Plots for my stories.

Today I have written the first story for my Passion Project. The first story I have written is called: "King Marco" and is about a Polar Bear - King Legend (which is for both boys and girls). I go searching in Antarctica for his tomb. On the way to the, tomb I find two rare penguin eggs, get buried by an avalanche, which I just survive and then I get frost bite all over me! The story 'King Marco' is non- fiction (which means the story is made up).

I have also made a plan for the next story that I'll be writing which will be called: The Blood Thirsty Dragon, (which is a book for the boys). The Blood Thirsty Dragon is about when a dragon flies into a new home which is in a cave in a volcano. The volcano is behind where John, Kate, Jessica, Grandma Mary and Grandpa Brain live, in their house. One day the dragon makes rocks fall onto the house and the house is destroyed. So John sets out to kill the dragon.

Gifted Awareness Week

This week is Gifted Awareness week and Katie has asked all of the kids at Enrich@ILT to write a blog that tells you what being 'Gifted means to us.' What I'm gifted in is Art and Writing. The bad part of being gifted is that at school, when I don't know the answer to a question people ask me why I go to Enrich and critisize me. The good part about being gifted is that I have the opportunity to go to Enrich. Another good thing about being gifted is that at Enrich I can get away from School and get challenged. I really enjoy going to Enrich because I get to work with 'Like Minds' and kids just like me.

My favourite model of giftedness would have to be Renzulli because it's simple and easy to understand. Renzulli thinks that to be gifted or talented you only have to have 3 things which are: Creativity, Above avrarage abilty and Task commitment. I have Creativity because I'm an Arty person and I like to think outside of the square, I have above avarage because I am better in some subjects that other people and I have task commitment because I like to stick to things until I get it done.

Passion Project - Finding out what kind of books kids like

Today I made a survey on Survey Monkey about what kind of books 7 and 8 years olds like to read. This survey will be sent to all of the 7 and 8 years olds at Enrich. Once I get the feedback I will look at the results of what the kids like and I will write a story that will be based on this feedback. From there I will read the story using a podcast on the programme Garageband. I will publish it onto CD's and send the CD's to the children in Christchurch who are visually impaired. I hope to do quite a variety of stories. I think that the visually impaired children in Christchurch will really enjoy my stories.