Caitlin's Netbook Reflection

This is my Netbook Reflection. I have written about all the things that has helped me with my netbook.

Caitlin's Recount on the Tamaki River Walk

Tamaki Walkway

It was a calm and cold day. I woke up ready for a massive walk around the Panmure Basin and the Rotary Walkway. When I arrived at school it was sunny. All the classes lined up on the court. Rooms 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 came on the trip.  I felt excited that we were going for a walk. We walked up the driveway. Lavinia, Mrs Eeles and myself were playing a game. The game goes like this, you have to pick a colour (My colour was silver) and if a car comes pass and it is silver that means you get 1 point and it carries on. The game finishes when someone gets 20 points.

When we arrived at the basin Miss Paton gave Angel, Fine and myself a camera to take photos. I took a lot of photos because I wanted to remember the trip. When we got to the basin we had to walk over the bridge. I felt scared because it felt like the bridge was going to collapse. When we got half way around the basin I felt so exhausted. It was like my legs were just going to fall off. Finally we were at the skatepark. We had our morning tea but we only had 20 minutes of morning tea. I decided to have my muesli bar and a drink. “20 minutes is up everybody so could you please line up in the same order as we did before” said Ms Kirkpatrick

It was time to start our walk around the Pakuranga Rotary Walkway. We had to walk across the Panmure Bridge, while we walked across my friend Fine’s hat was blown away on the middle of the road. Everybody started laughing because cars would drive over it and the hat would go back and forth. The next class came past and one of their students lost their hat as well but instead of it going on the road it went in the water so she couldn’t get it back. When we were walking down the hill to the yot club we saw a man spraying his boat, it stunk really bad. Everybody was blocking their nose because of how smelly it was. We walked up a little hill. At the top there was a street but it was a no exit street.

We started walking around, my legs felt like they were just going to fall off. Room 6 was way ahead of us because they were really fit. When we got to this little area where you could sit down Mrs Anderson said that “We need to walk together because Room 6 were way ahead of us”. Room 5 got buddied up with a Room 8 person. My partner was Nazella, she was very funny. “I hope it doesn’t rain” she said. It started to pour down with rain. I was as  cold as an Iceblock. Finally we arrived at the Pakuranga Rotary Yacht Club. It wasn’t raining but unfortunately it started to pour down with rain even more than before.

We had to go to where the shelter was. A lot of people were using the exercise equipment. The exercise equipment was very weird, but it was very good for you. We were all waiting for the 3 buses to arrive. 10 minutes later 2 buses had arrived. We had to wait for the 3rd bus to come. “FINALLY IT’S HERE” I shouted. Miss Paton thought that we had our own bus to ourselves but we didn’t. We had to share with Room 9. After the 5.5 kilometer walk I felt exhausted. I just couldn’t wait to go home and relax.

Caitlin's Book Review

This is my Book Review.

My presentation on the Tamaki River By Caitlin

This is my presentation on the Tamaki River.

My Collage of our trip to the Tamaki River By Caitlin

This is my Collage of Room 5s walk around the Tamaki Walkway. Mrs Eeles was one of our parent helpers so was Emmy Grady.

Caitlin's Narrative

House Fire

Once upon a time there was a couple who lived in a massive house. Their names were Margaret and Andy they had 2 daughters their names were Elizabeth and Cece. Elizabeth and Cece were spoilt little girls. What ever they wanted they got. They went to a private school for girls. The mum and dad started arguing. The girls didn’t like when they argued because they would stay up all night arguing. The neighbours could even hear them arguing. When Elizabeth and Cece came home they saw that their mum was sleeping. “WAKE UP MUM!!” shouted Cece. So the mum woke up. The mum was making the girls afternoon tea. They had Mini Pizza’s, Fruit salad and a drink. “Thanks Mum” said the girls this looks very delicious. The girls went to there room because they were tired. When their dad got home it was 6:30pm. The girls woke up for dinner they were starving. For dinner the dad made Spaghetti Bolognese. He started cooking the dinner for his family. He fell asleep while the stove was on. The two girls came down stairs “AAAA!!! THE WHOLE KITCHEN WAS ON FIRE” they screamed in horror. The mother came down the stairs and saw that the kitchen was on fire. “Get out of here” she said to the girls. As she feared for her life she was trying to wake up the dad but he was listening. Finally the flames were starting to go ever. The smell of smoke was coming from the kitchen. Cece grabbed her phone and called 911 she asked for the Fire Department to come as quick as possible. The Fire Department came but it was to late the house was burnt right down to the ground. The mum made it out of the house but sadly the dad didn’t. The whole family were in tears. All of their memories and their photo books were gone. 3 years later the family were living in a smaller house. They also had 2 dogs. The family still remembered the incident but they felt happy that they had moved on from that day. THE END

Week 1 Homework from Caitlin

This is Caitlin's homework for this week. Check out how she has solved the two Maths Problems.

My Awesome Swim By Caitlin

My Awesome Swim

Today I went swimmming with my Nan, Auntie, Cousin and my Sister. We went to the Panmure Lagoon pools. We were in the inside pools because the outside pools were not open. When I got in the water it was really cold but when I was in there for a while I got use to the water and it got warmer.

Me, My cousin and my Auntie were playing Shark. Shark is where someone has to chase you and then they have to hold you for 3 seconds and then you are in. My Auntie got tagged the most and I got tagged the least because I was hiding in the corner. My Nan just watched us swim. My favourite part was when we went to the big pool and we had a swimmming race. I versed my sister and I won so they called me the champion I hope we can go back there soon.

My Production Reflection By Caitlin

My Production Reflection

Our class production is about Aoraki and the Southern Alps. It is about how the South Island was made.   The main actors are Aoraki (Latham), Tuterakiwhanau (Patrick), Rangi Sky Father (Halaiano), Papa Earth Mother (Lavinia), Hine nui I te po (Fine), Narrator (Angel), Mokopuna (Caitlin, Samantha, Oh S’mar Ducks (Raymond and Jason), Fish (San Tat, . The props we have made are tussocks, flax, bushes, trees, mountains, flowers and something that is really important in our production is our waka. The props were made by our whole class. Mrs Kelly has been helping us with the decorating and the designing. For most of our costumes that we have made we have used cardboard. Everyone with a speaking role has managed to learn their lines. I think that we are making really good progress in our production. The things that need to improved on are that some people need to speak louder and look at the audience more. I think that our class production is going really well. In the production my role is Mokopuna. I have a speaking part in the production. The main thing that Mokopuna has do is help Tuterakiwhanau find Aoraki. Most of our actors are using expression. I think that Papa (Lavinia) is really good with using her body language to show expression. Her hand gestures are really good. I think that timing is the thing that we need to work on because some of the flowers pop up too late.

Rangi (Halaiano) is good when he lifts up the mountains as if they were pebbles. Tuterakiwhanau (Patrick) needs to work on expression and look at the audience a little more. Narrator (Angel) is really good at speaking clearly and using lots of expression. Hine Nui I te Po (Fine) is doing good work but needs to use a little bit more expression.

My Painting Reflection By Caitlin

 Art: Reflecting on my Painting

1. Are you pleased with your painting? why / why not?

Yes because I spent a lot of time on it and it turned out really well

2. What did you find easy when you created your painting?

The thing that I found the most easiest was drawing my grid

3. What part did you find tricky when you were creating your painting? -think about painting, ruling up the grid, measuring, using the co-ordinates, etc.

The part that I found tricky was Measuring and painting within the lines

4. Who / What helped you when you were painting?

Miss Paton, Miss Nichol, Angel and Fine

5. What would you do differently next time? Think about: colours, painting, ruling up, etc.

I would choose a different colour

6. What frustrated you when you created your painting?

Trying to paint in the lines

Caitlin's Venn Diagram on Past, Present and Future Education

This is my Venn Diagram on Past, Present and Future Education.

Caitlin's Homework Problem of the Week Strategy shared

Caitlin Homework from Joy Paton on Vimeo.

 This is my Popplet on my Homework I completed the 2 Maths Problems that my teacher set for me. I am in Team Spider Man.

Should animals be treated equally as humans By Caitlin

Check out Caitlin's speech she did in front of the class today.

Caitlin speech from Joy Paton on Vimeo.

Should PBS students wear a school uniform By Caitlin

Should Panmure Bridge School wear a uniform?

Should Panmure Bridge School wear a uniform. I think that we should because it shows that we are representing our school.

Our uniform means that we won’t get bullied because we all have the same uniform and it won’t get stolen. It shows what school you go to in case of emergency and dangerous situations.

It is good to wear a uniform because it represents you at sporting events and special events that you are invited to. When you go on a school trip, you could get lost. It would be easy to find your school because you are wearing a uniform that matches with the rest of the students.

Also our school uniform is made from a special kind of material that doesn’t rip for a long time and it makes you look nice, smart and tidy. It would be good for your parents because your uniform would last for a while and that means you don’t have to buy another one. Your uniform is durable and it could be but in a washing machine without it falling apart.

If we wore mufti clothes it would start a competition with other students because you both have different kinds of clothes. The other student might have cooler clothes than you and you feel like you want the same clothes like them. So you start pressuring your parents to buy labeled clothes for you but they can’t afford them.

I feel that school uniform shows pride for your school. These are my reasons on why Panmure Bridge School should wear a uniform.

Caitlin's Holiday Wordle

This is my Wordle on what fun things I can do on the holidays.

Reflecting on my Andy Warhol Artwork By Caitlin

Reflecting on my Andy Warhol themed portrait

1. Are you pleased with your Andy Warhol themed portrait? why / why not?

Yes because I took my time.

2. What did you find easy when you created your portrait?

I found tracing over my artwork with vivid the easiest thing to do.

3. What part did you find tricky when you were creating your portrait? -think about tracing round your face, outlining your face using a black marker pen, dabbing areas using the dye, dying the background.

I found tricky dying within the lines because there was always a little smudge.

4. Who / What helped you when you were creating your portrait?

Miss Paton helped me with my portraits.

5. What would you do differently next time? Think about: tracing around your face, features on your face, dabbing the dye colours, colour choice, photograph, time management skills.

Dabbing the dye colours within the lines.

6. What frustrated you when you created your Andy Warhol themed art work?

When my artwork got smudged, I had to do the entire portrait again.

Caitlin and Angel's World War 2 Presentation Movie

Angel & Caitlin War from Joy Paton on Vimeo.

This is me and Caitlin's presentation on World War 2. We presented it yesterday. I was were judged by Tiare. I think me and Caitlin did well on having a loud clear voice.

Angel and Caitlin's presentation on World War 2

This is Angel and Caitlin's movie on World War 2. They presented this movie in front of the class.

Angel & Caitlin War from Joy Paton on Vimeo.

Caitlin and Angel's presentation on World War 2

This is my presentation on World War 2. I learnt that 60 million people died in the World War 2.

All about me: Caitlin

Kia Orana my name is Caitlin. I am 9 years old and my teacher is Miss Paton. This is my second year in Room 5. In my spare time I like playing sports-Netball Softball T-ball. My favourite food is Pizza. My favourite movies are Twilight and Pitch Perfect. Over the holidays I went to Mission Bay and Eastern Beach also we went to the swimming pools. In Room 5 I would like to finish my work in the time given.