Today at Enrich

Today it is my last learning day at Enrich because I am Year 6. I am really sad to be leaving. :(

Today at Passion time Kate and I did floor planner again.

I have started and Cafe and Restaurant. I think it looks good!

I haven't quite finished it yet.

The first one is the cafe and I have not added people into it yet.

The second one is the restaurant which is upstairs from the cafe.

I hope to finish it at home!

Here it is:

I also finished painting my money box Owl.

I started painting it last Tuesday.

I really like it! :)

P4C with Katie

Today at Enrich I did P4C with Katie it was about animal rights.

First we had to list in our books 'Human Rights" 

I had:

Going to school/ Education

Being treated nicely and fairly

Food

Water

Clothes and shelter

and Health Care

After that we had to list Animal Rights.

I had:

Food

Water

Shelter

Health Care

Being treated nicely and fairly

Space

T.L.C - Tender Loving Care

Freedom

Company

We also watched clips from Babe the movie.

It helped us think of more animal rights.

We talked about how animals are used for testing cosmetics (make up), pills

and medicine.

Story Bird

Today at Enrich, Darryn showed me a website called Story Bird which 

is a programme with heaps of pictures which you can use to make a book. 

Because I love writing I think it is a great website.

I am looking forward to next week so I can make a 

story and add really cool illustrations in.

This is one of the pictures:

Also today we did thinkers keys.

The thinkers keys I did were variations, which was thinking of things

differently or changing something, one of the questions was ways to keep dry when it was raining. One of the things my group thought of was getting a giant plastic dome on wheels. The other key I did was,

the ridiculous key, which is having a ridiculous statement and thinking of positive outcomes.

One of the ones we got was if the driving limit changed to 6 years old. 

It was so fun!

Floor Planner - Passion Time

Today during passion time Kate R and I went onto www.floorplanner.com and did a house plan because when I'm older one of the jobs I would like to do is to be an architect. It was so fun I haven't finished it yet but I think it looks really cool!
This is what it looks like so far:

I have a master bedroom, bathroom, walk in closet, kitchen, lounge, hall way and a patio deck thing!
I made an account so I can save my work!
On I also so have a second floor but I haven't started it yet but it will hopefully be awesome.

Planting

Today Kate and I had to get to Enrich at 8:15am to get to the Waihopai River to set up our planting day.We were sponsored by Watties who gave us juice and Environment Southland who helped us. When we got there we saw Hannah H and Madison who had brought wheel-barrows so we could wheel the plants down to the site. Soon at 9:30 the rest of our Enrich group came and we started planting! YAY! We showed them how you make the hole to put the plant in and how to put the protecter and weed sheet on.  Next everyone was planting and the Southland Times came!
Overall it took us 2 whole hours to plant 250 plants! It was really fun!

Visual Spatial Spelling

Today at Enrich we did visual spatial spelling.
It was really fun. Darryn wrote us a word on the Ipad that was put into syllables and different colours.
The first word was Astrophysics and it looked like this As tro phy sics.
We had to look at it for 30 seconds then closed our eyes and see if we could see the As tro phy sics  in our head then we had to write it backwards like this scisyhportsA. I could write it backwards but I couldn't see it in my head. The next word was Elephant. It looked like this El e ph ant. 
Again I could write it backwards like this tnahpelE but I couldn't see El e ph ant in my head! 

Air Pollution!

Today at Enrich we learnt about air pollution.

We watched a video with the ten most air polluted cities in the world.

It was really cool but at the same time it was really sad to see the conditions 

that some people have to live in.

After we watched the video we had to write down 2 things that we had learnt

and 1 thing that we wondered.

I learnt that Ahvas in Iran is the most air polluted city in the world with 372 

micro-grams per cubic metre and that LA is only 25 micro-grams per cubic metre.

I also wondered how do people breath in those conditions and how long before they got ill or died?

This is one of the pictures of Ahvas that was in the video:

The air looks really bad!