Highlights!

Highlights!

This year we have done lots of fun things.  Here are my two academic highs and two non academic highs. Also I will share my goal for next year. My two academic highs   are math's and blogging! I chose theses things because in maths i have improved a lot and in blogging I am getting alot better! My two non academic things are P.E and shadehouse. I chose them because in P.E i have learnt a lot of new games like coney Island and corner ball. I chose shade house because it was fun and I like gardening.  My goal for next year is to believe in myself and Try new things.

       

Animations

Today Mrs Duckworth showed us a video about how to animate. when we did our anamation we had to do it on something we did every day. Every day i think about harry  If you would like to learn how to animate the the link to the video that taught us is here...  Link!!!!

Here is my animation...
 

Athletics

Running down the grass the red and black mat is in front of me, I hit the mat jump in the sand. First jump done 2 more to go.

On tuesday we had our school athletics. What is athletics you may be thinking. Athletics has four rotations; sprints, high jump, ball throw and long jump.

This year was a bit different as we had house colors the colors were Red, Blue, Green and Yellow. I was in Yellow.

To finish of the sprints at morning tea they were selling Ice creams and ice blocks.

Word Art

Today we had koka maria in and we learned more about  Smart media.  Then we made a word art one to do with school and one for home.

Home                       School

Talent Quest!

A few days ago we had the school talent quest and there were lots of cool talents.
We had Singers, Dancers, Gymnasts, Motor bikers, musicians, Jump Jamers, Bands and A cute video of 5 year old's dancing to MC Hammer!!! Then we also had our TEACHERS!!!!!! I played one of my grade 2 exam piano pieces called Allegretto.
We also had some great MC's Nia And Israel  The teachers will chose some kids to share their talents at arts night next week. Me and my friend Mekayla were going to do a dance to Harry Potter in 99 seconds but she had to go to America so we are going to perform it at assembly next term.
Here are some photos from the talent quest...

 

  

           ^Above The Teachers!!!!!!!!!! ^

An Unexpected Visitor!

To day we had an unexpected visitor. We had the Mayor! The Mayor of Gisborne's name is Meng Foon. You might have some questions like, Where does he work? And most of all Why was he with us? First of all he works at the Gisborne District Council. Why was he with us? Meng Foon was with us because he didn't know that we post boned our open day at the Hamanatua stream. So he stopped in to see where we were. So we told him about our project and what we had been doing. We also got to have a photo with him!!!!! Here it is see if you can spot the mayor...

Blog Replying

Today we had Koka Maria and we learnt how to reply properly to a blog comment. We made a slide of what we need in a blog reply. Then we wrote what we need in a blog reply what we should have and what we could have. Here it is...

My Speech

This term we have been focusing on our speeches. Our speeches had to be based on Actions Speak Louder Than Words which we refer to as ASLTW. My speech topic is Humans - What We Do to Nature.  It took some time but I got there! Here it is...

Humans - What We Do to Nature

Intro

Were actually a part of nature and yet we have come to earth treating it as though it is ours.
We have outrun the animals and bring them over 100 times to make house pets.
Also we have destroyed the plants to make stuff for us and in result we are killing the native
animals.
This is why I strongly believe that we need to stop what we're doing and change it NOW!

POINT 1

Firstly we need to keep our earth clean and healthy.
To do that we should stop littering and use reusable products. Also we need care for the animals
Only kill them if we have to. We killed so many animals for the special things that they are or
almost extinct.

POINT 2

Secondly there is a whole lot of things we can give up that are bad for the environment.
LIKE…… Plastic bags, plastic straws, plastic milk bottles and plastic bag. Etc.
Plastic plastic plastic. Now we decide what is a better option then plastic.
Plastic bags, reusable bags but even then not the best option because they have sewed plastic
into some of the bags. So an even better option is Kete. Kete are flax or harakeke woven bag.
Kete will break down and go to compost. Also we can use glass milk bottles instead of
plastic ones. Using glass ones would also give people more jobs so they might be able to get
some more money.

POINT 3

Now I have said all this negative stuff take the time to look around. The world's beautiful and
you know it. If we keep carrying on the way we are in an a couple of generations humans won't
get to see all the things we do. For example Flowing rivers, High mountains, Bright jungles and
Fields of flowers. Our world will become black smoke and litter. If we look after the world and
care for the animals and we will have a beauty and sun.  

CONCLUSION

Now you know what we do nature so we need to stop. Hi i'm Caitlyn and I what you to help save
the world now. Nature Doesn't Need Us We Need Nature.

The Water Cycle

This week in class for reading we had to make a presentation about the water cycle. Then on friday we had to share them with our little buddy class Room 7.

I hope you enjoy.

Introduction About Me!

This week we made intros for  room 4 at Blaketown school in Greymouth in the South Island. We had to base it on our personalities and who we are, then we found some pictures that related to us. 

 Here is mine.

Holiday Slow Write

This week in room 1 we had to write about one key thing we did in our holidays. The structure was a slow write.

Air Zone

Woohoo! I feel a warm flutter in my chest. Stepping through the door I hear the screams of people on the tarzan rope and swing. Weeeeeee, this is really fun. Quickly I jump into the foam pit, Hallelujah! “When’s it my turn?” My little cousin asks. Although the man tried to stop people climbing up the tramp, some kids still did it. The foam in the pits were pink, blue, yellow and green. Why is it always on my turn, I the man has to tell people off. I attempt my flick flack just as we are about to leave and I did it, YYYYYEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS!

Me Recipe

Today we had to write a recipe about our self as a learner. We could choose if we wanted to do it about what we do well or what we want to improve on. I chose what I need to work on.

Here it is:

Caitlyn’s Finished Fizzing Wizbees

Aim:

To write a recipe about what I need to improve on.
(Which is finishing off)

Ingredients:

3 cups of Perseverance

4 teaspoons of hard work

6 drops of persistence

2 teaspoons of self confidence

A dash of answers

A few cups of happiness

3 tablespoons of interest

A few drops of liquid neurons

Equipment:

A big glass bowl

A wooden spoon

A mixer

A sive

A container

A plate

A knife

Method:

1 Pour the perseverance and hard work into the middle of the bowl.

2 Fold the persistence and self confidence into the bowl.

3 Sive the answers and happiness onto the side of the bowl.

4 Beat in the interest and liquid neurons.

5 Pour into the container and put into the freezer.

6 Wait 5 hours.

7 Cut it into a star or heart and place on plate.

8 Serve with a dash of laughter, smiles, creativity or hugs (Optional)

Hooray you have finished!

Key words

For the last couple of weeks we have been doing a google slide about key words with koka Maria Then we made a wevideo about keywords. Here is mine. Enjoy.
 

Reflecting and Thinking

Last week in class we did a survey about our learning and what type of learner we think we are. Then we had to complete another doc sheet about why we think that we are that type of learner. Here are some of the things that it included, what we are proud of from this term and what we want to improve. After that we made a drawing including those things. Here is mine.

Weather predictions

Today for reading we did how people predicted the weather before they had modern technology.
We had an extra challenge of doing a diagram of two different clouds and their differences.
Here is mine.


How you pronounce the words is like this: Nimbostratus is pronounced Nim-bo-strat-us.
Stratocumulus is pronounced strat-o-cum-a-lis.

Private passwords

Last week Koka Maria taught us about strong passwords. Strong passwords can be the starting letters from a phrase or a sentence. For example Harry Potter is the best book in the world will be:
hpitbbitw

Then you can change some of the letters to a capital, number or symbol.

Then It could be changed to this:
HP1tbb1tw!

Here is another example:
Strawberry jam on toast is great with cheese

sjotigwc

Then we change it to :
Sj0t1&w(

Make sure your password is strong!

     

Google images

Today we did some google image art.  We learnt  how to put an image to the back and to the front. If you want  to do that then you click on the image then you click on to arrange and then you click order after that you can choose any one. This is mine.'

   

Gotcha

This week our principal Koaka Nollian told us to design a new gotcha award. what is a gotcha? a gotcha is a small card to say you did something really good. When you get 3 you get a big certificate.Here are some big certificats that I made.

 

Drawing learning

This poster is what I know about google drawings. I found this lesson fun, because it was a bit different and we learnt new things.

Duathlon!

LI: I am sharing some of my ideas, feelings and thoughts on my blog about the

     Duathlon  today!

Success Criteria: It makes sense when I read it I have used capital letters and full stops correctly I have had my blogging buddy check my blog before I publish it

5 feelings I had during the duathlon

1. Sweaty, 
2. Tired,
3. Nervos,
4. Stitch,
5. Exhausted.

A paragraph about the duathlon.

"Year 5 Girls" shouted Matua Fergus. Take your marks BANG! We were off. Some of the girls were sprinting at the start but then they got tired on the second lap. 'puff puff' by the time I was half way through my second lap I had a really big stitch.  Slowly but steadily I ran/walked up the hill to the bikes. I quickly clicked up my helmet and grabbed my bike. Running up to the curb I lift the front wheel of my bike up and start biking. I am OFF! 

One word to describe how I was feeling:  Tired

My goal:   My goal was to not let anyone pass me on the bike and I completed it!!!! 

Reading Wheel

This week we made Reading wheels. First we had to do the maths part of it. Which was when we had to measure the sectors. First we measured a full rotation which is 360°. Then we had to do a half which is 180°, and a quarter which is 90°. Then we went 360° divided by 6  which = 60°. After that we had to write what maths we learnt and displayed it on the back of the reading wheel. Then we chose a book and displayed it on our wheel. The pattern we did was picture writing  picture writing  picture writing.

Here is my one.

   

Cycle Safety

This week In room 1 we made cycle safety presentations we could do it on scratch, google slides or powtoon. I made mine on Powtoon this is it. 

Constable Pam taught us all about cycle safety. I hope you learn something.
Caitlyn.

Hand Art

This is mine.

This week we traced our hands and coloured them in with pastel. After we found quotes that represent  us on the internet and printed them out. My quote said: i'm crazy and I don't pretend to be anything else. 

Cyber Safety

This week in Room 1 we learnt about Cyber Safety. We all made posters so that other people can be Cyber safe as well. Then our schools deputy principal mrs Ducky came and taught us how to embed them into our blog. This is mine.

About ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello my name is Caitlyn, here are some things that make me unique. There are also so a few things that I love! 
 

Welcome to my blog

Hi my name is Caitlyn I am in year 5 at Wainui Beach School in Gisborne, New Zealand. This is my first ever blog. I will be sharing my learning throughout 2018. Please leave me some feedback. Thanks