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This third term is here now and it is so amazing all the things we are going to be doing. Today I did a really cool keynote that I got sent that I had to have done and it was called "Where in the World. There were clues and we had to find out where to go and research places. It was really fun. We also now have new Must do Can do sheets. They are made of paper and have to be signed. This term for talent development I have chosen to do the documentary making for the MADE awards coming up. I will learn all about what it takes to make a good documentary and how to edit my film, cut slides, use garageband and all that kind of stuff. It is going to be lots of new learning for me. So I am really looking forward to getting into this term.

Two stars and a wish

This is my reflection on term two. For my two stars one is for learning lots about the radio, like when you talk on the radio you hear yourself differently and I also learnt great talking skills and now I am not afraid of talking live on the radio. My next star is that I have accomplished my passion project and also helped others accomplish their passion projects too.

My wish is that I wish I could talk on the radio every day because I found it really great because I got to make my own script and find the information I needed to put in it. But when I left, I left a chocolate cake on Darren's desk with a thank you letter because he spent a lot of his time helping us.

Making our own script

Today Kate and I went to Darren's radio station, Kim came to pick us up today because Darren was busy. We recorded what we had written this time because Darren wouldn't be there to write it for us. We talked about what some of the Enrich students are doing for their passion projects and how they need donations to fulfill these passion projects and how they are going. Also how they are going to accomplish these.

Next week Kate and I get to talk on the radio live as well as making a script to record (for the news.) So now we have to think up something to say on the radio and have it all ready for next week when we go down their I have a few ideas on what I am going to do but at the moment they are just ideas that will probably expand.

Dinoscope

At Enrich we have acsess to cool tools like the dinoscope. You may be wondering and getting your fingers in a knot over puzzling about what am I talking about. Well a dinoscope is really cool because it can zoom up on images and make them look disgusting here is a pictures of a dinoscope and here is another picture of skin.

Chemistry

Today Katie did a Chemistry workshop about acids and bases.

The experiment was really fun. Here is how you do it...

Instructions

1 Chop up half a red cabbage and leave it in a bowl covered with water for a bout 45 minutes. Drain off the water (it would have turned purple). Red cabbage water can be used as an indicator to test if something is an acid or a base. If it is an acid, the cabbage water will turn pink. If it is a base, the cabbage water will turn blue.

2. Using plastics cups, pour half a cup of cabbage water into each one - depending on how many substances you would like to test.

3. You can try a range of household items - vinegar, lemon juice, baking soda.

4. To get a TRUE test (because some items will not change the cabbage water), you can purchase litmus paper from a chemist. It costs about $7 for quite a few strips (and you only need a little piece to test each item). Litmus paper is used to test if a substance is an acid or a base and it changes colour according the the pH scale. Reds means ACID, Light Greens means NEUTRAL and Dark Green to Blue means BASE.

I tested backing soda. It turned... (see the photo below).

I got a piece of litmus paper then tested it. The litmus paper changed to dark green. When we matched it on the pH scale, it was an 8 so definitely a base.

If you would try this at home please leave a comment on my blog to tell me what color yours came out as.

Here are some pictures of mine.

Chess tournament

On Saturday I went to the Dunedin chess tournament.

I won 4 out of six games. I beat a girl in 4 moves an I also beat a year 8.

I had a really good time and if I could I would defiantly do it again.

There was only one thing I did not like about it and that was on the way up my friend and I shared a packet of lollies with a few other people and the bus was fairly bumpy and I told Katie one of our Enrich teachers that I felt sick and I spewed up, but after that I was fine and I had a really good day. To top that off for tea we went to the black swan then went home.

(one of our teams got first out of the primary schools.)

Giftedness week

This week at Enrich it is giftedness week and we are sharing our ideas of what we think giftedness is and here is what I think it is all about:

. talented in lots of different topics

. going to Enrich is a fantastic place because we get to work with like minds

we also get to use all the fantastic tools at Enrich like computers, dinoscopes, mental edge puzzles and much more.

So I think being gifted is being good at mostly all topics but stronger in some and also being different and special in a way.