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

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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.