Christmas Booklet

In Room 6 we are doing a Christmas booklet full of math activities and crosswords. My favourite so far in the Christmas booklet would be the Christmas basket if you would love to make a Christmas basket why not try make it all you nee to do is....




Color the basket and handle

Cut it out

Fold on the dotted lines

Glue sides together

Staple on the handle

Fill with Christmas treats!!!

Brand Logos

Five Facts About Lorde

Top 10 New Zealand Songs With Artist

Persuasive Writing

             🕷Eating Edible Bugs🕷
                                               By: Matila Fa’apopo

                    I am learning to persuade my audience using persuasive writing.

Did you know that there are hundreds of people around the world that actually eat bugs? Such as spicy critter fritters, ginger cricket cookies and wax worm tacos. What would your favourite bug recipe be? In my opinion I believe that all people should cook with insects. Most people are disgusted at the thought of eating insects in their meals, but it has been proven that people who do try bugs end up loving them. When people look at bugs it creeps them out, but once cooked these bugs don’t crawl and are delicious. When cooking with insects there are many benefits to include them in your diet, they are tasty treats for everyone, bugs are healthy and low in fat and cooking with insects can give you creative meal options from all around the world. Don’t judge a bug by its cover, judge it by its taste.






We all eat crackers, lollies, fruit and all tasty treats but why not taste a bug? Well, eating bugs are actually very tasty and are full of protein, fibre, iron and calcium. Most of you still might be thinking that you are still not eating a bug or you just feel disgusted by eating bugs but did you know that 80% of people from around the world that actually try bugs really like them? My challenge for you today is to eat an insect. You could be creative with so many bug recipes from all around the world so why not eat an insect for a tasty treat? Remember a bug a day keeps the doctor away!





What is high in protein and full of vitamins and minerals? If you guessed meat then you are right but did you also know that bugs are a great source of protein too? Beetles, crickets, cockroaches and grasshoppers are some of the healthiest bugs you can eat. Any type of bug generally has the same amount of protein as an egg? But luckily for bugs they are filled with vitamins and essential minerals, also a cricket is sixty five percent protein whereas, beef is about fifty percent. There are so many bugs out there that you can try from around the world that are healthy and are a great source of protein. You could be creative with healthy bug recipes from all around the world.



Ginger cricket sweets, chocolate chirp cookies, and Mealworm fries these are all related to creative cooking. Do you eat tacos or cheesecake? Why not try wax worm tacos or caramel cricket cheesecake? You could give your dish to the next level! So why not try a bug inside your dish. You can cook bugs in many different ways for example you can roast them, fry them, and much more. You could turn chocolate cookies into chocolate chirp cookies and turn fries into mealworm fries. You can be very creative with bugs so always try to give your meal something creative.



In conclusion I think many people should eat insects. There are many reasons why you should eat insects, they are high in protein, low in fat, and are good for our environment. They are also good for a daily snack after school. So whenever you’re feeling hungry, try an insect!

Algebra Booklet

In math we used a basic algebra booklet it was very challenging but tried.  We used patterns and even tried to do basic algebra vocabulary,  throughout this term I think this booklet has helped me a lot with my algebra.

Christmas Card

Today we made a Christmas card but we made our Christmas card more colorful by blending in colors, I made my colors as a rainbow!! I added twink just to make more detailed so that it can be snow. This took a lot of time and patience but we did it!!! You could make a card like this all you need is...


Masking tape
Color Pastels
Grey Pencil
Paper
Twink ( Optional ) Just to make it a little detailed

                                                                                     

Eating Edible Bugs Persuasive Writing

🕷Eating Edible Bugs🕷
By: Matila Fa’apopo

I am learning to persuade my audience using persuasive writing.

Did you know that there are hundreds of people around the world that actually eat bugs? Such as spicy critter fritters, ginger cricket cookies and wax worm tacos. What would your favourite bug recipe be? In my opinion I believe that all people should cook with insects. Most people are disgusted at the thought of eating insects in their meals, but it has been proven that people who do try bugs end up loving them. When people look at bugs it creeps them out, but once cooked these bugs don’t crawl and are delicious. When cooking with insects there are many benefits to include them in your diet, they are tasty treats for everyone, bugs are healthy and low in fat and cooking with insects can give you creative meal options from all around the world. Don’t judge a bug by its cover, judge it by its taste.






We all eat crackers, lollies, fruit and all tasty treats but why not taste a bug? Well, eating bugs are actually very tasty and are full of protein, fibre, iron and calcium. Most of you still might be thinking that you are still not eating a bug or you just feel disgusted by eating bugs but did you know that 80% of people from around the world that actually try bugs really like them? My challenge for you today is to eat an insect. You could be creative with so many bug recipes from all around the world so why not eat an insect for a tasty treat? Remember a bug a day keeps the doctor away!





What is high in protein and full of vitamins and minerals? If you guessed meat then you are right but did you also know that bugs are a great source of protein too? Beetles, crickets, cockroaches and grasshoppers are some of the healthiest bugs you can eat. Any type of bug generally has the same amount of protein as an egg? But luckily for bugs they are filled with vitamins and essential minerals, also a cricket is sixty five percent protein whereas, beef is about fifty percent. There are so many bugs out there that you can try from around the world that are healthy and are a great source of protein. You could be creative with healthy bug recipes from all around the world.



Ginger cricket sweets, chocolate chirp cookies, and Mealworm fries these are all related to creative cooking. Do you eat tacos or cheesecake? Why not try wax worm tacos or caramel cricket cheesecake? You could give your dish to the next level! So why not try a bug inside your dish. You can cook bugs in many different ways for example you can roast them, fry them, and much more. You could turn chocolate cookies into chocolate chirp cookies and turn fries into mealworm fries. You can be very creative with bugs so always try to give your meal something creative.



In conclusion I think many people should eat insects. There are many reasons why you should eat insects, they are high in protein, low in fat, and are good for our environment. They are also good for a daily snack after school. So whenever you’re feeling hungry, try an insect!

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.

Room 6 shield

                   

In Room 6 we have been sharing to other people in our class why we are unique and why our class is special we wrote some beautiful things that  makes us unique and what makes our classroom unique.   

Year 5 Netball team

On Thursday year 5 and 6 netball team went to go to Eden Albert netball court to compete with other netball teams year 5 team and year 6 team played about 6 games and thankfully the year 5 team won all 6 games and went into the finales competing with OLSH ( our lady sacred heart)

Stage Six In Math

Last time I was in stage 4 but with a lot of help from my teacher, Miss Down and now I am on Stage 6.

My Chinese Name

English- Matila

Chinese- Ju yan

Vertebrates

                                               Vertebrates
In Room 6 we have been learning to classify animals scientists classify animals and plants into groups in order to easily identify,sort,and name them.

Classify= Sort there are many ways to group living organisms.

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! 

My Favourite Book!

This two books are my favourite so far Dork diary I love because I love the drama with Nikki Maxwell and Mackenzie Hollister I also love the amazing drawings inside the book. The book i'm up to is  frenemies forever. And baby sitters club I love this book because I love the drama and how all the friends in the book never give up even though they are not friends but get back together.

Kiwi Writing

I am learning to inform my audience through an information report. 
What animal is critically endangered and is the most precious animal we have in New Zealand? Yes it is the kiwi bird. The kiwi bird is not like any other bird because it has wings but cannot fly. It has a scientific name called Apteryx which means wingless. The wings they do have are useless because they are so small that they are unable to carry a kiwi’s body. The kiwi is the size of a chicken. They lay the largest eggs out of any bird in the world compared to their body. The kiwi has a long beak with nostrils at the tip of it beak. Kiwis are blind so they rely on their beak to find food. Kiwis are also different because their feathers are like hair. Did you know that their characteristics are similar to a mammal? There are other interesting facts about kiwis such as their diets, habitat and why they are endangered.

Diet
Did you know that most of the food the kiwi eats are invertebrates and most of them are earthworms. Kiwis are very lucky to be in New Zealand because there is a lot of wet land for earthworms to live. Did you know that the kiwi gets most of its water from their food such as juicy earthworms they have about 85% of water in them. All kiwis species like the brown kiwi eat different food. Some species of kiwi eat bracket fungi and frogs, most kiwi eat berries, seeds and leaves. Some kiwis even eat fish, eels or tuna out of a lake or pond then starts whacking the sea creature and then eats it. In order for kiwis to find food they need to have a habitat that meets their food needs.

Habitat
The kiwi is very adaptable and live in a huge range of habitats to provide them shelter, food, and more. Being adaptable it means they can change to meet the environment that they live in. Kiwis are not fussy on where they live and can live in native forest, rough farmlands, exotic plantation forests, sand dunes, and even snowy tussocks. Because kiwis are soil feeders, kiwi prefer places where they can get straight to the dirt rather than struggling through hard mud. While the kiwi is out hunting for food there are also predators out hunting the kiwi.

Predators
The kiwi is hunting low to the ground makes them vulnerable to a range of predators especially as the kiwi leave a strong scent as they venture out, this means predators can smell where they have been. Stoats, cats, dogs, possums, hedgehogs, rodents, and weasels these are all kiwis predators. Did you know that an average of 27 Kiwi are killed by predators every week? That’s a population of 1,400 kiwis killed every year in New Zealand. At this rate kiwis may disappear from the mainland in our lifetime. It is important to keep our New Zealand kiwi birds safe because they may get extinct if we do nothing to protect them from these predators.

In conclusion kiwi birds are one of New Zealand's icons and we need to keep them round for generations to come.The New Zealand kiwi bird will slowly die out of New Zealand but by making sure they have the right diet, habitat that is away from predators they will stay on the planet. Kiwis are one extraordinary bird so we must keep them safe.

Speech

After eating a chocolate bar, most of us just throw the wrapper away because no-one is looking, and some of us do the right thing and place in the trash. In today’s speech, it’s about living in Eco friendly world, and what changes we can apply to make this happen.For example: Eating a packet of chips or chocolate bar once we are finished, it’s up to us to make a decision either to throw it away and hope that it will eventually end up in the trash, or place it in the bin because we are aware what those wastes could do to our environment, by making the right

choices not only we are saving our planet but also our animals from getting instinct, we are surrounded by beautiful lands, trees, most of us take this for granted, so appreciating nature could be a start, care for our environment. These small changes can make a big difference to our planet earth,will have a positive effect to our environment and our daily living, If we can start right now because of this speech, and throw the right waste in the right bin every-single day, That could make a huge difference to our world,our animals, our school and our environment, why don’t we start right now if you are a false rubbish taker well by the end of this speech you would be picking up rubbish around the school in no time.As kids our adults will be very impressed because roughly about 50% of adults throw away rubbish on the floor leaving all germs like in one day I think we kids can be capable and mature enough to throw our rubbish in the trash. Kids like us from Thailand became trash heroes when they participated at the TEFL Samui English Camp in Thailand last month 2018 about four days later they learned about a plastic pollution and the effects of trash on marine life from the trash hero kids book. If you want to be like these little fellow from Thailand well you gotta make our world clean like as if it’s the last day living in planet earth because of all this yucky trash. These are three warnings you should not do and do with your rubbish around our environment. #1 Convenience plastic is the stuff we use, when were on the go. You have probably used some today, things like plastic bags, plastic spoons, plastic cups, plastic wrapped, plastic straw and plastic bottles. They are cheap,light weight, and don’t need washing just eat, drink and throw them away when you have finished them! Sounds great right! #2 Always put your rubbish in the bin you’ve probably heard lots of adults say “ Don’t litter!” But why do they make such a big deal about it’s just one chocolate wrapper, and the world is huge! That’s true but if everyone in the world thought like that, that would mean a BILLIONS of chocolate wrappers, thrown on the ground every single day, and #3 Pick up any litter you see Trash heroes like us often get together with people in their area to clean up places like, beaches, parks and neighborhoods to make them nice and to save everyone. Everyone should treat our environment into a peaceful, calm, planet no matter what you do to our planet please STOP! Remember little can be huge.Thank you

Bird Poster

                                                             

                                       

                     

In Room 6 We have been learning a lot about birds so we created our own birds with different parts of birds body like the head, the tail, the feet and the beak we all combined the different body parts where it should be and created a name for our bird.            

           
                                                     

Cross

In room 6 we have been painting our crosses for the fence. We first had to draft our design on a piece of paper 3 or 4 times. Then we did our final copy with colors. This is how it turned out...

Science Experiment

Science Experiment

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




hing 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.

Grandparents Mass

Grandparents 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, folk 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.

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 realized 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 colors 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.

Online Proflile

In our digital lessons we have been learning what is private and public information. We have created a personal profile for our blogs using this new knowledge. On our blogs there are people we know, and people we don’t know, who can view our profiles. We decided to share personal information that we wanted to share about ourselves. Making sure we didn’t share information that was not for public use.

St Mary Mackillop's Feast Day

St Mary Mackillop’s Feast Day

Yesterday was the St Mary Mackillop Feast Day. We started our day attending our parish mass to celebrate her feast day as 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....

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.

Vertebrates

• In Room 6 we have been learning to classify animals scientists classify animals and plants into groups in order to easily classify identity, sort and name them

•  Classify=Sort There are many ways to group organisms 

                                         

                 You can classify animals in two main groups, Vertebrate or Invertebrate


               All Vertebrates have

• Covering of skin to protect them 
• Skeleton inside their body 
• Muscles that help them move
• Blood move through tubes
• lungs or gills for breathing                

• 90% of all animals are invertebrates!
• Tend to be small because they do not have a backbone
• Many live in the ocean because the water helps support their weight 
• some have hard covering or shell on the outside of their bodies for protection

- Insects, Spiders,Crabs,Snails, Clams

Private and Public Imformations

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 definitions of the language feature.Here is our figurative language poster.  And add interest for their audience.

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.

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.

Matilas Fruit Salad Recipe 2018

Ingredients
Fruits ( Any fruit you like)
You can add vanilla extract (Optional)

Add vanilla extract then remove from heat.
Slice fruit up into small pieces.
Add these fruit altogether in a bowl. 

That is how you make fruit salad.

A Well Balanced Diet

                                         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 eat well 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.

Malo to Samoa language Week!

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

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-tzero

Tasi-one

Lua-two 

Tolu-three

Fa-four

Lima-five

Ono-six

Fitu-seven

Valu-eight

Iva-Nine

Sefulu-ten

Happy Birthday Suzanne Aubert

Ra whanau Suzan Aubuert

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.

The Life Cycle of a Sea Turtle

I am learning to write an explanation.
Do you know what reptile lives in the sea? If you guessed sea turtles, then you are right! They have been around for roughly one hundred and fifty million years! There are seven known species of sea turtles and six of those species are endangered because of human interference. The cycle of the sea turtle goes through the egg stage, baby sea turtle stage, and finally the adulthood stage. The first stage is the egg stage.

To start off, the female sea turtle goes onto a high piece of land and starts digging a deep hole to lay her eggs in. The turtle eggs are the size of a white leathery ping pong ball. After about a month and a half, the eggs start to hatch. Approximately 20% of eggs do not hatch. When the baby sea turtles have hatched they squirm out of their cozy warm cracked eggs. The sea turtles now have to be aware as they go into the sea because there are predators such as crabs, holes and seabirds.

Approximately 50% of little baby sea turtles make it to the water but as their body gets deeper, a whole lot of predators await them such as, various fish, killer whales and dolphins. For about several months the baby sea turtles will try to avoid the predators. The baby sea turtles will also try to be aware of themselves because they might try to eat themselves. They face challenging weather as they swim along the sea surface. For about another several months the baby sea turtles turn into adults.

The adult stage is when the sea turtles start to find somewhere to settle. The adult sea turtles range in size from as small as a dinner plate to as big as a dinner table. But because of humans only 1% of adult sea turtles will survive because of contagious chemicals that the humans are using as well as oil, fishing rods, plastic, and lots of rubbish. Also approximately 2% of adulthood sea turtles will be able to progress with breeding age but only with human interference. So sea turtles have a pretty hard time surviving through their life cycle.

To conclude, sea turtles have three stages in their life cycle however the more pollution humans put on earth the harder it is for these creatures to survive. We need to do something now or else these wonderful animals will be extinct.

Camera, Lights, Action!

Room 6 presented their learning
about not being a bystander at their  assembly on Friday week 3. In week 3 all schools 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

                                                            Maori Verbs
                                    In room 6 we have been learning verbs in Maori (Action words)
                                   The question is "Kei te aha ia?" which means what is he/she 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

City Rail Link Art

As part of an art class with Miss Down we created images that will be displayed in the country’s busiest rail station, once it opens to the public in 2023/2024.

These images will be used and turned in a ceramic tile and display within the station.

Inspirational heroes

During reading we have been researching people who have faced challenges and have stood up for what they believed 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 Martin Luther King Jr.

Come visit Room 6 to check out my flip presentation of Martin Luther King Jr.

The Crazy Robot

I am learning to: create a narrative based on a image.

As Jeff came home from school he was exhausted. Studying was his least favourite thing in high school. Jeff ran to his room and slammed the door behind him. His room was as messy as a monsters cave. Jeff knew it was time to clean his room and make some arrangements, but he was so tired he wasn’t even thinking about his science project! He knew he had to make space to build it because he needed to make it fast

Finally Jeff’s room was as spotless as a princess palace.There were boxes everywhere with cables and wires and all electronic stuff that was in many other boxes. Jeff was so glad he had cleaned his room. He found everything he had lost. As Jeff was in the middle of homework he realised that he had to do his science project! As quick as a cheater Jeff got out all the wires and cables and all the electronic stuff out of the boxes.

As a thinker like Jeff he started to mend a giant robot. Jeff got every electronic battery and cables and all other things,and started to mend his robot. Finally Jeff’s robot was ready, although he needed something that was missing Jeff realised it was the colour of the robot. At the backyard he went inside his stepfather’s shed to look for any paint and all he found was a rotten red inside a drawer. ‘Oh well’ thought Jeff at least it’s a colour. Off he went to his bedroom to paint his robot.

“Phew” noise’s came from Jeff’s mouth as he finished ten layers of the paint. The robot looked like he came out of a makeup room.But something was missing the remote control. Jeff got his battery and cables and started to invent his very first invented remote.

‘Knock! Knock!Knock’ Oh no! Jeff knew it was the shillabers every afternoon they would come inside his room and mess it up. They would wreck all his things and Jeff thought if the shillabers came inside his room he thought they might ruin his science project! Jeff was terrified he and the shillabers were cousins they were quite annoying they wanted everything from Jeff’s room. They had broken his popcorn maker in little pieces. Jeff made and it got wrecked. Jeff ran downstairs to his mum and said “ Mum please do not let the shillabers come inside because right now I’m concentrating on my science project”, “ Okay Jeff off you go to your room and I will tell them that you are gone to your basketball game” answered mum.

“Yay”! Screamed Jeff . Jeff was sleeping in his room. Awhile ago Jeff heard whirring noises from his room. He was to scared of the sound affects coming from his room,Jeff didn’t move a muscle he knew he wouldn’t go out of bed but the whirring noise became louder and louder, “That’s it I’m going to my cupboard and see what the noise is from” said Jeff scared. As slow as a snail Jeff heard creak noises from his cupboard and oh no Jeff found that his robot was destroyed and now his science project was definitely ruined. Tears came down of Jeff’s eye’s. The next day Jeff had to take out the rubbish bin outside the front so he had to chuck away his dream robot he has been making all along for his science fair. “What’s going on Jeff”, Jeff heard admiring voices coming from the rubbish bin jeff took a closer look and look what he found he had found his robot but Jeff have had no wonder why he was still alive. 

Cyber Safety

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 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.



       

Pepeha

During this term Room 6 has been learning how to write a Pepeha. A Pepeha is a Maori introduction that establishes you 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.

No Samoa ahau

No Aoetearoa toku kainga inaianei 

Ko Te Hapara pai te kura

Ko Faapopo Toku Papa 

No Samoa ia

Ko Faith toku Mama 

Ko Matila toku ingoa

My Growth Mindset Goal

I have created a mindset goal and motto on bunting.

growth mindset

“ All things are difficult before they are easy”

To me this mindset means that you have to practice until you think it is easy for you to do, although the most important thing is to believe in yourself

You can use this growth mindset when you feel like failing or you feel like you need some time to think about the mindset you can use on the title.

Me Board

In room 6 we put information about our selves on a board. We called them Me Boards