Tuesday 4 December 2012

I finished my clay painting!

Hello, guess what! Final blog post of the year! Don't worry I am back next year with some more blog posts also guess what ! I finished my clay painting so now its all finished. Hooray!  My rabbit-man has got blue and white eyes, a pink nose, a white mouth and the rest of the rabbit- man is a browny colour. here is a photo of my finished rabbit-man.

See you next year!

Tuesday 27 November 2012

Clay painting.


My ( almost finished ) rabbit-man 

Hello, today in my free time I painted my clay money box which looks like a rabbit-man. I haven't finished yet but, hopefully I will be finished by next week.  I had a little mix up with the paints on the eyes though. ( oh no!)  I hope it will be dry by the time I have finished typing because then I can quickly take a photo and put it on here.

Tuesday 13 November 2012

Passion time

Today at Enrich for passion time (again) I continued my dragon but I was sidetracked by what Jemmimah was doing so I went and helped Jemmimah with starting her model house. I got a leg on my dragon finished and fixed up some cracks in between the pieces of tape. Next week I want to get the skin on and model the face and feet but first I have to finish the last two legs.
This afternoon I am going to do plant biology with Darryn so bye for now!

Tuesday 30 October 2012

Passion time

Today at Enrich for passion time I continued doing my dragon but I did not get much done.  I got some  more of the tail done and started a leg. Next week I hope to finish all of the legs and maybe start the face. I am going to do the face with super sculpt clay.  I don't think I will get everything done this term because there is only five days left of Enrich and I still have to do the nest, baby dragon, two eggs and a egg shell split in half which the baby dragon came from.  I also have to finish my mummy dragon.  But at least I only have to do the skin, wings and paint it and then I can do something else which will either be the nest or baby dragon.  Also above is a photo of my dragon so far:

Tuesday 16 October 2012

The Technology Challenge

Today at Enrich the people outside going past and parking their cars were confused?  Why? Because there were strange noises coming from the Enrich building.
The noises were like "This is not going to work" and "Hurry up there is only one minute left".
The noises were coming from us because we were doing a technology challenge and we only had fifteen minutes to do it!
We were doing the technology challenge on a scene from an old tv programme called MacGyver.
We had to create a contraption to get the tools to escape from the concrete. Only two of the teams got close and our one almost broke in half.
It was fun anyway.

Here is the starting clip to MacGyver - do you remember it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu1XNzPTqO0

Tuesday 18 September 2012

A photo mission

Today at Enrich there was environment projects going on but there was one group that wasn't there.  That was my group and we were going around Invercargill taking photos of the places and attractions.
First we went to Splash Palace, then we went to the rugby stadium, and then Queens park and finally we went to the Museum.  Next week we are going to more places because we only got half the list done.  One of my favorite photos is down below.

Tuesday 11 September 2012

Piccadilly Circus

Today at enrich for our Wilson game we played Piccadilly circus.  Piccadilly circus is when you get in a circle and 1 person has the ball and you aren't allowed to pass to the person beside you and when you get the ball you have to run to a person who is still standing and pass the ball to that person and once you have passed the ball you sit down next we played the same game but instead there was four balls and you had to touch all balls and not allowed to talk. Then we got lunch.  Now I'm doing my blogpost and after I am going to do sculpturing as my new passion project.  I think I might do a dragons nest with a dragons egg and a baby dragon.

Tuesday 4 September 2012

Passion time

Today we are doing passion time and the reason I am so excited is that we have not done passion time in a long time.  
I am going to continue my book that I am trying to finish but I have not come up with a title yet.
I am doing a book with lots of stories in it.  My first story is called "The mystery of the missing school' and my second story is going to be called"The mystery of the missing jellybeans".  I know it sounds like I am going to do mystery stories but that's just the first two stories. I will let you know my next stories next week 

Bye

Tuesday 28 August 2012

High interest stations week 7

Today at Enrich we did high interest stations again and there was last weeks again: Fibonacci maths with Alana, science physics with Katie and 3D drawing with Darryn.  For 3D drawing we added a box underneath the box we drew last week!!!  my one is down below but the original one is not this because I edited it.

Tuesday 21 August 2012

3D drawing

Today at Enrich We had new High interest stations which were science physics with Katie, 3D drawing with Darryn and Fibonacci maths with Alana. 
Can you guess which one I did?
I did 3D drawing with Darryn!!!
We drew boxes. Now if you are thinking "boxes are easy to draw" think again because we had to go through a lot of steps to draw these boxes. Mine are down below


Tuesday 14 August 2012

High interest stations again

Today at Enrich we were doing high interest stations again, and for biology we made a comic life with some of the Dinoscope photos we took last week. Mine is down below.  
I put in the flies leg, wing, another leg, head and wing with the body.

Tuesday 7 August 2012

High interest stations

Today at Enrich there was some noise that sounded like "eeeeewwwww" and "I'm going to be sick"
What was going on?
It was high interest station time and people were doing chemistry, art and science.  Well it was not really science because we were using the dinoscopes to magnify house flies.
We took the flies apart as well.  I was one of the ones who was saying yuck, in fact I was the only one saying yuck believe it or not.
It was fun anyway 
One dinoscope photo of the fly me and Natasha pulled apart is up above
See you next week 

Bye 


Tuesday 31 July 2012

making light...

Today at enrich the chemistry group made a mini lightbulb out of:
A pencil lead.
A cut toilet paper roll.
A small glass jar.
Two pieces of wire one red one black with a piece of the same coloured rubber also on each there is a Aligator clip tied to the end with the rubber over it.
and a small pie dish.
In my group there was Tessa, Madeleine Natasha and don't forget Me!  One of the three groups actually lighted. Our one did go but instead the lead blew up.

Tuesday 24 July 2012

Make a mini mural

Today at enrich we got into groups to make a mini mural that is got kiwiana, Southland or Invercargill icons in it. 
In my group was Natasha, Amy, Clara, Jemmimah & Me.
In one of the pictures we put John Keys head on a sheep, gum boots on a takahe and Amy drew a hole and in it we put a cut out of Henry the tuataras head. We also coloured in the background and the grass.  The grass took a long time to colour in.
It made a good plan for a mural

Tuesday 17 July 2012

elephant toothpaste for chemistry

Today at Enrich I chose chemistry to do for the next two weeks out of art and maths.
For chemistry we made Elephant toothpaste.
The one that Natasha and I did is down below in the corner.

Tuesday 26 June 2012

Last day of the term

Today at enrich we did an assessment on term 2.  Mine is up above.We also did a game called the hoop game.  The hoop game is when you get into a group of  three or four and when someone claps you all hold hands and jump with your feet together but if you don't land at the same time or take your feet apart your group has to go back to the start.

Tuesday 22 May 2012

Queens Park

Today at Enrich the photography group for Talent Development went to Queens Park to take some good photos. I took 181 photos! When we got back I imported all of them to I-Photo and edited them.  My favourite one is up above.

Tuesday 8 May 2012

Passion time

Today we started Passion time.  Passion time is when you choose something you are passionate about and you have a go at it.  For instance I did Astronomy and I looked online for a website and I got ready for a science project about the difference between night and day in Australia and North America.

Tuesday 3 April 2012

The learning wheel

Today at Enrich we had to fill in a learning wheel which is a sheet that helps you to look back on the term and think about all the different things you have done.

Here is a copy of my learning wheel:

    

Tuesday 27 March 2012

SCAMPER

Today I finished my SCAMPER.  It is down below.  It is a slideshow. Amy joined our group today and Darryn called us team JOAN because Jemmimah Olivia Amy and Natasha in that order our initials spells out JOAN.


Sunday 25 March 2012


Hi Olivia.
You have settled in to Enrich really well and are making the most of your precious learning time by organising your time to complete set tasks.  It was great to see you so focussed during our perspective task on photography.  You were so enthusiastic taking photos using a range of angles and techniques.  Keep up the positive attitude Olivia!  Katie.

Tuesday 13 March 2012

Scamper

Today I did a scamper with Natasha and Jemmimah I did the photographing.
Scamper stands for S substitute, C combine, A alter, M mega/mini, P put to other uses,E eliminate and R reverse. We scampered a pink dusting brush I will post our SCAMPER next week.

Tuesday 6 March 2012



Today I played a game of chess with Tessa she is really good but I never get to finish any games.          I had fun at theartre sports but I am still not good at it. The audience still makes me nervous.

Tuesday 21 February 2012

Learning chess

Today Darryn showed me how to play chess.  I am still not sure I want to have a game with him yet!!!   My friends so far are Tessa and Natasha.