Last day of Enrich :(
Today was the last day of Enrich ever for me and I am sad because I like Enrich a lot. I like Enrich because theres so many opportunities here and it's a challenge and that you learn heaps of interesting skills and facts. Today has been normal so far but soon there is going to be a technology challenge which will be different. I have finished glueing tiles for my mosaic but it is not grouted yet because the glue takes 24 hours to dry. It looks like theres heaps of gaps in my mosaic but thats only because theres no grout yet.
Today in the morning I did my passion project, my mosaic. It is not grouted yet so it looks like it has lots of gaps. Last week my group and I painted the wall in the alley way and we painted all day so I had no time to post about it. The Mural was painted straight on the wall so its pretty big. We painted three trees, mountains, pond and a park bench. The photos are of the painting, and they enlarge when you click on them.
Today I had passion project time and since I have finished my stone carving I am now starting a mosaic. I am doing a four leaf clover but haven't got green tiles yet so I did the background first. The background colours are dark purple, light purple and black, although it looks different in the photo. Then after morning tea I played chess and won then after that I did must do's and picks.
Today, at passion project time, I finished my stone carving! I have finished carving swirls for the wool and have put lines in the horns to make them look more realistic. You can click on the images to enlarge them if you want to see them better. Also today I played chess against Alana and still haven't finished our game. Then after morning tea I did a charcoal drawing of a landscape. (the picture is the last one). I used charcoal powder for everything except for the tree, for that I used a charcoal stick.
Today I played chess against Darryn. He was at the top of the chess leader board and since I bet him I am now at the top. After that I did my environment project, we have now got all the paints ready except black for the mural. My group and I cleaned up the alleyway where we're going to paint the mural so now its tidier. Then after morning tea we got into a group of three and had to do a technology challenge about MacGyver and a situation that he was in. One of us was pretending to be stuck in drying concrete and there was a chisel and a hammer 2 1/2 metres away. We had news paper, 3 metres of celotape, 5 paper clips and 3 metres of string, scissors and plastic bag. We had to make a gadget out of those objects and ring it in. We had 15 minutes to make the gadget and 1 minute to get the objects. It was a lot harder than I thought and nobody today completed the challenge but it is possible.
Today I did my passion project (my stone carving). I was making it smooth by using sand paper but its still pretty rough around the front. The face and the front legs need sanding and the horns on the side need more carved into.
Today I did P.4.C with Alana. The question that we were doing it about was 'do humans have the right to pollute'. It was a hard question in my opinion, but after we talked about it I thought the answer was no because the earth is not ours to pollute. After Alana started talking about if every family changed to two glass bottles of milk and reused them Invercargill would produce heaps less rubbish. We thought that because, if theres roughly 10,000 families in Invercargill and every family uses two milk cartons a week thats 20,000 milk cartons coming out of Invercargill each week! Thats 1,040,000 cartons a year!
