Christmas Art

Over Term 4 we have been making Christmas cards. We first had to draw a Christmas tree on scrap paper. Later this tree was put on the card. We used pastels, art pencils, masking tape. Here is my card and an ornament I made for my sister. P.S Ripping the masking tape off is satisfying

Graduation!

On Wednesday 5th December we had our annual End of Year Mass. It is also our Graduation for Year 6's. The Year 6's do a dance and get a certificate and a gift. I am a Year 6 so I am Graduating this year. I was the Cantor. 

Interview with Alex( My Dad)

Here is an interview I did with my dad for topic.

Why you should eat bugs?

🐛Eating Edible Insects🐛

By Eva

I am learning to persuade my audience 

Are you low in protein, fibre and healthy fats, maybe even essential minerals or vitamins? Then you need to cook with bugs! I strongly recommend that you should cook with insects, this is called entomophagy. You know some people say if you eat a scorpion's tail it makes you strong. There are many reasons why we should eat bugs such as there are many tasty treats, they are healthy and you can also be very creative when you are cooking with bugs.

You probably like candy, lollipops, chocolate, maybe even pastries, but did you know insects can be made into sweets? A scorpion can crawl its way into your lollipop, a grasshopper can hop to your cake that your mum made and a mealworm can wriggle on to your hot chips. Apparently all of these bugs are perfectly safe to eat. According to estimates more than two billion people like insects. I believe you will like insects if you tried them. Not only are these insects tasty treats but they are very healthy. Definitely more healthy than the Marmite Bagel Bites you had five minutes ago.

Are you trying to save the environment and be healthy at the same time? Then a bug is what you need. As it does not have heaps of calories it does not produce greenhouse gases. They are also low in fat and full of protein. A palmworm beetle has 36 grams of protein and that is about the same amount of protein as bacon, except a palmworm beetle has less fat and bacon is bad for your heart. So which one do you think is better for you to eat? Just remember to cook a bug before you eat it. When you are cooking with bugs you can be healthy and be very creative.




Thailand, Mexico, China, Brazil and Australia are just a few countries around the world that have been creative in the kitchen and now cook with bugs. Did you know you can be creative as well when you are cooking with bugs? You could make a grasshopper cake, critter fritters, gluten free carrot cricket cupcakes and more! These delicious treats are also healthy. Come on, go get some bugs and start getting creative.




As you can see there are many reasons why you should cook with bugs. Such as they tasty treats that will have you wanting more, the plus side is you can have more as they are healthy! Also each night you can travel the world and discover different recipes from all over the world from the comfort of your own dining room! As you can see from these reasons this is why I strongly believe that you and I should cook with bugs.

St Peter's Orchestra

Violin, Flute, Clarinet, Tuba, Drums, Trombone and trumpet are all instruments that came to our school. Well, the St Peter's Orchestra came to our school. The String group including the Violin played two songs. The brass group played couple of pieces and a group of songs that featured all of the instruments. Then they told the school that next year they are going to do a music programme. What a great way to represent music. Thank you St Peter's Orchestra for coming in and sharing your music pieces.👌

Yearbook!!!

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!

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. This is the song: So will I

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 getting stuck in a bouncy house with Kayano, Lucy, Emelia, Siena and Bella.

Irish Dancing

Jump two three, Jump two three over and over and over. 34 young children did this over and over again. Everyone in the Irish dancing did an amazing job and I hope you get into Irish Dancing as well.

Saints: Religious Education

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.
As part of our studies we researched and created a slide show that explored a live of a Saint.

Girl Talk

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 favorite activities was reading Chris Gurney’s books during book week. Chris has written so many wonderful and humorous traditional tales with a kiwi voice.  We absolutely adore her books, so for our assembly we presented a Readers Theater: Trev and the Kauri Tree.

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 long jump. I came 3rd in long jump and high jump and my relay team came 1st

Choir

During this year the Good Shepherd School choir had a lot of practices for the Kids 4 Kids concert. It was on the 13 Tuesday November at the Vodafone event center. Eva and Miracle got a solo for the concert, Eva was a cowgirl and sang love in a fowl house. Miracle sang something so strong. It was fun, entertaining and enjoyable.

Communion Of Saints

We have been learning about how we are all living saints and on All Souls Day we pray for the people in Purgatory. Miss Down split us in three groups the living, the people in Purgatory and the people in Heaven. Then she taped the three groups separate and then taped all of the groups together and told us that everyone is a saint. Living or lifeless.

Clue 8 - Who kidnapped the witch

In Maths we have been trying to find out who kidnapped the witch, with what weapon and where. This was the clue.Three- sevenths divided by five sixes. Do you know the answer? If you do what is the answer?

Mandarin- My Body Lesson 6

We have been learning more my body words in Mandarin
Hand- shou
height-gezi
long-chang
short-duan

Bike Training

On Wednesday we had some people from Bigfoot adventures to come and teach us about bike safety. We learnt that there re three legal requirements on a bike. You need a red rear reflector, a helmet and two brakes.We all were able to get our hand off the bike to show signals.Everyone learnt those of skills by the end of the day.Thank you Bigfoot adventures for teaching us these skills

Kia Kaha- Waka

In Kia Kaha we were learning about our waka and how we should look after each other.Together we can make our class a happy place! Here is  our waka

Prayer Gift

In Religious Education we are learning about how prayers can be gifts.Here is a prayer gift I gave to my mum today.

Mandarin term 4

Mandarin is back at GSS! For a brand new term. WE are learning about the body parts. Here are the body parts we have learnt so far.
Hair- Tou fa
Eyes- Yangjing
Nose- Bizi
Face- lian
Mouth- zui

Kia Kaha

This week we have been learning about Kia Kaha. Kia Kaha is when we learn about rights and responsibilities, being special etc. We had to make a shield of ourselves and what make us unique. Here is my shield.

Making of a Hangi

A hangi is a traditional way to cook food for Maori people.It is done under ground.A hāngi is a traditional New Zealand Māori method of cooking food using heated rocks buried in a pit oven. It is still used for special occasions and sometimes weddings and birthdays.
First you light a fire and let it burn for about two and a half hours.After you have light it you normally say a prayer. They pray to Tane Mahuta the god of the forest to make sure that the environment will be safe.While the fire burns you soak sacks in water.Start putting pieces of iron on top of the fire.You and break down the fire and put the sacks of water on top.while that is breaking down you put all the food in a tin foiled tray.You have to work quickly at this part.Cover it with a tapolen so it can cook nicely.After about three and a half hours the food is ready to eat

Cultural Week

This week was Cultural week. Each person in the school got to pick a culture to learn the cultures were Italian, Brazilian, Filipino, Japanese, French, Indian, Spanish, German and Korean. The culture that I learnt was Italian. On Monday we started thinking about our masks that we wore on Friday for the Cultural Assembly. We started decorating our masks on Tuesday we also watched a video on the names of vegetables in Italian. Wednesday was a blast because we had lasagna that was better then PIZZA! We also decorated our masks that day. Thursday was all about masks and I made a slide show which will be down below. Friday was the last day and we had a Cultural Assembly. Everyone in the school participated and my item was called the tarantella. This week was AMAZING!

The Kiwi Bird

By Eva

I am learning to inform my audience through an information report.

The ostrich, the emu and the moa are all relatives to the kiwi, no not the fruit, but the bird that is native to New Zealand. There are five types of kiwi; the North Island Brown kiwi, the Southern Brown kiwi, the Little Spotted kiwi, the Great Spotted kiwi and the Okarito kiwi. The kiwi has an unusually long beak with nostrils at the end. Did you know that the kiwi is the only bird in the world that has nostrils at the end of its beak? Kiwis cannot fly but each individual bird has 13 flight feathers. These birds live for about 40 years in the wild and 30 years in captivity. Kiwis avoid humans as much as they can because they are not social birds. These native birds have many more interesting facts such as it has a body temperature of 38 degrees, which is two degrees lower than other birds and two degrees higher than humans but in order to survive they have to have a healthy food supply.

Diet
Omnivores eat meat and plants and the kiwi is an omnivore. The kiwis diet includes worms, grubs, seeds, insects and invertebrates and the occasional fruit, leaves and berries. The brown kiwi has even been seen to eat fungi and brackets. The kiwi only weighs about 0.9-5 kilograms. Kiwis have very poor eyesight so they normally would be able to smell their prey before they see them. They can dig their beak up to 12cm underground to find food. The kiwi does not really drink water because normally what they eat has water in it. Take a juicy earthworm that earthworm is 85% water. They have an amazing diet but in order to survive they need to have a habitat as well.

Habitat
The kiwis habitat is not like many other birds, it does not make nests. The kiwi makes burrows to live in. Being shy their burrows are usually found in hideous places such as beech forests, temperature podocarp, tussock grasslands, mountains, subalpine scrub and subtropical forests. These native New Zealand birds are normally found in the north island not the south because... They can camouflage in their habitat so they can stay away from predators.

Predators
Did you know that only 5% of kiwis that are hatched in the wild will survive. All because of their nasty predators such as dogs, cats, stoats, possums and ferrets. Kiwis have a very strong musty smell so those predators can smell them from a mile away. Every week an average of 27 kiwis are killed by predators. Without management 10% of baby chicks survive for the first six months.

Kiwis are an important icon to New Zealand. For the kiwi to survive we need to know that they have food, a habitat that provides all their needs, and a safe place in order for the kiwi to be able to survive from threats and predators. The kiwi is a valuable image to all New Zealanders and we must protect the kiwi in order for future generations to know and be able to see a live kiwi and not ones in the museum.

The Problem Solving Challenge.

I participated in the problem solving challenge.I really boosted my confidence and growth mindset.I really enjoyed doing it.

Ransom Note

This week in code club we were making ransom notes.We used trinket to help us to make this note.Here is my ransom note. 

The Felican!

In Reading/ Science we made our own birds. We had to make sure why we chose the beak, tail, feet, color and habitat.This is my bird called the felican

Social Justice Week

This week is social justice week. In this activity we were learning about making the world better for people with disabilities. Making it Fair for everyone.

Excita-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 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

Code Club week 7 task (Grumpy town)

This week at Code Club we started HTML.Here is something I made with HTML. I hope you like it

My Ireland weather predictions

In Strand in math we are learning about temperature. I have a made a powerpoint abut estimating the weather.Her is my powerpoint.

My writing competition entry (The unicorn dream)

“ Daddy” said Clara
“Yes darling, what is it?” her father replied
“ Are unicorns real?” Clara asked her father
Now this question was hard for Clara’s father as he didn’t know the answer himself.In his time there was always a debate but no matter how hard her father looked for evidence he could not find a unicorn.
“ Only if you believe sweetheart” her father replied.
Then her father looked at his watch and said it was time for her to go to bed.
“ Goodnight sweetheart have good dreams”
That night Clara's dream was sweet but scary.

Clara closed her eyes and she was whisked away to a magical land. When she arrived the first thing she saw was a unicorn standing in front of her.
Clara was amazed.She believed.
“Hello there I’m misty” said the unicorn.
“Hi?” Clara said back.
“And you are…” Misty asked.
Clara replied “ Oh I’m Clara”
“Welcome to ……. Unicorn land” Misty exclaimed.
“So unicorns are real” Clara shouted.
“In this fantasy they are you can believe unicorns are real in yours but it might not be true” Misty explained.
“Oh” Clara thought.
“Watch out!” said another unicorn

Suddenly there was a massive swarm of bees.All of the unicorns had a 100 bees attack them each. Every unicorn died in that fantasy. Then Clara opened her eyes.She still believed in the unicorns

By Eva 

Mandarin

Ni hao! This term we have been learning Mandarin. Room 9's teacher Ms Li is from China so she has been teaching the whole school lots of mandarin we have learnt 2 songs the greeting song and the number song Xie Xie for listening. Zai jian.👋

Mini BB Fair

Today we had the Mini BB Fair. We sold books and baking. The school are raising money for a mural on the green, ugly power box. They raised $750! Everyone had an amazing time buying books and baking

Calendar Art

In Room 6 we have recently started doing calendar art. We all make a calendar then are parents buy it and then the money goes to the school.This is my artwork.

Crosses

This year we are doing crosses. These crosses will go around the netball courts.Every student in the school has to make one even the teachers! Everyone is doing an amazing job on creating the crosses. 

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 alll 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 gott 41 M&M’s each! We have put our information on a poster.

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.😆

Online 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.

MY SPEECH! WE ALL CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.

All of us here are ordinary people. You may think you can’t make a difference, but I think you can. Let me tell you about two ordinary people who had an extraordinary impact on the world:

Irena lived in Poland during world war two. She was only 29 years old. Irena’s father always told her: “Irena, if you see someone drowning, you must jump in to try and save them”. Irena did exactly that for Jewish children when the Nazis began making life hard for them. She gave Jewish children Christian names and gave them to Christian families. She wrote their real names on ripped paper and buried them in marmalade jars under one of her friend’s trees. This was so the children could get back to their families after the war. In three months, her simple actions saved 2,500 children!

Shamsia lived in Afghanistan. Graffiti is known as vandalism there. In Afghanistan women like Shamsia were meant to stay at home but Shamsia didn’t think so she would do a mural on big tall women in seconds and leave. She wants people to make art not war. Now in Afghanistan people believe women can do more.
Just like Irena and Shamsia, there are simple things we can all do each day to make a big difference.

One of the ways you can make a difference is recycling. Did you know that 2.5 million tonnes of waste is buried in landfills each year, yet three quarters of this could be recycled? Do you know where plastic bags go? In the ocean for sea creatures to eat which means 100,000 birds, whales, seals and turtles die. Chances are that a plastic wrapper you’re throwing in the bin can be recycled. Also you could use reusable bags instead of plastic ones. If you are in the playground and see a piece of rubbish, put it in the bin or recycle it.

Giving to others is another way we can help the world. Foster Hope is just one charity I have donated to. Imagine you are going to a random house with nothing and adults that you are about to call mum and dad. Foster Hope raises money to give these children a toy or some underwear. These simple things make a big difference to these children. One day I definitely want to foster children.

Let me conclude with the words of Aung San Suu Kyi: since we live in this world we have to do our best for this world.
Say no to plastic bags. Give a dollar of your pocket money to charity. We live in this world and we CAN make a difference.

God is Faithful

In Religious Education we are now learning about how God is Faithful we have made a title page and learnt about Abraham and Sarah also known as Abram and sarai and their journey and how God promised them a baby. You can read Abraham and Sarah's story in Genesis 12:1-7.

St Mary Mackillop 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…

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.

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!

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 Flynn 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 6's 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

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.

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.

Eva's Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Eva’s Chocolate Chip Cookies 

Veggie Con 2018

(Gluten free, dairy free and refined sugar free)

Ingredients

4-5 tablespoons of coconut oil
400 grams of almond meal
11/2 -2 cups of dark chocolate chips (ideally organic with stevia)
1-2 teaspoons of vanilla extract/essences
3 tablespoons of brown rice malt syrup (you could use honey or maple syrup)
Water for wet but not too wet cookie consistency for rolling

Steps

Melt coconut oil in a microwave bowl (1 minute)
Add in almond meal, chocolate chips, vanilla, brown rice syrup and mix together well.
If the mixture needs some liquid add in a little bit of water slowly until you feel the mixture is ready to roll into cookies.
Roll a teaspoon amount of mixture in your hands and press down lightly with a fort or the palm of your hand.

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

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 maths before finishing our maths 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

Ra Whanau 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 am learning to inform my audience through explanation

Sea turtles are a miracle. They have lived for roughly 150 million years and are still here today. With five species been seen in our waters, seven still alive and six endangered we need to take care of them. During the decades humans have been making it harder and harder for sea turtles using oil and plastic but also having to survive with predators and currents in the ocean. We all should know the life cycle of a sea turtle to save them so this is the life cycle of a sea turtle.

Eggs
It begins with a female sea turtle. It breeds multiple times, mainly at night and leaves leathery ping-pong ball size eggs laid on a high part of the beach. Even though about 100 eggs are laid roughly 20% will never hatch. After about 45-80 days depending on the species, the remaining eggs will hatch and they will try to squirm to the open water.

Young Sea turtles
At about the size of your hand, baby sea turtles squirm to the ocean's surface. They face crabs, rubbish, humans, birds and raccoons and about 50% of them will not reach the surface of the ocean. The sea turtles that make the surface will face even more dangerous predators.

As they grow from the size of your hand to a dinner plate moving so they can find a patch of seaweed to stay under. Now their predators are dolphins,sharks,types of fish and birds. Roughly 50% will not survive due to currents,predators and other reasons.If they survive they will move into the next stage, Adulthood

Adulthood
Now the reptiles grow from a dinner plate to a dinner table. Their predators are bull,Tiger and White sharks following along with the occasional killer whale. At about two decades of age they will be able to breed themselves.Roughly 20% will survive to breeding age without human interference 1% will survive with human interference.Only 1% will survive because the sea turtle will get stuck and will feel overwhelmed and perish.

In conclusion Sea turtles are great to have in the ocean but they are endangered. To help you, don’t use plastic bags when you go to the supermarket instead use reusable ones from home as a replacement. While I was writing this explanation piece I realised that they are truly a miracle and you should realise that too.

Room 6's 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. 

To my Mother

My handprint

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 hand prints will be missed,
Of that,I am sure

So here is one now,
That you can't wipe away.
My present to you,
This Mother's day