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Pumanuwa

This term the whole school has been doing pumanawa. I am in performing arts. In performing arts we have been doing singing, designing clothes, making masks, wigs and make up. The songs we are singing are Ka Waiata and a million dreams.

Here is a picture:

Mixed Media - Visual Arts

Mixed Media - Visual Arts

You hold the future in your hands.



In Term 2 our Visual Arts focused was on Mixed Media. We finally finished our pieces of art at the end of the term. We started off by creating two hands, most of us copied our own hands as templates. One hand represents our past and the other hand our future. We used lots of different materials and symbols to make our artwork as well as exploring a range of different techniques with watercolor paint. This is my art work.

Rm 6 Asssembly

Assembly

Last week Room 6 performed their assembly. Our main entertainment was a drama circle on occupations. We also displayed our mixed media we made in term 2. Some people also shared about what they put on their art and why. We all had so much fun preparing and presenting our assembly.

Here are some pictures of our assembly:

Whole school prayers

Whole school prayers

On Monday the 5th of August Room 6 hosted whole school prayers. Our theme was The Gift of Faith. We did a song called ‘Open the Eyes of My Heart’ and Jiwoo, Maggie a I made hand actions for the class. There were also people who did the prayers of the faithful. Overall prayers was a big success and everyone enjoyed it.

Cook island week

Cook island week

Week 3 has been a very busy week with so many celebrations. Good Shepherd School celebrates our multicultural school with our Cook Island Language focus. We looked at the culture through our reading and made fun fact files. We were also lucky to have Alessandra and the cultural leaders teach us a Pure (prayer) to sing. 

We learnt Aro’a mai te Atua iaku. See if you can say/sing this pure too.

Aro’a mai te Atua iaku. 

Aro’a mai te Atua iaku
I te au mea taku kite nei
Te anuanua kua iti mai ki roto iaku

Aro’a mai te Atua iaku

My God loves me 

My God loves me
And all the wonders I see
The rainbow shines through my window
My God loves me

Mary Mackillop feast day

Another celebration for Good Shepherd School in Week 3 was the Feast Day of Saint Mary MacKillop of the Cross.  St Mary MacKillop a vital part of Good Shepherd School, this is because she was the founder of the Josephites aka the Brown Joes.  The Brown Joes travelled all over Australia and New Zealand helping the poor and those in need. They built schools and that is how we are all students at Good Shepherd School. We celebrated the Feast day by going to a Mass for St Mary of the Cross and also having fun with our buddy class Room 4 as we worked on a St Mary MacKillop Art project.  

Hockey

On Friday we had so much fun with Sport NZ as they came in to teach us hockey.  We got to do warm up and drills with the hockey sticks and played against each other in teams.  We are already looking forward to next Friday’s session.

Here are a couple of pictures:

Egg-sitting

In the last couple of weeks we have been learning about keeping ourselves safe. As part of this we each got given an egg to look after for a week. Everyone was so egg-cited when they got their egg. The rules were, we could never leave it alone, we couldn't boil it, we had to make a bed for it and the most important rule, you could't crack it. Luckily I didn't crack my egg like some other people.
Here are some pictues:

My math poster

Recently in in math we made posters showing multiplication. On our poster we presented a strategy and senarios to help us work out these problems. These posters helped us develop a great understanding of multiplication.

R.E. Poster

On Tuesday we got in groups and made posters about a person from the early church communities.  Jiwoo, Pippa Miriam and I decided to do our poster on Aquilla and Priscilla. Here is a picture of our poster:

GSS book week 2019

GSS Book Week 2019 

Room 6 was hungry for books during our book week. We had a whole week celebrating all things books. We had author visits from Stu Duval and James Russell. Stu presented workshops on storytelling, cartooning and writing. James shared his books and told us stories. We did lots of cool book week activities in class like making dust jacket covers, wanted posters, bookmarks and story cubes. Finally our favourite day arrived, Friday. We got to dress up as our favourite characters and partake in the literacy treasure hunt. Overall book week is a fantastic week every year. Room 6 LOVES BOOK WEEK!

Here are some photos from our time:




My book week character was Cedric Diggory:

The water cycle

The Water Cycle

By Zara

I am learning to inform my audience through an explanation 

Do you know why earth is called the blue planet or why, when you look on a map there is this big blue gap between South America and Africa? Well it is because three quarters of the earth’s surface is water. You may be thinking that the water would run out, but no, it is actually recycled. The water is recycled through something called the water cycle. This is called the hydrologic cycle to be scientific. 97% of earth’s water is salt water leaving the other 3% to be fresh water though only 1% of that water is drinkable because the other 2% is ice. There are three main stages in the water cycle, evaporation, condensation and precipitation. Without one of these important stages the water cycle would not exist.

The first stage of the water cycle is evaporation. Evaporation is the process of the sun heating up the water. When the heat source reaches the water, the water gets very hot. When the water gets hot it turns into a gas called water vapor then the water vapor rises to the sky. You can see evaporation at home when you put your clothes on the clothesline. Nobody ever really thinks about how the water gets off the clothes. Well the water doesn’t fall on the ground so it must go up. That is the water evaporating, that is when it goes up to start condensation.

Condensation is the process of the water vapor present in the atmosphere turning back into liquid, water. This happens when the water gets so high that it is too cold so it turns back into liquid water which forms clouds. You can see this at home with a can of coke, condensation is what causes the water droplets at the top of the can. There is so much water vapor in the atmosphere that when it reaches the coldness of the can it turns back into water but if the can is warm there is no water droplets. When the water is a cloud it gets ready to move onto the next stage, precipitation.

Precipitation happens when the clouds get heavy, too heavy in fact to hold all the water it is carrying so the water all falls out. It can fall out in different forms depending on the weather, if it is warm or just cold it is usually rain. When it is 0℃ or below it usually snows, hails or sleets. You can see this at home by heating some water in a jar until it is ⅓ full then put some cling wrap on top of the jar. After that put ice cubes on top of the cling wrap, watch closely to see what happens. Streaks of water will start to run down the side of the jar making it rain. When it rains some of the water goes underneath the surface of the earth, that water is called groundwater, and the water that falls straight into rivers, lakes or oceans is called streamflow.

The water cycle is such an incredible cycle that we could not live without. Every step is important from evaporation turning the water into gas, condensation turning it into clouds and precipitation, the water falling back down to the ground. It is important that we do not waste water so this amazing cycle can exist.

Watercare

Water, water everywhere! On Friday of week 6, we were lucky to have Sally from Watercare come to teach us more about the water.  We did a drama activity and experiments. Firstly we examined the process that water goes through to become drinkable water in our households.  Our drama was based on the process that the water goes through to be cleaned. We were the water going through each stage. We had so much fun as we ventured around the school.  Once we learnt how water is cleaned we then had to try and clean the dirty water ourselves. We had to create a filter system in partners. We had to do four different tests for our experiments.  We experimented with a range of filters to try and test which filter system was the best.
Here are some pictures:

 

Samoan week

Last week was samoan week so for reading we did a treasure hunt. There were cards stapeled around the room and we each had sheets, on the sheets there were puzzle peices which we would write facts from the cards on. Once we had done writing the facts we cut out the puzzle peices and put them in our litrecy books.
This is what they looked like in the end:

Measuring Area

On Thursday the 23rd of May we did measuring the area for math. Earlier our teacher had drawn a square with chalk outside our class. We went outside and predicted how many students of different sizes could sit comfortably in the square, I predicted 5 students could sit in the square. Afterwards we got some students and put them in the square and the answer turned out to be 4. Then our teacher told us that the square was actually a square meter. Then we went back inside and made predictions of how many square meters the class would be. We got into groups to work out how we could measure it and the most recomended method was measuring it verticaly and then horizontally so we did that. The answer was about 86 square meters.

Science in a Van

Science in a Van

On Friday science in a van came to visit and show us some experiments. The first thing we did was some balance experiments. They got three people up Ms Evans, Riley and Olivia and they did a balance experiment each. Some things were easier to balance then other things. Then we did some learning on the periodic table and the three states of matter. We did a demonstrastion with some students. When they were a solid they were huddled together, when they liquid moving but still attaching and when they were a gas they where dancing all over the room. Then they put some dry ice in a container as to show us what not to do because it flew to the other side of the stage. It was a very enjoyable experience for all of us.

My Holy Spirit Pyrimad

In Religious Education we have been learning about baptisim and the Holy Spirit. We have learnt about the three gifts we get at baptism, Faith, Hope and Love and how they help us not to sin. We made pyramids about this topic, at the bottom triangle it said baptism and the Holy Spirit, on one of the sides it said Faith, another side said hope and the remaining side said love. This is my pyramid:




                                        

My Growth Mindset research

In term one we were choosing inspiring people to Research about. We had some options and about three people did each person.I chose Malala Yousafzai who is a politian for womans rights. She had got shot in the head with a gun. The bullet went round her skull bounced on her eardrum and onto her shoulder. Malala didn't cry once in opperations and Xrays and did not want revenge on the person that shot her.

This is my research picture:

Up, Up and away-Dr Seuss

Up, Up and away-Dr Seuss

This is my hot air balloon that I created to show that our goals are going to take us up to new heights

Growth mindset-goal bunting

Growth mindset-goal bunting

Each student in room six has made a bunting triangle to show our growth mindset goals and motto that we want to work on. Come and check them out!

Jesus Strand-Religious Education

Jesus Strand-Religious Education

During term 1 we have been learning about Jesus the Son of God This is my cube on how Jesus showed us that God loves us all as his children. We are all blesssed with the gifts of faith hope and love.


                                             

Saint Joseph's Day Tabloid sports

Saint Josephs day Tabloid sports

Tuesday 19th March was St Joseph’s Day Feast Day. The whole school attended mass to celebrate the leadership Saint Joseph showed. Saint Joseph is also special to our school because Saint MacKillop and the Sisters of St Joseph were inspired by Saint Joseph. Saint Joseph is also the foster father of Jesus. The following day, the whole school came together to celebrate with fun tabloid sports in our houses. We all got to play so many fun and exciting games. Thank you to our leaders who prepared this.

My Accident Story

Brave with a Giant Pair of Lungs.

February 2019

Zara

I am learning to entertain my audience through a recount.

Boredom is one of my worst fears and it was happening to me one afternoon after school. It was just me, alone sitting on top of the monkey bars. It was the 29th of October and I had no hope that I was ever going to find someone to play with in the playground. But then in the distance I saw Maggie running down the long, steep hill, past the monkey bars and tall towers. When she finally got to me, we found a bright yellow ball with a purple nike symbol that gave me an idea…

We picked up the ball and started shooting some hoops on the tallest monkey bars that were at the playground, “She shoots..” Oh the look on her face… “She scores!” After a while this game got boring. I thought to myself what could we possibly do. ‘Hey I’m going to do my best move on the monkey bars, I am going to jump across to the second bar, missing out the first.

I jumped but as I jumped for the second bar I suddenly had the fear that Maggie might try and shoot again while I was missing out the first as I was in mid air. My concentration was elsewhere as my first hand grazed over the bar, not enough to grip onto the bar... noooo! I fell I had to think fast as I could as I was about to land on my back. My arm reached out to brace my fall, like I wanted to lean on it. My arm hitting the ground, my weight falling down behind me onto my arm. Looking at the shape of arm, which was rather weird and a squiggle. I screamed at the top of my lungs and everybody's attention was drawn to my beautiful face (except for the boys on the field who don’t care about me). Josie’s mum, Maggie’s mum, my au pair all came running as fast as they could to get to me.

Maggie’s mum dialed the White Cross, Josie’s mum was looking after me and my au-pair was calling my mum. I got into Josie’s car and off we went to the White Cross. “Ahhhhhhh the pain, it huuuuurts,” screaming loudly. Screaming and screaming with pain as we arrived at the doctors. Then with a sigh of relief the best thing that could have happened at the moment happened. My mum came in. She told me that she could hear me all the way from the waiting room. I went for an X-ray and they told me my arm was broken but is was too much of a break for the White Cross to deal with so I had to go to the hospital, Starship.

That night I got home at 7:00, I was so tired, I couldn’t eat food and I threw up the popsicle my parents had given me for being brave. Brave with a giant pair of lungs that is.

Swimming sports

  Swimming sports

Room 6 had a wonderful day at swimming sports. When we all went to the turf we split up into our houses. Thank you Sharyn and parents for helping us with the non competitive swimming and competitive. Also thank you parents for coming along and supporting your children. Good shepherd students thank the teachers very warmly, as every year as they set up and prepare this event for us. I’m sure that every student enjoyed the event. I saw everyone compete with my own eyes and they all did well. The people who lost don’t have to be sad because they should be grateful they got a swim in the warm weather also because there’s always time and effort to improve.

Ash wdnesday

Ash Wednesday

Today was Ash Wednesday. We went to church and sang some hymns, got the ashes on our foreheads, sung happy birthday to a little girl starting school on her birthday! We then went up and got a blessing.
We did make an attempt to keep our ashes on our foreheads, but that was a fail due to swimming and itching it off. We had a good day and hope everyone else did to.

Shine week

    Shine Week

A sea of orange flood Good Shepherd School on Friday the 8th of March. This week was shine week. We raise money to help people whose lives are affected d omestic violence. In support we all wore orange clothes and brought a gold coin donation to help the charity. Here are some pictures:

Shrove Tuesday

Shrove Tuesday

Tuesday was Shrove Tuesday. We all had a great day in room 6. The festivities started with the burning of the ashes on the turf. This was a new and exciting experience that not many of us had seen before.

Later on during Religious Education we learnt more about Shrove Tuesday and Lent. People used to get rid of all their luxury items such as flour, sugar, butter, eggs and milk by making pancakes. We were even able to enjoy some pancakes of our own. We all thought it was a great start to lent and we are looking forward to the lenten season as we prepare for the death and resurrection of Jesus. We are the season of Lent and it is a time of preparation.

My Mihimihi

Mihimihi

Zara p

I am learning to: introduce myself and others, and respond to introductions using my personal information

Tēnā koutou katoa, (greetings to you all)

No Ingarangi ahau (where you are from / Aotearoa*)

Ko Owairaka tōku maunga (Mountain)

Ko Waitemata Harbour tōku moana (ocean)

Kei Tamaki makaurau tōku kāinga ināianei (I now live)

Ko Te Hapara pai tōku kura (school / Good Shepherd School*)

Ko Peterson tōku whānau (family name)

Ko Lachy Peterson tōku pāpā (father)

No Ingarangi ia (Father is from, share diverse backgrounds)

Ko Kelly Hutchinson tōku māmā (mother, ask if maiden or family name)

No Ahitereiria ia (Mother is from, share diverse backgrounds)

Ko Zara Peterson tōku ingoa (your name)

Nō reira, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā tātou katoa.

(Therefore, greetings to you, greetings to you, greeting to us all).

piece of the puzzle

In Room 6 we are all a piece of the puzzle. There are 29 students and we each complete our puzzle. Without one of us we would not be Room 6. During the second week of school (once the year 6 were back from camp) we spent time learning about each other and completing our piece of the puzzle. We learnt that we are all different and unique made in the image of God. But we also learnt that sometimes people need a little helping hand to make learning fair. Check out our pieces of the puzzle in Room 6 Foyer to learn more about each of us.

“It’s always the small pieces that make the big picture.”

Good Shepherd Charism

Did you know the reason Good Shepherd School named their syndicates Connolly and Sheridan? Connolly and Sheridan were the names of the first two sisters that worked at Good Shepherd School when it opened. That is just one of the fun facts we learnt this week when we explored the charism of our school. The charism of our school is the flavour of our school, it is what makes us Good Shepherd School. Over the week we looked at the history of the school and unpacked the visual Image of the Good Shepherd Cross with the values, scripture, feast days and the St Mary MacKillop sayings. We unpacked the values and why we have those values. In groups we identified what each value looked, sounded and felt like before making up definitions. Another new fact I learnt was the sisters were called the Brown Joes also because of their brown outfits.

Maori art

After learning about the Treaty of Waitangi, the year 5's took inspiration from the Maori culture and their learning to capture some of the designs.  This is my Maori pastel art

Waitangi

During week 1 we were learning about the Treaty of Waitangi.  The Treaty of Waitangi is New Zealand's founding document.  The name is taken from the place in the Bay of Islands where it was first signed, on 6 February 1840. New Zealand recognise this special day with a public holiday.  The Treaty of Waitangi is an important agreement that was signed by representatives of the British Crown and Māori in 1840. The purpose of the Treaty was to enable the British settlers and the Māori people to live together in New Zealand under a common set of laws or agreements.

Here is a picture of one of our factual posters: