Finished Art

Today at Enrich I finished ALL my paintings and fixed up all the hiccups. My alien sea monster looks amazing and will soon be framed. The art exhibition will start next week at a local art gallery until around about Xmas. Now I am making my soon to be published story more detailed. It will soon be published as an actual book. I am also in the process of making a very detailed picture of a horse for the cover. Then it will be made by the 'Tikatok' company and they will send it to me. Enrich is paying for it to be published.

Mood 1: Fustrated of how much I still have to do
Mood 2: Happy because I've finished my art
Mood 3: Exited for Xmas!
Mood 4: Sad because it is almost time for my schools year 6 leavers assemably
Mood 5: Sad because its the last year I'm at Enrich.

My two stars and a wish

Today is the last day of Enrich@ILT for term 3. =( . We have all been asked to do a blog-post on our two stars and a wish for next term. ( I will make it less complicated for you : 'We have all been asked to do a blog-post on two things that we enjoyed the most and what stood out to us this term and what we would like to happen next term') My first star is Talent Development because I got to go further in my talent. My second star is P4C because it got my brain really thinking and there was interesting questions floating around. My wish is for there to be more P4C and Passion Projects and Talent Development.

Mood 1: Happy its almost the holidays! =)

Mood 2: Sad, no more Enrich in the holidays! =(

I have mixed feelings about this.

Cave painted and Dragon head almost made

Today in Talent Development I painted the cave's under coat but it won't stay the mucky mustard colour that it is at the moment. I will then get into detailed colours and effects next week. Today Libby and I put clay on the body of our dragon and made it's head with tape, wire and tin foil. The great thing about tape, wire and tin foil is that you can make it do what you want. Next week I will be doing details.

Dragon Project

As you know our theme for Art Talent Development is Dragons, Mythical creatures and Taniwha's. Today I started in a group of three to produce a dragon themed paper mache and clay project.

In my group there is: Libby, Grace and of course me. We are all planning on making a serpent wrapped around a cave which it's egg lies in. This is all going quiet nicely and on the cave we are planning on sticking on rocks/pebbles (for texture) , vines (for extra effect and a dragon-like fantasy) leaves ( just because we can... plus we could sell it for more $$$) and we are hoping that if all goes well we are wanting to also going to put flames coming out of its mouth (we will do this by clay and then paint it so it looks like the serpent is shooting flames!).

1st Week in Term 3

Today was the first day back for Term 3 2011 and everyone got to choose a Talent Development area. We all had three choices which were:

1. Documentaries with Alana,

2. Art with Darryn

3. Creative Writing.

The Creative Writing and the Documentries will be featured in 'The Made Awards' this year. But the best of the Art with be presented at the City Gallery by S.I.T arcade at the start of next year.

I am in the Art group with Darryn. Today from this morning to lunch time Darryn took us out to two places which were:

1. The Art Gallery by the Water Tower

2. The City Gallery by the S.I.T arcade.

Our topic for Art this Term is Dragons. We will all be doing 3 types:

1. Clay,

2. Prints with chisels

3. Drawings/sketch

We also have a new Must Do/Can Do sheet when we have to get the things we've done signed off and checked by ether Katie, Darryn or Alana.

Today for my workshops I did P4C with Alana about friendships and Drama with Katie which, we did a game of 'Hot-seat'. There is one person who sits on a seat and the rest of the group tries to get them out by asking questions as the person on the seat can't say 'Yes' 'No' or shrug.

I can't wait until next week for more Art and other activities! =)

Mood: Happy because of the awesome day! =) =)

Teacher Comment

Alex.

You have had a busy term at Enrich. You used your passion for writing to produce original stories to be recorded onto an audio CD for children in Christchurch who were effected by the earthquake. You make very good use of your time at Enrich - it was great to see you tracking your learning on your Must Do / Can Do sheet, as well as posting interesting comments on your blog describing your new learning at Enrich. I look forward to another productive term with you.

Katie.

Last Day @ Enrich 4 the Term

Today is the last day at Enrich for Term 2 =( . My stars (good things) of the term was: P4C because it got my brain woking and got me to add more detail to my answers, like why I think that. My other star is making my Passion Project, because I got to write more stories which is what I love to do. My wish is that Enrich was for all ages and I could never stop coming.

At least I had 2 more terms after this one! Today I have finished typing up all of my stories for my passion project but I have only recorded 2 of my 5 stories =) . After Term 4 I will be off to high school which means that I will not be able to come to Enrich because Enrich is only for children between the years 3-6. =( .

Mood: Sad of leaving for the holidays because I can't come to Enrich =(

Mood: Happy because it's almost the holidays and I won't have to get up early every morning to go to school or Enrich =)