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: