Limerick

Once there was a guy from Welly 

Who had a really big belly 

He ate a curry

Pooped in a hurry 

And now he is really smelly

Haikus Poem

Haikus

Haikus are easy

But some don’t make any sense

Refrigerator

Five syllables here

Seven more syllables here

Are you happy now

Calendar art

Good Shepherd School Fair

The MONSTERS are coming...

dun dun duuuun.

Unitech Marae Visit

On wednesday 28th August the whole school went to a Marae. When we arrived we were greeted by the caller who sang a song for us to walk forward into the Marae. there was a morning tea which was milo biscuits and apples and oranges. when it was time to go back to school all the year five and six boy did the haka which was my favorite part. It was sad when we went back because it was lots of fun.

Procedure Writing

How to Blow Bubblegum

By Luka, Xavier F, Xavier P 

I am learning to write a procedure for my audience to follow. 

Materials: 

A piece of bubblegum, Hubba Bubba 

Mouth

Step 1: Take one piece of Hubba Bubba gum and unwrap the gum. 

Step 2: Place the gum into your mouth and put wrapper into the bin.

Step 3: Chew on one side of your mouth until gum is stretchy.

Step 4: Make the gum into a ball in your mouth.

Step 5: Squish the ball on the roof of your mouth

Step 6: Wrap around the tip of your tongue.

Step 7: Blow into your bubblegum and wait till inflated.

Step 8: Seal the bubble with your lips. 

Step 9: Enjoy! 

Visual Arts

You hold the future in your hands.

In Term 2 our Visual Arts focused was on Mixed Media. We finally finished our pieces of art at the end of the term. We started off by creating two hands, most of us copied our own hands as templates. One hand represents our past and the other hand our future. We used lots of different materials and symbols to make our artwork as well as exploring a range of different techniques with watercolor paint. This is my art work.

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.

Rm 6 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:

Cook Island Language Focus

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

Rm 6 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 Yourself Safe

The last couple of weeks we have been doing Keeping yourself safe. We even did the Tui Tour. As part of keeping yourself safe we had to look after an egg for four days when we had finished all of us smashed ours ( bad parenting ).

Rainbow Jelly

For math we are making rainbow jelly as part of measurement. we had a sheet of paper to work out the correct measurements. When we had finished the sheet we poured in the right amount of jelly and made it then we let it rest and then made the next color and so on until it was done. here's a picture about when we were making it.

Paul / Saul Poster

Today in R.E we made posters about famous people who spread the word about Jesus. We all picked someone and I picked paul. A fact I liked about him was, that his Jewish name is saul I was born in Tarsus in Cilicia which is a Roman province in Asia Minor.

I liked learning about him because there was lots of things that I didn't know.

Water Cycle Explanation Writing

How does the Water Cycle Work

I am learning to inform my audience through an explanation

By Xavier P

When you go to get a drink of water you could be drinking water a dinosaur had a bath in millions of years ago. This is all because of the water cycle. A cycle is a series of steps that repeats itself over and over again. The earth's water is 97 percent salt water leaving 3 percent to be fresh water and of that fresh water 1 percent is drinkable. The water cycle has three main steps which are evaporation, condensation and precipitation.

One of the first stages of the water cycle is evaporation. There are lots of examples of evaporation like a kettle boiling. When the kettle boils you’ll see steam coming out the top. When you stop seeing that gas it has turned into water vapour. Evaporation with the water cycle follows the same process. However the sun is used as the heat source. The sun heats up the water so all the atoms are heating up and getting there boogie on, till they eventually turn to water vapour which floats up into the atmosphere and condenses.

The second stage of the water cycle is condensation. An example is on a hot day when the sun is shining you can often see on a can of coke with water droplets on the outside of the can, this is condensation. The cold can surface has connected with water vapour in the air, forcing the water to cool down and condense on the side of the can in the form of water droplets. When we look at condensation in the water cycle it is where the water vapor in the clouds cools down and turns back into water. The water in the cloud starts to bounce around and the water droplets connect together until they are too heavy and that leads us into precipitation.

Last but not least is Precipitation. Precipitation is the release of water from the sky, it can be liquid or solid, for example, rain, sleet, hail and snow. Rain begins when small droplets of water join together in the clouds until they become too heavy and gravity pulls them down to earth into a collection of water like a lake, ocean or river.

As you can see when all three of the stages in the water cycle evaporation, condensation and precipitation all join up they create the water cycle. After each stage has completed their process that is when the cycle is completed and it all starts over again in a never ending loop. That is how the earth still contains all the water there was since the beginning of time.

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 points.  Overall the race was long and required a lot of stamina, but we were prepared. Here are some pictures from our races.

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.

Samoan Language Week

This week was Samoan Language Week. In Room 6 we learnt a lot about Samoa and the Samoan culture. We watched Cultural Hub clips about the Samoan alphabet, animals and body parts. Did you know that the Samoan alphabet has only 17 letters? Also during reading time we did a scavenger hunt on facts about Samoa, we then searched the classroom for clues to complete our samoan puzzle. We had experts teaching us greetings and phrases, our experts were Matila, Remy and Rosa.

Soccer Zones

On Tuesday was Mt Albert Soccer Zones.  We played five games of soccer sadly we did not win a game but we tied two. I has been training hard before this day and I learnt a lot of new skills at our soccer practices.  One funny thing from our practices was that our coach always wore crocs so we gave him the nickname Croc Man. My favorite part was when I was goalie and I saved seven goals on the last game. Here is a picture of the team.

Science in a Van

On Friday we went to the hall to watch Science in a van. They did lots of cool science tricks like balancing lots of different things. One of the experiments they did was put dry ice into a little container with water and made it explode. They also explained the periodic table to all of us. Here are some pictures of science in a van.

Up Up and Away- Dr Seuss

This is my hot air balloon that we created to show that our goals are going to take up to new heights.

Growth Mindset-Goal Bunting

Each student in room six has made a bunting triangle to show our Growth Mindset goal and motto that we want to work on. Come and check them out!

Jesus Strand-Religious Educatioin

During term one we have been learning about Jesus the Son of God. This is my cube on how Jesus showed us that God loved us all as His children. We are all blessed with the gifts of faith,hope and love.

Saint Joseph's Day Tabloid Sports

Tuesday 19th March was St Joseph’s Day Feast Day. The whole school attended mass to celebrate the leadership Saint Joseph showed. Saint Joseph is also special to our school because Saint MacKillop and the Sisters of St Joseph were inspired by Saint Joseph. Saint Joseph is also the foster father of Jesus. The following day, the whole school came together to celebrate with fun tabloid sports in our houses. We all got to play so many fun and exciting games. Thank you to our leaders who prepared this.

My Accident Story

The Day I Flew 

February 2019 

By: Xavier P. 

I am learning to: entertain my audience through a recount 

A long time ago in a mystical land of bounciness, there was me Xavier bouncing on a trampoline. Feeling that I was cool doing all my magical tricks and flips. Then the evil wizard, Hugo (my cousin) entered the arena. Once he entered the trampoline that is when the trouble started. See Hugo could bounce higher than me, pull off coolier tricks than me and also double bounce. Hugo entered the arena and then the double bouncing began...

At that very moment with every double bounce I felt like I was flying, flying like a bird but that feeling didn’t last long. In a blink of an eye, I was now flying over the net, flying out onto the ground. SMACK! I was on the ground screaming in pain, with a broken arm, snapped through the middle and a fractured leg.

My mum rushed me off to the A&E with me in pain from here to christmas. I had a cast on my leg for the rest of summer and another cast on my arm till midway of the first school term. It was hard to have a bath because I had to put on a cast protector for my legs and keep my arm out of the water, but it was alright because I got to play on my ipad lots and got to do lot of fun stuff. But I promise you that is the last time I take flying lessons from Hugo.

Shrove Tuesday

Tuesday was Shrove Tuesday. We all had a great day in room 6. The festivities started with the burning of the ashes on the turf. This was a new and exciting experience that not many of us had seen before.
Later on during Religious Education we learnt more about Shrove Tuesday and Lent. People used to get rid of all their luxury items such as flour, sugar, butter, eggs and milk by making pancakes. We were even able to enjoy some pancakes of our own. We all thought it was a great start to lent and we are looking forward to the lenten season as we prepare for the death and resurrection of Jesus. We are the season of Lent and it is a time of preparation.

Shine Week

A sea of orange flood Good Shepherd School on Friday the 8th of March. This week was shine week. We raise money to help people whose lives are affected domestic violence. In support we all wore orange clothes and brought a gold coin donation to help the charity. Here are some pictures:

Swimming Sports

Room 6 had a wonderful day at swimming sports. When we all went to the turf we split up into our houses. Thank you Sharyn and parents for helping us with the non competitive swimming and competitive. Also thank you parents for coming along and supporting your children. Good shepherd students thank the teachers very warmly, as every year as they set up and prepare this event for us. I’m sure that every student enjoyed the event. I saw everyone compete with my own eyes and they all did well. The people who lost don’t have to be sad because they should be grateful they got a swim in the warm weather also because there’s always time and effort to improve.

Ash Wednesday

Today was Ash Wednesday. We went to church and sang some hymns, got the ashes on our foreheads, sung happy birthday to a little girl starting school on her birthday! We then went up and got a blessing.
We did make an attempt to keep our ashes on our foreheads, but that was a fail due to swimming and itching it off. We had a good day and hope everyone else did to. During the lent season we have to remember to pray, almsgiving and helping others. else did to. During the lent season we have to remember to pray, almsgiving and helping others.
This year I am focusing on going to church more.

My Mihimihi

Mihimihi 

Xavier

I am learning to: introduce myself and others, and respond to introductions using my personal information 

Tēnā koutou katoa, (greetings to you all)

Nō Aotearoa ahau (where you are from / Aotearoa*)

Ko Maungawhau tōku maunga (Mountain)

Ko Manukau Harbor tōku moana (ocean)

Kei Tāmaki Makaurau tōku kāinga ināianei (I now live)

Ko Te Hapara pai tōku kura (school / Good Shepherd School*) 

Ko Prentice tōku whānau (family name)

Ko Adam Prentice tōku pāpā (father)

No Aotearoa ia (Father is from, share diverse backgrounds)

Ko Bianca Butler tōku māmā (mother, ask if maiden or family name) 

No Aotearoa ia (Mother is from, share diverse backgrounds)

Ko Xavier tōku ingoa (your name)

Nō reira, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā tātou katoa. 

(Therefore, greetings to you, greetings to you, greeting to us all). 

Year 6 Camp - Leadership

While the rest of the school was sleeping, enjoying their last day of the school holidays the year six were awake grabbing the last of their essential camp items. Stuffing the cars full of luggage we hit the road making our way up to MERC, Long Bay Beach for the annual Year 6 Leadership Camp. It was a fun, busy and hot week with lots of activities and things to do. There was so much to do with out amazing instructors and helpers, activities like paddle boarding, archery, abseiling, kayaking, rock climbing, giants ladder, stack’em and the list goes on. After the camp day we had plenty to do at night with the camp mass, school council voting, the talent quest and even a spooky game of spot light.


My two favourite activities were abseiling and rock climbing.

Year 6 Leadership Role

This year I am proud to take on the role of House Captain. I look forward to this role because I wanted a role that would allow me to interact with the other students from Blake house.

Year 5 and 6: Charism

Did you know the reason Good Shepherd School named their syndicates Connolly and Sheridan? Connolly and Sheridan were the names of the first two sisters that worked at Good Shepherd School when it opened. That is just one of the fun facts we learnt this week when we explored the charism of our school. The charism of our school is the flavour of our school, it is what makes us Good Shepherd School. Over the week we looked at the history of the school and unpacked the visual Image of the Good Shepherd Cross with the values, scripture, feast days and the St Mary MacKillop sayings. We unpacked the values and why we have those values. In al Image of the Good Shepherd Cross with the values, scripture, feast days and the St Mary MacKillop sayings. We unpacked the values and why we have those values. In groups we identified what each value looked, sounded and felt like before making up definitions. Another new fact I learnt was the reason we called the syndicates Connolly and Sheridan was because of the first two sisters that worked on the school.

Year 5 and 6: Piece of the Puzzle

Room 6 we are all a piece of the puzzle. There are 29 students and we each complete our puzzle. Without one of us we would not be Room 6. During the second week of school (once the year 6 were back from camp) we spent time learning about each other and completing our piece of the puzzle. We learnt that we are all different and unique made in the image of God. But we also learnt that sometimes people need a little helping hand to make learning fair. Check out our pieces of the puzzle in Room 6 Foyer to learn more about each of us.


“It’s always the small pieces that make the big picture.”