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!

Today at Enrich!

Today at Enrich I did 3D Drawing with Darryn. It was fun!
We had to draw 3D boxes overlapping each other! It was really hard to get all of the lines straight.


Another thing we did today was the Wilson game called Bulls Eye.
We were in teams of 7 and 8 and had 4 little bean bags that we had to throw into hoops.
Once we threw the first bean bag into the first hoop you had go onto the next hoop that was further away then the first! It was great and I got two bean bags into the hoop. Yay!


We also did our Environment Projects and I think that the Waihopai Restoration project that I am doing with Madison, Kate and Hannah is going really well. We had a meeting with Environment Southland last week and we are allowed to do it! We are planting plants along the Waihopai Bank next to the dam to stop mud running into the river.

Dinoscope

Today for high interest stations I did the dino-scope workshop with Darryn. It was awesome!

A dino-scope is something you can plug into your computer and it is like a magnifier.

We looked at dead flies, it was gross. 

The wing looked really interesting because they had a pinky green sort of colour through it!

Here is a picture of the flies wing:

I also looked at a feather and one of the strands off the feather looks like a normal feather but only under the dino-scope. It was amazing.

I am looking forward to next week so I can do it again.

Teacher comment

Hey Hannah, I was so impressed with your day.  You and Kate quickly chose your environment project and were into it.  I liked the way you just got on with it, using your initiative and you have already made good progress.  I hope you enjoyed Spanish today, it looked interesting and a lot of fun.  I can’t wait to see how much you can speak at the end of it.  Hope you had a great week at school and ready for another busy day at enrich.

Jenni