Ms Taylor

there once was a teacher called ms Taylor
she shoved all the kids in a  trailer
she jumped in the pool
she is such a big fool
oh she is naughty old ms Taylor

Donald trump

Trump
Rump
Ugly duckling
Many people hate him
Poop

Idiotic
Stupid

Amazingly ugly
Not cool dude

Indescribable
Dang he is mean
Idiot
Oompa loompa
Ttrump

Blossom Trees

Blossom Trees 

look at the flowers 

the blossom trees are blooming

it must be spring time  

Calendar Art

calendar art 2019

GSS Fair 2019

Good shepherd school fair 2019 

The monsters are coming! 

Mixed Media - Visual Arts

Mixed Media - 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.

For The Love Of Bees

On Thursday some of the waistwise team went to a project in the city called for the love of bees. while we were there we learnt about lots of the pollinators like ants birds bees wasps and even the wind.
We learnt about pollen and nectar. here are some pictures of the trip.

Room 6 Prayers

On Monday the 5th of August Room 6 hosted whole school pray ers. 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:

Room 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:

Cook Island Language week

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

😃😃

How Does the Water Cycle work

How Does the Water Cycle work 

By Eli

I am learning to inform my audience with an explanation writing

Have you ever drank a glass of water and thought to yourself where did this water come from? It could have been water that a dinosaur swam in or that a caveman bathed in? These are all possible answers because of the water cycle. All the water on earth is all the water that has ever been on earth ! Three quarters of the earth is covered in water. 97 percent of the earth's water is salt water, leaving only three percent to be fresh water. However only one percent of freshwater is drinkable. Water is an amazing substance that all animals and most plants require for survival. The water cycle is so simple yet so complex that even the best scientists are still investigating the water cycle and how it works. A cycle is a series of steps that repeats itself over and over. There are three main stages of the water cycle evaporation, condensation and precipitation. Let's take a look at one of the stages, evaporation.

Evaporation is one of the stages in the water cycle. Evaporation is when water is heated by the sun, it turns into a gas called water vapour. Water vapour can be created in room temperature, this goes to show that water can be in the air at any time any where, sometimes there is a lot of water in the air and sometimes there is not so much. Once evaporation has happened the stage called condensation can occur.

The condensation stage happens when all of the water vapour that has risen up through evaporation. It gets up really high, it then begins cools down. When it is cooling down the water vapour turns to water droplets. The wind blows these water droplets together and they merge gradually getting heavier. Once it gets heavier it becomes visible and that's when you start to see a cloud. The final stage of the water cycle is precipitation.

Precipitation is the most straightforward stage of the water cycle. The clouds usually get darker and cooler. Precipitation is the process of when water is released from clouds in the form of rain, sleet, snow, or hail. This is the way that the water cycle takes the water from the clouds and returns it back to lakes, oceans and seas. Most precipitation falls as rain because it is normally not cold enough to produce snow, sleet or hail and that's how precipitation happens. 

In conclusion the water cycle is an amazing cycle and all life on earth needs it to survive. Evaporation is when water heats up and then it goes up. Condensation is when all of the water vapour cools down forming a cloud. Precipitation is when the water falls down and collects in rivers, lakes, streams and oceans. Now you understand how you could be drinking water from ages ago. 

GSS Book Week 2019

GSS Book Week 2019      

Room 6 was hungry for books during our book week. We had a whole week celebrating all things books. We had author visits from Stu Duval and James Russell. Stu presented workshops on storytelling, cartooning and writing.  James shared his books and told us stories. We did lots of cool book week activities in class like making dust jacket covers, wanted posters, bookmarks and story cubes. Finally our favorite day arrived, Friday. We got to dress up as our favourite characters and partake in the literacy treasure hunt.  Overall book week is a fantastic week every year. Room 6 LOVES BOOK WEEK!

Here are some photos from our time:  

My book week character was: little bug red

                                                                             

  

  

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.

Meter squared

During math we learned about meters squared. WE figured out that 4 random people fitted in a meter squared. This is a meter squared.

Samoan language Wee

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 phrases, our experts were Matila, Remy and Rosa.

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.

Science in a Van

One week before science week we had science in a van come and visit our school. They talked about the periodic table and all of the elements. They also talked about how to balance objects and we found the center of balance in a meter ruler. Riley tried to balance a mop in the air but it dropped. They had 6 volunteers create heat by dancing.

 

Religious Education Triangle

During R.E we made triangles with the holy spirit, Faith, Hope and Love. I really enjoyed making this it was fun.

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.

Sun Smart

During writing room 6 has been making pamphlets about being sun smart. This is mine. 

 sun smart is about learning a set of skills to help protect your self from harmful UV rays that damage our skin and eyes.

slip on a shirt ( one that has sleeves )   slop on some sun screen (SPF 30 + is best) slap on a hat ( with wide brims ) wrap on some sun glasses ( ones that are big enough to cover all of your eyes ) slide into some shade.

Growth Mindset-Goal Bunting

Each student in room 6 has made a bunting triangle to show our growth mindset goal and motto that we want to work on through out the year. Come check them out !

Jesus Strand-Religious Education

During term 1 we have been learning about Jesus the son of God this is my cube on how Jesus loves us like his children we are blessed with the gifts of faith hope and love

Saint Joseph's Day Tabloids 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.

Ash wednesday

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. 

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.