Limericks

 This week Room 6 has been learning Limericks! Here is one of mine:

There was a boy named silly billy

He is really weird, he ate 

He’s got a funny hat

He eats a lot of rats

But when it’s hot he feels chilly

Acrostic poems

Room 6 has been learning to write poems such as couplets, triplets, diamantes and so much more!
This week we have been learning how to write acrostic poems. Here are some of mine:
Great and kind

Really loves me
Amazingly wonderful
Nice to everyone
Doing good deeds
My gift that god gave me
Always in my heart


Good and funny

Really loves me
Always funny
Never says no to treats
Does good to everyone
Prays a lot
Amazing and loving

Visiting the Marae

On the 28th of August, Good Shepherd School went to the Unitec Marae. When we were there we learnt about the history of the Marae then we went to get some cookies and Milo.It was really fun and we hoped we could to visit them again.

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 watercolour paint. This is my art work.

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:

St Mary Mackillop's 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's 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.

Rm 6's 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:

GSS Book Week 2019

GSS Book Week 2019      

Authors, Illustrators, Books, Book Week, Parade, Event, 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 our time:  

My book week character was:

                                                                                       

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.

Cross Country 2019

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

On Friday, Science in a Van came to visit our school. They taught us about the periodic table and taught us really cool experiments. We really enjoyed their show.The periodic table is a table of elements. Here  are some photos about the periodic table and Science in a Van:

Sign Language

This term we had some visitor's talk about sign language. One was doing sign language and one was verbalising in English and we learnt how to sign our national anthem in both Maori and English. We learnt that it is an important language, to the deaf and is a language of New Zealand.

Celebrating Easter

We have shared our knowledge of what Easter is in Religious Education by decorating and creating spinning wheels. We realise that Easter is an important celebration in our lives. Here are some photos mine:

Religious Education Triangle

We have been learning about Baptism and the Holy Spirit in Religious Education . We have learnt that when we are baptised that we receive three gifts from God which are faith, hope and love. We have learnt this by making Religious Education Triangles. Here are some photos:

Role Models, Malala Yousifzai

We have learned about role models who have changed the world. Me and my group have been learning about Malala Yousifzai. Malala is a pakistani girl who was shot in the head when she was 15 on Tuesday October 12 and survived. She was shot because she stood up for girls and womens rights. She is the youngest recipient to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.We researched lots about her and we found out that she had a Growth Mindset.

up, up and away- Dr Suess

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

Growth Mindset-Goal Bunting

Each student in Rm 6 has made a bunting triangle to showing our Growth Mindset goal and motto that we want to work on. Come and check them out!

Jesus Strand- Religous Education

During term 1 we have been learning about Jesus the son of God.This my cube on how Jesus showed us that God loved us all as His children. We are all blessed with the gifts that God has given us which are 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.

writing

We have been writing our accident stories and have been learning to entertain and amaze our audience.
We have also been trying to make interesting for our audience. Here is mine:A Tiny Little Accident.

                                                                  February 2019 

Rishmikaa 

I am learning to entertain my audience through a recount.


It was a rather normal day, normal, normal, normal. Everything was as normal as could be. “Children?” my grandpa called. “Are you coming to walk to school with us today Grandpa?” my sister shouted hoping for the right answer, which would be yes. I grabbed onto him and started trying to pull him with us to go to school. “No, no, I’m not coming,” Grandad replied as if we should know he never comes to walk us to school with Grandma. “Go with your Grandma, I have other jobs to do,” he told us. We knew at this moment that we should leave Grandpa alone. It was all settled.


Walking along the footpath out of the house on that Monday morning my sister, grandma and I, walked behind grandpa, who was in a hurry to get to the supermarket to get some supplies and of course his lotto ticket. Unaware of us, our grandpa turned around the corner, which led to the Main Road, we followed behind him quietly as we knew he was on a mission.


Walking along the footpath there was a dark blue car parked in their driveway, this forced me to walk behind the car. As I was walking all of a sudden I found myself on the ground. I sat in shock wondering how I had tripped. Was it a stone or a rock? Nope no rock. Was it a hole or a dip in the ground? No, no hole. At this point I looked at my shoes maybe they were to blame. No shoelaces were tied up, but had clearly tripped over the front of my shoe. As I sat there pondering what had happened, all of a sudden the screams of terror broke my concentration. My sister and grandma were looking at me in horror.


Following their eyes I looked down to my knee and saw something that was rather odd. There was a wound that was white, expecting to see blood but was strangely white. The cut had been so large that it hadn’t even thought to bleed. From all the screaming I quickly informed my family, “ I’m fine, I’m fine, totally fine.” Even though inside I was a little worried.


My grandma and sister took me home to mum, mums always know what to do. By this point my knee had started to bleed a lot, yeah quite a bit. Mum cleaned it up and wrapped up the wound. To this day I still don’t actually know what tripped me up but I was a lot more cautious when walking to school.

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.
 

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:

My Mihimihi

Mihimihi 

Rishmikaa

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


Tēnā koutou katoa, (greetings to you all)

Ko Puketapapa tōku maunga (mountain)

Ko Manukau Harbour tōku moana (ocean)

Nō Sri Lanka ahau (where you are from)

Kei Aotearoa tōku kāinga ināianei. (I now live)

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

Ko Selvathas tōku whānau (family)

Ko Selvathas Ariyathas tōku pāpā (father)

Ko Dayana Selvathas tōku māmā (mother)

Ko Rishmikaa Selvathas tōku ingoa (your name)

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

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

Treaty of Waitangi

Year 5 Maori - Treaty of Waitangi

During week 1 we were learning about the Treaty of Waitangi. The Treaty of Waitangi is New Zealand's founding document. The name is taken from the place in the Bay of Islands where it was first signed, on 6 February 1840. New Zealand recognise this special day with a public holiday. The Treaty of Waitangi is an important agreement that was signed by representatives of the British Crown and Māori in 1840. The purpose of the Treaty was to enable the British settlers and the Māori people to live together in New Zealand under a common set of laws or agreements.

Here is a picture of our factual posters:

Year 5 Maori art

Year 5 Maori - Treaty of Waitangi

After learning about the Treaty of Waitangi, the year 5s took inspiration from the Maori culture and their learning to capture some of the designs. This is my Maori pastel art:

Charism

 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 groups we identified what each value looked, sounded and felt like before making up definitions. Another new fact I learnt was the sisters were called the Brown Joes also because of their brown outfits.

 

Piece of the puzzle

Year 5 and 6: Piece of the Puzzle

In 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.”