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.

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:

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:

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:

 

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.

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.

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.