Fairytale perspectives

Today at Enrich me and my friend Clara made a twisted fairytale story using garageband, a program on the computer. First we had to search on Safari (Apple computer google internet) for images of the story. The story we did was Jack and The Beanstalk, and we did it from the giant's perspective. It was really fun! I'm pretty proud of Clara and me for completing it. I hope we do something similar sometime!

Above is a picture of a garageband podcast, which is what we did. The photo of course is not of our actual podcast. It is someone else's. But it is an example of a podcast. 

Reflection 2011

	Name: Isabella F                              Date:1/12//11
Look back What did you do? What could you improve?	Although Maths isn’t a HUGE part of the Enrich curriculum, I think I could improve on my Maths skills, measurements, numbers, etc. I also think I could improve some of my chess strategies - I have been easily beaten many times this year. Also I haven’t competed my Must Do sheet completely that many times - I think I need to manage my time a bit better sometimes, although I do put in effort.
Questions What questions have you answered? What questions do you still have?	hmmm... i’m not really sure... well, I know there’s still some things in ICT that I need to find out, Alice, Scratch, etc, but I have answered questions about my passions and my talent [writing] and I have learned how to play chess.
Pull it apart What factors contributed to your learning? What challenged you?	LOADS & LOADS & LOADS of tasks challenged me at my first year at Enrich, like Science, Talent Development, Storytelling and more, chess, writing, Rebuses, workshops...
Make connections What did you learn to do better? What sort of thinking helped you?	I learned to write better, I guess, and the biggest part of that was the Story Telling talent development. I learnt by looking at something and not knowing how do do it, want to do it, learn to do it, DO IT.
Make judgements My progress was...	My progress was that I have developed my giftedness better, really. I learnt how to do so so so so much, like on the computer, GarageBand and so much more. I really enjoyed my year here at Enrich and I cant wait to come back next year!!!!

Yummy yum yum!!!

Today in science at Enrich we made FOOD!!! Bread, sherbet, and best of all, HOKEY POKEY! We basically did it to find out the reaction when we put baking soda and flour and yeast together.  First, we did the bread, and put the ingredients together, gave it a mash, dug a hole, put water in the hole, gave it another mash, passed two bowls round the circle to knead the dough, put the glad-wrap over the bowls to cover the dough and left them. Next we did the sherbet, and we had to taste-test the ingredients, which were:
Baking soda [bleh! gag!] 
Tartaric [ugh! yuck!]
Citric Acid [cough! wipe off tongue! Almost puke!]
Raro [strong and fizzy, but okay.]
icing sugar [yummy! heavenly! oh, yum! Yum yum yum!
We put them together [on the edge of vomiting] to make sherbet. Yuck!  hated it! When we got a bit of sherbet put in bags to take home Katie gave me just a bag with a bit of icing sugar. I ate a bit and saved a bit to take home. We then made hokey pokey, by putting sugar and golden sugar in a bowl, stirred it, leaving it for about... five or ten minutes? Then we took it off the stove and added baking soda, left it to cool, and went to have morning tea. It is morning tea as I am writing this but Katie said we'd have hokey pokey for lunch! Yum! We learnt heaps about reactions and interactions, and it was really fun!!!! 

CHESS WITH KATIE MAY!!!!

Yes yes yes yes yes!!!!!! I just bet Katie, one of the teachers here at Enrich! I have been trying to tackle her for ages and now I did it! I must say, it wasn't too long until it was checkmate [thats the chess word for game over] I mean it was well, a few minutes maybe? I can't remember exactly how it went, but I know that I had taken both her knights and about five of her pawns. She played really well too, taking my... um... bishop I think and a few others. About the same as me. I didn't think I was going to win but I did. I was white and Katie was black.  It was looking pretty tough at first but now that I have won I feel so so so so great!!!!

EXPLODING BALLOONS!!!

You will NOT believe what we did today for Science! We did three experiments, but the one I liked the most was the one where the balloons exploded! First, we got a balloon and a coke/pepsi bottle and filled the coke/pepsi bottle with white vinegar but only a third full. We then got a funnel and attached the balloon to the bottom of the funnel. We put four teaspoons of baking soda through the funnel and into the balloon. Then we took the balloon off the funnel and put the bottom over the neck of the bottle and kept the balloon there and the bottle fizzed and blew the balloon up because of the baking soda and vinegar mixing together to create a gas! We went outside and popped the balloons and boy did it make one heck of a mess! My balloons was the biggest and it was the only pink one. It was really fun and it made me burst out laughing when Grayson chucked the balloon on the ground and Wilson dived in and popped it with a pointy pencil!

Science today

Today at Enrich the first thing we did was our talent development groups. For science we did two experiments with ice. The first one we did was with three petridishes and one had a raro ice cube, one had a sugar ice cube and one had a plain ice cube. We waited for nine minutes, doing an observation every three minutes and at the end my hypothesis was right because the plain ice cube had melted the fastest. We did a conclusion and we found it was probably because the sugar ice cube and the raro one had more particles to break down than the plain one.

Hi Isabella.
You made a positive start to our first session of science talent development today.  You were eager to unpack the science trolley, and were patient when discussing the items and their uses.  You enjoyed the light sensor experiment, and you contributed when discussing the reasons why we got the results we did.  You explained your thoughts by using examples to help you - this is a great skill to have.  Keep up the great work Isabella.
Katie