Our Paper Christmas Ornament

Today all the year 5's from room 9 and 5 got to color a bird as a Christmas ornament to hang up on their Christmas tree we got to pick a bird with so many patterns and I chose this bird. I chose this bird also because it has Maori patterns and it also represents our culture Aotearoa.

Room 6's 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

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 the harreruia song.

Mother Teresa Slideshow

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.

Room 6's Assembly

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."




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 humourous traditional tales with a kiwi voice. We absolutely adore her books, so for our assembly we presented a Readers Theatre: Trev and the Kauri Tree.

Athletics Day!

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 the Running.

Math Clue

                                     

In room 6 we were all splited into groups and had to work out a bunch of clues trying to find out who kidnapped the witch? each day we had hard equations and a lot of working out to do but it is a a lot of fun and costs teamwork.

My Book I'm Reading

This week I have been reading this inspiring book about epic new Zealand  women that didn't gave up and accomplished their dreams.

Mandarin-Parts On Our Face

Toufa- Hair 
Yanjing-Ear
Lian-Face
Zui-Mouth 

Room 6's Waka

In room 6 we all colored and decorated ourselfs on a piece of paper and of course we decorated our oar, Our teacher Miss Down complemented us and my complement was ''Loving''  we all wrote our complement on our oar also the whole had a complement and it was this '' Our class is a special place to be''   

Year 5 Retreat

This term all year 5's were on Retreat with brother Phillip, we did so many things on our year 5 retreat with big help from brother Phillip. All girls and boys that were in the Retreat got to lit up a little candle and say a little prayer for one of their family members to get better. We also did activities like trying to find the same leaf on a tree we were in pairs and worked together as a team to try and find the pair of the leaf on a tree. We also had lots of fun doing clues but this time it was very challenging because we were in a group and we all had to stay together because we had to hold on a long piece of plastic paper but surprisingly we worked together as a team  to find all clues. All girls and boys that were in the Retreat had lots of fun we had so much with brother Phillip and all teachers.