My Acrostic Poem About Mums

 Means the world to me

 Unique in every way    

 Marvellous

My Mum is amazing

Author visit.

This week in author came to our school. Her name was Anne kayes she wrote the stories tui street heroes. She told us a little bit about the books she wrote and sold some we all enjoyed the books and when she came here.

My Poem.

this week we were learning about poetry this is the poem a I made.

Walking on the creaky floor  

Leaking water from the door

Spider’s crawling on the wall

Big monster eyeballs! 

Smelling like rotten cheese

Making me want to sneeze! 

My Calendar Art.

                       

Good Shepherd School Fair 2019.

                    The Monsters are Coming

Pumanawa

On Monday we all jump and scream before pumanawa starts. There are so many things to do like performing arts, gardening, cartooning, and so on here are a couple of photos. I do performing arts we are now doing makeup and wigs we are having so much fun.

Mixed Media -Visual 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.

St 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.  

Whole Schools 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 is a pictures of our prayers:

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 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

Room 6 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: 

Egg sitting

he last few days we have been learning about keeping ourselves safe. For the programe we did egg sitting, the challenge was to keep the egg safe and not break it or leave it at home. If you break it you were out of the challenge. We drew faces for on the eggs. We brought our eggs to school so they would go to daycare and at the end of the day we took them home for dinner.

My Maths Poster

This week I made a maths poster about the family of facts. My family of fact started with 7 x 8 =56.
A family of fact show us how multiplication and division can go together. Here are my family of facts poster for my fact.

Famous People in the Early Church Communities.

For R.E we did a poster about famous people in the early church. We went in to group of 3 and picked a person our group piked Aquila and Priscilla. In our group there was Jiwoo, Zara, Pippa and me. Here is photo.
 

GSS Book Week 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:

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.

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.

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 phrases, our experts were Matila, Remy and Rosa.

Mandarin Lesson

This week on Wednesday we learnt about the family names in mandarin. We also learnt a song to help us remember the names. Some of us got to go up the front and label the family members in this photo. Mandarin is fun.

Science in a Van

This week is Science week. Friday of week two we went to the hall to see and learn about science. There were two people there to demonstrate how science works there names were Allan and Emily. My favourite bit was when Allan put the dry ice in a bottle of water and it made a cloud.. Here is a photo.

Season of Easter.

In room six we made a title page for the easter season. On it I wrote some things to explain what the story is. We also drew pictures in the circle. And here is a photo of it. 

Science Experiments.

This team we are learning about the water cycle. We have been doing some science experiments with balloons and water. with the balloons we got to push them together and see how much pressure is in the small one and see how it feels with the big one. Here are some photos.                   

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 has made bunting triangle to show our growth mindset goal and 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 the Son of God. This is my cube on how Jesus showed us that God loved us all and his children, we are all blessed with the three gifts of 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.

My Accident Story.

A Little Boost, a Broken Thumb

By: Miriam

February 2019


I am learning to entertain my audience with a recount.

Have you ever had a major accident? Was it as small as a cut or as sore as a broken bone? Well I have a very funny story about the day I broke a thumb. Yes I actually broke a thumb. This day started out with a normal everyday family bike ride to the park, my dad led the pack while my brother and I followed closely.

“Keep up you slow coach,” My brother called out to be me as he overtook me on his bike, showing off. I gripped the handle bars tighter, pushed down on the pedals as I tried to go faster to over take him. That’s when Dad interrupted, “It’s time to go home!”

Pulling up next to Dad at the top of a giant hill watching my brother go down cautiously, I thought this time I would beat him down the hill. That's when my plan came into action. I asked dad to give me a boost, this way I could beat him.


Dad pushed be from behind, I started to fly down the hill, going faster and faster. I flew past my brother, uh oh… maybe I was going too fast. I felt the handlebars began to shake, pulling my hands as it wobbled. At this point I was aware that if the handle bars were wobbling the front wheel would be wobbling too. I lost control and steered myself into the kerb crashing down to the ground, my body landing on my hand followed by the bike. SNAP!


Hearing the snap of my thumb I knew I would be in for a long wait at the doctors. Leaving the doctors with my thumb in a cast and a very long healing time, I have learnt my lesson to not get an extra push going down a hill. And always wear a helmet.

Swimming Sports

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 Sharon 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.

Shine Week

Shine Week



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 Tuesday was Shove 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 Shove 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.

Ash Wensday

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. During the lent season we have to remember to pray, alms giving and helping others. else did to. During the lent season we have to remember to pray, alms giving and helping others.



This year I am focusing on to help around the house and to not eat a lot of candy.

Mihimihi 

Miriam

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 Waitakere Ranges toku maunga (Mountain)

Ko Waitemata Harbour tōku moana (ocean)

Kei Tamaki Makaurau tōku kāinga ināianei (I now live)

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

Ko Kaufman tōku whānau (family name)

Ko Brendan Kaufman tōku pāpā (father)

No Aotearoa ia (Father is from, share diverse backgrounds)

Ko Michelle Kaufman tōku māmā (mother, ask if maiden or family name) 

No Aotearoa ia (Mother is from, share diverse backgrounds)

Ko Miriam Kaufman. tōku ingoa (your name)

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

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

Pieces 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. 

Year Six Camp.

While the rest of the school was sleeping, enjoying their last day of the school holidays the year six were awake grabbing the last of their essential camp items. Stuffing the cars full of luggage we hit the road making our way up to MERC, Long Bay Beach for the annual Year 6 Leadership Camp. It was a fun, busy and hot week with lots of activities and things to do. There was so much to do with out amazing instructors and helpers, activities like paddle boarding, archery, abseiling, kayaking, rock climbing, giants ladder, stack’em and the list goes on. After the camp day we had plenty to do at night with the camp mass, school council voting, the talent quest and even a spooky game of spot light.

My two favorite activities were the giant ladder and kayaking.