The Hot House Challenge

This blog was by Ela.T and Hannah-Mae

The hot house challenge is the chance of a life time and if you didn’t come you missed out on the epic, adventurous and fun time. The hot house challenge is a time and a chance to make your house win and your house captains proud. If you don’t know what the hot house challenge is then it is a big race/challenge to win house points. It is also about having a great time and experience with other students, siblings and even parents. Imagine the big slide and all the obstacles that it was hard to make it through them all, that’s why it’s called a challenge.   Make sure YOU come next year!

Wizards - Shark Poster

In room 6 the wizards (a reading group) made posters with information on sharks, by writing up facts we found from a range of sources.  We read articles, we searched the library and we also used the internet.  We read and transferred this knowledge into our own ideas and typed out the facts and things we found important.  We printed them out and stuck them onto our posters or sharks we drew and painted. Some of us also made fish to put on and decorate. Here is a picture some of posters about sharks.  Come and check them out in room 6. 

Ash wednesday Mass

Todays post was written by Abbie

On Wednesday the 5^th March Good Shepherd School had a whole school Ash Wednesday Mass to celebrate Ash Wednesday.

At the Mass our priest was Father Linus and he hosted the mass. On this occasion all our families and friends were invited to come and celebrate with us for this special day.

At the mass the priest and some other special people put the ashes on our forehead in the shape of the cross to represent the period of lent for when Jesus was in the desert for 40 days while fasting.

This mass also welcomed all the new students and staff to the school and presented them with a special candle.    

Dragons group - The disappearing Tiger

Post by Kimberly, Greer and assisted by Kathryn.

The Dragons are one of Room 6's reading groups. Our reading group have been learning how to make a disappearing Tiger. First you get an A4 piece of paper, then you cut the paper so it's square and with the leftover paper you use it to draw eight lines and in between the lines you skip one line each time and you draw a tiger in between the skipped lines. After that you get a craft knife to cut the lines on the card board and finally you weave your picture in between the open lines and you will have a disappearing Tiger.  Can you see how our tigers disappeared. 

Room 6's Funky Seahorses

Posted by Ela T, Hannah-Mae on behalf of the Cherubs Reading Group

The Cherubs are one of Room Six's reading groups.  We have been busy researching facts and creating interesting ways to display information.  We decided to make mobiles with seahorses. We collected information through reading books and searching information about seahorses, we wrote a P.M.I (Positive, Minus and Interesting Chart) in our exercise books and we coloured and decorated seahorse templates. We then typed and printed out their key facts in our own words and stuck them on the back of the seahorses. The cherubs got cardboard tubes, wrapped them up in red and blue tissue paper. Finally they tied and glued string to the covered tubes and hung them up on display in room 6.

COME AND SEE OUR SEAHORSES

Bat Detectives

Over the week our reading group “Angels” have been learning about bats and their natural habitats. We’ve made posters with evidence to show how much we have learnt about bats but, sadly there aren’t many around anymore.  One of the main causes for this is when people moved to New Zealand from other countries they brought pests with them.  The pests are one of the biggest threats to bats.  New Zealand has two types of bats, long-tailed bats and short-tailed bats. We watched also watched a documentary about Bats that we wrote facts from too. The scientist in the documentary created experiment where they could record how bats fly, so for example they create a wind tunnel and recorded in slow motion their flying patterns this helped people to look at how planes and flying things were made.  We learnt lots of new information, it was easy and challenging, and loads of FUN!

Easter Eggs

BEDAZZLED EASTER EGGS

 

In room 6, we like to celebrate special occasions. For Easter, we have decorated Easter eggs, using plastic jewels, googly eyes, feathers, paint, pom poms, wire, and stick on stars. Some people made very cute people using googly eyes and wire for arms. Other people just decorated their eggs with jewels or stars.

 

 

World Happiness Day

Today post was written by Abbie

On Thursday 20^th March 2014 Room 6 had a whole school party for World Happiness Day and everyone was invited.

In the morning we put the song ‘Happy’ on in our class to celebrate. We danced all morning before school had even started it was so fun.

For prayers in Room 6 we also sang and danced around the class listening to the happy song, and we declared it the first official World Happiness Day for Good Shepherd School! We even did a minute of just laughing. It was an incredible way to start the day, what a happy day it was.

World Happiness Day 2014

Amie's gymnastics post

Todays post was written by Amie
Over the last term Room 6 has been doing Gymnastics. Tri- Star has kindly come and taught us some gymnastics skills like handstands, forwards rolls, backwards rolls and cartwheels. Room 6 has been doing extremely well with learning our routines for vault, floor, mats or beam. We have been especially been working on our presentation. The boys do vault floor and mat, and the girls do vault floor and beam. We appreciate the help that Tri-Star has given us.

      

Laura St Josphes day

Todays blog was written by Laura

On the 19^th of March Good Shepherd School celebrated St Joseph’s day with house picnics. We all wore mufti to support the work of caritas in the Solomon Islands. (Later in the week Gemma Sinnott came to speak to us from caritas.) We started the day with a liturgy which was led by room 6. After that we ate our lunch,( house picnics.) Blake sat at the playground tree, Shepherd at the hall shade, Cowley by room 1&2 and Hillary at the three olive trees. The picnics were followed by tabloid sports in the afternoon. The games were, Fish, Kina toss, Stuck in the mud, duck duck goose, suits, three legged race, Hacky sack and spoon. Everybody had an amazing St Joseph’s day that we hope to do next year.

  

 

Topic in Room 6

During topic, room 6 have been researching about the things that make a community great. When we are researching we are split into several groups to research about different parts of a community such as, role models, leaders, effective communication and teamwork. After we have researched we slowly begin to build a definition of what makes a good community. Then we presented a well-developed poster with a definition of our community part, our own opinions and ideas that we supported with evidence from our research. We use solo maps to help us reach our goal of extended abstract. Extended abstract is to take new learning and apply it to different situations or in different ways.