Talent Development

For talent development I am doing art. The type of art I am doing is mosaics. My design is a smiley face. First I smashed the tiles, then I arranged the tiles in the order I wanted them to be, then I glued all of the smashed tiles onto the big tile base. Now all I have to do is grout and then I will be finished the mosaic. This is what it looks like now without the grout ------>

          

Chess tournament

On Saturday the 18th I went to a chess tournament. I went in an Enrich team, there were four people in one team. Enrich took five teams (so that means 20 people) and I was in team C (team three). I played six games and won four. The tournament was in Dunedin so it was a very long trip in the bus! At the tournament there was 24 teams (some where intermediate teams). You get 1 point for winning one game and half a point for stale mate. My team's total amount was 13 and a half (out of 24 points.) the tournament was very fun. I hope I get to go next year!!

Being gifted

Being gifted is for me,  

I'm gifted because I have task committed ( I do not give up) 

I have creativity ( I think outside the square)  and I'm above expected level. (those are the three rings of giftedness) --------------------------->

 I'm not good at everything though, I'm good at maths, reading, and I'm good at art. But I'm not so good at writing.

I think it is really nice to come to enrich because at enrich I get challenged and I work with people like me. At Enrich I like it how we don't just do straight forward maths, writing and literacy, the teachers mix all of that together, like writing is doing blog posts and answering questions that they send to us and us sending them back in emails.

I also like coming to enrich because we learn stuff about the what's happening in the world like the volcano in iceland, the earth quake in Christchurch that type of stuff. Another thing I love about Enrich is we also play a lot of chess, and now I'm starting to get good at it!

 

Talent Development

At Enrich I do a thing called talent development. In talent development we got to choose what to do, the choices were:  Art, Science, and ICT.  I chose Art.  In art we are making mosaics.  First we are just going to do a simple one because it is hard to get the detail.  After we do the little mosaic we are going to do a larger one with a Southland theme.  My little mosaic is going to be a smiley face.  Before I put the tiles on I  have to draw the outline first on a base tile.