Poems

His name is Tim

He is pretty slim

He likes to run

When he plays in the sun

He likes to play

Especially in may

Haiku's

Shouting in the class(5)

Running around in the sun(7)

Finally quiet(5)

Going to the beach(5) 

Swimming in the cool ocean(7)

Leaving the hot beach(5)

St Peters Concert

On Thursday St Peters band came and performed 

some songs and taught us some new things about the instruments

Calendar art

THE MONSTERS ARE COMING!

Marae visit

On Wednesday we went to the marae by Unitec. We did the Haka.
We did this game that involved counting to 7
in Maori while doing actions.

How to make koko alaisa/cocoa rice

How to make cocoa Rice.

By Caleb

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

Materials

Pot

3 cups of rice
6 cups of water
2 cups of coconut cream or milk
1 cup of sugar
You can use koko samoa or just normal cocoa

Steps:

1:Open your packet of rice if you haven’t already.

2:Place your pot with the water onto the stove 

3:Heat the water until it boils 

4:Pour the rice into the pot

5:Add and stir the coconut cream into the pot 

6:Pour the sugar to the pot 

7:Add the koko samoa

8:Stir the koko alaisa for 20 minutes

9:Remove from the heat

Finally pour some of the koko alaisa into a bowl and enjoy!

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.

Keeping Ourselves Safe 2019

This week for keeping ourselves safe we have been learning health and safety.

We have learnt that not all the time it is a stranger that abuses

you and that it is more likely that is somebody that you know.

Matariki Acrostic Poem

This week for Matariki we have been doing some work, for example my

acrostic poem. By the end of this week we will have to have

at least two activities finished.

The Water cycle

I am learning to inform my audience through an explanation

By Caleb

What has been around since the Jurassic years and keeps on repeating over and over again, yes the water cycle. A cycle is something that repeats over and over again. Did you know that 97% of the water on earth is salt water, and the other 3% is fresh water. But sadly only 1% of the water is drinkable. Every living thing needs water to survive. There are three main stages in the water cycle. Evaporation, condensation and precipitation. But it all starts when the water evaporates.

Have you ever wondered how water in a cup appear less overnight, it's evaporation. Evaporation is when the sun heats up the ocean, lake or river and then it turns into water vapor. However you can not see water vapor because it is invisible, which means you can’t see it. When the water evaporates into the air. After the water evaporates up and up until it turns into a one of the clouds in the sky .

Condensation is when the water turns into water vapor, and when it is high enough it gets colder and colder so then it will turn back into raindrops as the form of a cloud. The cloud then moves slowly around the earth until it gets heavy enough, it takes about a day or two to fill up. A cloud can be 6,000 to 25,000 feet. When the cloud fills up It will start to rain in a form of sleet, snow, hail or rain.

Precipitation is when the water in the cloud gets too heavy from all of the water, and lets all of the water out as the form of snow, sleet, hail or rain. It lands in an ocean, lake, river or just on land. After it lands on the surface of the earth it will move down the streams of water leading it back into the ocean where the cycle will continue.

As you can see that this is one of the most interesting cycles that you will ever learn about. The three main stages evaporation, condensation and last but not least precipitation. All of these parts have a special part to play in the water cycle. Each part is needed so that you are able to drink a tall refreshing glass of water. Without the water cycle we would not be able to enjoy or access water.

Spreading The Good News

We marked Paul's journeys where he went. He spread the word everywhere

Famous People in the Early Church Communities

We were making posters about special people and my group did

Paul/Saul and one of the facts we put on there were I am

fairly feisty enthusiastic sort of character and I do not tolerate fools easily.

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.

Science in a Van

Last  week we had some people that came to our school before science week.
We were balancing things that were heavy and things that were small and light.

Science

  

When we did science experiments we looked at what the balloon would do 

when we left it in the water. We also looked at how pressure works.

Religious Triangle

This is my triangle it has the three gifts from the 

holy spirit faith, hope and love

Math's Poster

This week we have been doing bed-mas 

our question was 

6x(3+12 -5)=

Brackets first 3+12=15

15-5=10 so

6x10=60

Math's Poster

Our question was asking us
8x5=40
8x2=16
40+16=56
56-45=11

Sun Smart

This is our Sun Smart bro shore. Inside the bro shore has the skin types, how to be sun smart and random facts about being sun smart.

Growth Mindset

This is Thomas Edison he invented the first working light bulb.

When he was in school his teacher said that he would never learn anything.

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 6 made a bunting triangle to show our Growth Mindset goal an motto that we want to work on. Come and check them out!

Jesus Strand-Religious Education

During term 1 we have been learning about Jesus 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.

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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 Race down the Hill

February 2019 

By:Caleb

I am learning to entertain my audience with a recount

Do you love to scooter? Do you ever want to take on the next bigger hill? Well that was me. I love to scooter and I always want to go on the next bigger, steeper hill, so that I can spend down as fast as I can. This accident is me vs a hill and well … “Ahh, I can’t stop!”

It all started earlier in the day when I was promised a trip to the park. I was about eight years old at the time. I had organised myself, packing all my things I wanted to take to the park, especially packing my scooter. Then I had to wait, sitting inside daydreaming about what I could do at the park when I heard a voice, I hopped off my bean bag checked who it was, and I was so happy that it was my mum calling us to go to the park. I ran out of my room, running downstairs filled with joy and getting in the car shouting, “Hurry, hurry we need to go now.”

It wasn’t a lone drive, only three-five minutes. But what was five minutes felt like hours and hours. We hoped out of the car, I rushed all the way to the swings dragging my scooter with me. When I got to the swings, I tried all the new things, going up and down, up and down. Then I heard my mum shouting, “Come on we’re going for an walk.” Swooping my scooter up, while getting onto it at the same time, I raced ahead following the footpath as it heading up a hill. I went down the hill without an injury, it was easy. Then I spotted a taller, steeper hill and I wondered if I would have more fun going down the hill.

I took off finally reaching the top of the hill, I jumped on my scooter and went down the hill. I started to go faster and faster until it felt like I was racing. I was trying to stop but it kept going. My brakes couldn’t stop that speed, I went faster and faster eventually falling off, landing on my left wrist. As I was trying to get up I felt no pain until I put my arms on the ground to push myself up. But I couldn’t use my arm, lifting myself up I managed to get up. Now I could feel the pain shoot through my arm like a sharp stingy pain, I bursted into tears.

My parents examined my injury thinking that it was just badly bruised. But after a few days we went to see the doctor and they said that I had sprained my wrist. That was the day I got my wrist support. It took a few weeks to heal Now I have learnt a valuable lesson not to try and race down the steepest hills, it's only asking for trouble.

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 season of Lent and it is at a time of preparation.

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

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:

Maths Poster

PFT stands for

Place value

Face value

and Total value

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. A fact that I learnt was Connolly and Sheridan were one of the two sisters of Mary MacKillop.

Cyber Safety

DO NOT TRUST PEOPLE WHO SAY THAT

I'M SOMEONE FROM YOUR

SCHOOL!

My Mihimihi

Mihimihi

Caleb

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 Maungakiekie tōku maunga (Mountain)
Ko Manukau Harbour tōku moana (ocean)
Kei Tāmaki Makaurau tōku kāinga ināianei (I now live)
Ko Te Hapara pai tōku kura (school / Good Shepherd School*)
Ko Soon tōku whānau (family name)
Ko Justin Soon tōku pāpā (father)
No Samoa ia (Father is from, share diverse backgrounds)
Ko Shari Meredith tōku māmā (mother, ask if maiden or family name)
No Samoa ia (Mother is from, share diverse backgrounds)
Ko Caleb Soon tōku ingoa (your name)
Nō reira, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā tātou katoa.
(Therefore, greetings to you, greetings to you, greeting to us all).

leader ship

I am proud of my self for getting house captain and having this opportunity to show that i can be a good leader