Art talent development

Brooke you have worked incredibly hard on your art and have turned your hand to some great sculptures in mixed media, clay and stone and you have shown a real flair for this type of art and it has been great to see the passion and dedication that you have put into your talent development. Your stone sculpture of a crocodile is something to be really proud of, well done and all the best for next year.
Darryn

My Reflections

Bye Gguys,

This is my last week at Enrich forever. Here is my reflection for Term 4:

Stone-carving

Hi,

This term I have been doing Omaru stone-carving as well as my lizard. In stone-carving we got a block of stone and had to draw a picture of the carvng in top and side perspectives I am making a baby crocodile. Next we had to use a saw to make the first cuts which were the peices around the drawing's that could easily be cut with a saw. Then we had to slice down to the length of the side picture on top. After that Darryn drilled holes in the bits that could not be cut off with the saw then I had to chizel out the bits of the holes till it was even with the rest of the crocodile. Currently, I have been chizeling out the sides I have lmost finished the tail. Here is a some pics of my crocodile so far:

Frill-necked Lizard Up-date

Hi,

This past few weeks I have been working on my frill-necked lizard. I have curently made the wire frame, the frill, an air-dry clay head, clay body, newspaper paper mache, handy towel paper mache. At the moment I am waiting for Darryn to retun so I can start on air-dry clay feet. We have 3 weeks left so I better start getting a move on. Here are some pics of my partly finished sculpture:

Art- Talent Development

The last couple of weeks in art we have been looking at making multi-media sculptures. Our art multi-media sculptures are made from a wire skeleton then coated in newspaper, paper tape, paper mache, tinfoil and clay this is then covered in material which is sewed up to give it the appearance of skin. I am making a frilled necked lizard and to make the frill you need to put down some tissue paper and lay down a metal frame of what you are doing (a frill) on the tissue paper then coat the frame and tissue paper in glue and put another layer of tissue paper on top and blow dry it all until it turns hard. Below is a photo of my frill-necked lizard so far. I will keep you updated with my progress on my multi-media art. I have also made a clay sculpture of a gecko foot. Below there is a image of my clay art.

Art talent development

Brooke I was impresed by how much you remembered about working with clay from last year and the amount of detail that you put into your sculpture. It will be interesting to see how it looks when it is glazed and fired as it is quite an original piece of art - well done!
Darryn

Teacher comment

Great to have you choose art talent development Brooke, you certainly launched yourself into it today. I will be very interested to see what art works you create based on the theme we have chosen and how the various mediums suit what you are trying to create.
Darryn

My First Week Back

Kia Ora,

Today it is my first week back at Enrich and it is quite full on. I have been busy working on my talent devolopment which is on art. The art we are doing is going to be about reptiles and I have decided to model gecko feet. My first material I will use to make the model will be clay and I may possibly do some paper mache. We start our project next week and we will continue to build our knowledge on our art throughout the term. Our finished product will be displayed at the Southland City Gallery in Invercargill. Below is a picture of the many types of gecko feet I will be looking at building. I will post next week and tell you how I go on my sculpting.

Teacher comment

Brooke you have a consistently positive attitude towards the challenges you are faced with during your time at Enrich. You have formed some great relationships with both returning and new students. The project you have worked on during the past term will make a real difference for the clothing recipients in Japan. There was a lot of learning involved in pulling a project like that together, you have done a great job!

Alana

Update on Passion Project

It is the second last day of our passion projects today and our passion project is going to plan even though it is a little bit behind on time. Madison is going to pick up all the baby clothes from her school office this afternoon. We think that there is more then a hundred different items of clothing in her school office which is very exciting. The one thing that is not going to plan is the donations of money we need for postage. My idea was to sell some of the clothes to a second hand clothing shop for money. We could use this money to ship the stuff to Japan but unfortunately Madison does not agree. Her idea was to get donations from my school to raise money for shipping our packs to Japan. Our other cheaper option was to send them to Christchurch along with some other peoples clothing donations.

I will update you next week on our decision to send to Japan or Christchurch.

Please can you comment on this post and let me know what you think.

Love

Brooke:)

Chemistry

Over the last couple of weeks I have attended two chemistry workshops. During the first workshop we made a thick sticky substance called casein. It smelt disgusting and it looked all lumpy and gross as well. See down below for the recipe for casein. Casein is an edible thickener but it tastes horrible! You can use casein to make plastic objects such as buttons. Some people made a long flat oval mold of casein on the lid of a yoghurt container. My groupmade a ball of casein. Our hypothesis was that the ball would be rubbery plastic so it would bounce. When we had shaped the ball we wrapped it in gladwrap and left it for a week. Next week we had a look at it. It was still soft and spongy, so we took it out of the gladwrap and left it for a week. Thenext week we found it was too hard. I was given the ball so I tore off the hard layer and found asoft layer underneath. I tried bouncing it but it didn't work.

The second week we tested household products that you would find in the kitchen to see if they were a base, a neutral or an acid. We each had a small cup of purple cabbage water. When we had chosen a product each we put some into our cabbage water. If it was a base the water would turn blue. If it was a neutral the water woud stay the same and if it was an acid the water would turn pink. I had a lemon. It was very acidy and the water turned a pink colour instantly. Quite a few products didn't make the water turn any colour like the coffee it made the water turn brown. After everyone had tested their product we were given a piece of litmus paper. Thepaper also turned red if acidic, blue if it was a base and green if it was a neutral. My lemon wasthree colours away from being one of the most acidic things in the world. This was the highest rank in colour that all the products got up to. Three other products were as acidic as a lemon- lime was amongst them.

Here is a picture of the purple cabbage water, acidic purple cabbage water, netural purple cabbage water, and base purple cabbage water, the litmus beginning to turn red in the presence of a lemon and the many colours that litmus paper can turn.

Gifted Awareness Week!!

This week it is Gifted Awareness Week. This a week to make people aware of gifted people. I think this is a really cool thing because I am gifted. I go to Enrich one day a week. Enrich is a school for gifted and talented children. The three things you need to be gifted are: Above Average Ability, Creativity, and Task Commitment. Here are some reasons why people go to Enrich: Because they learn quicker - I think most schools aim their teaching at the level you should be, but at Enrich they teach children who are above average and need challenging. We are not smarter then other children because everyone is smart in their own way, but we are different in some areas compared to other children. Gifted week is special to me because I am gifted and it is a week to show people and make them aware of us. One of my passions is the animal world - I just love animals. Another passion for me is writing, especially descriptive. I also love art, running and athletics. I love running and I am very commited to it if only I could beat my friend my running would be perfect! I love silent reading time and I whizz through books really quick. Being at Enrich is not only really cool but it always gives you a new opportunity to improve your learning. I think the learning zone at Enrich is perfect and it really gives you hands on experience which I love. I am really glad that I had the chance to go to Enrich. My message to all like-minds out there is: Take a chance in life, take a few risks and don't give up. Who knows one day you might be a part of Gifted Awareness Week too.

Hot Writing

This is my hot writing about my high jump. It is a moment in time writing. We had to write a moment in time that was a period of about one minute long, so I wrote about running up to the bar, jumping and coming first place in the school athletics high jump. If you are having trouble reading the images click them to enlarge them.

Flexible timetable

Kia Ora. Today I have completed my tempera paint and indian ink art. Here is a picture of the finished product. I hope it gets framed and put up on the wall. I also made a mind map about our concept curriculum, Interactions. This is when two or more objects have an effect on one another. My mindmap has branches about home and sport so far . But I have not completed it. Here is a picture of the half finished product. I have also played a rather exciting game of chess. I lost but I learnt that if you don't move your king out of check when you play one of my peers you get taken.

Multiple Intellingences Survey

These are my multiple intelligences results to get these you have to answer 40 statements and to answer you have the options: 'This is not like me at all' 'I am very rarely like this' 'This is a bit like me' ' This is sometimes like me' 'I am like this more often then not' 'I am always like this' and then the computer puts all of your answers together and decides whether you are more'Visual/Spatial Picture Smart' 'Musical Music Smart' ' Intrapersonal Myself Smart' 'Interpersonal People Smart' 'Logical Number Smart' 'Linguistic Word Smart' 'Kinaesthetic Body Smart' or 'Naturalistic Nature Smart' as you can see I am more Nature Smart and Body Smart then anything else.

Indian ink and Tempera paints art

Two weeks ago I was involved in some Indian ink and Tempera paint art at Enrich. We were asked to draw a cat and make it come to life on the page. My cat was jumping through the air over some grass in the original photo but I decided to add a bit of my own art to it, so I made the cat look like it was flying through the air over mountains, gullies and hills. In the night with a curly fantasy tree on one side and a normal real world tree on the other, with two cartoon owls one flying into the real world alongside the cat and the other resting in the twisted cartoon tree. I haven't done the Tempera paints but I plan to do so today using bright colours on the cartoon side blending into electric green and dull browns in the real world with bright and dull colouring on the cat, and bright red white and browns for the owls.

Interactions

I'm back at Enrich for another year and I'm excited about it what with the excelerating speed and fun of last year. We of course have some new faces, many in fact and some of the old too. I hope you will join me again for my last year at Enrich. Here is what I thought after our field trip about our inquiry interactions. Remember double click to make images bigger.