Acrostic Poems

Marvellous mum
Admirable person
Really talented
Terrific baker
Intelligent in every subject
Never stops
Always smiling

Terrible snorer
Really great dad
Enlightened spirit
Vicious card player
One of a kind
Rebellious

Fabulous people
Rescuers in a time of need
Inspiring people to look up to
Easy to talk to
Never-ending fun
Delightful company
Surrounding you for life

Cinquains and Diamantes

         Water

         Clear , Very blue

    Flowing, pouring, rushing

Trickling down the vivid blue stream
                  Aqua

                 Winter
         Cold, crisp aroma
    Freezing , chilling, biting

Tucked up in your warm snug bed
                 Frozen

               Christmas
               Jolly,holly
    Giving, singing, laughing
    A holiday to be enjoyed

               Christmas

                      Autumn
                                warm , cosy
                   Falling, crunching, walking
              Rich colours,      a new beginning
              Awakening, sprouting, blooming
                             Lively, bright

                                 Spring

                                  Night

                         Dark, shadowy
                 Sleeping, resting, howling
           Dead of the night, Witches hour
           Relaxing, dreaming, snoozing
                     Peaceful, calm
                         Twilight

Quatrains

The RunnerThe runner sped around the track
In her body there is no slack
Sweat dripping down her chin
As she races towards the fin

Vegetables
Asparagus, broccoli, carrots, YUCK!
All of this tastes like MUCK!
I’d rather eat a hockey PUCK!
Or a huge rubbish TRUCK!

Beach time
Finally its beach time
I hope that I will get a tan
As I spend my last dime
To buy myself a huge fan

The Loo
“Do you need to go to the loo?”
Jimmy shook his head “I’m fine!”
But as we passed the toilet sign,
Jimmy cries” I need to poo”

Make-up
Swish, swish goes the brush
Now time to add more blush
The mascara wand darkens my lashes
Make-up feels like putting on ashes

Sweet Stuff
There’s sweet and sour
Every day and hour
Savoury’s nice
But I’d rather a cake slice

My Senses Poem

Summer At The Beach

Feel the sand between your toes
Feel the water as it goes
Feel the warm summer clothes
Feel the breeze as it blows

Smell the moist summer air
Smell the seaweed stuck in your hair
Smell the children everywhere
Smell the clothing that they wear

Hear the seagulls in their motion
Hear the cheerful, sunny emotion
Hear the lapping waves of the ocean
Hear the pleasant family commotion

See the joyful summer sight
See the sun so very bright
See the kids play while it’s light
This summer feels just right

Couplets and Triplets

Room 6 is quite a crowd,
No wonder they are so very loud.
Christmas is a time to cheer
Almost time for a new year

Buzz,buzz goes Mr Fly,
Splat! Oops! No time to cry.

Once there was a queen

Who was only a teen
When she swallowed a giant bean

Lil jimmy has big feet 

While Margret’s are more petite
And Finley’s just reek of wheat

There's something in my tummy

It’s making me feel real bummy
I should not have eaten that out of date gummy

Mixed Media - Visual Art

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 water colour paint. This is my art work.

St Peter's Music Concert

On Thursday 31st October St Peter's College came to our school to preform for us. There were lots of instruments in the band. There were some common ones like the trumpet, violin and flute and there were also some less common ones like the bosoon, french horn and the viola. I also did a performance on my flute. I played Lavenders Blue and Ode To Joy. I was a bit nervous but I really enjoyed doing my first performance.

All Souls Mass

Today was All Souls Day. The whole school went to mass. We prayed for saints, people who have died of illnesses and people who have died before their time like the people in the Christchurch mosque attack. I enjoyed praying these people as it is very sad that they died.

My Senses Poem

Summer At The Beach
Feel the sand between your toes
Feel the water as it goes
Feel the warm summer clothes
Feel the breeze as it blows

Smell the moist summer air
Smell the seaweed stuck in your hair
Smell the children everywhere
Smell the clothing that they wear

Hear the seagulls in their motion

Hear the cheerful, sunny emotion
Hear the lapping waves of the ocean
Hear the pleasant family commotion

See the joyful summer sight
See the sun so very bright
See the kids play while it’s light
This summer feels just right

Calendar Art 2019

Good Shepherd Fair 2019

THE MONSTERS ARE COMING!!!

How To Make A Happiness Potion

How To Make A Happiness Potion

By Sarah 

I am learning to write a procedural text for my audience to follow

Materials
1 tsp of joy powder
3 purple daisies
½ cup peace juice
1 unicorn hair
2 rainbow buttons
A large mixing bowl
Something to stir with
1 iced glass

A big cooking pot

Method

1. Add your joy powder, purple daisies and rainbow buttons into the large mixing bowl.
2. Carefully pour in your peace juice.
3. Use tweezers to put your unicorn hair exactly in the middle.4. Use your mixing utensil to quickly mix the potion.

5. Pour into a big cooking pot and set it down on high for 20 mins or until bubbly.
6. When it is done pour into an iced glass and let it cool for about 5 mins.
7. Drink it yourself or serve it up to someone else. 

8. Enjoy being happy!!

*WARNING* drinker of the potion will only be happy for 10 hours. 

Also may cause side effects such as rainbow skin, blue teeth and purple eyes if made wrong

Speech Finals 2019

On Wednesday 4th September all of good shepherd assembled in the hall to listen to the good shepherd 2019 speech finalists. There was a variety of interesting topics from llamas to bikes to toilets and skiers. It was cool to see all the people from different age groups stand up and present a speech. It was also nice to support the people who spoke from my class who were Jiwoo, Miranda and Mia. Miranda came first, Jiwoo came second and Mia came first and also came first overall. Well done to everyone who had the courage to do a speech in front of the whole school.

Here are some pictures:

How to Make White Irish Soda Bread

I am learning to write a procedural text for my audience to follow.

Materials
450g plain white flour
1 level tsp salt
1 level tsp bread soda / baking soda
400ml buttermilk
100g raisins

Method
1. Preheat oven to 230 degrees Celsius
2. Sift flour,salt and bread soda into a large mixing bowl
3. Mix in raisins
4. Make a well in the centre. Pour most of the buttermilk into the flour, using one hand with fingers open and stiff, mix in a hull circle drawing in the flour from the sides of the bowl, adding more buttermilk if necessary, the dough should be softish (not too wet and sticky)
5. Don’t over mix. Mix as quickly as possible and as gently as possible, keeping it light and airy
6.Wash and dry your hands
7. Gently roll the ball of dough around floury hands for a few seconds to tidy up.
8. Pat it gently into a round shape that is around 5cm high

9. Place dough on a lightly floured baking sheet then with a sharp knife cut a deep cross in it.
10. Prick the four triangles with your knife. According to the Irish folklore this will let the fairies out.
11. Put in the oven for 10 mins, then turn the heat down to 200 degrees
12. Cook until when tapped it sounds hollow (roughly another 25 mins)

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:

Our 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

The Feast of St Mary Mackillop

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.

Here are some pictures:

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:

Eggsitting

During term 2 Room 6 have been doing the KOS (Keeping Ourselves Safe) programme. With the programme we had to take care of eggs. We got the eggs on Monday afternoon and had to take care of them until the end of the week. We also had to bring our eggs everywhere we went and make beds for them. My egg's name was Margret. On all the school mornings we put our eggs into the daycare ( a egg carton) until the end of the school day. I really enjoyed this experiment and would definitely do it again.

Here is a picture of me with my egg:

My Multiplication Poster

In maths we have been doing multiplication posters. In my maths group we had to do decimal multiplication. My fact was 6 x 0.5. One of my examples were: 6 children wanted to buy some lollies, they each had fifty cents, how much money do they have to spend on lollies?

My Flute Class

This year I have taken up doing the flute with the St Peters Music Program. I have really enjoyed doing it and would recomend it for other people. We are learning songs like Morning, Hot Cross Buns, Imperial March and so on. Overall I have a great time in my lessons.

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 favourite 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 this week: 

My book week character was: Kensy, from Kensy & Max Breaking News 

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.

Water Care

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.

Samoan Language Week 2019

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 room six did a scavenger hunt on facts about Samoa, they then searched the classroom for clues to complete our Samoan puzzle. We had some experts teaching us greetings and phrases, our experts were Matila, Remy and Rosa.  

The Water Cycle

I am learning to inform my audience with a piece of explanation writing.

By Sarah

What is something that is around us everyday yet most people know nothing about? Yes, the Water Cycle or its scientific name the Hydrological Cycle. A cycle is a repetitive process where a set of steps is completed over and over again. Did you know water covers three-quarters of the earth’s surface? And 97 percent of that is saltwater! That leaves only 3 percent to be freshwater. However only 1 percent of that is accessible to humans! There are three main stages in the water cycle, Evaporation, Condensation and Precipitation.

First up is evaporation, evaporation is when the heat from the sun causes water on earth to turn into water vapour and rise up into the sky. Water vapour is when water gets heated by the sun and floats up into the air. Water vapour is actually invisible so when you see steam rising up from the kettle it is not water vapour, yet it is still tiny water droplets hanging in the air. The next step is all about the clouds.

Condensation, condensation is when the water vapour that rose into the air cools down and turns back into water again. Water is attracted to each other so it comes together to form a cloud. Condensation can also happen on earth, have you ever taken a can of fizzy drink out of the fridge on a hot day and seen tiny droplets on the outside? Well if you have then this is just another example of condensation. This happens because the inside of the can is cold and it is just the water vapour cooling on the side of your can. Time to open up your umbrella because the next step is… precipitation,

Precipitation is when the amount of the water droplets in the cloud gets too heavy and the water falls in a form of either rain, snow, sleet or hail.  It then collects in ponds, rivers, streams and oceans. After that the cycle begins all over again. Did you know every tiny water droplet that falls to earth is made up of millions of microscopic droplets?! If that doesn’t make you look up into the sky in amazement I don’t know what will!

To conclude the water cycle is a repetitive process with three main stages.  Evaporation, the process where a heat source is added to a liquid, such as the water in the water cycle turning into water vapour.  Condensation the process where the water cools and turns into a cloud and finally precipitation. Precipitation when the water falls straight back down to earth.This cycle has been recycling water for as long as there has been life on earth! Because all the water on earth has always been on earth. So next time you take a drink of water, take a moment to realise what an extraordinary journey your water has been on to reach your glass.

My R.E Triangle

In R.E we have been learning about baptism and the Holy Spirit. We made pyramids to symbolise the three gifts we were given to at baptism; faith, hope and love. 

 

Water Cycle Experiment

This term we are learning about the water cycle. We did some science experiments to see how some of the stages work.  First we learnt about air particles, we got plastic straws and gently blew through them onto our hands and felt them. We then got little mirrors and put them close to our faces then breathed on them, this showed us condensation. Then someone blew up a balloon and put it in a bucket of water then let go. It was very funny to see the air escape into the water and make lots of bubbles.This was to show the gas particles in the balloon.  The last experiment we did involved three balloons, one was only blown up a little bit, one was blown up a bit more and the last one was blown up all the way. We had fun pushing against the sides to feel the pressure of the air inside it. Overall I had lots of fun doing this experiment and would like to do it again.

Growth Mindset People

Last term we learnt all about growth mindset. We made a factual piece of art on people who had a growth mindset. My person was Marie Curie. Marie definitely had a growth mindset because she went through lots of hard times but still powered through and managed to receive two noble peace prizes!! I think she is very inspiring and if you have a chance to learn about her definitely do it. Overall I really enjoyed learning about someone new and would definitely do it again. 

My Sunsmart Brochure

This term in writing we have been doing brochures. We all did our first ones on being sunsmart. I think that being sunsmart is very important because if you are not a sunsmart person then you have a likely chance of getting skin cancer. In my brochure you can find information like all the six skin types and lots more. Here are some pictures from my brochure: 

My Sunsmart Poster

In inquiry we got put in pairs and made a poster about one of the key sunsmart features. My partner was Dean and we did a poster about Wrap. Wrap means to wrap on some sunglasses to protect your eyes from the harmful UV rays. I had fun doing this poster and I also learned that all pairs of sunglasses in New Zealand give you some protection. 

Up, Up and Away Hot Air Balloons

This my hot air balloon that we created show our goals will to take us to new heights. This was a really fun activity to do.

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. My goal is to put more effort into my work and my motto is 'don't stop until you're proud' Come and 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 showed us that God loved us all as his children. We are all blessed with three gifts of faith, hope and love. 

St 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 Epic Fall

February 2019

By: Sarah

I am learning to: entertain my audience with a recount.

Have you ever really hurt yourself? If so, what was it? And was it as simple as grazing your knee or as gory as your guts pouring out of you? Well this is the story of my accident… the epic fall. Now most people when they fall they do it with grace and perhaps it only take themselves down, but not me I was basically a bull in china shop.

Now, for those of you who don’t know, a typical irish dancing class is very loud because of the girls banging out their dances, the music playing and also our dance teacher yelling over the top of us telling us to correct our mistakes. Now one of the most important things to do in Irish dancing is to have your shoes tied tightly, after all if they get loose and flung off, especially in hard shoes, they could hit someone in the head and knock them unconscious!

“Come on girls!” shouted my dancing teacher. We were all at another dance class banging out our dance into the floor, when I realised my shoe was untied! The laces were going all over the place, so I stopped dancing and stepped to the side. “Sarah? What are you doing? Oh.. Tie your shoe quickly and then get back here.”

I strolled off to the side and I targeted a chair, not known to me at that time, but it was THE EVIL CHAIR. I went over, it was like slow motion, I stepped my foot down and slipped on a puddle of water, reaching out I grabbed the chair to help break my fall but, oh no... the chair came down with me! I crashed to the floor with my knee in a position that looked quite wrong. The chair was on top of me and all of a sudden I had a banging headache with the noise all around me.

It took a few moments to realise what just happened. My knee hurt so bad that it felt like someone had torn my knee apart! Then I heard my dancing teacher and fellow irish dancers all saying in a chorus, “Are you okay Sarah?” “What happened?”

My other dance teacher came over with some ice. They took the chair off me then they straightened my leg, took my shoe off and put ice on my foot. “It hurts on my knee not my foot,” I said so they replaced the ice on my knee. Then after about a minute they lifted me over to the bench to rest for the remaining few minutes of dance class.

Since then I have always looked out for unexpected puddles and chairs that are not your friend and most of all I have tried to be less clumsy!!

Shine Day

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:

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 season of Lent and it is a time of preparation. My lenten promise is to give up chocolate and do more around the house.

Shrove Tuesday

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. My lenten promise is to give up chocolate and help more around the house.

Swimming Sports

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 Sharon 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.