Shine Day

Today  is shine day and we came to school dressed in orange. We dressed in orange to raise a awareness of family violence. We all brought In a gold coin. Through the week the Special Character leaders  have been standing out side the office after school collecting money for shine day. 

Shrove Tuesday

Today we have made pancakes. We made them because it's Shrove Tuesday. In Jesus' time they made pancakes to use up all their eggs, flour, milk and sugar because they start fasting for 40 days. This time of year is called Lent. Lent prepares us for Easter. If they didn't use them up they would be all hard and would have gone off. We also burned the palm leaves from Palm Sunday last year. We burned them because it's Ash Wednesday tomorrow and we will get the ashes on our forehead.   

MY MANTRA

In room 5 we have been doing Mantras. A Mantra is an inspiring message that we choose. Here is mine.        

Pepeha

            

Ko Maungawhu tōku maunga

Ko Te Moana -Nui-A-Kiwa tōku moana

Ko Aotearoa tōku iwa

Nō Auckland ahau

Ko Te Hepara Pai tōku

Ko Susan tōku mama

Ko Peter tōku papa

Ko Lucy tōku ingoa 

CAMP

On the 28th of January all of the year sixes at Good Shepherd School went to camp. We went to Merc in long bay. When we go there we went to chose our bunks I chose the bottom bunk next to the window. then we got into our groups. I was in the orcas. Our first activity was Orienteering then we did raft building. In raft building we built a raft using wood, barrels and rope. The when we had done we went in the water and tried it out. It was a success our raft did float. My favourite activities were  the giants ladder and sailing. On Thursday we had the talent show me and my friend did the not my hands challenge makeup edition. There were amazing acts. Unfortunately we did not win but the people who did win were awesome. On Friday at 1.00 we were loading up the cars and going back to school. I was sad but thankful for the this awesome camp. 

Sun smart

Today in health we learnt about being sun smart. We learnt about skin cancer, the ozone layer and to slip slop slap wrap and slide. We created posters about being sun smart. I liked learning about skin cancer and the ozone layer. Leaning about this has made me more aware of  how the sun can be dangerous and how we can protect ourselves.  

Room 5 puzzle

This week is my first week in Room Five and we have made a puzzle. It means that of there is one piece missing there will be no Room Five .We have also been learning about Lunar New Year. We learnt about the Chinese zodiac I am the year of the rat. We made cool dragon masks for  Chinese new year. We also voted for the house captain. At our school we have for houses there is Hillary, Cowley, Sheppard and Blake.  Blake is the house i'm in and I ran for house captain. After we had finished voting the announced the winners and they said me!!!!!. This week was awesome.