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

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.

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.