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.

SLIME!!!!

 Hi Everyone!
Today at Enrich it was very messy!
We started off with passion time. It was so fun! But here's the messy part...... slime. Thats all I can say. We went onto a website and copied it off there. It turns out quite well! If you want to make slime at home here it is.
Ingredients
A Tall cup of water
Food colouring
1 box of corn flour
Spoon 
A big bowl

What to do

1. Put 4-5 drops of food colouring into the water. 
2. Put 5-6 dessert spoons of cornflour into the bowl.
3. Put a quarter of the water into the cornflour, then stir.
4. Stir until gooey.
5. If not gooey eg.  solid, add a bit more a fifth of water and if too watery add one and a half desert spoons of corn flour.
6. Get a snaplock bag.
7. Pour slime into bag.
8. Make sure the lid is closed tightly.

ENJOY!!!!
Adios,
Anna.

I'm so excited to be back at Enrich!! In the morning we started with going over our slideshow for the airport. My group's idea was adding blackboards. So, I better tell you why we were going over it. It was because a lady called Chloe came in from the airport to see if it was good. She did some note-taking so she could talk about it with her boss. She said that all of our ideas were great. These are the airport groups we had: QR codes, which are codes that you scan on a smartphone, Iphone or ipad and then it takes you directly to a website, so it can be handy if your a tourist or something, and then it can take you to restaurant sites or motels/hotels and stuff like that. Black board, games and mural. She said That she loved all our ideas and she said with the QR codes that it's a REALLY good idea and also she said that where we had decided to put the blackboards was a really good place to put it because it is upstairs and out of the way of the cafe.

Adios,

Anna

Last day of term.

Hey everyone!
I'm so sad that this is my last day at Enrich for another whole term. Anyway, to brighten up my day on Thursday I'm going to Australia! I'm so excited! We're staying at a place called San Mateo. Enough about my holiday though. This is about Enrich.  In the morning we did some chess and I was versing Reina. It's really hard to beat her though. I'm like 3rd from the bottom! I suck at chess! Anyway, as always she beat me. Then we did some passion time. Pearl and I were doing wearable arts. We were working together at first, but decided to split up. It's still going to be fun though because we're modeling each others. My one is called "The unknown" and Pearl's is called "The outdoor lady".

Then We did something about the environment. Here is some of a story that Darryn read:

Being Green

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. 

The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have

this green thing back in my earlier days." 

The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations." 

She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day. 

Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were truely recycled. 

See you next term,
Anna.

Top 10 most polluted cities in the world

Hi again,

Today Enrich was awesome!

After morning tea we watched a video about the most and least polluted cities in the world. It was some interesting news.

10: Kampour, India

9: Yasouj, Iran

8: Gaberone, Botswana

7: Peshawar, Pakistan

6: Kermanshah, Iran

5: Quetta, Pakistan

4: Ludhiana, India

3:Sanadaj, Iran

2:Ulanbataar, Mongolia

1: Ahwaz, Iran.

PRETTY SCARY! But the good news is that the least polluted city in the world is (drumroll please)....... WELLINGTON! IN NZ!

Bye,

Anna.

Hi Anna,

You worked hard on your environment project today.  It was great to see that once you had organised with your group what you needed to do, you managed your time to get those tasks done.  Hopefully we can get the proposal finished next week! You are learning to identify what needs to be done in order to complete a project, and then work your way to completion.  It is a hard skill to master!

Alana

Environment

Hi again!
Today at Enrich was soooo fun!
After play we started talking about the environment. We watched a movie about the environment and it was so sad because we saw some very sad photos and there was also some photos about animals that were almost extinct.

It was really yuck because there was a pipe with green chunky stuff coming out! Gross! Most of the people thought it was sewage but we didn't even want to know. Well at least I didn't want to know! If you really want to watch the video then you can watch it right now. Be careful because I almost burst into tears! (Nature lovers will almost scream I think!)

 If you do want to watch it then go onto YouTube and search up "Water pollution" and you should see some results. Here are some photos.  (So sad.... =( )