Patterns Field Trip

Hoo-ray! Today all of us went on our first field trip for the year. We had to get into partners and my partner was Kavarn. We went because our concept curriculum for the year is 'Patterns'. We went not only to look at natural patterns, but man-made ones to, for example pillars to strengthen the buildings. I wasn't sure where we were going and then Darryn told us that the places were: the art gallery, the library, Queens Park and Countdown. We went to the library first. We looked around and then I saw a rack that had some bags on it so I took a photo and it was a pattern of order. That is the photo up the top. I really enjoyed the trip even though I was sort of tired.

Passion Project

                                              The one on top is the racing game and the one
                                              below is the four player ping pong game.

We were able to start our passion projects today. I'm making a video game on Scratch. It's going to be a two player racing game. I've made about four other games so I sort of know what I'm doing on Scratch. They were different kinds of ping pong games. My latest one was four player. The racing game that I started to make today is sort of difficult because I want it to a car around an oval track, but then it goes upside down, So I made little circles as the racers. I think it's going well but it's going to take quite a while before it's finished.

When I played chess today I was about to challenge someone and then Alex came up to me and wanted to verse me and we're not allowed to say no if they ask us unless we've already played today. We played for five minutes and then came in the chess clock. Most people hate them but I really like them because then I usually win and it continued today. Even though I was already above him on the chess leader board.

The horrendous hoop game

We ran outside excited because we were going to play a Wilson game and then... We found out that we were playing the difficult, HORRENDOUS, but fun Bullseye game. We were given two animals and two flat ones. What makes it so hard it that we have to throw them into four different hoops that are very Very VERY Far away.

Actually I'm just kidding, they are a decent distance away, they're not that far and by the way the animals are beanbags. If we got it in the hoop we would get a certain amount of points. They were two points for hoop one, four points for hoop two, six for hoop three, eight points for the fourth and last hoop. Darryn yelled go and we started to throw the beanbags. We got one in and another one and just after team one we got four in on the first round.

We went and collected them and then started round two. That round we only got three in the hoop. We were behind at least two of the other three teams then we started the third round and then all of a sudden we got twenty-two points and got the highest score out of all of the groups which was forty-eight Woo Hoo!

Second week at Enrich

Today at Enrich Darryn told us what the concept curriculum is for the year. Concept curriculum is one of the four corner stones. This year it is patterns. We had a big discussion about where we can find patterns and they're surprisingly in a lot of different places. Some of the things that I wrote down were Tessellation's, illusions and that a pattern is something that repeats. It's quite hard to think of what a pattern is.

Egg Experiment

Today I went to a workshop with Alana. It was on gravity and inertia. Gravity is a force that pulls objects closer to the centre of the Earth. Inertia is something that continues in it's existing state of rest.

We had a cup of water about 3 quarters full, a big piece of plastic, a little tube and an egg. We put the tube in the middle of the plastic and put the egg sideways on the tube and that all went on the cup. My hypothesis was that the plastic and tube will move but the egg won't and it will fall into the cup. I tried it and I was right. We had to do that lots of different times to make sure that that's what was meant to happen.

Wilson Game

This morning at Enrich we played a Wilson game called hula hoop amoeba. In this you have to try and jump into a hoop. We were in groups of three. I was with Nathan and Kavarn. When Darryn said jump and clapped at the same time, we had to jump. The teacher's job is to get us out. Once we had got into the first hoop we had to jump out of that one and carry on to the next one. The team that I was in came first and we almost got in again.

Plant Biology

                                                                   Anther

Petal with Pollen

                                                                          Ovule
Today at Enrich some of us did Plant biology. We were cutting up a flower and looked at it through the Dino scope. We cut open the ovary and dino scoped the ovule. The bees land on the Anther and the pollen sticks to them. Then when they fly to another plant and  the pollen comes off on the other plant and then it travels down the stigma and fertilizes the ovules and they grow seeds.  When the plant dies it dries up and the seeds fall out, and then new plants grow! We looked at the textures of the petals and it looked like heaps of little circles. It was really interesting seeing the other things inside the plants.