Haiku Poems at Writing

Haiku Poems

This term room 6 has been learning about all the different types of poems. Each week we have been sent off to write a specific poem. This week we got to write a haiku poem which is originally from Japan. A haiku is usually written about nature. Here is my haiku.

Chickens, Cows and Cats

Chickens go cluck, cluck

Cows like going moo, moo, moo

And cats just go meow.

Year Five Retreat

Retreat

On 31st October all the year fives from Good Shepherd School went to the St Francis Retreat Centre to learn more about God. We started off with a prayer and lit small candles. Then we got into pairs and played the leaf game. I was with Sophie and we had to find the right tree that matches it's leaves. We had morning tea and then did a fun scavenger hunt around the garden. We had to stick together until we finished. We had lunch and played around for a bit until we had to go back to school. Everyone had such a fun time thanks to St Francis Retreat Centre! Here are some photos.

Calendar Art

This is my 2019 Calendar art. Get ready for 2020!

Good Shepherd School Fair

The Monsters are coming...

The GSS Speech Finals

Speech Finals

On Wednesday 4th September it was the Good Shepherd School speech finals. I was one of the 3 finalists and it was my 1st time presenting a speech to the whole school. I was very nervous but excited for this moment. The other 2 finalists were Coco from room 9 and Miranda from room 6. All 3 of us were shaking when listening to the younger kids present their speeches. When it was my turn they announced my speech topic was about me being vertically challenged. It was so much fun and I ended up coming 2nd from my year group. Miranda came first and Mia was our overall winner. I had so much fun. Here are some pictures.

Performing Arts in Pumanuwa

Pumanawa

This term all of good shepherd school started pumanawa. There were multiple choices such as performing, cartooning and kitchen science. On every Monday evening of term 3 we go to a classroom and start learning things. I am doing Performing and we have been learning 2 songs called a million dreams and Ka Waiata. Here are some pictures.

Mixed Media, Visual Arts

You Hold the Future in your Hands

In Term 2 our Visual Arts focused was on Mixed Media. We finally finished our pieces of art at the end of the term. We started off by creating two hands, most of us copied our own hands as templates. One hand represents our past and the other hand our future. We used lots of different materials and symbols to make our artwork as well as exploring a range of different techniques with watercolour paint. This is my art work.

Hockey With Sport NZ

Hockey

On Friday we had so much fun with Sport NZ as they came in to teach us hockey.  We got to do warm up and drills with the hockey sticks and played against each other in teams.  We are already looking forward to next Friday’s session. Here are a couple of pictures: 

St Mary Mackillop's feast day

St. Mary Mackillop

A celebration for Good Shepherd School in Week 3 was the Feast Day of Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop.  St Mary MacKillop a vital part of Good Shepherd School, this is because she was the founder of the Josephites aka the Brown Joes.  The Brown Joes travelled all over Australia and New Zealand helping the poor and those in need. They built schools and that is how we are all students at Good Shepherd School. We celebrated the Feast day by going to a Mass for St Mary of the Cross and also having fun with our buddy class Room 4 as we worked on a St Mary MacKillop Art project.  

Cook Island Week

Cook Islands

Week 3 has been a very busy week with so many celebrations. Good Shepherd School celebrates our multicultural school with our Cook Island Language focus.  We looked at the culture through our reading and made fun fact files. We were also lucky to have Alessandra and the cultural leaders teach us a Pure (prayer) to sing. 

We learnt Aro’a mai te Atua iaku.  See if you can sing this pure too.

Aro’a mai te Atua iaku. 

Aro’a mai te Atua iaku 

I te au mea taku kite nei 

Te anuanua kua iti mai ki roto iaku 

Aro’a mai te Atua iaku 

My God loves me 

My God loves me 

And all the wonders I see 

The rainbow shines through my window 

My God loves me 

Room 6's Prayers

Prayers

Room 6 hosted whole school prayers. Our theme was The Gift of Faith. We did sang a song called ‘Open the Eyes of My Heart’ Zara, Maggie and I made hand actions for the class. There were also people who did the prayers of the faithful. Overall prayers was a big success and everyone enjoyed it.  

Here is a pictures of our prayers.

Room 6's Assembly

Assembly

Last week Room 6 performed their assembly. Our main entertainment was a drama circle on occupations. We also displayed our mixed media we made in term 2. Some people also shared about what they put on their art and why. We all had so much fun preparing and presenting our assembly.

Here are some pictures of our assembly.

Babysitting Eggs

Eggsitting

Last week we learnt how to be responsible by having homework which was egg-sitting. This was all part of the 'Keeping ourselves safe' program. The instructions were to take care an egg as if it was a baby. We could not break it so, we all made our eggs a little house to prevent it from breaking. When we were at school we had to put the egg in daycare (on a table) and when we were at home we had fun with the egg. This was such an egg-citing challenge and luckily I didn't crack my egg like some people.

Here is a photo of me with my egg.

My Violin Lessons

Violin

Every Thursdays my friends and I take violin lessons. We have an amazing teacher who is one of my classmates aunty and she is very nice. We learn how to play different songs and we learn the basics of violin. I took lots of music lessons in the past by myself but having music lessons with my friends is way better. Here are some photos of us.

GSS Book Week 2019

Book Week

Room 6 was hungry for books during our book week. We had a whole week celebrating all things books. We had author visits from Stu Duval and James Russell. Stu presented workshops on storytelling, cartooning and writing. James shared his books and told us stories. We did lots of cool book week activities in class like making dust jacket covers, wanted posters, bookmarks and story cubes. Finally our favourite day arrived, Friday. We got to dress up as our favourite characters and partake in the literacy treasure hunt. Overall book week is a fantastic week every year. Room 6 LOVES BOOK WEEK! My book week character was Bellatrix Lestrange.
Here are some photos from our time.

The Water Cycle

The Water Cycle
I am learning to inform my audience through an explanation
By: Jiwoo

When you take a nice long shower do you ever stop to think where all this water comes from? Well water has been on Earth for billions of years thanks to an amazing thing called the water cycle. A cycle is a set of steps that repeat over and over again. The water cycle can recycle water! There are three main parts of the water cycle which is precipitation, evaporation and condensation! Without even one of these steps the whole cycle wouldn't work! Starting off with precipitation.

Precipitation is when water droplets fall from the sky in the form of rain, snow, sleet or hail.The temperature of the air tells us what form of water it will take. Water that falls straight into lakes or rivers is called streamflow. When the water falls into a lake or a river, it will soon turn up in the ocean. Rain that fall onto the dry ground is called surface runoff. The water underneath the ground is called groundwater. After all that happens it is time for evaporation to take place.

Evaporation is when water from the ocean turns into a really strange substance called water vapour. The heat of the sun can turn water from the ocean into water vapour which is a type of gas. When you see a boiling kettle and all that gray stuff comes out do you think thats gas? Do you think you can see gas? Well gas is invisible so the thing you are seeing is actually is steam. Water vapour goes up into the sky to make a cloud. When all that is finished it is condensations turn.

Condensation is the process when water vapour cools down and turns into water again. The water then starts to form clouds which causes the cloud to get bigger and heavier. As the cloud turns grey it starts getting full of water and… Water droplets fall from it! Let me tell you something really cool we started off with water droplets falling from the sky and here we are now, water droplets!

In conclusion water we use everyday gets recycled by something called the water cycle and the three main parts of it is precipitation known as rain, evaporation known as water vapour and condensation known as clouds. The water cycle has the responsibility to recycle water but, we have the responsibility to stop wasting water.

GSS's Cross Country 2019

Cross Country

Good Shepherd School had been busy training for cross country this term and finally the day arrived.  In week 6 we all arrived at school in our running gear and had our house colours painted onto us. We were eager and ready to go and win house point.  Overall the race was long and required a lot of stamina, but we were prepared. Here are some pictures from our races.

(Not me)

Watercare

Water, water everywhere! On Friday of week 6, we were lucky to have Sally from Watercare come to teach us more about the water. We did a drama activity and experiments. Firstly we examined the process that water goes through to become drinkable water in our households. Our drama was based on the process that the water goes through to be cleaned. We were the water going through each stage. We had so much fun as we ventured around the school. Once we learnt how water is cleaned we then had to try and clean the dirty water ourselves. We had to create a filter system in partners. My partner was my best friend Maggie. We had to do four different tests for our experiments. We experimented with a range of filters to try and test which filter system was the best. We had lots of fun learning.

    

Samoan Language Week

This week was Samoan Language Week. In Room 6 we learnt a lot about Samoa and the Samoan culture. We watched videos which taught us about Samoan language. We learnt how to say the alphabet, animals and body parts in Samoan! We also learnt that the Samoan alphabet only had 17 letters. At reading time we went on a scavenger hunt to look for clues about the Samoan culture and made it into a puzzle. Here are some pictures.

Learning how to Measure in Maths

Measuring

On Thursday for maths room 6 learnt about measurement. We learnt about areas and perimeters. First we had a metre square and we saw how many people can fit in the square. 4 people could sit in the square comfortably. We then estimated how big is the classroom. We got a variety of estimates but the answer was around 85 metres. We had lots of fun doing this. Here are some pictures.

Science in a Van

This week was science week in our school and science in a van came over. They taught us about the periodic table and showed us lots of fun and interesting science experiments. We even got to see a cloud close up indoors! We had lots of fun. Here are some photos.

Science about the Water Cycle

The Water Cycle

This term room 6 has been learning about the Water cycle. We did lots of fun science experiments with balloons. Here are some pictures.

Baptism and the Holy Spirit

Our Pyramids

For R.E room 6 has been busy making these colourful triangles that show us the three gifts of God. Faith, Hope and Love. We also learnt about Baptism and the Holy Spirit. You receive the gifts of God when you are baptised. Here is my triangle.

The Season of Easter

My Pinwheel

Room 6 has been learning about Easter and has been making pinwheels that show us different illustrations that involves Easter. I made a pinwheel and here it is.

The Water Cycle

Water Cycle

This term the class has been working on the water cycle. We have learnt about the 3 main stages which are Precipitation, Evaporation and Condensation. Here is a picture to show our learning.

My Sunsmart Poster

My Poster

For topic we have been learning about staying sunsmart. We all got into teams of 2 and we made a poster about one of the slip, slop, slap and wrap. I got paired up with Matthew and we made a poster about hats. Here it is.

My Growth Mindset Research

My Research about Rosa Park

For reading our class have been busy researching about famous people who have had a growth mindset. I got to learn about Rosa Parks and she really inspired me. After we have done the researching we made displays that hold stories about that person. Here is mine.

The Fairy Forest Brochure

My Fairy Forest Brochure

Room 6 has made amazing brochures about sunsmart but we have also been making some other awesome brochures. Mine is about a made up place called 'The Fairy Forest.' This is my brochure.

My Sunsmart Brochure

Sunsmart Brochure

At writing time in room 6 we have been making brochures about staying sunsmart and knowing what to do in the sun. Here is some information: In New Zealand, the summer is the most dangerous season of the year.That is because our ozone layer is failing. The only way to stay safe is to be sunsmart. Staying sunsmart is when you know what to do in the sun. Did you know you can get skin cancer if you get burnt too much? We have learnt that staying sunsmart is so important. This is my brochure.

Up, Up and Away - Dr Seuss

Up, Up and Away

This is my hot air balloon that I created to show that our goals are going to take up to new heights.

Growth Mindset - Goal Bunting

Goal Bunting

Everyone in room 6 has made a bunting triangle to show our growth mindset goal and motto that we want to work on. Come and check them out!