer? I can't wait to see how it goes!

Alana

Today at Enrich we decided who is going to be in our group for talent development. We also had to choose our topic. My group chose one that we had to do on sport. We had to put down some ideas that we have to do like interviewing, finding things out about sports. Stephen rang Cue TV to see if we could go to them so they can tell us some things about filming.

Week one talent development

Last week I chose one thing to do for talent development. I chose documentaries. We had four stations. One station was about the ILT. We had to write down what the ILT does and things that they help with. Some of those things are rugby,touch rugby, netball,golf,cricket,rowing and tennis.  The second station was one with 60 minutes and we had to watch a documentary. The third one was one that we had to read a book called What is a southlander? We had to write the good things about southland. The last one was about the MADE awards.

Teacher comment

Hyrum your ICT talent development was not only a real challenge with some great learning but also a real passion for you. You were totally engaged with your project at each stage and this was great to see. You have also made the most of all the other opportunities Enrich has offered such as chess, P4C, blogging and learning new ICT skills as well as group challenges. You always have a positive thoughtful approach, which makes you an asset to any group task, game or challenge.

Darryn

Talent Development

Today at Talent development we used Quicktime player to make a tutorial. I made mine on how to make a world on Alice. Mine was 2:36 long If you want to know how to use Alice watch my tutorial.

Reflection on the term
This term one of the enjoyed learning how to use Alice and scratch. The second thing I enjoyed is being able to make a lego mind storm. The one thing that I thought I should have done at the start of the term was the hard things like current events so that I didn't have to worry about them later on in the term.

Robotics

Today at Enrich at talent development Alana showed us how to learn how to programme our lego Mind storms.  You can make them follow a black line and a lot of other things.  We didn't fully finish our robot  but it still goes as well as it would if it was fully built.  I'm going to programme it to follow a black line.

What it means to be gifted.

 

This week it is Gifted Week.  I think that being gifted means you think differently to other people and you need to be challenged.  I like Enrich because I get to work with like minded children.   I like going to Enrich to do things that we don't get to do at primary school.  For example:  P4C, talent development and a whole lot of other things.  At Enrich I can do things that challenge me more.

                                                  

ICT - Scratch

Today for talent development we started learning about the computer programme Scratch.  We watched three tutorials on YouTube.  It taught me a lot about Scratch.  It taught me how to make a person (called a sprite) like that one above.  You can programme the sprite to move, flip and turn in the direction you want it to go.  You can add music so that it plays in the background as well.  I used three pieces of music for my sprite character.  On Scratch you can make games or other things.  I made a slideshow with my sprite moving around.

Talent Development

 I am doing robotics for talent development. Last week we filled in this sheet to make us think about what we already know about programming and what we want to learn. One of them is a game on Scratch. Someone made a game that we had to try and get the ghost.  Today we learnt how to use Alice. Alice is a programme that you can use to make worlds on. One of the tutorials on there was about making an ice skater move. There are tutorials that tell you how to use the different parts of Alice. We have planned the things we are going to be learning about this term for our programming.

P4C

P4C means Philosophy For Children. We do P4C every week. Last week we were asked questions about  friendship. We talked about somethings like what is friendship and how do you know who your friends are and had to answer if it was friendship or not. Some of them were really hard to answer because it sounded a bit like friendship but it might not have been.

Scamper

Last week at Enrich we did Scamper.Each letter has a thing that you have to do
we used shoes to do each of the things with.
S means substitute.We used it as a rugby ball.
C means combine. We combine the shoe and felts and made a penholder.
A means adjust. We adjusted the shoe to make a swing.
M means modify/magnify/ minify. We made the shoe tiny.
P means put to other uses. We used the shoe as a telephone.
E means eliminate. We took away the shoe and it was just a shoelace.
R means reverse/rearrange. We put the shoelace on backwards.
After that we had to use keynote to make something about what we did. Each group did one.

3:05

SCAMPER

An instructional video on the SCAMPER Creative Thinking method.

Chess

This term I learnt how to play chess. Darryn taught us how to set up a chess board around the start of the term .Darryn also taught us some ways to finish the game really fast. One of them you could finish the game in three moves. It was called scholars checkmate. Darryn taught us pins, skewers and forks as well. 

Tessellations

I did tessellations with Darryn. I did cats.Tessellations is like a pattern.The rule is no gaps and no overlaps.They all need to be the same size or else it won't work. It took me a while but I still finished it.I thought it went quite well.We used a piece of paper with squares to make it a bit more easy.This was an interactions workshop.

Multiple Intelligences survey

This is my multiple intelligences survey.When I did the survey it gave me heaps of questions.After I answered all of them it came up with a graph.My highest is nature smart.My lowest is music smart.

Internet Searches

Alana talked to us about using key words when we use google and putting speech marks in helps too.So that there aren't as many sites to choose from because we searched something and it had more than One hundred million results. It helped us because if we need to use things on the computer and we don't know how to use it would be really hard.

Fibonacci numbers

Today I was learning about fibonacci numbers.They are when you add the two previous numbers together to make the next number.This is a spiral that you can make with fibonacci numbers.  You make the spiral by drawing squares that are the size of the Fibonacci numbers, and put the squares in a spiral pattern.  The first few Fibonacci numbers are: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8...