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.