Symmetry

Five Facts About Lorde

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 centre. 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.

Cooking With Bugs

I am learning to persuade my audience using persuasive writing and emotive words

By Kayano

Are you sick and tired of the same old boring meal, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year? Well now you have the chance to bring the taste and crunch back into your meals with many creative recipes. Today I challenge you to cook with bugs. Did you know that one kilogram of termites is packed with 350 grams of protein, where as the same amount of beef contains 320 grams? There are many reasons why people should cook with insects, they are tasty, protein packed, and you can make many delicious meals with them.

“Yuck, disgusting, gross and ew” are some of the words used to describe bugs. But did you know that roughly 98% of the people who tried bugs actually ended up loving them? 80% of the world’s population eat bugs regularly as a treat, but that’s not surprising as they are full of flavour and are quick and easy to add to your everyday meals. We all enjoy a sweet and tasty treat every once in a while, so why not try a bug today! There are many treats you can make with bugs including mealworm fries, scorpion lollipops,ginger cricket cookies, worm tacos and much much more. Not only are bugs a tasty treat, but you can eat them without the guilt as they are a healthy option.

Do you need a healthy snack that can boost up your energy? You might be thinking about having Up&Go right now, but bugs are actually the better option as they are full of protein and energy. You might be surprised to learn about how insects are rich in protein, vitamins, fibre and minerals, in fact bugs are actually more nutritious than most meats such as beef, steak and lamb. Beetles, caterpillars, grasshoppers and wasps are some of the healthiest bugs you can eat. Bugs are healthy, nutritious treats but if you are still not persuaded than you can try creating amazing delicious meals that taste even better than your on the go Mcdonalds .

If you could list all your favourite foods, it would probably be filled with donuts, cake and pizza. Well did you know that these delicious foods can be made even better for you by adding a bug or two into them? In fact, bugs produce just a tiny amount of greenhouse gasses that cows make which is better for the environment and also better for us. There are many creative recipes you can make using bugs, why not try wax worm tacos for dinner tonight, or ginger cricket cookies for afternoon tea?

As you can see there are many reasons why we should cook with bugs. Bugs are a fun tasty treat and are also a healthy option, but they aren’t just tasty and healthy, but you can explore different cultures as they are also a creative cooking idea. I guarantee that if you try a bug today, they will be your new favourite food!

Christmas card craft

Today we made christmas cards.  Firstly we made a triangle using masking tape, we then picked some colours and made a gradient using them, once we finished the gradient we then drew a tree silhouette.  This is my finished card.

Assembly

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 favourite 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 favourite event was high jump.

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.

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 when we performed to the thousands of people.

Memes weekly magazine

This term in code club we made a magazine using a website called Trinket. This was our last term of code club for the year and I hope we can do it again next year. Here is my magazine all about memes:

The Communion of Saints

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.

Face Parts in Mandarin

Hair - Tou fa
Eyes - Yan jing
Nose - Bizi
Ears - Er duo
Mouth - Zui ba
Face - Lian

Year 5 Retreat

Today the year fives Went to the Saint Francis Retreat center for the day. We did many fun activities there. One of my favorite activities involved us trying to match a leaf to the tree it came from.   Here are some pictures of the retreat:

success criteria

In writing we have been creating an exposition.  We are trying to persuade people to eat bugs, here is our success criteria.

Personal sheilds

In room six we've been learning about kia kaha and other peoples differences.  We all made a shield that showed what made us unique.

Paper weaving

Today in religious education we tried paper weaving.  We made them based on all saints day and all souls day.

Waka

In room six we have been learning about differences.  We made this waka.

Bike safety

Today we learned about bike safety and how a bike works.  The Four legal requirements are the front brakes, the back breaks, a red reflector and a helmet.

The Kiwi

By Kayano

I am learning to inform my audience through an information report. 

What is brown, fuzzy and is special to New Zealand? No it's not a kiwifruit, it’s a kiwi bird. The Kiwi is one of the rarest flightless birds in New Zealand. The Kiwi is also a distant relative to the ostrich, the moa and the elephant bird from madagascar, although they are very different in size. There are five different species of kiwi which are the North Island Brown Kiwi, the Southern Brown Kiwi, the Little Spotted Kiwi, the Great Spotted Kiwi and also the Okarito Kiwi. That’s a lot of Kiwis. But in order to survive they need a healthy source of food.

Kiwis have a highly developed sense of smell which can be used for catching a lot of food and are the only bird with nostrils at the end of its very long beak. Kiwis are omnivores which means they eat both meat and plant. But Imagine eating small insects, seeds, grubs, leaves, and worms, fruit, small crayfish and even eels, these things are everything that a kiwi eats. But water? No kiwis don’t need a lot water, because roughly 85% of the food they eat is water. But a kiwis habitat is very important for its survival and source of food as well.

Luckily kiwi are very adaptable and live in a huge range of habitats, from forest and scrub to farmland, sand dunes and even mangroves. They especially like places with trees and running rivers with vegetation. Unfortunately the kiwis habitat is now infested with stoats, weasels and possums which are a threat to native New Zealand birds.

Weasels, dogs, stoats, possums, cats, ferrets and rats are all threats to kiwi. Yes kiwis are very endangered. There used to be more than twelve million but because predators eat so many chicks there are now fewer than one hundred thousand left.

Kiwis are full of miracles and it is lucky that we still have kiwis in New Zealand. It is our national icon and is important to our country. Kiwis are endangered and it is our job to protect them.

Odd socks

A couple weeks ago Our school had a speech competition.  Everybody did a great job writing their speech.  In the end this speech came third out of the year fives. Here is my speech:

Odd socks, one of life's most greatest unknowable mysteries, no one knows where they go, or how they even get there in the first place! Well, in the united kingdom, six hundred and seventy six million socks go missing each and every year! Well today that's all going to change, because for the first time ever, I will be unraveling the mystery of missing socks. I will be telling you about where they go, how to prevent them from going and some fun facts.

While some people think, no big deal, it's just a sock! Others like me will search high and low, losing sleep looking for the beautiful matching couple. So here are my two theories.

Theory number one, the washing machine theory. Apparently, it is very likely for your washing machine to “eat” your socks. You might think i’m joking, but no this is one hundred percent true. So your washing machine could be licking its mechanical lips and devouring your socks.

Theory number two, the washing powder theory. Washing powder can be good for cleaning and taking out stains, but who knows what kind of chemicals are in that detergent. Maybe there's a chemical that can dissolve socks or maybe even make them a different colour. Who knows!

Now that i’ve told you about my two theories, it's time to talk about how to prevent them from going. Match socks as soon as you fold that load of laundry. Maybe pin them together, that way you don’t have to fold them. Or my favorite way to not lose them, simply don’t wear them!

Speaking about not wearing socks did you know that Albert Einstein hated socks? Einstein was known for being very smart and enthusiastic, but he gave up on socks at a very young age But why? Because he hated the holes made by his big toe.

Albert Einstein would be quite old now but socks are pretty old too. Well you might be wondering, how long have socks been around for? well socks have evolved from The earliest models from animal skins tied together and braced around the ankle, to modern day socks! An item of clothing Worn on your feet.

Did you know socks may have originally gone with flip flops? The oldest socks that have been discovered date to roughly around two hundred and fifty to four hundred and twenty centuries old and are equipped with split toes, meaning they could’ve gone with jandals! Researchers found a rose coloured pair of woolen ancient slip-ons near the River Nile In Egypt. What sets these socks off is that they used a different style of knitting called nålbindning which only used one knitting needle. Nålbindning also took longer as they only used one knitting needle.

The most expensive pair of socks are the Emperor diamond socks, woven with precious jewels and gold thread and cost $58.76. The Makers of these socks actually regretted creating these socks as they can’t actually be worn or used for anything.

So socks are pretty amazing if you ask me. So when you get home I encourage you to look in your washing machine, pin your socks together, look at the information at the back of your washing powder and fold your laundry. But remember, life is too short to wear matching socks.

Weather

In math we have been learning about temperature.  Me and my friend Lucy made a slide show about the weather in different countries.  Here is the slide show.

Code club

For the past seven weeks we have been learning about how to code.  We have made games comic strips and mini skits using two websites called Scratch, and HTML.  We ALL loved playing each others games.  One of my games is called synchronized swimmers and is down below.  Last week was my favourite week, we made a ransom note and is on my blog.  I loved code club and I hope we will be on next term.

Instructions:

When pressing the left arrow the hippos will turn 15 degrees to the left and when the right arrow is pressed they will turn 15 degrees to the right.  When you press the down arrow they will gracefully swim backwards and of course when pressing the up arrow the will swim forward.  Making a routine is easy just press the m key or the space bar.

Crosses

In Art we've been painting crosses to go in the entrance of the school. These are my crosses:

Cultural Week

Last week it was cultural week. We each chose a country to learn about, the choices were Spain, the Philippines, Japan, Brazil, France, Italy, India, Korea and Germany. At the end of the week we had an assembly showing cultural dances and songs. We all had fun, and i hope we do it again.

Ransom Note

This week in code club we made non-violent ransom note.  We used a website called trinket to make these notes.  Here is my ransom note

Bird Science

Pointed beak, flat beak and pelican beak are all the types of beaks we used for this discovery. But these things are also known as forceps, tongs and cups. First we learnt about the meanings of the words we need to know like, aim. Aim means trying to achieve something in the experiment we were trying to see what shape beak is the best for picking up food. And we learnt what will we change( the equipment), What we will measure ( the amount of food) and how we will keep it a fair test. The way we can make it a fair test by having a nice steady surface, by having the same person doing each type of food also by having the same amount of time of 30 seconds. We had an amazing time experimenting with rice, peppercorns, gummy worms and skittles and after we got to eat LOLLIES. Thank you Miss Down for this amazing experiment.

The M&M Challenge

Last Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday we did the M&M challenge. The class got into groups with one leader in each group. Miss Down gave us some M&M’s and we had to count how many we had and next figured how much M&M’s our group had. After we found out how many M&M’s we all had many people realised that some people had a very small amount of M&M’s while others had about 50. The next thing we did was counting how much of red we had then blue then yellow until we had finished all the colours we had. When we did everything Miss Down told us to share all the M&M’s equally with our group and everyone in the class got 41 M&M’s each! We have put our information on a poster.

Gandparents mass

On Friday 24th August 2018 we celebrated Grandparents Mass with our grandparents, family/whanau and the whole school. We first went to mass to celebrate with Father Bernard Kyle, who blessed our dear Grandparent with a blessing and we sung a special song to them. When mass was finished our PTA team prepared a treat for us. There was lots of sweet and coffee/tea to sip on. By the time the that all the food was finished it was then time to perform some dances for our audience. The groups that performed were the Sheridan Kapa Haka, Choir, Tap dancing, Ukulele and Irish Dancing. That was a joyful day that we would always remember. We are blessed to have such special people in our lives.

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Saint Mary Mackillop

Yesterday was the feast day of Saint Mary Mackillop. We started our day attending our parish mass to celebrate her feast day as a whole community. All the students came back from mass to continue the celebrations by joining our buddy class. Room 4 and 6 together came together to work on paper dolls of ourselves. We know St Mary of the Cross always supported and helped all the children in need. We made a large St Mary MacKillop and we placed all out paper dolls of ourselves around her. Then we were all very lucky to receive a free sausage sizzle from the PTA to continue the celebrations at lunch. In the afternoon we then got to go and play a range of fun games with our buddy class. This was such a fun day working along each other but most of all having fun. Happy Saint Mary MacKillop Feast Day.
Here is our mural…

 

Netball

This week two team's of year five and six went to an Eden/Albert netball tournament. The year sixes won three out of eight games and us year fives won all our games and placed first overall, here is the cup that we won.

Whakatauki

In Maori we have been learning about a Whakatauki.  A Whakatauki is a proverb, what is truly valued in the Maori Culture. The Whakatauki that we have been learning about is if we all shared then no one would go without. We would be able to provide for all that come to us.There are also Proverbs in the Bible that encourage us to share.  Read these proverbs : Proverbs 19:17; 22:9; 31:20.  Jesus also showed us the teachings of God when he feed the multitudes of people with the fish and the loaves. Read more about this in the Gospel of John: 6 or the Gospel of Matthew: 14.

Evolution

In room six we have been learning to classify animals.  Scientists classify animals into groups in order to easily identify, sort, and name them.

Classify = SORT
there are many ways to group living things.  one way is according to how they use their food for energy.  You can classify animals into two main groups.  Vertebrate or invertebrate.
All vertebrates have...

• covering of skin that protects them
• Skeleton inside their body
• Muscles that help them move
• Blood moves through tubes
• Lungs or gills for breathing

Invertebrates

• 90% of animals are invertebrates!
• Invertebrates tend to be small because they don't have a backbone.
• Many live in the ocean because the water helps support their weight.
• Some have a hard covering or shell on the outside of their body for protection - insects, spiders, crabs, snails, clams.

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Figurative Language

Idiom, hyperbole, alliteration, metaphor, onomatopoeia, similes and personification. These are all language features which we call figurative language. In reading we have been learning about these language features and how authors used them in their writing to make their work engaging and add interest for their audience. We made posters either with paper pencils or flowers with examples and definitions of the language feature.Here is our figurative language poster.

Science Roadshow

Last week on Thursday the year 5 and 6 students of Good Shepherd School went to Edendale Primary School to experience the Science Roadshow! We learnt so much about ice and fire, the human body and other things that are related to science. We enjoyed watching the hosts do fascinating experiments like dropping an 8 ball into the metal stick with a hoop attached to it, before they dipped it into the liquid nitrogen the ball could thread through the hoop, but after they dipped the stick into the liquid nitrogen the ball couldn’t fit! We had a lot of fun, and recommend that everyone goes to the Science Roadshow if they get a chance.

Production

Lights, Camera, Action!

Last week Good Shepherd School performed, ‘Zip Zip Zap Avenue’. We packed the school hall with our family and friends as the rain fell. Most of GSS students were in the holding classrooms covered in make-up and sitting in our toy costumes.

Zip Zip Zap Avenue is a about a Toy Shop that comes alive once one of the main characters, the Shopkeeper closed up the shop and turned off the light. The toys would then come alive when all the people were asleep, like the the families that visited the toyshop looking for the perfect gifts. This certain night at the toyshop the celebration was for Buzz the Bee, he had left the shelf of the toy shop and all his friends came out to celebrate him with dances. The main toy friends were Thing 1, Thing 2, Tiki, Spiderman, Cabbage Patch Doll, Woody, Strawberry Shortcake, and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. The main characters introduced the classes as they came in as their selected toy and danced for buzz.

The first dance was the boys and girls of Room 3 and 4 who were transformers, this was a great and powerful way to start the show. Room 5 then twirled onto the stage as Barbie and Ken dancing to Barbie girl. Things got a little spooky as the trolls of Room 7 came out in the middle of the night to the song Thriller. We weren’t too scared for long as the fairies in Room 3 and 4 came out dancing away in their gorgeous fair dresses. And just when you thought things couldn’t get any cuter the teddy bears from Room 1 and 2 went on their teddy bear picnic. Room 8 then showed us what teamwork is with their awesome lego outfit and very cool song … Everything is awesome! Next up were the Kiwi toy, with great costumes for the kiwi birds and the wonderful performance of the Poi Dancers. And finally it was our turn, Room 6 spun onto the stage as Rubix Cubes dancing to You Spin Me Right Around.

It was a fantastic experience for us all, we learnt a lot about performing and all the work that goes on in the background. We was a wonderful opportunity and it wouldn’t of been possible without the support of everyone working together just like the lego blocks.

Book Week

It's week 8 and it is the bookworms favourite week of the year! Book week! A lot of things happened this week. The library was jam packed full of books and other cool stuff like pencils and rubbers, authors and poets were visiting the school, the book parade was on Friday where we were able to show off our costumes of our favourite book character!

Monday saw us in groups competing against one another as we did a literacy quiz! There were 30 questions and three topics. Each question we got right earned us a point! And, we all had to pick a topic where we DOUBLED our points.

The next day Tasman Flinn visited the school. We all sat in the hall and sat on the chairs while she showed us her poems and talked about poetry.

Then on Thursday, all of us year 5 and 6s went to Room 2 so we could see Chris Gurney. She talked about her books and how to make a book. And she picked a few volunteers to act out a play, based off her own book called “Cindy And The Lost Jandal” (Miss Down’s favourite book).

Then on Friday, we all dressed up in our favourite book characters, and finished off the week with the book parade! Where we showed off our amazing costumes on the stage.

We all had so much fun during book week. Thank God for books!

Seed Crackers

In Room Six we have been learning about how we can stay healthy and have a well balanced diet. For a healthy class treat we made seed crackers.  Here is our recipe.

Ingredients:

½ cup Sunflower seeds

½ cup Pumpkin seeds

¼ cup Sesame seeds

¼ cup Poppy seeds

¼ cup Linseed/flaxseed seeds

¼ cup chia seeds

½ tsp sea salt

1 cup water

1 sprinkle of flaky sea salt, to sprinkle

Directions: 

Heat oven to 170C. Place all the seeds and the salt in a bowl, pour in water and mix to combine. Leave for 15 minutes for the chia and flax seeds to soften and bind everything together. Tip out onto a baking paper-lined oven tray and spread out as thin as possible (around 4mm thick) and sprinkle with some flaky sea salt. Bake for 30 minutes. Remove the tray from the oven and slice into crackers, then return to the oven to cook for another 20-30 minutes until crisp and golden. Remove to a rack to cool then store in an airtight container. Now your crackers are ready to eat.

On the last week of school we are going to be having a Healthy Food Party - Veggie Con on Monday the 2nd July, everybody will bring healthy food for us to eat as a shared lunch. 

Check out our blogs for family favourites or healthy recipes we searched.

The Royal Jelly Show

On Tuesday 29 of May the whole of Good Shepherd gathered in the hall to watch a show called “The Royal Jelly”. It gave us a lot of facts about bees and was really funny. Also three students were lucky enough to participate in the show answering questions from the “mayor”. Over all the show was fun and interesting and we all learned a lot.

Eden/Albert zones

Last week teams of year four five and six went to Tristar gymnasium to compete in gymnastics the boys came first overall and also came first in the individuals. the girls didn't come a place but we all had a great time ad hope we can do it again another time.

Kayano's fruit kebab recipe

Veggie Con 2018

Ingredients:
Fruits of your choice
Wooden Skewers

Directions:
Dice fruit into bite sized cubes and poke through skewers.

A Well Balanced Diet

During our health inquiry we have been learning about a well balanced diet. We created a definition using a solo define map. Here is our definition:

A balanced diet is eating the right types of food that gives your body the nutrients to function correctly. To get proper nutritions from your diet you need to eat a healthy diet that contains the proper proportions of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. You need to eat a well balanced diet to maintain good health and to help you feel your best.

We also have learnt about the food pyramid, proportions, and the eatwell plate.

Here is a picture of my food pyramid which includes the food groups and servings sizes. You must eat a balance of all food groups to maintain good health.

Cross Country

It was the Fifth of June. Everyone a bit blue after the end of a long 4 day weekend, and here we are, starting the week off with cross country! Everyone came in their sports uniform. And from the morning up until lunch time, us students were running the Cross Country track.

We raced in year levels, so the year 1's raced with each other and so on. Those young bunches got to only run 1 lap. While us big kids had to run 2 and a half laps! Doesn't seem that much until you add the fact we had to jog all the way up Telford Ave and back twice! It was fun being competitive and racing your friends and other people. Everyone was bursting with positive energy.

Lining up before heading to the track is where the nervousness starts to kick in. We made our way to the netball court and stretched, a bit after that the year 6 girls started running. A few minutes later it was OUR turn to run the track. We all lined up and Mrs Mcleod told us where to go, then after that, we were off. Everyone seemed extremely exhausted at the end, but finishing the race was so relieving.

Congratulations to all the children who came in the top 3 and represented their houses well. And thanks to all the parents who helped motivate and keep us children on track.

Afio mai to Samoan language week

The cultural leaders opened the week with their national costume and dance.

In room 6 we have been exploring the Samoan Cultural with general facts. We searched for our fact card around the room and collected information for our Jigsaw Reading Hunt.
Next our Samoan experts in class gave us a lesson on greetings and phrases in Samoan.
Then we moved onto counting to ten in Samoan for math before finishing our math session with a clapping game in Samoan.

Selo-zero
Tasi-one
Lua-two
Tolu-three
Fa-four
Lima-five
Ono-six
Fitu-seven
Valu-eight
Iva-Nine
Sefulu-ten

The Life Cycle of a Sea Turtle

I.A.L.T: inform my audience with an explanation.

Did you know, sea turtles have been around since the late Jurassic? That was roughly two hundred and twenty million years ago! leatherback and flatback turtles are the oldest turtle species on earth. There are three main stages that a sea turtle goes through, the egg, childhood, and lastly adulthood. The first stage is the egg stage.

To start off, the mother turtle swims to land and uses her flippers to walk past the high tide line. After that, she uses her flippers again but to dig a small hole in the sand to lay her eggs in. The size of an average egg is a similar size to a leathery ping pong ball. Once they are laid and buried underground, the mother sea turtle makes her way back to the sea. It can take forty five to fifty five days for the eggs to hatch. About twenty percent of the eggs don’t hatch. Once they are hatched the baby sea turtles make their way to the water.

On the way to the water there are many dangers awaiting them, like crabs, seagulls, rubbish, holes and much much more, so roughly fifty percent actually make it to the water. When the baby sea turtles are in the water there are many more dangers awaiting them, like whales, sharks, killer whales, and also when they come to the surface to breathe, they can get taken away by seagulls and birds. So after that time in the water, they eventually grow bigger. From the size of a dinner plate to a dinner table, in other words, childhood to adulthood.

Now the adulthood stage. Sea turtles have a similar lifespan to humans. With human interference, they find it hard to survive. Five turtles survive to breeding age without human interference and Two turtles survive with human interference.

So sea turtles have a pretty hard time trying to survive. If you want to help sea turtles survive reduce the amount of garbage you produce and clean up trash you see on the beach. This is the full life cycle of a sea turtle.

Happy birthday Suzanne Aubert

Ra Whanau Suzanne Aubert

In room 6 we have been celebrating Suzanne Aubert’s birthday by making flowers for the theme, “Always choose the little flower of hope.”

Suzanne looked after sick people, people with disabilities, children whose families couldn’t care for them, and the elderly. The work she started continues to this day in places like Wellington’s Compassion Soup Kitchen.

Suzanne left her home in France and came to Aotearoa to support the Maori people. She honoured the Maori people, their tikanga, reo and rongoa. Suzanne loved God and always thought about what he wanted her to do, not what she wanted, even when that wasn’t easy.

Lights, camera, action!

Room 6 presented their learning about not being a bystander at their assembly on Friday week 3. In week 3 all school around New Zealand made a stand by wearing pink. PINK stood for Peaceful, Inclusive, Noble and Kind. Our assembly was a success and we all had fun.

Maori Verbs

In room six we have been learning verbs in Maori (action words). The question is "kei te aha ia?" which means what is S/he doing. Ia is the pronoun for both he and she. We have matched verbs up filled in crosswords and played Simon says

The Ascension of the Lord.

In R.E we learnt about the ascension of Jesus at Galilee.  Jesus told his disciples to take his gospel to the whole world.  He promised to send the Holy Spirit to be with us always and then he returned, in glory to his Father in heaven.  We used crafts to show how Jesus went body and soul to heaven.

The Game Show

I am learning to: write about what happens before during and after a event.

There once was a curious inventor named Jack and a rusty old robot named Bong. Jack and Bong both lived in a cold dreary apartment on Cord Street. The streets were never full but one day the chance of a lifetime came to their mailbox.

They opened the colourful envelope and there inside of it was an invitation to a gameshow! Jack heard about this show on the television, he knew that this could be his chance to be remarkable and rich once more.

“This is gonna be great!” Overflowing with excitement they both signed it and sent it back to the address. A couple of months later Jack heard the sound of a door bell. He slowly opened the door and as soon as he showed his face, paparazzi were crowding him screaming,

“YOU’RE FAMOUS!” they greeted him and showed him to his ride. However he was so distracted from cameras he forgot all about his robot friend Bong. 

“Vroom!” and off the car went, zooming into the fog. Soon enough they arrived to the studio. 

Jack was extremely excited to be a part of this. About a second later he remembered where Bong was.

Bong was terribly sad that Jack forgot about him, he waited for hours for Jack to come back but he never did. Bong the innocent robot was now evil, raging with anger he started to transform. Pincers came out of nowhere, his stubby legs turned into stompers and he changed personalities. Stomping with fury Bong arrived at the set. Jack saw bong pacing towards him at full speed. Bong lifted his foot slowly and as soon as he was about to flatten Jack he woke up. 

“Are there any seatbelts in this bed?” Jack said confused. He rose from his bed and realised it was all a dream.

My Pepeha

During this term Room 6 has been learning how to write a Pepeha. A Pepeha is a Maori introduction that establishes your identity and heritage. We learned how to say our Pepeha and then we said it in front of the class and then we used screencastify to video it.This is my Pepeha. 

Tēnā koutou katoa,

Ko Tuhinga o mua te  maunga

Ko pacific te moana   

Ko Francis tōku pāpā

Ko Kaori tōku māmā

Ko Kayano tōku ingoa

Inspirational Heroes

During reading we have been researching people who have faced challenges and have stood up for what they believe in. They have either been a voice for those that don't have one or are a person who never gave up when facing challenges.

My person is Malala Yousafzai.

Come visit room six to check out my flip presentation of Malala Yousafzai.

Worst Dinner Ever

I am learning to inform my audience by sharing an entertaining moment.

Boing, boing! I was on the trampoline waiting for dinner. I was tumbling flipping and having fun, but it wasn’t that peaceful for long. After a while I started smelling my dinner cooking. OH NO! Instantly I knew what it was. Spicy curry. I pulled my shirt over my nose trying not to smell it. I ignored it for as long as I could, until mum called me in.“Kayano!”

Slowly walked through the door. IT SMELLED DISGUSTING! I sat down in my chair and stared at the big pot that the curry was in. Dad was serving spoonfuls of curry in his bowl, (I was just thinking how on earth he could eat so much of it).

I served myself up and took my first taste,”AAAAAAHHHHHH!” It was burning my head off! But not only was it hot, it was spicy, the texture was disgusting and also all that flipping on the trampoline made my stomach even worse!

I sprinted to the sink and started to throw up. It was the worst feeling ever. Now I’m older and know NOT to eat that curry ever again.

Cyber Safety Rules

Room 6 has been learning about Cyber Safety.We have learnt a lot about being a digital citizen.Here are three key rules that I think are important:

1.Be careful of what you post on the internet .All the information and images leave a digital footprint.

2.Never share your personal details such as full name, age, address and passwords with any people, even those who say they know you.

3.Be nice! No one likes a digital bully. Be respectful and be a great digital citizen.

If you are ever unsure check with an ADULT!