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.