limerick poem

Around the corner there's a frog

That likes to sit on lots of logs

I think there is something wrong

The string is very long

We need to find a very good dog

Every Christmas we go to mass

It's a time to give and be happy

We all eat tasty food

Spend time with family

We can be kind and help each other 

Acrostic Poem

Brilliant day

Interested when waking up

Really excited

The day flies by

Has lots of good moments 

Doesn't make you sad

Amazing friends

Yelling happy birthday

Poppy is really cute 

Over barking all the time
Perfect soft coat
Playing all the time
Yay she's sleeping

Calendar Art

Good Shepherd school fair 2019

The MONSTERS are coming....

DUN DUN DUNN ah!

Marae trip

On Wednesday the 28th of August the whole school went to a Marae. We were welcomed into the Marae and then we all sat down. The school council did the hongi with some of the members at the Marae. We all heard a story about a Maori man that used a stingray to get to New Zealand. Then we all had morning tea. After that, we learned a dance. Then we went outside and the year 5 and 6 boys did a haka. After that we headed back to school.

Procedure Writing

       

How to blow Bubblegum




By Aidan

I am learning to write a procedural text for our audience to follow.
Materials:
A piece of bubblegum, Hubba Bubba
Mouth

Step 1: Take one piece of Hubba Bubba grape gum and unwrap the gum

Step 2: Place the gum into your mouth and make sure the wrapper goes into the bin.

Step 3: Bite down on the gum, pushing the gum to one side of your mouth

Step 4: Chew until gum is stretchy

Step 5: Wrap the gum around your tongue

Step 6: Push your tongue through the gum but don't make a hole in the gum



Step 7: Seal your mouth and blow and a bubble should appear

Visual Arts

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 watercolor paint. This is my art work.

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 Feast day

Another 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 traveled 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.

Whole School Prayers

On Monday the 5th of August Room 6 hosted whole school prayers. Our theme was The Gift of Faith. We did a song called ‘Open the Eyes of My Heart’ and Jiwoo, Zara and Maggie made hand actions for us. There were also people who did the prayers of the faithful. Overall prayers was a big success and everyone enjoyed it.

Cook Island Language Week

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 say/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

Assembly Term 3

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.

Water Cycle

How the Water Cycle Works.
I am learning to inform my audience through an explanation

By Aidan
What liquid has been on earth since the dinosaurs roamed and every human needs to survive? Yes, water. Did you know that three quarters of the earth is covered in water and from all that water 97 percent is salt water. That leaves only 3 percent of our water to be freshwater and only 1 percent is actually drinkable. But the water we have now, is the only water we have ever had. How is that possible, you may ask, well that’s because of the water cycle. The water cycle has three main stages. Evaporation, condensation and precipitation. These three stages make the water cycle possible and keep us alive. The first step of this of this interesting cycle is evaporation.

Evaporation is the first step of the water cycle. After it rains there are water puddles on the ground and water has fallen into lakes and streams. But after some time the puddles are gone and the ground is dry again. This is because the heat from the sun has heated the water, turning the water into steam and eventually into water vapor. Water vapor is the water from the ground, lakes and the ocean evaporating into the air. If you look at a boiling kettle you will be able to see the water turning into water vapor. At this moment, the atoms in the water get crazy and move super fast. This is because of the heat in the kettle boiling the water. When you see the water vapor disappearing it means that it is turning into gas. This is an example of evaporation. When the water rises, it leads us into condensation.

The process of condensation is when the gas forms together and makes clouds. The water vapor get cooler in the atmosphere and the vapor start turning into tiny water droplets again. The droplets reconnect and appear in the form of clouds. It's like when you take a hot shower. The vapor rising and water droplets collecting on the ceiling. When condensation happens, the gas in the clouds are cooling down. Then the water starts turning into a liquid again. The clouds then lead us into precipitation.

The third step of this interesting cycle is precipitation. When the gas cools down in the clouds the water changes back into a liquid, producing rains. Other possible forms of precipitation are snow, sleet and hail. If you get a see thru cup with boiling water and glad wrap with some ice on top you just might see rain in the cup. This is a good example of precipitation. When it rains the soil and streams collects the water which makes groundwater.

This is a complex but very easy cycle to understand. It starts when the water heats up through evaporation and forms clouds which lead to condensation and precipitation. If one of the stages are removed, there would be no water for us to drink and to use for our plants. Without water we would be in a lot of trouble. So it is important to not waste our water.

R.E Spreading the Good News

On Friday the 21st of June room six looked at the journey of Paul in R.E. He did three missions to spread the word about Jesus. At the end of his third journey he was arrested in Jerusalem and was taken to Rome.

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:Harry Potter

                                  

Here are some photos from our time:  

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 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. 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. 

Cross Country 2019

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 colors 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.

Eden Albert Football

On Tuesday the 21st of May 2019 some of the year 5 and 6 students went to Eden Albert Football.  We tied two game and lost three.  It was really fun even though we never scored a goal but we almost scored three goals.  We left at 1:00 pm but we still enjoyed the rest of the day.

Science In a Van

Science In a Van

In week two on Friday science in a van came to teach us about balance and the periodic table.They balanced things with the bottoms being small and the tops being big.They also did some experiments and other cool things such as the periodic table.

Science Water Cycle

This week in we made the water cycle in a plastic bag. We did a drawing on the outside of the plastic.   Then we filled up a quarter of it with water and put food coloring in it.

R.E Pyramids

In R.E we have created pyramids there are four sides three of them are faith, hope and love the other says baptism and the holy spirit.Faith ,hope and love are the three gifts from God. Individually we made our pyramids.

R.E Wheel

In R.E we have been learning abut the Easter season.We have all created wheels about the Easter season.All of us have done the best wheels we can.

The Water Cycle

This term room six is going to be learning about the water cycle.We have all already done some research about this amazing cycle.All of us have been watching videos,researching the internet to find out more about the cycle.

Reading Growth Mindset

This term for reading we have been doing growth mindset.We have been researching on celebrities who had a growth mindset and put our knowledge on to paper and then stapled the sheets of paper to a laminated picture of the celebrities we have been working on.

Brochures

In term 1 2019 room 6 have been making sun smart brochures in writing time.We have been describing how important it is to be sun smart. We also have been able to do free choice brochures.

Up Up and Away Dr Seuss

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

Growth Mindset Goal Bunting

Each student 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.

Jesus Strand Religious Education

During term 1 we have been learning about Jesus the Son of God.This is my cube on how Jesus showed us that God loved us all as his children.We are all blessed with the gifts of faith,hope and love.

St Joseph's Day Tabloid Sports

Tuesday 19th March was St Joseph’s Day Feast Day. The whole school attended mass to celebrate the leadership Saint Joseph showed. Saint Joseph is also special to our school because Saint MacKillop and the Sisters of St Joseph were inspired by Saint Joseph. Saint Joseph is also the foster father of Jesus. The following day, the whole school came together to celebrate with fun tabloid sports in our houses. We all got to play so many fun and exciting games. Thank you to our leaders who prepared this.

My Accident Story

The Accident Known as the Broken Arm 

February 2019 

Aidan 

I am learning to entertain my audience through a recount. 

The moment that this accident had occurred, I was six years old and I had a very clumsy brain. I tried to keep my clumsy brain hidden as I never wanted to show it, until one day I did show that strange brain of mine. This is how it all started. 

It was a typical Saturday evening, my friend Jack and I were bouncing on his trampoline, with no NET! Yes, that’s right the trampoline was netless. When suddenly his sister came out with a ball. Of course Jack and I wanted to have a turn of the ball. He jumped off the edge, over the bar. I watched and trust me he looked like a boss when he did it. He got the ball, I thought to myself that looked easy and because I had done it before I knew I could do it. I also wanted to look like a boss too, but that didn’t end up being the case.

I raced to the edge bar, jumped … at this point I was thinking I was fine, but I wasn’t fine. I fall down to the death of my arm, without me noticing sadly. Suddenly SMACK! My arm hit the ground and my eyes bursted in tears of sadness. I was lying on the ground as Jack’s mum came out. I got on a chair and sat down suddenly his mum came to rescue me with... an ice pack while she put on a movie to calm me down. 

In the middle of the night I couldn’t sleep, my arm was so uncomfortable! When I got home I told my mum, that my arm felt really weird. I had to waited four whole days till I went to the doctors. I got an x-ray and found out I had broken my arm. I couldn’t get a cast because i had broken my arm near my shoulder so I got a sling. Weirdly when I got to school people started asking me how i sprained arm.There was a lot of storytelling to tell to lots of people but I survived. In the end all i can say is that I didn’t look like a boss.

Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday

Today was Ash Wednesday. We went to church and sang some hymns, got the ashes on our foreheads, sung happy birthday to a little girl starting school on her birthday! We then went up and got a blessing.

We did make an attempt to keep our ashes on our foreheads, but that was a fail due to swimming and itching it off. We had a good day and hope everyone else did to. During the lent season we have to remember to pray, almsgiving and helping others. else did to. During the lent season we have to remember to pray, almsgiving and helping others.
This year I am focusing on Helping out around the house more

Shrove Tuesday

Shrove Tuesday

Tuesday was Shrove Tuesday. We all had a great day in room 6. The festivities started with the burning of the ashes on the turf. This was a new and exciting experience that not many of us had seen before.

Later on during Religious Education we learnt more about Shrove Tuesday and Lent. People used to get rid of all their luxury items such as flour, sugar, butter, eggs and milk by making pancakes. We were even able to enjoy some pancakes of our own. We all thought it was a great start to lent and we are looking forward to the lenten season as we prepare for the death and resurrection of Jesus. We are the season of Lent and it is a time of preparation.

Swimming sports

Swimming sports


Room 6 had a wonderful day at swimming sports. When we all went to the turf we split up into our houses. Thank you Sharyn and parents for helping us with the non competitive swimming and competitive. Also thank you parents for coming along and supporting your children. Good shepherd students thank the teachers very warmly, as every year as they set up and prepare this event for us. I’m sure that every student enjoyed the event. I saw everyone compete with my own eyes and they all did well. The people who lost don’t have to be sad because they should be grateful they got a swim in the warm weather also because there’s always time and effort to improve.

Orange Shine Day

Shine Week

A sea of orange flood Good Shepherd School on Friday the 8th of March. This week was shine week. We raise money to help people whose lives are affected domestic violence. In support we all wore orange clothes and brought a gold coin donation to help the charity. Here are some pictures: