The caped man...

I always dreamed of being a super hero. That is the first line to the monologue that I'm doing in performance. Instead of singing today, Nicola grabbed some sheets of paper and told us what they were.

Nicola read them all out individually and once she had read all of them we had to pick one that we wanted to learn. Mine was about a boy who wanted to become a super hero, but didn't work out how he wanted it to.

I didn't realise that we had to have a costume too. Nicola's idea was to wear our underwear on the outside like in superman and batman, but Nicola went and looked in the box of clothes and found a cape.

Then we had to practice our words lots and lots of times. We went through our words about 10 times in 45 minutes. By week 6 we should know it really well.

Checkmate

The Pawn moved, then a Queen and a Bishop. Were you were able to work that out it was scholars? I didn't go to Luke's chess workshop, I played chess instead because I wanted to play chess to see if I could move up a little more on the leaderboard, but I didn't move at all. Then Luke did the workshop again  so I chose to go to it. 

He taught us about Scholars, opening moves and I asked about stalemate because I wasn't to sure how that works. I'm still not to sure, but it shouldn't matter too much. (I hope) 

There were two different kinds Scholars There's knight scholars and bishop scholars. I prefer the Bishop scholars. It's just because I can remember that better. I hope that I can stay at fifth on the leaderboard or higher.

Dunedin, here I come?

Finally! I won a game of chess. Today I played leaderboard chess against Jake. We both chose to use a chess clock. I quite like using a chess clock because I usually win. I'm not quite sure how but it just seems to happen.

I didn't think that I would beat him but as I actually used a strategy. Maybe that's how because I just move pieces most of the time and don't plan my moves.

Near the end of the first game Jake had one piece left and I had two and then his time ran out. It is not very often that I get someone into checkmate but it has happened. I win by their time running out usually. I think it was about the same ending on the second game.

Now that I've won,  I'm fifth on the leader board. I'm trying to stay in the top six so that I get to go to the chess tournament which is in Dunedin because it's our last chance to go while we're at primary school.

Performance With Nicola

Yah! We're back at Enrich for term 2. When we started our passion projects today I ran off to go to the back of the room to do performance with Nicola. 

First she gave us this little golden fluffy material and we had to pretend that it was something else. I used it as a T-shirt that was way too small for me. We were still playing the same game but Nicola gave us this pretty big green sheet. I used it as a sling for a broken arm. 

We had another warm up activity. You had to point at someone and say you and then we slowly got louder and LOUDER until we were yelling. Then it changed a little bit because we went from loud to quiet and after that it was quiet then loud and quiet again. It was really loud at some points.

Then we started to practice one of the songs that we had last week. We went through the song so many times it's stuck in my head now and it's kind of annoying too. 

We went and got a drink and then we came back and Nicola had put some new lyrics on our books. It was "Life on Mars" by David Bowie. That song is also stuck in my head. We listened to it once and then played it again and started singing along with it and then we just got better and better so now we already know the song quite well. So by week three we should know the new song very well.