Piece Of The Puzzle

This year everyone is the piece in room 6. we all did puzzle a puzzle and we are the

piece of the puzzle and this is what we did....

Best Hits From The Past And Present

Symmetry

Maths Algebra

In maths we have been learning algebra and i have been doing well this is my favourite page.....

Sports Assembly

Last Friday we had a sports assembly to congratulate the people who came a place in the athletics and to watch the Irish dancing, Kapa haka, and the choir.

Graduation mass

on Wednesday we had graduation mass where we celebrated the year leaving but everyone was sad all the year fives got a candle from the year sixes i got mine from Maxine.

Christmas Cards

Every Friday for the past 3 weeks we have been making silhouettes here is mine............

 

Katchafire

Tasty Yummy Insects

Tasty Yummy Insects

I am learning to persuade my audience using persuasive writing and emotive words

By: Xavier 

Have you run out of dinner ideas and your mum can't be bothered making dinner? Then you should try insects, but too much people judge a bug by it's looks even though they have never tried bugs and when they do, they actually like them. There are loads of reasons why we should eat insects in our diet like how bugs are low in fat, and healthy, tasty yummy treats and you be creative with recipes from all over the world.

Everyone has a sweet tooth when they see something yummy in there life, so then you should try insects for dessert one day and see if you like it. So why shouldn't you have a bug or two sometimes? You could try a scorpion lollipop,w chocolate cockroach, wax worm taco, your choice. And it even shows that 80% of people around the world like bugs. Insects taste nutty, especially crickets. Not only is cooking with insects a tasty treat but you can also cook and eat bugs without the guilt because they are really healthy and a good option. 

There are healthy benefits to eating bugs like how they are healthy and high in protein. Like how caterpillars are rich in minerals, Vitamins, Zinc, phosphorus, and iron. Grasshoppers and crickets are rich in protein plus there are around 900 species of crickets and 11,000 known species of grasshoppers. As well as knowing how healthy they are you need to know how to cook them and get creative with them.

What is another type of fries and is finger licking good? If you said french fries from your local fish and chips store sounds nice but you're definitely wrong, Meal worm fries now that's probably a new word to you. Mouth watering food like chocolate covered crickets, scorpion lollipops, wax worm tacos are all healthy so you can eat them without getting heavier because it's low in calories and plus there are thousands of recipes from all over the world like Thailand, Australia, Mexico, China and Brazil, so that's why you should eat insects.

As you can see these are the reasons why you should eat insects because you can taste meals that taste like it was made by a famous chef like Gordon Ramsay, but like I said not only does it taste like it was made by a pro chef it also has healthy benefits like how many minerals and vitamins are in them. Plus you can taste insects like they were made in different countries. So in conclusion I believe that you, yes you should at least try an insect.

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 were 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 the Haka and when the leader couldn't even catch up with us

Athletics

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

Saint Anthony Of Padua

Praying

During R.E we have been learning about the living, purgatory and heaven about how they all connect and how people that are living pray to people in heaven and purgatory, purgatory pray to heaven and living, and heaven pray to the people in purgatory and the living and heres what we did...

 

Year 5 Retreat

On Friday the second of November all the year fives went to saint Francis retreat center we did a lot of activities like a treasure hunt we each got in groups of six and got clues to find a saint, and the second one was leaf matching where we picked a leaf from a bowl and matched them up and this was my group for my treasure hunt...

Success criteria

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

Maori Names

In maori we have been learning the maori whether and the names and heres my page

Paper Weaves

Today in RE we have been making paper weaves and we wrote things about Jesus and the church.

Shield

My Shield

Last week most of the school made a shield to show what they are and whats unique about them and there class. And this is the one that I made

Wakas

In Maori we have been making a waka and every kid in room 6 made a person and a paddle and the one that has a green,purple and turquoise paddle and this is how it turned out.    

Math Page

In math we a have been doing the m&m challenge and have been doing fractions like 2/3 of 73 or something and heres how I work my stuff out.

RE Page

This focus we have been learning about God, we learnt about how he said things to people like Abram and Sarai and like how there names changed to Abraham and Sarah this is my favorite RE page here it is.

Kiwis

I am learning to inform my audience through an information report

Do you know an endangered, flightless and fuzzy bird that is native to New Zealand? Yes, the kiwi. Many people believe that there's only one specie of this bird even though there is five species. The five species of Kiwi are the Great Spotted Kiwi, the Okarito Kiwi, the Little Spotted Kiwi, the North Island Kiwi, and the Southern Island Kiwi. Kiwis lay very large eggs, their eggs are the same size as an ostrich egg, their egg is about 120 millimetres long and 80 millimeters in diameter. The kiwi’s scientific name is apteryx, the name apteryx mean to be wingless. The kiwi belong to an ancient group of birds that are flightless like the ostrich, the emu and the moa. The kiwi has a lot of interesting qualities like how it calls out at night to mark their territory and stay in touch with their friend. They start to call out about 2 hours after dark, and will also call out before daylight and before that it has it has a meal.

Diet
The kiwi diet is made up of both plant and meat sources of food, as a kiwi is an omnivore. They eat a lot of invertebrates, animals without a backbone. Which means they are likely to be an insect or a bug. Kiwis don't need a lot of water as one of their food sources, is the earthworm, which is made up of 85% water. Kiwis eat a lot of worms because luckily New Zealand is rich in worms but when kiwis do drink from a body of water they immerse their beak, tips back it's head and gurgles the water down. Kiwis are nocturnal which helps them, this helps them to not get overly hot or dried out in the sun. So this supports their diet and also helps keep them safer as they are out at night when there is a less of a threat.

Predators

Kiwis are flightless birds so they can’t get away from their predators that easily, they are living and hunting food on the forest floor which means they are easy prey. One physical adaptation is that the kiwi is a fast runner, kiwis are just as fast as a human. Did you know that there were once 12 million kiwis in the world! But now there are only 100,000 kiwis because of dogs, ferrets, possums, birds and cats. An average of 27 Kiwis die EACH WEEK. A single roaming dog can wipe out a whole population of Kiwis. Kiwis can camouflage into their habitat to stop their prey from seeing them.

Appearance

Emus, ostrich, moa and the elephant bird are the kiwis closest relatives. However their appearance is rather different from these birds. The bird has a unusual beak, it's beak is long and on the tip of it is it's beak is where the nostrils are located. This is very unusual and the kiwi is the only bird to have their nostrils located at the end. Kiwis can't fly so there feathers have evolved a unique texture to suit a ground based lifestyle. The kiwi is warm, shaggy, and have a human like hair. The kiwi also only has 13 feathers. The Kiwis temperature is lower than most other birds it's only 39-42. The female kiwi is also usually larger than the male

In conclusion the kiwi is an interesting and unique bird that is native to New Zealand. To help the kiwi live a long life and continue to be found in New Zealand we have to understand the kiwi. It is important that the kiwi has the right food and can live in places where predators can not wipe them out. The endangered kiwi is important to New Zealand and we want the kiwi to be around for future generations.

Mandarin

Through out this tern we have been learning mandarin miss lee taught the whole school from room 1-9 some phrases are xiexie= thanks, ni hao= hi and we now know how to say our names heres how to say mine

   

Hangi

In Maori we have been learning about hangis some people made a slide about it and told information about what you need and how to make a hangi and some people like me chose to make a diorama and here it is...

Cultural Week

Last Week it was cultural week and every class got to show something of their country that they chose i chose Spanish we did something called the flaminko a flaminko is a traditional Spanish dance heres a picture...

Scratch

This past 7 weeks 18 people including me have been learning how to code we have been making codes some finished some not we have people on it and funny animations like a ballerina doing the splits and a lot more ballet posses my favorite thing to do is make my doge ball game and code club has been fun and i hope we can do it next term pretty please miss gleason

Ransom Note

this week in code club we used html and made a ransom note here is my ransom not (my beautiful creation).

Cultural Performances

Kapa haka, Pacific a, and a drum performance then straight after that there was a Chinese group of they three did 2 performances my favorite was the second because it had no high pitch scream but i liked the first ones costume because they had jingles on there feet

 

weather

Bird

In room 6 we have been making our own bird and labeling why we made this bird we made names then we made our birds hears mine

Social Justice Week

Last week it was social justice week we watched a video about a disability square and did a sheat about it

Crosses

                 

in room 6 we have been making our crosses we made 3 drafts with pencil o n paper then we picked our best one and we painted it then we waited for it to dry then we flat blocked it with white paint then went over it with our colors then I vivid and made my beautiful creation

Bird Expirement

different types of bird beaks we picked up different food like lollies peppermints, and rice, we like the flat beak, pointed beak, and the pelican beak it was very fun and we got to share the lollies between about 3-6 people and where lucky we had the opportunity to do this fun activity

Grandparents day

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, Ukulele and Irish Dancing. That was a joyful day that we would always remember. We are blessed to have such special people in our lives.

Mini BB Fair

Yummy food brownies, cookies and all the other stuff just thinking about it i just want to eat it again and again since i was a school council i helped a lot and i gave the money to the teacher who put it in the money box and i helped put the rest of the baking and books away. we managed to earn 750 dollars wow a lot we were raising money for mural on the power box

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.

Profile

Saint Mary Mackillop's Feast Day

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…

Gymnastics

On the 30th of July me and a group of people went the central and north Auckland gymnastic zones we were in 3 groups of 4 and it was split up girls and boys year five and six non of the girls came a place and the boys came 1st and we got to go on the small podium 2 of the people came a place to do the individual one they came 4 and 1st out of about 15 boys the 1st to 8th in the individual get to go the champions of the champions gymnastics zones

Speeches

This year my speech was the top 3 weirdest sport i chose a gross sport toe wrestling, a possible broken bones sport cheese rolling, and checkmate/knockout sport chess boxing the first part doesn't sound as bad but the second whoa bye bye

Figurative Languge

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 Roadshow

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.  

Production

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.

Royal Jelly

The Royal Jelly


On Tuesday 29 of May the whole of Good Shepherd gathered in the hall to watch a show called “The Royal Jelly”. It gave us a lot of facts about bees and was really funny. Also three students were lucky enough to participate in the show answering questions from the “mayor”. Over all the show was fun and interesting and we all learned a lot.

Xavier's Broccoli Salad

2 Head chopped broccoli
3/4 Cup sultanas 3
red onion chopped up raw
Dressing

                                                        4. 250g lite cream cheese
5. 1 tbs prepared mustard
6. 1-2 tbs of honey
7. 1/4 tbs of salt
8. 2 tbs of white wine vinegar
9. 1 tbs of garlic
10. 1 egg
11. 2 tbs of olive oil

A Well Balanced Diet

A well balanced diet!

During our health inquiry we have been learning about a well balanced diet. We created a definition using a solo define map. Here is our definition:
A balanced diet is eating the right types of food that gives your body the nutrients to function correctly. To get proper nutritions from your diet you need to eat a healthy diet that contains the proper proportions of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. You need to eat a well balanced diet to maintain good health and to help you feel your best. 

We also have learnt about the food pyramid, proportions, and the eatwell plate.
Here is a picture of my food pyramid which includes the food groups and servings sizes. You must eat a balance of all food groups to maintain good health.

Cross Country

Cross Country

It was the Fifth of June. Everyone a bit blue after the end of a long 4 day weekend, and here we are, starting the week off with cross country! Everyone came in their sports uniform. And from the morning up until lunch time, us students were running the Cross Country track.





We raced in year levels, so the year 1's raced with each other and so on. Those young bunches got to only run 1 lap. While us big kids had to run 2 and a half laps! Doesn't seem that much until you add the fact we had to jog all the way up Telford Ave and back twice! It was fun being competitive and racing your friends and other people. Everyone was bursting with positive energy.





Lining up before heading to the track is where the nervousness starts to kick in. We made our way to the netball court and stretched, a bit after that the year 6 girls started running. A few minutes later it was OUR turn to run the track. We all lined up and Mrs Mcleod told us where to go, then after that, we were off. Everyone seemed extremely exhausted at the end, but finishing the race was so relieving.





Congratulations to all the children who came in the top 3 and represented their houses well. And thanks to all the parents who helped motivate and keep us children on track.

Welcome To Samoan Language Week

Afio mai to Samoan language Week.

The cultural leaders opened the week with their national costume and dance.

In room 6 we have been exploring the Samoan Cultural with general facts. We searched for our fact card around the room and collected information for our Jigsaw Reading Hunt.





Next our Samoan experts in class gave us a lesson on greetings and phrases in Samoan.




Then we moved onto counting to ten in Samoan for math before finishing our math session with a clapping game in Samoan.Selo-zero

Tasi-one
Lua-two
Tolu-three
Fa-four
Lima-five
Ono-six
Fitu-seven
Valu-eight
Iva-Nine
Sefulu-ten

The Life Cycle Of A Sea Turtle

🐢The Life Cycle Of A Sea Turtle🐢

Do you know what has been around since the dinosaurs time? So if you thought sea turtles, you are right! Did you know that there are seven known sea turtle species and five of them are endangered. The sea turtle mummys lay the eggs the same place where they were born.
The three stages are the hatch lings, juvenile and the adulthood. Their life all starts as a egg.

First the mummy turtle lays the egg on the same surface she was born, she lays 10-200 eggs and approximately 20% do not seem too hatch. The size and softness is the size of a leathery ping pong ball. It takes the eggs 45-90 days to hatch. Some turtles like the leather back turtle takes 70-80 days to hatch. The success rate too hatch is approximately around 80% to hatch. When they hatch and move on to try get to the sea it faces many troubles being a baby sea turtle.

The normal sea turtles lives up to 100 years old but because of human interference, predators and current they do not survive that long but a pet sea turtle approximately lives up to 70 years old. Most sea turtles live In bays per year there are 68,000 to 90,000 that hatch. When they get older they are the size of a dinner table.

The natural lifespan is 50-100 years old. Some sea turtle species eat up to 1,200 pounds of sponge a year. Some sea turtles are carnivores (meat eater), herbivores (plant eating) or omnivore (eats both). Approximately 20% of sea turtles live without human interference and approximately 1% lives with human interference. Human interference is when humans put pollution into their environment such as oil, rubbish and toxic waste.

Sea turtles are a miracle they have the poor egg stage and when there born they turn into a dinner plate size and then they evolve into the adult sea turtle and turn into a whopping dinner table sea turtles need to stay alive so if you want them to stay alive don't pollute.

Assembly

Lights, Camera, Action

Room 6 presented their learning about not being a bystander at their assembly on Friday week 3.
In week 3 all school around New Zealand made a stand by wearing pink. PINK stood for Peaceful,
Inclusive, Noble and Kind. Our assembly was a success and we all had fun.

Maori Verbs

In room 6 we have been learning verbs
in Maori (action words)
The question is "Kei te aha ia?"
which means what is S/he doing.

la is a pronoun for both he and she.We have matched verbs up, filled in a crossword and played Simon Says

To my mother

Here is my handprint,

Five fingers in all,

Outside they are short,

                                     But the middle is tall,                                                            

you will find them on windows,

you can find them on the wall,

They will make a big mess,

For something so small.

one day i will grow,

And leave them no more,

My handprints will be missed,

Of that, i am sure.

So here is one now,

You cant wipe away,

My present,

This Mothers day

Ascension of Galilee

In R.E we learnt about the Ascension of Jesus at Galilee. Jesus told his disciples to take his Gospel to the whole world. he promised to send the Holy Spirit to always and then he returned, in Glory to his Father in Heaven

Inspirational Heroes

During reading we have been researching people who have faced challenges
and have stood up for what they believed in. They have either been a voice
for those that don’t have one or are a person who never gave up when facing
challenges. My person is Jackie Robinson.