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…