Room 6 Calendar Art

Marae Trip

On Wednesday the 28th of August the school went to a Marae, they talked about the carvings on the walls and they told maori stories. After that we had morning tea in a room and we got to play for a littlebit. At the end we did the haka. Here are a few moments from the trip.

How to Blow a Bubble

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.

Cook Island language 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

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:

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:

St Mary Mackillop Feast Day

Another celebration for Good Shepherd School in Week 3 was the Feast Day of Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop. 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.

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, Zara and Maggie made hand actions for us. There were also people who did the prayers of the faithful. Overall prayers was a big success and everyone enjoyed it.

Here are some pictures of our prayers:

Keeping ourselves Safe

For the last couple of weeks we have been learning about keeping ourselves safe, to go with that we are doing egg sitting and we had to look after the egg and that includes making a house and not cracking it. We all could draw on our baby eggs and some of us cracked our eggs but we could get another egg if we wanted to.

RE Poster

For religious education we have been looking at famous people from Jesus's time, we have been grouped up and chose a person from Jesus's time and we chose Peter the first Apostle. Here's a picture of our poster. Here are some facts, he was a fisherman, "Peter" means rock or stone and he was a hot head at certain times.

Eden/Albert Cross Country

On Thursday the 20th of June some year 4-6 children went to the Eden Albert cross country zones, all of us ran about 3 kilometers, there was also a sausage sizzle you can get one before or after your race.
there was a barrier around the course where you can watch the races, a lot of people didn't get a place in it but we finished the whole course and everyone was really puffed after their race.

Water Cycle

How does the Water Cycle Work?

I am learning to inform my audience through an explanation

By Dean

Did you know that the water you drink today could have been a bathtub for a dinosaur millions of years ago? All of the water we have today is all the water that we have ever had. Three quarters of the earth is covered in water. Ninety seven percent of that water is salt water, three percent of the water is freshwater. With only one percent of that freshwater being drinkable water. All the water enters into a process called the water cycle. A cycle is a series of steps that repeat over and over. There are three main stages to the water cycle, evaporation, condensation and precipitation. Without one of these stages there would be no water cycle.


Evaporation is when the sun or a heat source heats up a liquid. In the water cycle the sun is heating up the water that turns into water vapor. An example of evaporation is when you hang wet clothes in a sunny area and the water evaporates like magic. It’s like when you see puddles, or a small streams, then when heat is added it evaporates off the ground. The water vapour is now going into the condensation phase.

Condensation is when water vapor reaches a high altitude and the cold air cools the tiny water droplets and it gets mixed with other various gases and dust particles and it forms a cloud. You can test this experiment at home with a mirror and your mouth, place your mouth close to the mirror then breathe softly and you’ll see it will become blurry. When you touch the fog on the mirror it will be a little wet, that’s because of the water vapor in our mouths. Finally the last step precipitation.

Precipitation is when a cloud gets too heavy and can’t hold anymore water inside, then it bursts out either as hail, rain, sleet or snow. When it rains the oceans, rivers and lakes collect water from the clouds. Some of it even seeps through the ground and becomes groundwater. Groundwater is water that seeps into the ground from the clouds.


In conclusion the cycle starts with evaporation which heats up the water then turns into water vapor then condensation which makes the water vapor water and forms a cloud and finally precipitation which makes either snow, rain, sleet or hail, then cycle continues on and on.

Book Week

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:

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.

Cross Country

Good Shepherd School had been busy training for cross country this term and finally the day arrived. In week 6 we all arrived at school in our running gear and had our house colours painted onto us. We were eager and ready to go and win house point. Overall the race was long and required a lot of stamina, but we were prepared. Here are some pictures from our races.

Eden Albert Soccer

On Tuesday the 21st of May 2019  some people went to the Eden Albert soccer zones, the boys team lost 3 games and drew 2. I mainly played left midfield and I also played left defense and left striker, we had to leave around 1:00 pm then we enjoyed the rest of the day.

Science in a Van

 On Friday the 10th of May, we had some people from The Science Van, they taught us some science and the periodic table. They did a lot of things like balancing big and long things, a hot can dunked into cold water and things with dry ice like make a cloud. 

R.E Triangle

This term we've been learning about Baptism and the Holy Spirit.  We created an R.E. Triangle that shows the gifts we get at baptism, faith, hope and love.

Science Experiments

This term we've been doing some science experiments, we've been learning about two parts of the water cycle, evaporation and condensation. We've done experiments on balloons and what happens when you put a balloon under water.

Water Cycle

We've been researching the water cycle and how it works, also this is my plan below.

Growth Mindset

Last term in term 1 we've been learning about growth mindset and we learnt how people got set backs and how they overcame it. We researched people such as Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Abraham Lincoln, Jackie Robinson etc.

Up Up and Away. Dr Seuss

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

Growth Mindset - Goal Bunting

Each student in room 6 has made a bunting triangle to show our growth mindset goal and motto that we want to work on. Come and check them out!

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 loved us all as his children. We are all blessed with the gifts of faith, hope and love.

St Joseph's 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

Split a Knee 

February 2019

By Dean

I am learning to entertain my audience through a recount

Have you ever fallen so hard that you feel like you have broken a part of your body? Well I have, and it wasn’t very pleasant. It was morning tea time. I went to Matthew B and I started tickling him, while I was in the middle of tickling him he ran. While he was running for his life, like it was the end of the world, I chased after him. But I couldn’t keep up because he was always turning and dodging me. As he approached Room 9 he went into the classroom, then I tried to go in… CRASH! I tripped up at the entrance, flying forward and landing extremely hard.




While I was on the ground a large group of people started to gather all staring at me like I was a spider or something that would give you nightmares. While I was on the floor crying, a duty teacher walked towards me to check if I was ok. At that moment I heard someone instructing me to get up, while calling out, “Move children, let Dean through!” I was helped to my feet, I wasn’t able to walk even with help so I had to limp.
When I got to the sick bay, they got some cold water and cleaned my knee up it was a really deep cut and quite wide. They had to use butterfly stitches to stick across my cut to hold the wound together. It was so bloody.




Making my way back to the classroom, I started to walk wonky. As soon as I got to the classroom the teacher said, “Welcome back, looks like you going to have to sit on a chair.” The cut took a long time to heal and too this day I have the scar on my knee as a reminder.

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.

Shrove Tuesday

Shrove 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.

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 season of Lent and it is a time of preparation.

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 domestic violence. In support we all wore orange clothes and brought a gold coin donation to help the charity. Here are some pictures:

My Mihimihi

Mihimihi 

Dean

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

Tēnā koutou katoa, (greetings to you all)

Nō Aotearoa ahau (where you are from)

Ko Maungawhau tōku maunga (mountain)

Ko Waitemata Harbour tōku moana (ocean)

Kei Tāmaki Makaurau tōku kāinga ināianei. (I now live)

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

Ko Fernandez tōku whānau (family)

Ko Hector Fernandez tōku pāpā (father)

No Philippines ia

Ko Lyn Perez tōku māmā (mother)

No Philippines ia

Ko Dean Fernandez tōku ingoa (your name)

Nō reira, tēnā koutou, t`ēnā koutou, tēnā tātou katoa.

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

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 it feels good when u do the right thing.

Pieces 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."

Waitangi pastel art

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

Treaty Of 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 our factual posters.