Whakatauki

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.

Vertabrates

In Room 6 we have been learning to classify animals and plants.scientist classify animals and plants into groups in order to easily identify sort, and name them.

Classify =Sort

There are many different ways to group living organisms.

You can classify animals into two main groups,vertebrate or invertebrate.

All vertebrates have. . .

Covering of skin that protects them

Skeleton inside their body

Muscles that help them move

Blood that moves through tubes 

lungs or gills for breathing.

Invertebrates

90% of all animal on earth are invertebrates

They tend to be small because they don't have a backbone.

Many live in the ocean because water supports their weight.

Some have a hard covering or shell on the outside of their bodies for protection

-Insects, spiders, crabs, snails, clams

Personal and private imformation

Figurative Language Posters.

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 t

he 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 toy shop looking for the perfect gifts. This certain night at the toy shop 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, Spider man, Cabbage Patch Doll, Woody, Strawberry Shortcake, and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. The main characters intro

duced 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 Rubik's 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.

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

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.

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 4 mm 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.

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!

The Royal Jelly Show.

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.

Ciaran's healthy primal slab

Ingredients

Almonds, Diced Dates, Sunflower Seeds, Organic Sulphite-Free Apricots, Pumpkin Seeds, Honey, Brown Sugar, Olive Oil, Organic Coconut, linseed, Rice Flour

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 nutrition from your diet you need to eat a healthy diet t

hat 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

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.

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

Suzanne Aubert

Ra Whanau Suzanne Aubert

In room 6 we have been celebrating Suzanne Aubert’s birthday by making flowers for the theme, “Always choose the little flower of hope.”

Suzanne looked after sick people, people with disabilities, children whose families couldn’t care for them, and the elderly. The work she started continues to this day in places like Wellington’s Compassion Soup Kitchen.

Suzanne left her home in France and came to Aotearoa to support the Maori people. She honoured the Maori people, their tikanga, reo and rongoa. Suzanne loved God and always thought about what he wanted her to do, not what she wanted, even when that wasn’t easy.

The Life Cycle Of a Sea Turtle

I.A.L.T inform my audience about sea turtles using explanation text.

Turtles have been around since the late Jurassic period, approximately 150 million years ago. They are reptiles that go by the scientific name of Chealioldea. There are seven different species of sea turtles and six which are critically endangered. Sea turtles start in an egg then grow into young turtles followed by adulthood. Every year they come together to breed.

To lay her eggs the female turtle will climb onto a beach where she will dig a hole of sand and deposit 50-200 leathery ping pong ball sized eggs. Approximately 20% of these will never hatch. Once hatched the surviving turtles, each small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, squirm to the surface.They will then make a desperate dash for the sea. Along the the way they will come across predators such as raccoons, gulls and crabs. Which will claim about 50% of those that make it to the sand.

Those lucky enough to have made it to the water will frantically swim forward to look for a piece of floating debris, in this stage 50% of those that had reached the surf will be killed because of unfortunate weathers, currents or predators. Over time those baby turtles will increase in size.

Once the turtles have reached adulthood their predators change from gulls and smaller creatures to sharks, tigers, bulls, whites and killer whales. Only 10% of those that started on a beach many years ago less than 10% remain. But with the added pressure of pollution, nets and poaching the chances of a sea turtle’s survival drop to approximately 1% or less. Once a turtle has reached around 20 years of age they will be ready to continue to cycle and breed.

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 pronoun for both he and she.We have matched verbs up,filled in crossword and played Simon says.

Mothers Day

She is a Mother
She works 24 hours a day
She is a cook, a maid, a teacher, a nanny, a driver, a bodyguard, a comforter, an ATM.
She doesn't get days off, she works through the night and day and gets paid with hugs and kisses.

The Ascension

This is my model of the Ascension when Jesus rose up to Heaven.

City Rail link Art

As part an art class with Miss Down we created images that will be displayed in the country's busiest rail station,once it opens to the public in 2023/2024

These images will be used and turned into a ceramic tile and displayed within the station.