Video Blog Goal

Q3 Fitness Blast

• Which area of fitness seems to be your biggest strength?
• Strength and Endurance
• Which area would you most like to improve in?
• Flexibility
• List three activities you can use to improve that area of fitness.
• Leg stretches
• Butterfly stretches
• Hamstring stretches

Healthy Snack Reflection

Was my snack healthy? Justify why you say yes or no. Think about what we’ve talked about sugar and fats.

  Yes, because even though this recipe has fats, most of the fats are healthy fats. I also think this recipe is healthy because the only unhealthy part is the dressing which has very little contents that are unhealthy.

When you choose a snack do you think about how healthy/unhealthy it is? Why or why not.

  Usually because as a whole my family tries to eat very well, my mom cooks dinner and makes my lunch, which is very healthy. I don't usually choose a snack because my snack is whatever I didn't eat for lunch.

Do you think food is meant to be eaten with other people? What are some effects of eating and socializing at the same time?

  Yes, eating food with other people makes eating more enjoyable. A benefit to eating and socializing is that you eat slower because you are talking, so your food can properly digest, telling you when you are actually full so you don't keep eating.

Did you enjoy preparing your food? Do you think preparing your own food affects how much you enjoy eating it? Explain

  Yes, preparing my snack was really fun, and it really affects how much you enjoy eating it because as you eat it, you're like, "I did this, and it is delicious!!!"
Which recipes you tried today would you buy if they were offered at the kiosk? And why?

  N/A (I wasn't at school to try other peoples' snacks)

Advice Letter

Dear Abby/Abner- My friend has a personal blog and she/he is constantly writing inappropriate comments about people at our school. Although there are no names mentioned, sometimes it’s obvious who the person is. I know it’s wrong and it makes me uncomfortable, but my friend thinks it’s funny. What should I do?

Dear Amethyst,
It is not uncommon to be friends with a cyberbully. Many people struggle to make that decision, after all, cyberbullying is related to low self-esteem which many people have nowadays. You are stuck in the middle of going with or against your friend, I know how difficult it may be, but your heart will help you decide.

At these times you may be indecisive about many things. All you may think about is hurting your friend or hurting those around you. If you are not careful you may accidentally join your friend. Avoid all gossip-related conversations to keep all of your friendships intact.
If her actions make you uncomfortable - take some independence, gain your strength, you don’t have to follow in her footsteps. Confront her to help your’s and other’s self-esteems. You can help save others and your friend who is cyberbullying. She can get to them through emails, texts, and social media sites, causing low self-esteems for many people. It may make you and others uncomfortable, but she needs to stop before more get hurt.

You have been friends with her for a while. If you talk and yell at her to stop, you are only giving her more reason to continue her posts if she finds it funny. At my old school I went to, I found myself surrounded by people who were constantly cyberbullied.
I am now annoyed with myself for doing nothing about it because I didn’t know how. I realized that even if I didn’t know who was the cyberbully was, I could have still helped all of my friends who were cyberbullied.
I felt like I had an inability to simply comfort my friends. Not because I was annoyed or anything, but just because I didn’t know how to comfort them.
The solution is to report your friend. If she finds it funny, she obviously is oblivious that she is hurting so many around her, which needs to be stopped to help whoever she is bullying. Here are some steps you can take to stop her from cyberbullying.
Step 1: Try to reason with her. She may find it funny while you don’t, but she should still understand if you just try to reason with her to stop. DO NOT start rumors yourself!
Step 2: If you have tried reasoning with her, you can go to the social media site she makes negative comments on, and report her to the social media site so they can take action and take down her account so that she can’t post anything. For example, at my school, there is a site like that, and people reported the account to the site to shut it down.
Step 3: If she still finds a way around the blocked account, report her to your principal. The comments are about students at your school, so your principal should be able to help.
Step 4: If the principal can’t help with the problem, which shouldn’t happen, you can go around to the people who were cyberbullying, and just comfort them. They are distressed, they need comfort from others who were cyberbullied. You can also ask them to report the account if it was never taken down. You can also tell them that they can block the account and change the settings, that way they will never have to see that account again.
Stand up for the people who are bullied to help their self-esteem, do the right thing!
Good luck!
Sincerely,
Abby

Resources: Cyberbullying, Report Cyberbullying, BrainPOP

Cluster One Reflection

1. What are your friendship strengths and challenges?

One friendship strength I have is that I am always there for my friends. If they get hurt or need help, I am always there to help them. A challenge that I have is that when we pair up for something I may boss them round because I always end up being the leader. It may sometimes pull us apart because I act differently than if we were just talking.

2. Explain what you’ve learned about the movement pattern (rotations) and concept (tactics and shots).

I learned that having a good movement pattern doesn't just come to you, you need to practice A LOT before you get the proper movement patterns. For concept, you also need to practice a lot and learn how to control where you hit the ball.

3. What are 2 specific things you’d like to accomplish this year in PE?

a. I would like to be able to control the ball when I play to catch them off-guard to improve my play in the game.

b. I would also like to work on my movement because I feel like by the end of seventh grade I should be able to give my swing or hit with more momentum so that I can better improve my play in the game.

Batting Reflection

  One thing I am doing well while I;m batting is that I place my hands the proper way in order to bat. I also lifted the bat off of my shoulders.

  One thing I can work on is my trunk rotation. I can also work on "Load"s.

How To Obtain Great Hygiene-Caitlin Ma

Story Map-Cyberbullying

Sportsmanship - On The Sporting Field And In Everyday Life

  

• Sportsmanship is when you are a good sport, whether you win or lose. You support other teams, not just your own. ou always play fair and do what is right/deserved of your team, the other team or both teams.
• One time when I showed sportsmanship was when I encouraged others, the other team. When we did the KM, I encouraged others to push on and when we played rugby, I encouraged others to keep going and I was a good sport when we didn't score. I played fair during our rugby unit.
• Play fair: don't cheat points and don't make up random rules to benefit yourself. Don't put down others: don't tell others that they don't have the skill to do it, encourage them to do better. Don't argue: don't argue with each other because it makes it less fun for everyone, and makes everyone annoyed and angry.
• 1. Don't insult others/opponents: insulting won't improve your score, it will just put down others and make them feel really bad. 2. Play fair: playing fair will make everyone happy, and life will be easier, there will be no obstacles.
• You can demonstrate sportsmanship by just making a poster routing for both teams. In the audience or even a player from the opposite team can demonstrate sportsmanship by routing the other team and their own. It shows that they appreciate everyone, and it doesn't matter who wins because they will be good sports no matter what, and they will show great sportsmanship.

MyPlate Meal Project

'MY PLATE' VIDEO

1. The 5 main food groups are fruits, veggies, grain, protein and dairy.
2. Whole grains are important because they give you energy, more than just grains.  Whole grains give you more energy.
3. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day because it gives you energy to keep you going throughout the day. You could have a smoothie for breakfast because it could give you fruits, veggies and dairy
4. Some great snacks are almonds, olives, blue corn chips and whole grain crackers and cheese.
5. Some  good fats are blue corn chips, olives and avocado.
6. Each day, you should have below 6oz of juice.

My Plate Project Planning

1. Fruits, veggies, grain, protein and dairy.
2. Fruits-apple, veggies-carrots, grain-double fiber bread, protein-chicken, dairy-milk.
3. My mom is allergic to  strawberries, kiwi, maybe pineapple and other fruits. My dad and sister try to only eat only healthy food. Besides that were all good.
4. My mom because she is in charge of the kitchen, and she knows how to make a lot of different healthy-ish meals.
5. The nearest grocery store is Fair Price or 2 different Cold Storages, all in walking difference, and my mom will help/shop with me.
6. Be careful when cutting, keep the stove off, stay away from big flames, and be careful of knifes.

Challenge Course/Project Adventure Reflection

As I reflect on the past two units, I think about examples of ways I did the following: teamwork, cooperation, listening skill, creativity and leadership. I showed teamwork during the challenge course low rope walking when I helped decide who went first and who went where to get the person across the rope successfully. I used teamwork to get the team to work together, and so that nobody got hurt. I showed cooperation during the project adventure obstacle course when I used lots of other people's ideas to build the obstacle course including the 5 details.. I also actively listened when my group and I discussed many different ideas. I showed creativity during our project adventure mission impossible course when I gave my group mates creative ideas to get across the "hot blue lava." Last but not least, I showed leadership also during our project adventure mission impossible course, when my group members started getting the sense that they were in charge, I helped calm them down and gave an idea that they could all agree on. 

Video Analysis 100 Meter Sprint

In this video you see a new running technique that lots of people are now using. It shows the front and side angle along with the start. Something I need to work on using these running skills is that I need to work on not swinging my arms across my face. I didn't realize until I saw this video that my arms swing in front of my face causing me to go from side to side, so I need to work on that.

Be Healthy With Electronics

Before I discovered what happens when you use electronics too much, I thought that nothing would happen even though people kept telling me that it was unhealthy. I honestly thought that you could use electronic devices all day and you would be fine. Now I recognize that if you use electronics all day you wouldn’t have a social life. I learned that using things with screens too much makes you very lonely. I also learned that watching too much TV can lead to obesity. and I also learned that if you take breaks every now and then, you can spend time with your family, and go outside. I taught myself to take breaks, and now at school, they’re teaching us by making us look far away after we have just been looking at something up close. One day I told myself, “If I spend too much time on electronics, I will be a nobody. GET A LIFE!” Later on, I told myself that after a couple videos on youtube, I would go outside, go swimming or go for a walk. After learning all these things, I am no longer sinked into iPads, laptops, or TV.

When my family and I were driving around America this summer I had nothing to do. I had played on my iPad and watched movies the whole time, but once we got to Florida I noticed that I had spent too much time on electronics. I had felt light headed, dizzy, and I couldn’t see clearly. In boot camp, I found out that it is because I hadn’t been balancing using computers and staying healthy. At the time I didn’t know it, but now I realize that you have to balance using electronics, and doing things that don’t involve screens. When I use electronics now I know that I should also take a break from screens to stay physically fit.

What I have experienced over the summer has truly changed my whole point of view on electronic devices. I discovered that even if things with screens can help you, it can still affect you for the rest of your life. This will definitely change my future because I won’t be on electronic devices all day for the rest of my life. I will be out in the world having fun with friends and family. I know that it might be hard for you to take breaks every once and a while, but there are plenty of fun things to do. You could play a board game, ride a bike, do a craft, or even just go for a walk. I hope that you will become someone who grew up without electronics, I hope you become an amazing person without all that stuff. Don’t you want to be that person?

Photo used with permission by: Creative Commons Google Images

About Me 2015

Caitlin is a girl who loves her family and school. She goes to an international school on an island. She likes reading but only when she is super bored and has to read. Same for writing. She writes at school, and only at home if she has a really great idea. She is more of a math person. Caitlin really likes to read fantasy and nonfiction books. She loves reading fantasy because it takes her to magical world, and she loves nonfiction because she learns something new every time she reads nonfiction books. She writes nonfiction, fantasy, personal narratives, and mysteries, but Caitlin writes nonfiction the best. She gets the concept that you’re trying to teach the readers about the topic, while giving them fun facts. Caitlin finds a way to learn about a topic, and then she makes it fun with more detail and a little humor, and then she types it all out and then she checks it and publishes it. She knows that it may never be perfect, but she still tries. She always tries to do her best. Caitlin will always try. If she can, she never gives up.

When Caitlin is not writing at home or at school, you will find her with her family, having fun. On the weekend, when she is not having fun with her family, once in a while you will find her at a swim meet.

She first picked up writing at school. She learned how to get ideas, and since that she always had ideas. When she thought hey were good, she typed them out. She started this way, but at school they started helping her to make her stories stronger. Now she writes at school and finds it fun. She will always have ideas, and she will always have fun.

Wellness Center

       Today I learned about lots of things that you can stay healthy, while learning.

      When at the bicycles and steppers, I learned that tiny proteins called BDNF are created when you exercise, and act as growth for the brain.

      When I was at the balance ball chairs, I found out  that if your body is focused and moving, you learn better, it makes it more fun, and easier to learn, because you are focused. I just learned about Brain Breaks, and I liked Pen Flipping, it is when you flipped the pens, and I guess it gives you a chance to give your brain a break. Since I learned that you should exercise while you work I thought of a treadmill,and an elliptical. I just learned that if you sit down to long, it could lead to diabetes, heart disease, kidney, and liver problems. Just to conclude I have learned so much about ways to stay fit while learning by taking breaks, or do exercise while you learn.

Digital Citizenship Agreement Pledge

As a responsible Digital Citizen at SAS, I, Caitlin, promise to respect and protect myself, others, and intellectual property while learning, sharing, and collaborating online.

Productivity & Organization Video

Laptop Care

The purpose for this poster, is to make sure that wherever you go, you never should pack your bag so that your laptop is squished, it should always be free, the opposite of an MRT trip.