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Algebra

In school we've been doing algebra, algebra is problem solving where you find patterns and clues to find the answer. Algebra is like simple math but with letters, let me give you 4 examples.
   
Addition: A+ 8 = 15 ,if A =7  then its 7+8=15
(sum)

Subtraction 13-B=8, if B=5 then its 13-5=8
(difference)

multiplication 8 C=24, if C =3 then its 8 X 3 =24
(product)

division     500
(quotient    ----
                    D=5, if D=100 then its 500÷100=5

Symmetry

In school we did logos with symmetry for companies

Year 6 Graduation

In school at 5:30 was the year 6 graduation.There where songs, prayers and other things led by the year 6's and the teachers but what was really special was when Mr Hahn and Frankie said their speeches and the year 6's did a dance from Tyrone Wells time of our lives. After the dance Mrs' Mcgillivray said some words and then she and Mrs Gleeson presented the Gifts to the year 6's and then the year 6's left.

Eating Bugs

                                                 I am learning to persuade.

Are your parents making boring food that you taste over and over again, but have you tried bugs? When you think of eating bugs you think Ew! Yuck! Gross! But crunching on bugs is a real thing and it's not a bad idea. Eating bugs is called entomophagy plus there is already 100 of those critters that can be eaten and it’s good for you. Bugs are nutritious, great for the environment and they can be cooked into lots of delicious treats from all around the world that your family will be BUGGING you to make again and again, so my challenge for you is to eat a healthy nutritious bug.

Are you thinking of having a diet? Did you know even in the dirt those tasty bugs had protein, zinc, fiber, vitamins and no fat? Well now you do! Bugs are really healthy and you can keep on eating while being healthy and gaining no fat but there’s more, are you bored of just eating bugs? Have you tried them with normal food?

Cookies and fries, what do they have in common? They are delicious. Have you tried bugs with your food? Eating food with bugs in them doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea it just might encourage you to eat more nutritious bugs. There are really sweet food ideas like chocolate chip cookies, chocolate covered crickets and then there are the bland food like fried rice with locusts and you can bring some of them on your road trips.

Here’s a fun fact, did you know that eating bugs is good for the environment? if we eat bugs there will be less greenhouse gasses and it can save animals like cows will still produce milk, sheep can still produce wool and pigs can roll in the mud. Insect farming is another way of helping the environment, it’s like farming but with only insects (hence the name insect farming) plus it’s really good because insects don’t need lots of space, they are easy to feed and they can live under tons of conditions.

At the end now you know a lot of facts why to eat insects, they're healthy, fun food to make and it’s good for the environment. So now that you know a lot why don’t you try an insect today!

Christmas cards

In school we made Christmas cards to get ready for Christmas. In the inside we did a message to someone and then on the outside we did a silhouette of of a Christmas tree with a pastel background, we used masking tape, paper, pastels and art pencils.

YEARBOOK MADNESS!

NEWS FLASH! The New Good Shepherd Yearbook for 2018 is here! Take a look at all the work we’ve done this year. What a year we had. Take a look!

Room 6 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, by Hillsong.

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 favourite event was Shotput and I got second.

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 called tika tonu and it was really loud.

Assembly

"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.

St Peter

In school we did slideshows on saints and about them

Communion of Saints

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.

The who kidnapped the Witch?

In class for math we did a Halloween related math activity.
There was a set of 10 clues and we had to find out who was the kidnapper, what was the location and what tool was used. At November 7 we finally cracked the case!

The kidnapper: Ghost man
The location: Costume store
The tool: Handcuffs.

We had lots of fun and they were really challenging so here is one of of the clues.

Success criteria for persuasive

In writing we have been learning to write a persuasive piece of writing.

We have co constructed our success criteria together

Here is our introduction criteria checklist .

Hareruia

In school we are going to perform a song at Eden Albert.


Ka koingo ka mahara
ki te mauri o te atua
E te kamaka e te kai whakaora
ka hahana te manawa
ki te ihi karangaranga
kia touku atua e hareruia


hareruia,hareruia,hareruia,hare-ru-u-u-ia

my sheild

Communion of saints

In class we made a paper weaving and added messages

Room 6 waka

In room 6 we made a waka that describes how special room 6 is.

2 acts

In school there were two acts.First there was Maungawhau peforming songs, a haka, a sasa and drumming.









Next was Mrs Lee's friends performing 2 songs from China.

Raymond Huber

This week an Raymond Huber came to school and talked to us about his love of bees and how he made stories like flight of the honeybee

Hangi

In school we have been learning how to make a hangi

Leadership badges

Today I got my level 2 leader badge, now i'm going for level 3

Bird posters

In school we did bird posters where we have to make a bird,described why it had those parts and put it on a poster, my bird was called Archi.

It had that beak to spear through fish, it had feathers to keep warm, the color was red, yellow and orange because its a tropical bird, it had that tail to fly fast and it had that kind of legs to grip onto branches.

Cultural week

This week it was cultural and there was 7 groups, I was in the Filipino group.

We made a Filipino desert named Yema, we also did a song called tong tong tong AKA the crab song.

Then all the cultural groups went in the hall and performed their songs dances and work.

Ben and James Factors and Multiples

In school we did slides showing about factors and multiples

Mini BB fair

On Thursday GSS had a mini BB (books and baking) fair to raise money for a mural for the powerbox.

There was cupcakes, cookies, books and a whole lot of other stuff. We raised near 575 dollars and the power box is gonna have a brand new mural

The New Zealand kiwi

I am learning to inform the audience by writing an information report.

Did you know there is as little as 70,000 kiwis left in the entire world, and in 50 years kiwis have the potential to be extinct! The kiwi is a native bird of New Zealand, not a fruit or a person.The kiwi is normally found in the rainforest, farmland, bush areas. The Kiwi is brown in colouring and has little feathers and short wings so they can’t fly because of their small wings. However they do lay large eggs the size of an ostrich egg. There are 5 species of kiwis: the Little Spotted Kiwi, Great Spotted Kiwi, the Brown Kiwi and the Tokoeka. Kiwis are New Zealand’s national bird but they are hunted by vicious predators.

The kiwi has many predators such as cats, dogs, ferrets, stoats and worst of all possums! These predators are the reason why kiwis have been moved to a saferhabitat on an island where predators cannot reach them. This is to help the kiwi survive. Stoats and cats are mostly harming baby kiwis in the first three months of life while dogs and ferrets go for the big birds and that's a big problem because without adults there will be no more eggs meaning no more kiwis,and possums eat eggs and adult kiwis. Which such predators the kiwi needs to make sure they have a habitat that can help protect themselves against predators.

A kiwis habitat can usually be found in the rainforest but they can also live in diverse habitats from rough farmland to snow tussock with lots of hiding places so you will see the home but not the kiwi. Kiwis live in dark places because they are nocturnal, but some threats (like us) destroyed some of its habitat, now half of kiwis are homeless but some New Zealanders decided take action and take the kiwi to a habitat where that is safe and is full of food to keep them from being hungry.

A kiwi is an omnivore which means they eat plants and living creatures like bugs.
They mostly eat invertebrates which means animals without a backbone like worms, larvae and more. Kiwis also eat berries, leaves and seeds and some unusual food like bracket fungi, frogs, freshwater crayfish, eels, kiwi fruit and tuna. Kiwis even have a favourite food, earthworm! They also drink water from lake like other birds.

As you can see the kiwi is a vital part of New Zealand it is the is the national bird and is a symbol for many people living in New Zealand. There are many dangers that threaten the kiwi bird, such as predators, lack of habitat and ensuring there is enough food for the kiwi to survive. In order to ensure that they will be around for the future generators we need to understand the kiwi and to work together to ensure they will always be in our future.

Weather prediction

We did a slide on what we predicted what the weather was.

Cross art

In school we did cross art which we are going to hang along the tennis courts

Exita-bill

Pointed beak, flat beak and pelican beak are all the types of beaks we used for this discovery.But these things are also known as forceps, tongs and cups. First we learnt about the meanings of the words we need to know like, aim. Aim means trying to achieve something

hing in the experiment we were trying to see what shape beak is the best for picking up food. And we learnt what will we change( the equipment), What we will measure ( the amount of food) and how we will keep it a fair test. The way we can make it a fair test by having a nice steady surface, by having the same person doing each type of food also by having the same amount of time of 30 seconds. We had an amazing time experimenting with rice, peppercorns, gummy worms and skittles and after we got to eat LOLLIES. Thank you Miss Down for this amazing experiment

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 realised 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 al the colours 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 gor 41 M&M’s each! We have put our information on a poster.

Grandparents mass

Grandparents Mass

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. 

persona profile

In our digital lessons we have been learning what is private and public information. We have created a personal profile for our blogs using this new knowledge. On our blogs there are people we know, and people we don’t know, who can view our profiles. We decided to share personal information that we wanted to share about ourselves. Making sure we didn’t share information that was not for public use.

St 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…

In Maori we have been learning about a Whakatauki

A Whakatauki is a proverb, what is truly valued in the Maori Culture. 

The Whakatauki that we have been learning about is if we all shared then no one would go without. 

We would be able to provide for all that come to us.

There are also Proverbs in the Bible that encourage us to share.

Read these proverbs : Proverbs 19:17; 22:9; 31:20.

Jesus also showed us the teachings of God when he feed the multitudes of people with the fish and the loaves. Read more about this in the Gospel of John: 6 or the Gospel of Matthew: 14.

Evolution-vertebrates

In Room 6 we have been learning classify animals,scientists classify animals and plants into groups in order to easily identify,sort,and name them.
Classify=SORT.
There are many ways to group living organisms.One way is according to how they use their food for energy.Classifying animals,you can classify animals into two main groups,vertebrates or invertebrates.
All vertebrates have:Covering of skin that protects them,Skeleton inside their body,Muscles that help them move,Lungs and gills for breathing.






Invertebrates

90 % of animals are invertebrates!

Tend to be small because they do not have a backbone.

Many live in the ocean because the water helps support their weight.

Some have a hard covering or shell n the outside of their bodies for protection
-Insects,spiders,crabs,snails,clams

Personal and Private Information

Figurative Language

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.

The 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.

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!

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!