Teacher comment

Travis you showed not only self-control but also self-direction and leadership at times during your successful passion project. Your chess has also come a long way this year and it was great to see you take it to the next level by entering the Otago Southland chess competition. You have followed your areas of interest to make the most of your learning opportunities in a wide range of subjects and you have built relationships with both new and returning students, you have a real potential for leadership Travis, and I would like to see you continue to develop this over the next couple of terms.
Darryn

Books!

Last week at Enrich@I.L.T Tom, Jack and I rang Donavan School and asked if they could donate some books to us and fortunately Jack's Mum sometimes teaches at Donavan so when she goes to Donavan, the office will give her some books in a big box. When I walked in the doors of Enrich today Jack came running up to me and told me that the books have arrived which was exciting.

I counted the books and there were 68 books!

My Passion Project

At Enrich there is only three more weeks to go! Well make that three more days till the end of the term so I have to to get my passion project done... fast. Jack, Tom and I are ringing up library's from all over in Southland and South Otago to donate some books to us so we can donate some books to Discovery 1 in Christchurch who are also wrecked and in the red zone.

Gifted Week

This week is Gifted Awareness Week. To me, being gifted is cool and annoying because you are above average ability and people expect more in some things that you are not so strong at. People that aren't gifted think differently than people that are gifted. At Enrich you work with like minds so you think like them. I'm a year six at school and at Enrich I work with year fives, year four and even year three's. That doesn't matter because we think alike. The things that I enjoy the most at Enrich are: Co-operative games and the use of ICT throughout the day. Each day we come to Enrich, we are emailed the day plan. From here, we have to make sure that we plan our day - I am learning to self-manage my time much better. I really enjoy my time at Enrich.

Giftedness

Today at Enrich I did affective domain and we learnt about giftedness. Here are some models of giftedness. The top one on the left is Tannenbaum's, the one on the right is Renzulli's and the one on the bottom is Gagne's. I learnt that if you want to be something big you need chance like Tony Hawk was born in the right place where there were heaps of skate boarders that introduced him to skate boarding. You also need the right environment, money and support.

Last week at Enrich

Today at Enrich is the last day so I have to finish my must can do sheet which includes blog posts, current affairs, interactions, mental edge and I.C.T workshops and more, so today will be a huge rush.

This term I learnt a lot about time management. Playing chess a lot, does not work! Next term I will not play as much chess, so that I can get my other work done on time!

Multiple Intelligences

At Enrich I did a multiple intelligences survey and I found out I have strengths in body smart, picture smart, people smart and number smart. Areas that I am not so strong in are: Music, intrapersonal and nature. The picture is my results.

P4C

Today at Enrich I did the P4C workshop. We discussed about "should you get rewards for learning at school?" Some schools do get things like that. I thought that you get the rewards further in life, like when you try out for a job you have to know a lot and your boss might want a hand written letter so if you go to school you should be neat. Of course if you don't, your parents will get really annoyed.

My Cat Tessellation

Today at Enrich I drew a really cool picture, but not just any picture, a tessellation picture of a cat. A tessellation picture has no overlaps and no gaps so the shapes have to be exactly the same or it doesn't link up.

My Photography

Today at Enrich I learnt about photography and macro shots, close up shots and far away shots. The difference between macro, close up, and far away shots are that macro shots take extremely close shots and close up shots are not as close up, and far away mode takes clear far away shots. Here's some of the photos I have taken. They are both macro photos.

Teacher comment

Travis, you have worked hard on your animations during your project, particularly when working on your claymation. These are not easy to complete! The way you used a claymation as a vehicle to get a message that was close to your heart across, was very clever! During your journey to produce this claymation, I was impressed with the way you reflected each week on what you liked and didn’t like, and then made changes accordingly. There was a huge shift in your understanding while working on both your lego and clay animations, and I think you have realised how many more possibilities there are within claymations!

Alana

Self assessment

This is my passion project rubric, it is my self assessment of my passion project.

My passion project Keynote

This is the process I went through in my passion project.

These are my claymation models for my animation. My animation is about changing how fast the speed is around Myross Bush school because at the moment everybody is going 100km/h and it is not that safe because they can't stop very fast and they don't notice things on the side of the road as easily for example children or balls. My idea is to make traffic slow down to 70km/h around Myross Bush school.

My storyboard

This is my story board about my first claymation animation. It is going to be about Myross Bush school safety near the open road. I think everyone should slow down to 60 kilometers per hour.

Graphic organiser

This is a graphic organiser about my thoughts at this point of my passion project

Passion Project

Today at Enrich Isaac , Josh and I were working on our animation. We have finished it hooray!

Animation

Today Josh , Isaac and I were creating an animation imovie . These are the pictures of us working on it . We are doing this about an earthquake and it is for the N

etGuide awards.

This is our storyboard for our earthquake animation.

My animation

My passion project is animation.

This is what I know before I get started on my animation.