Calander Art 2019

This is my calendar art

2019 GSS Fair

The monsters are coming!

Mixed Media 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 watercolor paint. This is my art work.

Prayers

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:On Monday the 5th of August

Saint 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.

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 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

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

For The Love Of Bees

Today the Wastewise team went to a project in the city called for the love of bees. When we got there we played on the seesaws and then we talked about bees and what plants they like. We also learnt all about the bee hive and different types of bees. I think we all really enjoyed it.

St Mary's Band

Today Saint Mary's came to school and performed some songs for us we all really enjoyed the songs. They also told us that if you unravel a french horn it is 11m long.

Book Week

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: Chewbacca 

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.

Chess Interschools

This week I went to the chess power tournament with other kids from my school. I won 3 games lost 3 games and drew one, I achieved the credit certificate and only %25 of people achieve who did chess achieved that certificate I loved the tournament.

Science in a Van

Today some people called science in a van came and talked to us about science, matter, the periodic table and the center of balance. It was really cool learning heaps of stuff about science.

Sign Language Week

Today we had guests that came in and talked to us about sign language because it was sign language week. They taught us the national anthem in sign language they also taught us some random words in sign language like love and dog. It was really cool learning all about sign language. 

Holy Spirit Triangles

This week in R.E we did Holy Spirit triangles. I really liked making the triangles  because we did heaps of different designs. Each side had either faith, hope, love or the Holy Spirit. Here are the pictures of each side.

Problem Solving Maths

In maths this week we worked on word problems. These problems used bed mass and input output tables. Here is one of the worksheets.

Up Up And Away-Dr Seuss

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

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. Come check them out! 

Jesus Strand-Religious Eduaction

During term 1 we have been learning about Jesus the Son of God this is my cube on how Jesus showed us that God love us all as his children we are all blessed with the gifts faith, hope, love.