Gratitude Journals

In Room 5 this term we have been writing in gratitude journals! Gratitude journals are booklets that we write things we are grateful for in. We each got our own booklet and they all look different!!!
I really like my booklet and I think everyone else likes theirs too!! 

The Rules Of A Haiku

This week we have been learning how to write a haiku! A haiku is a poem with only three lines, the first and third line has 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables

Haiku

Earth

A ball full of life
Floating in the universe
Decorating space

The Marae

This term the whole school went to a Marae. It was really fun! First we went into the wharekarakia also known as the meeting house, and we learnt about the Marae.  After that we had something to eat! The Marae provided us with water, hot chocolate, fruit, scones and biscuits, after we ate, we ran around outside for a while until it was time to leave. Before we got onto the buses, the year 5 and 6 boys performed the haka to the Marae staff members!  

The Sun

The sun is a clock

ticking around the world.

It is a flower 

blowing through the universe.

The sun is a flame

burning the earth.

It is a disco ball 

dazzling the eyes of millions.

The sun is a balloon 

floating up in space.

It is a pupil

looking down at the world.

Speeches

This term, G.S.S has been doing a speech competition! We all had to write our own speeches and present them to the class. It was so hard choosing a topic, but I finally had one.......... The Life  Of A Slave. Surprisingly it made the semifinals and it was my first time ever!! Sadly I didn't get into the finals but the people who did had really good speeches!!

Cook Island Week

This week is Cook Island week so we have got a lot of fun activities like finding facts about the Cook Islands, drawing, and writing! We have also learnt some Cook Island Maori! Learning about the Cook Islands has been really fun!

Pumanua

This year all of the senior school are doing Pumanuwa! Pumanuwa is a thing where kids get assigned to a club focusing on a fun activity like drama, digital tech, cartooning, and yoga. I got put in drama, which I think is great because I love performing arts! It is also fun because most of my friends are in it!

Ocean Posters

For reading in room 5 we made a poster on an ocean.                  Our options were: the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean. I chose the Southern Ocean. I chose it because it has some really cool animals like fur seals, colossal squids, killer whales and blue whales.

Maori Art

We have been creating Maori art by drawing a picture based on  the children's book illustrator and author, Peter Gossage! It has taken a long time but I think it is worth it! I LOVE ART!!!!! 

Egg Sitting

Last week room 5 egg sat! Basically we had to shelter and protect an egg! This was to teach us how to be responsible with a baby. We got to name our eggs, I named mine Eggatha! Eggatha died on the first day which I am very ashamed to say! But on the plus side, I loved egg sitting!

Lydia

                         
We are learning about the early church, so we made a slide about a person from the early church, I chose Lydia! 

Water Filtering

Today Room 5 got into pairs to filter water with different materials, sand, cotton balls, paper towels and bark. First we filtered water with every material individually! After that we had a competition to see which different materials worked the best with each other!

Save The Turtles Slide

Maths Poster

In room 5 we have been learning to do big multiplication and long division! So we made posters on either multiplication or long division (our choice). We had to get into pairs. I paired with Lucy, this is the poster we made:

ANZAC Colouring

In room 5 we have been colouring in a a picture of something to do with ANZAC! The options were a picture of an ANZAC hat, a cross, an ANZAC coin, a wreath and another wreath saying 'lest we forget' in the middle of it! I chose the cross because I thought it looked very beautiful!

My poem

This week room 5 has been writing about a certain object in a little box. In this little box there is 12 objects, the chess piece, a key, a puzzle, a rock, a ship in a bottle, a gem, a figurine of a lady, a spider, a Chinese coin, a dinosaur, a compass, and a teddy bear! I wrote about the chess piece. Here is my poem:

Spies

Smooth, shiny

Creamy white, small, curvy

Hard but delicate, polished, plain

Sleek and spiky solid,

Stumpy, and wooden

Chess  

   

R.E Pyramid

At school Room 5 made a 3-d pyramid for R.E. On each side of the pyramid we had to write a nice word e.g caring, love and faith. On the bottom of the pyramid we wrote our names! I chose love, faith and hope for my kind words to write!

Samuel Atkinson Slide

Mandarin Lesson

Every week Room 5 has a mandarin lesson. We have been trying to learn to introduce ourselves including:

• Name- Rosa
• Age- jiu
• If you are tall or short- ai
• How long your hair is- chang
• What your school is- Good Shepherd
• How big your eyes are- xiao

It is hard but I like challenges!

Mindfulness Colouring

In room 5 we have been colouring our Mindfulness Colouring. We do it because colouring is a way to relax, become peaceful and you start being mindful of what you are doing and what is going on around you in the silence! Though being peaceful is the focus in Mindfulness Colouring, there is a reason you do colouring, it is because colouring is fun a children can focus more when they find something fun and enjoying! Here is a picture of my colouring:

  

Camel Poster

In reading we made posters about an animal (we got to choose). I chose a camel because I thought they were very interesting animal. While I was making my poster I found out some very interesting facts about camels, I will share some with you:

• Camels store food in their humps!
• Camels sleep standing up!
• Camels weigh up to 1500 pounds!
• The Bactrian camel is endangered!

Making this poster was really fun, searching about camels and drawing the camel!=)

Room 5's goals

Room 5 have been setting our goals for math, reading and writing here are my goals:

• Math- Learn all my 7 times table off by heart.
• Reading- To read and locate information quickly.
• Writing- To learn all the rules of punctuation.

 

Escape from Kraznir

This term room 5 have been writing a fantasy story called "Escape from Kraznir". It is about a group of spies trying to steal a bunch of battle plans because one city (Kraznir) is planning to attack another city (Slinsil)! The spies go through numerous amounts of challenges and only a few may come out alive.... It has been really  fun writing and creating our story! 

Shrove Tuesday!

Today was "Shrove Tuesday" we made pancakes and burned the palms for "ash Wednesday" Shrove Tuesday is a part of lent. When we made the pancakes we made them with the juniors/yr 0&1. To make pancakes you will need: 

• Butter
• Flour 
• Milk 

First you mix the flour and milk together !

Then you put a small or big (depending on the size of pan) piece of butter on the pan to melt! (so the pancake doesn't stick)

After that you poor the pancake mixture in the pan.

Soon once your pancake has been cooked, you eat and enjoy!😁

Rosa's mantra

In room 5 we have been talking about growth mind-set, so we made Mantras. Here is my Mantra:

Rise above the storm and you will find the

sunshine!

Rosa's Pepeha

Ko Mt Roskill tōku mauga

Ko te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa tōku moana

Ko European Kiwi tōku iwi

Nō Aotearoa ahau

Ko Te Hepara Pai tōku kura

Ko Leonie tōku mama

Ko Stephen tōku papa

Ko Rosa  tōku ingoa

                                 

swimming sports

At Good Shepherd school we had swim sports at West Wave pools, we came by bus and went by bus. the first races were competitive: backstroke, freestyle, and breaststroke. I competed in competitive freestyle, and breaststroke. I didn't come either 1st, 2nd or 3rd but that's okay I've always got next year. Anyway after competitive there was non-competitive races: dolphin dive, freestyle, and water walk, I'm in Blake (the blue house) and I was cheering for Blake so loudly that at the end of the day my throat was hoarse! Swimming sports was really fun, and I can't wait until next year's swim sports!  

sun smart poster

                                   Sun Smart Poster

  Today room 5 was talking about health and protecting our skin from the sun. We talked about it, then Mrs Drummond sent us off in groups of three and four to create a Sun Smart Poster.  We added facts and pictures, but most importantly we need to remember to slip, slop, slap, wrap and slide

• Slip on some sunglasses
• Slop on some sunscreen
• Slap on a hat
• Wrap on a t-shirt
• And slide into the shade

If you don't do these things you can get badly sun burnt and you can get skin cancer which can be very painful. So remember be sun smart!=)

The first 2 weeks of school!

This week is one of the first weeks of a very, very, very, long year! I don’t know if it’s going to be a fun or boring year, but so far the short two weeks I have been back at G.S.S I guess I have been having fun so that tells me a lot about Mrs Drummond, she loves having fun! And that is definitely a good thing👍! Anyway I’m here today to tell you about my awesome two weeks that I have recently been in having in Good Shepherd!


So far, in my couple of weeks back at school we have been doing a lot of "get to know you" activities as well as stories about our summer holidays. We also did a fair bit of art, I really liked doing the Maori art ( although it took quite a bit of time ). I also liked learning new apps of games, e.g prodigy, epic, and freckle. Rm 5 is the best class by far and away!