Puzzle

In Room 6 we have been working on this puzzle 
for a long time and its finished. I had fun 
working on the puzzle with my classmates. 
 I hope we can do it in my new class next year.

Passport tasks interview

In topic I am doing an Interview with someone
 about there favorite NZ singer, Once Im done
 I am going to make it into a Interview. This is it:

Who was your fave NZ singer?
DD smash

Why did you like them?
They made good songs

If band, who were the members?
Dave Dobbyn and the drummer 

How old are they now?
In there 60's

What were some of there songs?
Magic what she do and out look for thursday

What was there top song?
Slice of heaven

Facts?
DD stands for Dave Dobbyn and smash is what the 
drummer called himself because he liked to smash
 the drums.  Dave Dobbyn went to sacred heart.

Logos

In Math we have made up 3 different logos
 for pretend companies.  We all made a slide
 show with all 3 logos the companies were: 
Sweeties, the company that makes sugar free
 lollies.  Dudes, The company that make cool
 clothes especially for primary students and
 Gadgets: That allow you to make your own
 toys. It was really fun and I hope we can do
 it again!

Graduation mass

On Wednesday we all went to mass for
 the Graduation to celebrate the Year 
6's leaving.  All the Year 5's got a 
candle from the Year 6's Because 
next year the Year 5's will be Year 6's!

Christmas cards

Today we made Christmas cards and they turned out really well,
I'm looking forward to giving the card to my parents.
This is what they look like:

Eating Edible Insects

Eating Edible Bugs 

By : Emelia

I am learning to persuade my audience

Have you run out of dinner Ideas? How about

 making a meal with meal worm fries, then a 

cricket salad. Your third course is chocolate

 covered crickets! I strongly recommend that

 you start cooking with insects. For most people 

even thinking about eating bugs make them say 

“YUCK” with disgust. My challenge for you is 

to try bugs. Bugs will give you a healthy diet

 and their are so many fun and tasty treats you

 can prepare with bugs.

Just think outside the box. Meal worm fries, 

chocolate covered crickets and scorpion

 lollipops these are just a few things you can 

make and they are a super quick and easy

 afternoon snack. Did you know that some bugs

 actually tend to taste a bit nutty and crickets

 taste like nutty shrimp. But, what are the health

 benefits we can get through eating bugs?

There are lots of health benefits you can get

 through eating bugs, bugs are actually quite 

nutritious and you can gain lots from them

 like carbs, protein, fiber, vitamins, essential

 minerals, and healthy fats, but you won't gain

 weight by eating insects because they don’t

 have calories. Grasshoppers and Crickets are

 rich in protein and you can find them pretty

 much anywhere. Still not convinced? Maybe

 creative dinners will change your mind!

Caramel cricket cheesecake, wax worm tacos,

 carrot worm soup, ginger cricket cookies,

 tarantula gummy bears, spicy cricket fritter 

and so many more. These are all creative 

cooking ideas. You could make a three course

 meal with all these Ideas. The appetizer would

 be mini spicy cricket fritters, the entree would

 be carrot and worm soup, the meal would be 

wax worm tacos and then the desert would be

 caramel cricket cheesecake! You could probably

 make even more delicious meals with bugs. 

Lots of countries like Thailand, Mexico, China 

, Australia and Brazil are all countries that cook 

with insects.

As you can see, there are many reasons why you

 should cook with insects, like tasty treats, health

 benefits, and creative cooking! Insects are a fun 

and tasty quick snack that you can eat at any time. 

You can eat as much as you like but not put on any 

weight and they are protein rich! You can make

 amazing dishes like caramel cricket cheesecake

 and wax worm tacos and more! I hope now, you

 will take the time, to try insects!

Christmas craft

Today all the year 5's from room 9 and 5 got to color a bird as a Christmas ornament to hang up on their Christmas tree we got to pick a bird with so many patterns and I chose this bird. I chose this bird also because it has Maori patterns and it also represents our culture Aotearoa.

Passport tasks

In topic we have been learning about NZ music month,
 this is a poster of a fictional music festival at my school.
 I worked hard on it and now it is finished!

Athletics day

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 definitely long jump!

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 6 Assembley

"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.

Irish dancing

In Irish dancing we had to train and train for weeks before we got to perform at the cultural Festival, But it was still so much fun learning jump to 3's and 7's! I was so nervous before we went on stage to perform but once it finished I wanted to do it all over again! I would love to do Irish dancing again next year!

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
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 when we peformed on the stage, before
we went on butterflies were in my tummy! But they went away
when we started to sing.

communion of saints slideshow

Our focus 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.

Passport tasks

 In topic we have been looking at
Music month. I have made a Tri poster
representing Music Month with the years
1999, 2019, 3036. For each year I said 
who was the top singer or top band and
find out information about them This is what
Mine looks like:

Year 5 retreat

 All the Year 5's went on Retreat, We 
did prayers treasure hunts and my 
favorite activity leaf matching!  
Leaf matching is when we were put
 with a buddy and we were given a 
leaf and we had to find a matching 
leaf and the tree it came from.  
We had lots of fun at Retreat, Here
are some pictures:

Success criteria

In Writing, we have been learning to write a
persuasive piece of writing.  We have
co-constructed our success criteria
together.  Here is our introduction criteria
checklist.

Weaving mat

In R.E we all made mats, 

this is what they say:

All saints 1st

The kingdom of god

Church of heaven

Church of earth

Pray for us

Change our ways

Face parts in Manderin

                                          Face parts in Mandarin

Hair - Tou fa
Ears - er dou
Nose - Bizi
Mouth - Zui ba
Face - Lian
Eyes - Yan jing

Waka

            

This is our boat. We all got to decorate a person and 

write a word on our paddle, things like, Joyful, 

Kind and helpful and stuff.  It was very fun and

 this is what part of it looked like.

Kia Kaha Shield

In topic we made Kia Kaha shields which say who we
 are unique and how our class is unique.  I had lots of
fun coloring and writing it.

Multiplication poster

This is my Multiplication poster.

All the questions are word problems that are all 6x7

Healthy drinking poster

A few weeks ago me and one of my friends made a healthy
drinking poster in health.  We wrote amounts of sugar
in some unhealthy drinks and then on the other side we
wrote down how much sugar was in healthy drinks like
water and healthy all fruit smoothies.

Weather Graph

In room 6 we picked Countries and once a week in math class
we would check the temperature and put it onto a slide show.
At the end of the few weeks we put them on graphs, that you
will see at the end of the slideshow.

Mini BB fair

A few weeks ago we held a mini
 Books and baking fair.I bought
 books and some baking it was 
lots and lots of fun.  I hope we 
can hold another fair soon. 
You could buy cupcakes brownies 
lolly cake and much much more.
There were so many books as well.

Mandarin class

   Every Friday Miss Lee comes into every classroom 
 and she teaches us mandarin.  We have learnt songs
 phrases and conversations. It has been so much fun
 learning mandarin this term and I hope we continue
next term.

Writing competion

Mollie the Mermaid

Mollie the Mermaid sits by the ocean on the sand every day for 

hours. She dreams of what it would be like with legs. She wishes

 as hard as she possibly can with her magic pearl, but still does 

not have legs. She dove back into the water and swam deep 

in the sea to her underwater cave. She lay down on her luxury 

seaweed bed and dreams of having legs. When she awakes she

 still has a tail, she swims up to the surface and as soon as she

 reaches land she has legs. She does not believe it, she dives

 into the water then she has tail she goes on land, she has legs.

 She decides to wander on land, She reaches a small town. 

Wobble to the right wobble to the left! She realizes legs are 

very hard to use indeed. She fell right into a shop window

 and the glass shatters. She runs back to the ocean as fast as

 she possibly could so she would not get into trouble! She 

dives into the water and BOOM she gains her tail! She is

 so happy and she sneaks back up to the beach and realizes 

she did not get legs. It seems the wishing pearl only gave

 her a day as a human. I guess she preferred her tail anyway.

 She lay on the beach and watched the sunset as she fall asleep.

Whakatauki poster

This is my poster of Whakatauki. This is what my
 poster says:

Nau te rourou                       With your food basket
NaKu te rourou                     With my food basket
Ka ora manuhiri                    The visitors will be fed

Hangi Diorama

For the past few days my partner I made a diorama of the hangi.
I made clay food and clay fire.  I had help making a Marae and
a food basket.  We glued people into the diorama and this is
the finished result, but we also wrote how to make a hangi.

Cultural week

Last week everyone was sorted into a country or place. I was put in Brazil,
we made masks, we learnt samba dancing and it was so much fun.  I am
 looking forward to next years Cultural week.

Kiwi Writing

New Zealand's Native Kiwi Bird 

I am learning to inform my audience using an information report

What's brown, soft, and native bird to New Zealand? Yes, you guessed it

 the Kiwi bird! The Kiwi is a flightless bird and it just so happens to be 

one of New Zealand's native birds. Did you know that the female kiwi 

is heavier than the male kiwi, and the size of the kiwi egg is about 6

 times the size of a chickens egg! The closest relatives to the kiwi 

today is the Elephant bird from Madagascar, Emus, and the

 Cassowaries of Australia. Kiwis are one of the smallest and 

rarest birds in New Zealand. Most people think there is only one

 Kiwi specie, but actually there are 5 different species. The Great 

Spotted Kiwi, Little Spotted Kiwi, North Island Brown Kiwi, 

Okarito Kiwi, and the Southern Brown Kiwi. In order to 

understand the kiwi we need to explore the importance of

 their diet, their habitat and take a look at the population of the kiwi.


Diet: Kiwis have a wide range of food that they like to munch

 on such as, worms, grubs, bugs, berries, and seeds that they

 find. Did you know Kiwis are the only birds that have nostrils 

at the end of their beaks so they can sense food from far away. 

 They also may eat fruit, small crayfish, eels, and small amphibians. 

Kiwis have a highly developed sense of smell, unusual in a bird.

 For a kiwi to survive they need to have food and water, that can 

be provided in their habitat. 

Habitat: Where do Kiwis live? Well kiwis can be found throughout

 New Zealand, across the North Island and South Island, right down

 to Stewart Island. Kiwis prefer natural habitats and would not make

 a good house pet. Kiwis don't require a pristine habitat but prefer

 the native forests of New Zealand. They can be found in scrub

 and rough farmland, exotic plantation, sand dunes, and snowy

 tussocks. Kiwis live in a huge range of habitats. However not

 every habitat is safe for the kiwi this leads us into the predators

 of the kiwi.


Predators: There are many threats to the kiwi as their habitats

 are on the forest floor. Some of these threats include stoats,

 cats, wild pigs, dogs and ferrets. At one point there was an

 average of 27 kiwis killed every week! That impacted on the

 population of the kiwi with around 1,400 kiwis dying every

 year. At this rate kiwis may disappear in our lifetime. A single

 roaming stray could take away an entire kiwi population in a 

matter of days. Luckily there are Kiwi sanctuaries where 

kiwis go and get protected from predators.

In conclusion Kiwis may disappear in our lifetime with the way

 where heading. But with Kiwi sanctuaries, and if we all set our 

minds to it we can all help save The Kiwi, and keep them for a

 long, long time. To do this we need to keep them in their natural 

habitat, have food and water and keeping them far away from

 predators. I hope we will all save the Kiwi so that future 

generations will know and love our national bird.

The Duck Billed Eagle

In Reading we each made a bird. We choose the head, beak, tail, and feet.
  Once we finished we wrote on the poster why we choose the body parts,
 What our bird eats and its environment it stays in. We also said why we
choose the colors. I called my bird The Duck Billed Eagle. I had lots of
 fun designing my bird.

Art crosses

In room 6 we have been painting our crosses for the fence. We first had to draft our design on a piece of paper 3 or 4 times. Then we did our final copy with colors. This is how it turned out...

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 learn

t 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 the amazing experiment.

The 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 realized 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 colors 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

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.

Online 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.

Title: St Mary Mackillop’s Feast Day

Label: Religious Education
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…

Whakataoki

In Maori we have been learning about a 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 Matthew: 14.

Vertebrates

 In room 6 we have been learning to classify animals. Scientists classify

 animals and plants into groups in order to easily identify, sort, and name

 them.

Classify=SORT

There are many different ways to group living organisms.

You can classify animals into two main groups. Vertebrate 

or Invertebrate. 

All vertebrates have...

.Covering of skin that protects them

. Skeleton inside their body

. Muscles that help them move

. Blood moves through tubes

. Lungs or gills for breathing

Invertebrates

.90%  of animals are invertebrates

. Tend to be small because they do not have a backbone.

. Many live in the ocean because the water supports their weight

. Some have a hard covering or a shell on the outside of their bodys

for protection

-Insects, spiders, crabs, snails, clams

   

Private and public information

Figurative Language Poster

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 Road Show

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.  

Zip Zap Avenue

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

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 saw us 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

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 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.