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                           Hello everyone!
Today at Enrich was a very fun but tiring day. We went on a field trip around town to look at patterns. Patterns is the subject for one of our cornerstones, Concept Curriculum. So we got into three groups chosen by Katie and in the group we were in we got into pairs. I paired up with Rhea. Rhea, Travis, Bruno, Ali, Grace, Brianna, Emily and I were in the big group together. We got a clipboard with a piece of paper. On the piece of paper was four columns. in one column there was beauty, order, strength and survivability. We also got a camera for our pair. We were looking for patterns in our local environment and here are some photos to prove it. 

Adios, Anna

Hello everyone!
Today at enrich was a gaming day! We started off in the morning doing drama. We played some really fun games! The games we played were: Musical Bumps, Colour Line, Fortunately/Unfortunately and One Word Stories. I will explain to you how to play colour line. 

You will need:
At least 5 or 6 players
Post-it notes
Pen 
Audience
To have fun!!!

How to play: You must write down a colour on each post-it note and put one on each of the players backs. 
Then the players must say clearly their colour on their back once.
Then the audience closes their eyes and the players jumble around places. The audience then guesses the sequence of the colours. If they get it right, they get added to the colour line. Obviously it gets harder and harder.

That's all for now. Bye,
Anna.

Caine's Arcade

Hi everyone!!
Today Enrich was action packed with fun! Straight away, we started with a video of giftedness and of determination. There is a boy in L.A called Caine and he is a gifted person who always tries his best and will never give up on anything. I reckon (one) of his strengths is probably creativity because of this video. When Caine was about 8 or 9 he said to his father "I want to make a arcade". Caine's Dad must of thought "No way." But his Dad gave him some cardboard boxes and Caine would've thought "Yes! Thank-you Dad!" And this is how he became famous. First of all he got a claw and a piece of yarn and attached both of them together. Then he made a hole in the box and put some prizes in it and that's how he is my favourite person in the world. I LOVE his creativity. He made 6 or 7 games and they look amazing. A guy came out just to change his door handle at Caine's Dad's auto-parts shop. While he was in there he saw Caine's masterpiece. He asked how much it was to play per game. It was a one dollar for 5 games but if you got a fun pass for 2 dollars you got to play up to 500 games!!!!! All Caine wanted was two dollars and for people to enjoy his arcade! His father took him out to a pizza place for lunch and Caine got to explore some real arcade games. On the way home his father asked him  if he wanted to close down early since he wasn't getting any customers. And guess what he said. "No chance." That's the determination he has. His father planned a surprise earlier with the man that was Caine's first customer. Lots of people made banners and came to his arcade! This man Caine's first customer) got all those people by advertising Caine's Arcade on the Internet and making a Facebook page! When Caine came back he saw all of the people (and there were HEAPS of them), he smiled with joy. Here is the link to watch this fabulous and inspiring video:

http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/faIFNkdq96U

Wilson Game

Hello Everyone!!!
Today at enrich we had a blast!!! We started off with a Wilson game. It is the hoop game. These is the instructions to play:

You will need:

• 3 people in a team (had a mix of boys and girls)
• 1 hoop about 3, 3and a half metres away.
• a line/place you are going to start.
• 1 clapper/referee

Rules:

• When the referee says jump and claps at the same time you have to jump towards the hoop.
• The referee will trick you- He might say ready, set, jump! without clapping and if you fall for it then you have to start again.
• The three players must be in a circle, holding hands.

Aim: Be the first team to all be in the hoop without anyone from the team with their foot touching the hoop or with their feet apart (feet must be together at all times).

I hope you enjoyed my blog post today!! Thanks for reading it!!

From Anna :)

Patterns

Hi everyone!!!
Today at enrich we found out what our concept curriculum is. It is patterns. We got into groups of three and discussed what patterns are. We got all our ideas together and someone wrote it down. My ideas were: Group of shapes, there can be all different types of patterns eg. Kowhaiwhai panels which are a pattern that tell a story. It was really really fun! I can't wait to see what else we are going to do later on in this year!!!
BYE!!

Human naughts and crosses

Hi everyone!
Today at Enrich was fantastic! In the morning we started off with a Wilson game. The Wilson game was called Human naughts and crosses (Tic Tac Toe). If you want to know how to play here are the instructions:

You will need: 
About 9 chairs ( depending on how many people are playing).
11 people playing.
What to do:
Get the chairs and set them up with 3 rows of three. Example:
Choose one of the 10 people to call out numbers.
Now everyone is not allowed to face the chairs.  They must look away. 
Number the people. If there was ten, you would have half of them with a band on and the other half just as they are. Then you number the teams, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and the other half 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Then you start. The person calls out a number - for example - 2! He/she might say. So both the number 2's run and takes a spot. The first team to get 3 in a row wins.
Bye,
Anna <3.

Waihopai River Planting

Hello!

Today at Enrich we went on a trip to the Waihopai River. We went there to plant some trees. We planted some trees so that all of the mud that used to be getting into the tracks will now not because the trees will block the way. It was also a good idea to plant them because when we get older we can always go and visit and see how much they've grown and if you had children you can say "When I was your age I went to a place called Enrich and we went on a trip with  the whole class and I planted some of these trees".  I was in a pair with my friend Neave that goes here with me and also goes to the same ballet as me. It took about 2 hours and we planted 250 plants! It was a bit tiring but eventually we got there! Also what was really good was that they provided us big juice boxes. We got 2 because we had one for morning tea/juice break and one for the way back to Enrich on the bus. Today was really fun.

Adios, Anna.