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