Adertisment

christmas

                                                

christmas

This is my card that I made...

It was my birthday on the 29th of November 2018
I loved all the presents I got but my favorite two where my fitbit blaze
and..I got my ears periced!!!!I will show you....

maths

   in math we where making symmetrical logos here is my slide about it....

2018 yearbook

this year has been cool so we want to share about it

Athletics

The harder the battle the sweeter the victory!

All of Good Shepherd School piled into buses as we headed to Three Kings Fields for the annual Athletics Day event. We had been training for weeks and we were ready to take on our peers and to compete for a placing. The events were running, long jump, high jump, discus and shot put. My favourite event was

prayers

Week 5 and 6 were busy for Room 6 we presented our assembly in week 5 and had whole school prayers

On Monday, Week 6. Our theme for prayers was community, compassion and discipleship. This was inspired as we approach Christmas and start to think about others and those who are in need of help. Our reading was 1 John 3: 16-18, we also presented a song that we put lyrical dances moves to our song was: So will I.

Room ^

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."




Week 5 was non stop for Room 6 with athletics, kapa haka and irish dancing. But it was also our final assembly for the year, and for some of us our final assembly at Good Shepherd School. This was the perfect time for us to share some of our talents and learning. We had been focusing on New Zealand music through our passport tasks so it was only fitting to pick a kiwi classic; Six Months in a Leaky Boat by Split Enz (written in 1982). We sung along to the words and put some of groovy moves together to create a dance. Throughout the year one of our favourite activities was reading Chris Gurney’s books during book week. Chris has written so many wonderful and humourous traditional tales with a kiwi voice. We absolutely adore her books, so for our assembly we presented a Readers Theatre: Trev and the Kauri Tree.

Saints

this term in Religious Education was the Communion of Saints. We learnt about the three parts of the Communion of Saints and how we are all connected. The Communion of Saints is bonded through prayer, baptism and the Eucharist.


As part of our studies we researched and created a slide show that explored a live of a Saint. focus

This week we have been learning a a haka for Maori here are the words

Clues

This was one of the clues I liked solving at math time.

My Saint

This is my favorite Saint here he is......

Reading

This is the book that I am reading .So far I am enjoying it .Here it is.......

Kia Kaha

We have been learning about Kia Kaha and ourselves and how we are special here is our class waka ....

All saints/souls day

In R.E we have been learning about all souls day and all saints day and we have made a cloak out of paper and it has some facts on there have a look.....

shield

This is my shield describing me and my personality

cultural week

This is the presentations form the Chinese woman of panmura...

kiwis

I am learning to inform my audience through an information report

Do you know what the closest and oldest living thing to a emu is? If you guessed a kiwi you are right. The kiwi is relative of the emu, moa and ostrich, these are flightless birds as well. However the kiwi is the smallest flightless and is only about the size of a chicken. The female kiwi is generally also larger than the male kiwi. The female is larger because she has to hold and lay the egg, the size of the egg is about the same size as an ostrich egg. The kiwi is also an important icon and bird to New Zealand because the kiwi is native to New Zealand and quite often New Zealanders are called kiwis. The kiwi is endangered and it is our job as New Zealanders to protect and help their chances of survival. To do this we need to understand their diet, there habitat and their predators. We need to do more to help these animals to survive.

Diet:
Kiwis eat a range of different types of food, they eat both plant and animals for energy. For instance the kiwi likes to snack on grubs, berries, leaves, and even freshwater crayfish. The kiwi is nocturnal, this means they sleep through the day and come out at night to go and source their food. They kiwi doesn’t need much water to survive because they collect a lot of water from the food they eat. An example of this is the earthworm, as the earthworm is made up of 85 % water. When the kiwi does require a little extra water it will dip its beak and tilt its head up to garle back the water. In order for the kiwi to get food it needs to have a safe habitat.

Habitat

Home sweet home, we all enjoy our home comforts and the kiwi is no different. A habitat is a place where all the needs of an animal are meet. The kiwi needs to have a place where it hide during the day and sleep, yet come out at night and find a range of food. The kiwi habitat also need to be dark and damp as they prefer to have the coverage from trees etc to protect them from the weather of the day. Kiwis are rather adaptable to environments and live in lots of different places such as farm lands, forests, sand dunes and even lower snowy mountains. They create burrows so they can nest and sleep safely during the day.

Predators
The kiwi has many predators because they cannot fly and are located on the ground. This make it easy for attacks from predators and makes the kiwi vulnerable. The predators of the kiwi are stoats, rats, cats, dogs and wild pigs. These animals came to New Zealand via boats when the british came. These predators don’t just attack the kiwi but some of them are out to kill and eat the eggs of kiwi. This is endangering the number of kiwis in New Zealand we must help to provide safe environments for the kiwi.

As you see the kiwi is important to New Zealand because they are a national treasure and are symbolic to our country. The kiwi is endangered and it is our job to protect them. We need to know about their diet, habitat and the range of predators. If we understand this then we can help to keep them alive. The kiwi is a unique and amazing animal that New Zealand needs to protect them.

Hangi

This is the diorama that me and Eva made it is on a hangi and tells you how to make it ...

Languges

In mandarin we have been learning how to say our names in mandarin here is my name.....

My crosses

Here is my crosses that I did. Do you like them?

Cultural Week

Last week it was cultural week we had lots of fun learning and tasting new and exciting things about different cultures we all had lots of fun and really enjoyed ourselves and we all enjoyed the presentations of the cultures we all worked hard and found it very interesting hopefully we can do it again !!!

Flowers

Roses are red 🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀
violets are blue 
God made me pretty 
what happend to you?

A Ton of Sugar

I ate a ton of sugar 
It made me very sweet
It also made me very round 
and now I cant see my feet. 🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕

My Weather Predictions

Science Bird Discovery

Pointed beak, flat beak and pelican beak are all the types of beaks we used for this discovery.But these things are also known as forceps, tongs and cups. First we learnt about the meanings of the words we need to know like, aim. Aim means trying to achieve something

hing in the experiment we were trying to see what shape beak is the best for picking up food. And we learnt what will we change( the equipment), What we will measure ( the amount of food) and how we will keep it a fair test. The way we can make it a fair test by having a nice steady surface, by having the same person doing each type of food also by having the same amount of time of 30 seconds. We had an amazing time experimenting with rice, peppercorns, gummy worms and skittles and after we got to eat LOLLIES. Thank you Miss Down for this amazing experiment

M&M Challenge

Last Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday we did the M&M challenge. The class got into groups with one leader in each group. Miss Down gave us some M&M’s and we had to count how many we had and next figured how much M&M’s our group had. After we found out how many M&M’s we all had many people realised that some people had a very small amount of M&M’s while others had about 50. The next thing we did was counting how much of red we had then blue then yellow until we had finished all the colours we had. When we did everything Miss Down told us to share all the M&M’s equally with our group and everyone in the class got 41 M&M’s each! We have put our information on a poster.

Grandparents Mass

On Friday 24th August 2018 we celebrated Grandparents Mass with our grandparents, family/whanau and the whole school. We first went to mass to celebrate with Father Bernard Kyle, who blessed our dear Grandparent with a blessing and we sung a special song to them. When mass was finished our PTA team prepared a treat for us. There was lots of sweet and coffee/tea to sip on. By the time the that all the food was finished it was then time to perform some dances for our audience. The groups that performed were the Sheridan Kapa Haka, Choir, folk dancing, okulele and Irish Dancing. That was a joyful day that we would always remember. We are blessed to have such special people in our lives.

personal profile

In our digital lessons we have been learning what is private and public information. We have created a personal profile for our blogs using this new knowledge. On our blogs there are people we know, and people we don’t know, who can view our profiles. We decided to share personal information that we wanted to share about ourselves. Making sure we didn’t share information that was not for public use.

St Mary Mackillop Feast Day

Yesterday was the feast day of Saint Mary Mackillop. We started our day attending our parish mass to celebrate her feast day as a whole community. All the students came back from mass to continue the celebrations by joining our buddy class. Room 4 and 6 together came together to work on paper dolls of ourselves. We know St Mary of the Cross always supported and helped all the children in need. We made a large St Mary MacKillop and we placed all out paper dolls of ourselves around her. Then we were all very lucky to receive a free sausage sizzle from the PTA to continue the celebrations at lunch. In the afternoon we then got to go and play a range of fun games with our buddy class. This was such a fun day working along each other but most of all having fun. Happy Saint Mary MacKillop Feast Day. 

Here is our mural…

Whakatauki

A Whakatauki is a proverb, what is truly valued in the Maori Culture.
The Whakatauki that we have been learning about is if we all shared then no one would go without.
We would be able to provide for all that come to us.
There are also Proverbs in the Bible that encourage us to share.
Read these proverbs : Proverbs 19:17; 22:9; 31:20.
Jesus also showed us the teachings of God when he feed the multitudes of people with the fish and the loaves. Read more about this in the Gospel of John: 6 or the Gospel of Matth4.

Evolution Verterbrates

In Room 6 we have been learning to classify animals scientists classify animals plants into groups  in order to easily identify sort and name them.you can classify animals into two main groups invertebrates or vertebrates .All vertebrates have a covering of skin that protects them skeleton inside there body muscles that help them move blood through the tubes lungs or gills to  breathe

• 90% of all animals are inverterbrates          
• Tend to be small because they do not have a backbone.
• Many live in ocean because in the water helps support there wheight
• Some have hard coverings or shell on the outside for their bodies for protection -insects ,spiders,crabs ,snails,clams                                                                                                                                                    

Cyber Safety

Figurative Language

Idiom, hyperbole, alliteration, metaphor, onomatopoeia, similes and personification. These are all language features which we call figurative language. In reading we have been learning about these language features and how authors used them in their writing to make their work engaging and add interest for their audience. We made posters either with paper pencils or flowers with examples and definitions of the language feature.Here is our figurative language poster.

Production

Lights, Camera, Action!


Last week Good Shepherd School performed, ‘Zip Zip Zap Avenue’. We packed the school hall with our family and friends as the rain fell. Most of GSS students were in the holding classrooms covered in make-up and sitting in our toy costumes.
Zip Zip Zap Avenue is a about a Toy Shop that comes alive once one of the main characters, the Shopkeeper closed up the shop and turned off the light. The toys would then come alive when all the people were asleep, like the the families that visited the toyshop looking for the perfect gifts. This certain night at the toyshop the celebration was for Buzz the Bee, he had left the shelf of the toy shop and all his friends came out to celebrate him with dances. The main toy friends were Thing 1, Thing 2, Tiki, Spiderman, Cabbage Patch Doll, Woody,





Strawberry Shortcake, and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. The main characters introduced the classes as they came in as their selected toy and danced for buzz.
The first dance was the boys and girls of Room 3 and 4 who were transformers, this was a great and powerful way to start the show. Room 5 then twirled onto the stage as Barbie and Ken dancing to Barbie girl. Things got a little spooky as the trolls of Room 7 came out in the middle of the night to the song Thriller. We weren’t too scared for long as the fairies in Room 3 and 4 came out dancing away in their gorgeous fair dresses. And just when you thought things couldn’t get any cuter the teddy bears from Room 1 and 2 went on their teddy bear picnic. Room 8 then showed us what teamwork is with their awesome lego outfit and very cool song … Everything is awesome! Next up were the Kiwi toy, with great costumes for the kiwi birds and the wonderful performance of the Poi Dancers. And finally it was our turn, Room 6 spun onto the stage as Rubix Cubes dancing to You Spin Me Right Around.

Science Roadshow

Last week on Thursday the year 5 and 6 students of Good Shepherd School went to Edendale Primary School to experience the Science Roadshow! We learnt so much about ice and fire, the human body and other things that are related to science. We enjoyed watching the hosts do fascinating experiments like dropping an 8 ball into the metal stick with a hoop attached to it, before they dipped it into the liquid nitrogen the ball could thread through the hoop, but after they dipped the stick into the liquid nitrogen the ball couldn’t fit!

We had a lot of fun, and recommend that everyone goes to the Science.

ce Roadshow if they get a chance.

Book Week

Book Week!
It's week 8 and it is the bookworms favourite week of the year! Book week! A lot of things happened this week. The library was jam packed full of books and other cool stuff like pencils and rubbers, authors and poets were visiting the school, the book parade was on Friday where we were able to show off our costumes of our favourite book character!

Monday we were in groups competing against one another as we did a literacy quiz! There were 30 questions and three topics. Each question we got right earned us a point! And, we all had to pick a topic where we DOUBLED our points.

The next day Tasman Flinn visited the school. We all sat in the hall and sat on the chairs while she showed us her poems and talked about poetry.

Then on Thursday, all of us year 5 and 6s went to Room 2 so we could see Chris Gurney. She talked about her books and how to make a book. And she picked a few volunteers to act out a play, based off her own book called “Cindy And The Lost Jandal” (Miss Down’s favourite book).

Then on Friday, we all dressed up in our favourite book characters, and finished off the week with the book parade! Where we showed off our amazing costumes on the stage.

We all had so much fun during book week. Thank God for books!

Health

Seed crackers

In Room Six we have been learning about how we can stay healthy and have a well balanced diet. For a healthy class treat we made seed crackers.

Here is our recipe

Ingredients:

½ cup Sunflower seeds
½ cup Pumpkin seeds
¼ cup Sesame seeds
¼ cup Poppy seeds
¼ cup Linseed/flaxseed seeds¼ cup chia seeds
½ tsp sea salt
1 cup water
1 sprinkle of flaky sea salt, to sprinkle
Directions:
Heat oven to 170C. Place all the seeds and the salt in a bowl, pour in water and mix to combine. Leave for 15 minutes for the chia and flax seeds to soften and bind everything together. Tip out onto a baking paper-lined oven tray and spread out as thin as possible (around 4mm thick) and sprinkle with some flaky sea salt. Bake for 30 minutes. Remove the tray from the oven and slice into crackers, then return to the oven to cook for another 20-30 minutes until crisp and golden. Remove to a rack to cool then store in an airtight container. Now your crackers are ready to eat.
On the last week of school we are going to be having a Healthy Food Party - Veggie Con on Monday the 2nd July, everybody will bring healthy food for us to eat as a shared lunch.
Check out our blogs for family favourites or healthy recipes we searched.

The Royal Jelly Show

On Tuesday 29 of May the whole of Good Shepherd gathered in the hall to watch a show called “The Royal Jelly”. It gave us a lot of facts about bees and was really funny. Also three students were lucky enough to participate in the show answering questions from the “mayor”. Over all the show was fun and interesting and we all learned a lot.

Banana Biscuits

  

Banana Biscuits

Ingredients:
¾ bananas and
½ cups of oats
Steps:
Mash up the bananas in a bowl and slowly add the oats while mixing then put them into the oven to cook for about 20 to 15 minutes. Then take them out let them cool and enjoy a healthy quick snack!or put them in a container and save for a speedy breakfast on the go!

cross country

Cross Country

It was the Fifth of June. Everyone a bit blue after the end of a long 4 day weekend, and here we are, starting the week off with cross country! Everyone came in their sports uniform. And from the morning up until lunch time, us students were running the Cross Country track.
We raced in year levels, so the year 1's raced with each other and so on. Those young bunches got to only run 1 lap. While us big kids had to run 2 and a half laps! Doesn't seem that much until you add the fact we had to jog all the way up Telford Ave and back twice! It was fun being competitive and racing your friends and other people. Everyone was bursting with positive energy.
Lining up before heading to the track is where the nervousness starts to kick in. We made our way to the netball court and stretched, a bit after that the year 6 girls started running. A few minutes later it was OUR turn to run the track. We all lined up and Mrs Mcleod told us where to go, then after that, we were off. Everyone seemed extremely exhausted at the end, but finishing the race was so relieving.
Congratulations to all the children who came in the top 3 and represented their houses well. And thanks to all the parents who helped motivate and keep us children on track.

Samoan langue Week

Afio Mai to Samoan language Week.

The cultural leaders opened the week with their national costume and dance.
In room 6 we have been exploring the Samoan Cultural with general facts. We searched for our fact card around the room and collected information for our Jigsaw Reading Hunt.
Next our Samoan experts in class gave us a lesson on greetings and phrases in Samoan.



Then we moved onto counting to ten in Samoan for math before finishing our math session with a clapping game in Samoan.


Selo-zero

Tasi-one

Lua-two

Tolu-three

Fa-four

Lima-five

Ono-six

Fitu-seven

Valu-eight

Iva-Nine



Sefulu-ten

sea turtles

Sea turtles

By Willow

Did you know that sea turtles have been around since the late Jurassic period? Sea turtles are very old, they have some of the oldest life spans. They can live up to 152 years old that is really old! Guess what? Land turtles can put there heads and feet inside their shell but sea turtles can not do that. Sea turtles are amazing creatures here is there life cycle.


Firstly the female sea turtle will lay eggs on the beach up to 50-200. She will dig a hole as deep as her flipper then she puts all her concentration on to laying her eggs. This gives scientists the best opportunity to measure them. Once she has laid all her eggs she will cover up her eggs with sand and then she will leave them never to see them again.

The eggs are the size of a white leathery ping pong balls. After about 6-7 weeks they will hatch but about 20% do not hatch.


When they are about to be born sea turtles will hatch at the same time. Then they squirm to the surface. They are so small they can fit in the palm of your hand. Then they rush to the oceans edge trying to avoid many dangers on the way such as holes, rubbish, crabs and birds

50% do not survive.


The sea turtles swim and try and find a bed of lotsom better known as seaweed to swim under. As they get older they have less predators and more protection but they have a couple of predators like dolphins, sharks and the occasional killer whale.




They are able to breed when they are 20 years of age and then they will start the very long swim back to the same beach they were born.




This is the life cycle of a turtle they have three main stages in there life I hope you have learnt something!

Happy birthday Suzanne aburet

Ra Whanau Suzanne Aubert



In room 6 we have been celebrating Suzanne Aubert’s birthday by making flowers for the theme, “Always choose the little flower of hope.”
Suzanne looked after sick people, people with disabilities, children whose families couldn’t care for them, and the elderly. The work she started continues to this day in places like Wellington’s Compassion Soup Kitchen.
Suzanne left her home in France and came to Aotearoa to support the Maori people. She honoured the Maori people, their tikanga, reo and rongoa. Suzanne loved God and always thought about what he wanted her to do, not what she wanted, even when that wasn’t easy.

term 2 Week 3

Lights, Camera, Action!

Room 6 presented their learning about not being a bystander at their assembly on Friday week 3. In week 3 all school around New Zealand made a stand by wearing pink. PINK stood for Peaceful, Inclusive, Noble and Kind. Our assembly was a success and we all had fun.

Maori verbs

                   








Maori verbs

In room 6 we have been learning verbs in Maori (action words).The question is' Kei te aha ?'which means what is s/he is doing. ia is the pronoun for both he and she.we have machted verbs up filled

in crosswords

I love you mum!!!!!!!!!!

                                           



My Handprint
here is my handprint five fingers in all
outside they are short but the middle is
tall you will find them on the windows
you can find them on the walls they will
make a big mess for something so small
one day I will grow and leave them no
more my hand prints will be missed of
that i am sure so here is one now that you
cant wipe away my present to you this
mothers day.

The Ascension of the lord

               

                     

In RE we lernt about the Ascension of Jesus.At Galilee Jesus told his disciples to take his Gospel to the whole world.He promised to send

the Holy Spirit to be with us always and then he returned in Glory to his farther

in heaven.we used crafts to show how Jesus went bod and soul to Heaven.

City Rail Link Art

As part of an art class with Miss Down we created images that will be displayed in the country’s busiest rail station, once it opens to the public in 2023/2024.

These images will be used and turned in a ceramic tile and display within the station.

The dizzy dream

I am learning to writes about what happens before during and after a event.

One day a boy named Jimmy who was 10 years old awoke suddenly he felt weird and funny even though he was in a warm smooth cozy bed he felt like he was a block of ice .Then he got up and then his mum said get ready for school here's your breakfast he looked at his mum as if she had just served him dirt he said I'm not hungry then he got ready for school. Bye mum as he walked down the stairways with his cracked holey bag and his unwashed hair and broken thick glasses he is walking down his creepy hallway then all of the sudden he didn’t feel good.

He saw the light bulbs in the staircase getting smaller and smaller then he fainted and when he awoke he felt like he was in some type of dream because he was in a different country he felt like he was in china it was weird ` and the cold and snowy air stung his face as he walked over to the blossom tree there an old man is sitting under it and now Jimmy is cold because it is snowing but the old man passes Jimmy a jacket and some warm pants but as soon as he does that he disappears into thin air.so Jimmy starts walking down the snowy road and then out of the blue this person on the motorbike grabs him and takes him to a big dead end so Jimmy looked at him as if the person was crazy but he did not want to say anything. 

But all of a sudden the wall opens and starts to lift up into the air and they drive through it .They went though it was small and smelt like sewers and then he feels dizzy then it looks like someone knocks him out but who? and then he wakes up face to face with a man eating bright blood red robot he had to think fast then he saw the power plug so he grabbed it hooping for the best as he tried to doge the tentacles then the robot fell to the ground then Jimmy awoke in his bed had it all just been a dream?

Inspirational Heroes

During reading we have been researching people who have faced challenges and have stood up for what they believed in. They have either been a voice for those that don’t have one or are a person who never gave up when facing challenges.
My person is Amelia Earhart.
Come visit Room 6 to check out my flip presentation of Amelia Earhart.