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42 Days

It's 42 days until Christmas so start thinking about it like I am. I've been singing Christmas carols, jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way, and I've already got my Christmas presents underway! This year has been one of the quickest years of my life. Can you believe it's already week 5 of term 4!!! Anyway at Enrich today I did a Singing 201 lesson. I have got two different solos. One is Hark the Herald Angels Sing and the other one is in Deck the Halls. We are performing in two or three weeks on a Wednesday outside Windsor New World. More information will come closer to the time if you want to come. See you then!!!    

Slapping Nicola

"You owe me one hundred dollars!" said Nicola seriously. "Ok" I said. Slap!"Ouch." I gave Nicola a slap on the hand instead of real money. (I don't know anybody that would pay Nicola). We were doing our gifted study and Nicola helped me a little bit. I feel much confident about my gifted study. I am kind of close to finishing. I am going to do a keynote. A keynote is a presentation tool that is like a powerpoint.

It's a very hard puzzle that's in newspapers...

" What could I do for 'do' " I groaned. "Mmm" said Jenni.  I know you could do, "I want to ? a puzzle." "OK." I was doing my very very very very hard crossword. Over Labour weekend I had finished filling in all my words so I had to move on to writing in the clues. You might think it is easy to do a crossword but it's not.  I have had a very hard couple of weeks trying complete this tricky crossword. The clues are going to be hard to write because some of the words I don't even know what they mean! Today was the last lesson, I didn't finish it but they were saying they are going to run it again. This is what it looks like. 

 

Jingle bells, jingle bells...

Dashing through the snow in a one horse open sleigh!!! No I don't think Halloween has the same songs as Christmas, but I do know that I'll have 5 weeks or maybe longer to learn an 8 minute Christmas carol medley!!! So that's why I am humming a whole lot of Christmas carols. Lots of them are really, really, really old. In 5 or 6 weeks we are to go to the outside of New World in Windsor. Nicola says there will be 2 old ladies and a dog but I don't think so. I am really, really, really excited.

Hic-up!

Hic-cough, hic-cough Hic-cough. "Would you stop that!" growls "Nicla". (She didn't really growl) Yes you guessed it - I had the hiccoughs all the whole day! "Nicla" got me to drink a glass of water... BACKWARDS! I found it quite fun after a while,  but it is very messy.

Also at Enrich today we had talent development. We had just done a performance so it was a fun day. I didn't do the performance because I was too busy. I was on garageband the whole time. I made a song called BB's song. It is really really really really really really random.

Past Present Future

Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock. "Bla, bla, bla and he thinks that time is your past, present and future." I picked up interesting parts ... and practically pretended I didn't hear the boring parts. Did you know that time isn't just clocks and watches? Because it isn't! It is things like the sun and how it goes up and down. It also is your past, present and future. What do you think if everybody in the world all of a sudden got lifted out of the world ? Yes everything will stay the same until you return to earth. Have a think about it. Will you?

Click, click

Click click, snap snap was the sound booming in my ear. Yes you guessed it we had to take some photos for performance. It sounds simple but...it's a nightmare!!! I paired up with Lucy and we went outside to take some photos. A while later we were taking the last photos when...the battery went dead!  We went inside to change the battery. Then after we changed it, it still wouldn't work. We kept on trying to find a camera but we couldn't find one. Finally Lucy said "I've found one." I was relieved. This is called task commitment because we're sticking to the task and kept on trying to find a camera.   

DJ ME!

Boom,boom, cha,cha,cha. Today I was a DJ at the Enrich studio and made one crazy song! It was crazy because I chose random things to go in it. It was about 70 beats long. I just about burst laughing when I heard it the first and last time. We had to make one song in half an hour. Seeing as I forgot to listen to the beats before I put it in the song one bit was hilarious. I wish I could be a real DJ.  Also this morning I did a rotation. In the rotation we did Prezi. Prezi is a website that you can make a project on. We have to do a project on a gifted person so Prezi is one of our options.

 

Impossible or is it?

Who knows if planet earth will just be like a country. I'll live on Jupiter and have a holiday house in Neptune. Imagine if someone made everything hover in air. I'd want the highest house. Have you thought that people 100 years ago would think it would be impossible to land on the moon? Now Neil Armstrong and many more have done it. The point is things we think of like flying instead of walking are impossible but it's not - if only someone knew how to do it, we'd all be able to do it! I learned this in Jenni's P4C (philosophy for children) lesson.

 

Poems, Poems and more Poems

'' Darryn is this ready?" I asked. "Yep, send it." Today at Enrich we published our poems. Here are some of them.

Oh No!!!

Check!!! Wait a second it's checkmate!!!! My heart sinks even though I was the one who found out that I was in checkmate. My King was dead. You're right I'm playing a game of chess. I played it against Grace. I was black and she was white. She killed my Queen easily  at the very start. She got me in check with her Bishop, Queen and Pawn. I think it was a very good game. 

 

5-7-5

5-7-5 and again for yucky and yummy. At Enrich I have been learning Haiku poems. Haiku poems are poems that have 5 syllables then 7 then 5 again. Here is one about my worst favourite food and my favourite food.



Cooked Vegetables

Worse in a stir fry
In the pot for tea tonight
Yucky in my mouth.


Meat

Chewy for my teeth
Sausages on barbeque
Delicious for me.

Here Comes The Bride

Here comes the bride,
Big, fat and wide,
Slips on a banana skin ...
And stays there till she dies!!!

I was the Flower girl for Mia's wedding. There was lots of bridesmaids. She had the most colourful dress. She had her wedding at the ILT Cafe'. Yes you are exactly right it was only a little bit of fun at the end of performance today. We do performance as a talent development programme because it helps with understanding music.   We rehearsed our songs today.  I am really trying hard to sing loud and proud.  Even though I am singing loud, I don't want to sound like I'm screaming, so I have to control my tone! 

Is There Life on Mars?

Sailors fighting on the dance floor

Oh man, look at those caveman go!

It's the freakiest show,

Take a look at the lawman beating up the wrong guy

Oh man, wonder if he'll ever know 

He's in the best selling show

Is there life on mars!!!

We were singing 'Is There Life on Mars?' at the performance group today. It is my 

FAVOURITE song that we sing. I wrote the chorus above for you to look at.   

The Morning

"Who's turn is it now? Oh yes it's your turn Brianna" Katie wondered. I stepped up to the white battle team. I  reach out my hand but then stopped to think. I look at my team. Katie was giving me advice so I stepped a bit closer to her. Then I walked to the other side of the board to do it. We were having a  lesson of chess with 13 other girls. Katie was teaching us some more strategies of how to win a chess game. I learnt lots of things. Chess falls into the cornerstone of mental edge. After the chess lesson we looked at a Renzulli's model of giftedness. It included task commitment, creativity and above average ability. He believes that you HAVE TO have all three things to be gifted.  His model applies to adults mainly, but it was good for us to look at it as well.

On Stage

"Broad bean, jelly bean, string bean, french bean,""Ooh la la ."  It was now time to go up on stage and with the rest of the movie stars and sing "Don't stop me now." We sang the morning show, midday show, afternoon show and the evening show. Then we let the audience see the funniest thing of the song we sung. It was so funny I think they wet their pants. Then we sung a sad sort of song called "Taller, Stronger, Better." I heard the tears of sadness in front of me. Yes we were  in Nicola's music group.

 

Battle on

Rise then thump. Slide and stop. Lift... Kabash. Yes it's mine. "Ha ha ha that was a silly move," laughed the Rook who killed the enemy's pawn that had turned into a Queen. It went on. "Oh no I only have my Rook and Knight to protect me,'' yelled the King after a while in battle. The enemy only had a King though. The terrible fighting went on. Clash went the swords. It ended when the big giant came and shouted "It's a draw''. That was the game of chess I played against Lucy today at Enrich.

Performance

Hi everyone, Today I'm going to tell you a bit about my Talent Development project.  I 'm in the performance. The teacher is Nicola. The end projects are going to be little performances. I chose this group because I want to make song  albums and I think Nicola will teach me more notes. Today we got to do a little dance, poem or sing. I did one of my ballet dances. Then we danced to music.     

Field Trip

"Wouldn't this be a pattern " "Wouldn't that be a pattern"I kept on asking Darryn and my Mum as we were scuttling to Queens Park. We were in our dark red Enrich T-shirts. Enrich were going to look for patterns at Queens Park and on the way there. We were split into groups. In my group there were 8 students, Darryn, my Mum and Travis's Dad. My buddy was Grace. We took 50 photos of patterns. The patterns we were looking for were patterns of beauty, order, strength and survivability. Also known as B.O.S.S. That was all we did today. We did it because patterns is are concept curriculum.  

Art

This is a video about art today.

La la la la la

 La, la, la, la, la. I went to Nicola for a music lesson. We had to do a challenging bit of work that contained learning the notes of the alphabet that are also needed in the music that is played and sang. We also learnt a piece of music that we had to sing and dance to. It was called My Life Would Suck Without You. We had to do 5 hard challenges. I had finished the whole lot of them. I was the person who had to teach the dance but it wasn't that specific. We did music at Enrich because you have to learn the notes (which is hard).

Dance

It just stopped again and Grace is out!  The music starts again and we get up to boogie. Then it stops and we fall down. We lift back up into the air and lower onto the "stage''. We're playing musical bumps.

 When you hear the music you have react fast and go straight down to the ground. I think it's called musical bumps because you dance to music and you bump hard onto the ground.To play it you put some music on and dance but when the music stops down to the ground you go.The last one to the ground is out. The winning player is the one who dances the longest or is the last one there.

I loved this game because I love to dance and it made me feel really happy!

  

Stalemate

Yes at least it was only a stalemate. Today at Enrich I played a game of chess against Norton. I was black and she was white. We play chess at Enrich because it helps our minds think.  The game of chess started off really well and then it got really bad because I only had a pawn, 2 rooks and a king.  Norton had about three quarters of her pieces left. Then I was soooooooo happy because it was a stale mate which means nobody won!

Day 2

Hi Brianna here, Today at Enrich was our second week back. We were told that our concept curriculam was patterns. We also played a Wilson game called Picadilly Circus. The aim of the game is to give the ball to everyone without dropping the ball, talking or passing the ball to the person beside you. Our best score was 28 seconds with three balls.