The Room Six Puzzle

In room six we have been working on a puzzle. By working on this we have been reminded that we are all a piece of a puzzle and if we worn't in it there would be no room six. The puzzle was really fun to do at I would like to do one again.

A-Z of New Zealand bands and artists

In room 6 we have been doing these fun activities about New Zealand band, artists and songs. We get points for doing the activities and try to get 200 hundred points. One of the activities.  I did was a A-Z of New Zealand bands and artists. Here it is. 

Christmas Cards

In room six we have been learning how to draw a silhouette. We made Christmas card with Christmas tree silhouette. It was really fun.

 

Mass

Last night we when to the annual graduation mass. We celebrated the year sixes time at school. They did a dance and Frankie did a really good speech. The year fives got a leadership candle which was blue with green ribbon. The mas was really good. 😀

Algebra

In room six we have been learning algebra. It has been very fun and I have learnt lots.

EATING EDIBLE INSECTS

I.A.L.T Persuade my audience into eating insects.

By Lucy

Imagine putting a meal worm fry into your mouth at dinner time. I know what you might be thinking, “Ew! Yuck! That's so gross!” but did you know that 98% of people actually end up liking insects. I think everyone should eat and cook with bugs. There are many reasons why you should eat bugs. You can make many different meals that are fun and tasty.

Yum, yum, tasty treats, I bet you love lollies, chocolate and cookies but probably not with bugs in them. Do you know that there are such things as scorpion lollipops, grasshopper cake, ginger cricket cookies and wax worm tacos. You might be thinking that you will never eat a bug. But if you have had canned food you have probably eaten a maggot. There is maggots in pizza sauce and in drained mushrooms. There are lots of tasty treats you can make so get stuck in and enjoy some creative cooking with bugs.


Is your family picky and doesn't like what you make? Well, why not bring the taste back into your meal and have some creative cooking ideas with bugs. Like carrot buffalo worm soup, deep fried tarantulas and a worm salted margarita drink to go with your delicious insects. Did you know that there are over 1,900 species of bugs you can eat and put into your meals. They are not just delicious but there are fun ways to cook with them so they are healthy for you.

Do you want to be healthy but don’t know what to eat? Well did you know that bugs are high in protein and low in fat. They can also reduce obesity. Reports shows that bugs have the same amount of (if not more) nutrients as commonly consumed meat. Crickets, beetles and grasshoppers are one of the many different bugs that are good for you.

In conclusion I think that you should cook and eat with bugs. There are many awesome recipe ideas that taste amazing and you don’t have to worry about being unhealthy. I strongly think that you should cook or try an insect today.

Year book

NEWS FLASH! The New Good Shepherd Yearbook for 2018 is here! Take a look at all the work we’ve done this year. What a year we had. Take a look!

Irish Dancing

The day had finally arrived after lot and lots of practice. A group of kids from good shepherd did an Irish dancing performance. I did the three hand with Eva and Sarah. It was a fun way to celebrate the Irish Culture.   

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, by Hillsong. This is the song: So will I.

Kapa Haka

Mana, power and pride would be a few words to describe the feeling as the Good Shepherd School Kapa Haka group took the stage. During the weekend a large group of year 5 and 6 students took to the stage to perform at the Eden Albert Cultural Festival. There were a few nerves before we started but once we were underway the excitement of performing kicked in. We felt proud as a team to perform for so many people. Kia Kaha! The highlight of Kapa Haka for me was the was being up on the stage singing with my friends

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 favorite event was Long Jump because I was good a it and came first.

Assembly

"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 favorite activities was reading Chris Gurney’s books during book week. Chris has written so many wonderful and humorous traditional tales with a kiwi voice. We absolutely adore her books, so for our assembly we presented a Readers Theater: Trev and the Kauri Tree.

Mother Teresa

Communion of saints

In room six we have been learning about the Communion of saints. With the tape we got raped together to show how we are all saints on earth, in purgatory and in heaven.It was very fun I loved it.

Travelwise

Last Friday I when to a travelwise celebration with a group of year five and sixes from good shepherd. We did lot of fu actives around town. We dod some more activates  in the cloud. My favourite was the scavenger hunt. We got free things like a hat ,ice cream and a silver  award. It was so much fun. 😀

successes criteria

in writing we have been leaning to write a persuasive piece of writing . we have co-construed our successes criteria. Here is our successes criteria



o Title: Clearly states what you are going to be talking about


Example: Eating Edible Bugs


o Hook: A way to pull your audience in (possibly a rhetorical question, weird and wacky fact or setting a scene).


Example: Are you sick and tired of the same old meal every single night, run out of inspiration for dinner ideas and the family just don’t appreciate your hard work around dinner? Well now you can add the crunch back into your evening meals with interesting and creative dinner ideas.


o Clearly stating what your topic is about / Statement


Example: I believe that everyone should cook with insects.

I believe… I think… I strongly recommend… In my opinion… that all people should eat insects


o Background information: Use broad interest facts


Example: When people hear of others eating bugs they normally screw up their face and say, “Yuck!” But did you know most people who try insects actually end enjoying them. My challenge for you today is to try insect.



o Lead in sentence to your paragraphs (at the end)


There are many reasons why we should eat insects in our diet such as bug are healthy and low in fat, tasty fun treats and you be creative with recipes from all over the world.

Weaving

In room six we have been learning about all souls and all saints day . We did some weaving and wrote words about what we should do to be able to go to heaven .

Biking

in room six we have been doing a bike course. Bike foot came and taught our class bike safety it was really fun. I can't wait till next year to do the big foot bike course. :) 

Year 5 retreat

This week the year five at good shepherd went to year five retreat.  We did fun activities like a treasure hunt and a fun game with leaves.We did prayer and talk about how to be a good leader. I loved it it was so fun.

In room 6 we made a waka showing what we are. My word is unique and we drew a picture of our self. I had lots of fun doing this.

Kia kaha

In room 6 we have been learning about kia kaha. Kia Kaha is about caring an d respecting other people differences and similarities. we have made shields to show why we are unique

Hangi

In Room 6 we have been learning about hangi. Me and my friends made a slide show about what a hangi is. Here is my slide show

Cultural Week

Last week Good Shepherd School had cultural week. My class was room 1 and we did Italian. We learnt the fruits vegetables and animals. On Wednesday we had lasagna. On Friday Good Shepherd did an Assembly and all the cultures did a performance. I Love cultural week.

   

The Kiwi Bird

By Lucy 

I am learning to inform my audience by using an information report

Do you know what the national animal of New Zealand is? Yes, it is the kiwi bird. Kiwis are little flightless birds that are native to New Zealand. Kiwis have wings and were meant to fly, however with their little wings they aren’t able to fly or even lift their bodies. The kiwi is about the size of a chicken . It can grow up to 50 to 60 centimeters long. There are five different species of kiwis the North Island Brown Kiwi, Southern Brown Kiwi, Little Spotted Kiwi, Great Spotted Kiwi and the Okarito Kiwi. Did you know that there used to be 12 Million kiwis in New Zealand but now there are less than 100,000. This is because predators sadly keep killing them.

PREDATORS:

The kiwi bird has many predators like dogs, cats, rats, ferrets and weasels. These animals hunt the kiwis and eat the kiwi eggs. But not only is it animals that are killing the kiwis it’s also humans!.Humans impact on the environment that in turns impacts on the kiwi and their survival. It’s very easy for predators to eat them because they can’t fly. The good news is there are people that are working to build kiwi shelters so they can be safe from predators and have a place to hide and live.
HABITAT:

Kiwis are found throughout New Zealand. In rough farmland, exotic plantation, sand dunes, snowy tussocks and scrub. Kiwis can live in dry places like Kapiti Island. They have created kiwi shelters for them to be safe from predators, and make sure they survive. Other things are included in the kiwi shelters like food and water.

DIET:

Kiwis have a pretty different diet to us humans. But because kiwis live in diverse habitats, from mountain slopes to exotic pine forests. It is difficult to define a typical kiwi diet. Kiwis are omnivores so they eat fungi and frogs. They also eat freshwater crayfish and koura. All of the kiwis eat berries, leaves and seeds. Kiwis get most of their water from their food. Juicy earthworms are 85% water. But because there nocturnal they don’t get to hot so the don’t need much fresh water.

The kiwi bird will become extinct if we keep impacting on where they live, allowing predators to stalk them and eventually will slowly die out of New Zealand. Kiwis are amazing animals and we need to keep them alive. We can keep the kiwi bird alive for longer by making sure they have the right habitat, away from predators and having the right diet. Kiwi are one of New Zealand's icon so we MUST keep them safe.

Calendar Art

In room 6 we have been doing calendar . Calendar art is were you draw a picture and it gets put on a calendar. You can also get made in to a dairy of a notepad. My picture is of me and my friends playing netball. I had lots of fun of fun doing my calendar Art I can't wait until next year to do it again.

My Calendar Art

Mandarin

Ni Hao at good shepherd school we have been learning mandarin. It has been taught by ms Li who is Chinese. she is an amazing teacher and is great at speaking Mandarin.we have learnt how to have a conversation with people, some song's and how to count to ten. Xiexie Mr Li. Zai jian

Mermadis

You might think that a mermaid is a beautiful mythical creature with all of it’s pretty features. But underneath in the deep blue sea they are the meanest creature in the ocean. They are even meaner than sharks stingrays and the killer whale. They were even born mean! all the mermaids grandparents and great grandparents were mean too. Do you know what they do? Well they sing out until someone comes and the mermaids say “come out of your boat human” and once they come out they gobble them down and they are never to be seen again. Mermaids have teeth that are as sharp as a knife. You might think that I’m lying with their long wavy hair,shimmery scales and smooth skin. But underneath their soul they are horrible creature. So next time you are in the ocean watch out for the mean mermaids. Because they eat humans!.

My Bird

In reading we have been learning about animal adaptations and we created our own bird and named them . My bird's name is Deno

Crosses

At Good Shepherd School we have done crosses for the fence. We have do patterns and picture's to do with God here is mine.

Temperature

In room 6 we have been learning about temperature . We have made slide show's. To show the temperature's in different country's and a city in New Zealand. I chose Iran and Turanga.

Social Justice Week

This week is social justice week and we watch a video about being fair no matter who you are or what you look like. We watch the video and did a worksheet to put in Religious Education book.

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, Tap dancing, Ukulele and Irish Dancing. That was a joyful day that we would always remember. We are blessed to have such special people in our lives.

Beaks Science Experiment

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 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.

Mini BB Fair

At good shepherd school we did a mini BB fair. BB stands for Books and Baking. We were fundraising for a mural on our power box outside our school. The school councilors were selling the baking and books. We raised 750$. The mini BB fair was amazing

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.

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 released 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.

St Mary Mackillop’s 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…

Netball

At good shepherd school we have a year 5 netball team. I am in the netball team. Our team is called the thunder birds. We went to zones where we played lots of games of netball. We won the whole tournament. This is the cup we won. 

Whakatauki

In Maori we have been learning about a Whakatauki

A Whakataui is a proverb, what is truly valued in the Maori Culture. 

The Whakataui 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 Matthew: 14.

Evolution animals

In room 6 we have been learning to classify animals scientists classify animals and plants into groups to easily identify ,sort and name them.

Classify = SORT. There are may different ways to group living organism. You can classify animals into two main groups. Vertebrate or Invertebrate. All vertebrates have covering of skin that protects them , A skeleton inside there body , Muscles that help them move, Blood moves through tubes, Lungs or gills for breathing                                                       




                                                                           

90% of all animals are invertebrates 

Tend to be small because they do not have a back bone

Many live in the ocean because the water helps support their weight.

Some have a hard covering or shell on the outside of their bodies for protection - Insects, spiders, crabs, snails and clams.

Private and Public information

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.

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 Roadshow if they get a chance.

Lights,Camera,Action

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.

It was a fantastic experience for us all, we learnt a lot about performing and all the work that goes on in the background. We was a wonderful opportunity and it wouldn’t of been possible without the support of everyone working together just like the lego blocks.

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!

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 seeds½ cup Sunflower seeds
¼ cup Linseed/flaxseed seeds
¼ 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.

Lucy's Ants on a Log recipe

Lucy's ants on a log

Veggie Con 2018

Ingredients:

Celery

Peanut butter

Raisins

A well balanced diet

During our health inquiry we have been learning about a well balanced diet. We created a definition using a solo define map. Here is our definition:

A balanced diet is eating the right types of food that gives your body the nutrients to function correctly. To get proper nutritions from your diet you need to eat a healthy diet that contains the proper proportions of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. You need to eat a well balanced diet to maintain good health and to help you feel your best.

We also have learnt about the food pyramid, proportions, and the eatwell plate.

Here is a picture of my food pyramid which includes the food groups and servings sizes. You must eat a balance of all food groups to maintain good health.

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.

Afio mai to Samoan language week

The cultural leaders open

ed 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