Cook Island Week

At good shepherd school, we are celebrating cook island language week. We did some fun activities like we learnt a song, the basic words, red a myth and learnt some facts. This is how to count to ten in cook island māori 
1 Ta'i
2 Rua
3 Toru
4 'Ā
5 Rima
6 Ono
7 'Itu
8 Varu
9 Iva
10 Ta'i nag'uru

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. 😀

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.   

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. 😀

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.

   

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.

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

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!

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

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.

To my mother

My Handprint

Here is my handprint, 

Five fingers in all,

Outside they are short,

But in the middle is tall,

You will find them on windows, 

You can find them on the wall,

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 can't wipe away

My present to you,

This Mother' Day