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.

Santa.

       An acrostic poem about Santa

Santa checks his list twice.

Amazing Christmas trees all around.

No one has been naughty.

Talking day and night.

At the park it’s filled with snow.

Santa is a hungry man.

Snowman😃

                                 An acrostic poem about

                       Snowman

Snowing everywhere.

No snowflakes around.

Oh what a lovely Christmas day.

Washing the car to get the snow off.

Making lots of snowballs.

A Christmas tree in our house.

Never sleep on the night of Christmas eve.

Snowman are cool.