Why I should get a pet fish and tank

🐠Why I should get a pet fish and tank!🐠

By: Liam.M 

I am leaning to persuade my audience in persuasive writing.

When you first think of a pet you usually think about the down sides, like we will have to pick up the poop or when we travel where to put it. But if we get a pet fish, it will be different. A pet fish is an amazing pet to have they can be so beautiful. I want a shubunkin goldfish and I will call it Coral (one on the right), Xavier wants a shubunkin goldfish he wants to call it Sir Dunkin (one on the right), Luke wants the Comet goldfish he wants to call it Jimmy (one on the left)... My four main reasons are the water-change, feeding, what to do with them on a holiday and the tank. 

First we need to see the water-change. When you first think of water-change you mainly think you have to empty the whole tank then refill it with tap water, but no this will kill the fish because the chlorine and ammonia is toxic to fish. When you are doing a water-change you need to empty at least 25% - 35% or 50% - 70% with three goldfish. If we have live plants we will need to do a water change about once every two or three weeks (about five, six or seven live plants at least). If we have zero, one or two we will have to do it every week. The best plants for a goldfish is rock fern and anubias. A pond pump is a excellent way of filling and emptying your tank (you need a tube), you also will need a siphon.

Now time to see how to feed the fish.Goldfish feeding is not that hard and is a little job when it comes to fish keeping. The recommended food is Repashy Gel food and NLS sinking pellets, but normal pet store food is fine. Fish food can be expensive, but usually lasts a long time. Each fish will require a different amount of food depending on the size, but they will usually eat the amount they want. If the fish becomes very fat feed it beans and de-shelled peas mixed with repasey, or just feed it less. Goldfish can become fat very quickly and if you over feed the water will become cloudy, so a pinch in the morning and in the evening. If you want the fish to be get lage faster you need to put a different variety of food.

When you go on holiday you think what will we do with the pet, but that will change with a fish. You can buy holiday fish food / weekend fish food. We should not feed this all the time because there is not the same amount of protein. There are different shapes and sizes, on the packet it will tell you how many fish it can feed for how long. So if you were away for… 3 weeks and you have, two fish you buy feeders that last one week. You will need six shape feeders. If you stick with them for every day your fish won’t grow well and will have a bigger chance to be sick. Now to see the tank states.

For a Shubunkin goldfish they can grow big… 44cm. They like to have excess 50L. A Fantail like 50L. The tank I want is the Blue Planet Classic Aquarium 70L. This will provide the right amount of room for the fish and will be a great habitat. The fish will be able make a bedding in the gravel without disturbing each other. I fish can be tratoriall.

So do you think that we can get a fish. Just remember that the tank size, water-change, holiday and feeding, lets see about the pet fish and tank. Maybe you could choose a fish too.

A-Z NZ Music

Eating Insects

🐞🐝🐜🐌🐛Eating Insects🐛🐌🐜🐝🐞

By: Liam

I am learning to persuade my audience using persuasive writing and emotive words. 

When I eat dinner I am not satisfied, but now I like eating bugs. When you first think of eating insects you mainly think yuck or ewwwww, but most people that try insects actually like them. Hundreds of thousands of people eat insects every day, and are an everyday meal. Insects are a healthy snack and they are a great source of energy. There are many insect recipes all around the world. Most people that eat bugs actually like them, now to see how to make these tasty treats.

We all have a time that we are craving a tasty treat, so it’s silly not to cook with insects. Everyone should at least try cooking with insects once or twice. They are extremely tasty and you can make quick and easy snacks. We all do enjoy a treat or two, so why not include an INSECT TODAY!? You can have scorpion lollipops, mealworm fries, chocolate covered crickets, these are all exciting snacks that are easy to make and are very tasty, so why don’t you go and look for some yummy insect treats? Now to see why these insects are so healthy.

What is high in protein and full of vitamins and minerals? If you guessed fish, meat, eggs, seeds you would be correct but did you also know that insects are a great source of protein and vitamins too? A bug a day keeps the doctor away! Beetles, cockroaches and crickets are the healthiest bugs you can eat! Any type of insect generally has the same amount of protein as an egg (which is 6 grams of protein). But the best thing is that they are lower in calories (fat) which means you can eat as much as you like without putting on to much weight. Bugs are a healthy, nutritious treat but if you are still feeling creeped out about them you can try creating amazing meals with those bugs, and they can taste just as good as a Freddo Frog!

Donuts, cakes and cookies, what do these foods have in common? They all taste delicious and are most people's favorite food. These yummy foods can be made better for you and can still taste as good by adding a nutritious bug to the dish. Foods like this have been made around the world with bugs in them, such as cricket cookies, spider donuts and grasshopper cake. They are so tasty that you do not even notice you are eating a bug so not only are you getting the tasty treat but it becomes guilt free since it has the added nutrients from the bug. There are millions of tasty recipes that can make any bug taste like a five star hotel meal. An insect can be as good as a Cookie Time Cookie, Dunkin Donuts and The Cheesecake Shop.

So after hearing the reasons why bugs are great to eat, do you think you should try an insect? As you now know they are tasty, healthy and you can make many recipes from around the world. So my challenge for you is to try a insect today! Go get them!

My Intro

🐞🐝🐜🐌🐛Eating Insects🐛🐌🐜🐝🐞

By: Liam

I am learning to persuade my audience using persuasive writing and emotive words. 

When I eat dinner I am not satisfied, but now I like eating bugs.

When you first think of eating insects you mainly think yuck or ewwwww, but most people that try insects actually like them. Hundreds of thousand of people eat insects every day, and are a every day meal. Insects are a healthy snack and they’re a great source of energy.There are many insect recipes all around the world. Most people that eat bugs actually like them, now to see how to make these tasty treats.

Assembly

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." 

Week 5 was non stop for Room 6 with athletics, kapa haka and irish dancing. But it was also our final assembly for the year, and for some of us our final assembly at Good Shepherd School. This was the perfect time for us to share some of our talents and learning. We had been focusing on New Zealand music through our passport tasks so it was only fitting to pick a kiwi classic; Six Months in a Leaky Boat by Split Enz (written in 1982). We sung along to the words and put some of groovy moves together to create a dance. Throughout the year one of our favorite activities was reading Chris Gurney’s books during book week. Chris has written so many wonderful and humorous traditional tales with a kiwi voice. We absolutely adore her books, so for our assembly we presented a Readers Theater: Trev and the Kauri Tree.

This is our song:Six Months In a Leaky Boat

Athletics day

The harder the battle the sweeter the victory!

All of Good Shepherd School piled into buses as we headed to Three Kings Fields for the annual Athletics Day event.  We had been training for weeks and we were ready to take on our peers and to compete for a placing. The events were running, long jump, high jump, discus and shot put.  My favorite event was shoot put because I came second.

Pray's

So will I
Week 5 and 6 were busy for Room 6 we presented our assembly in week 5 and had whole school prayers on Monday, Week 6. Our theme for prayers was community, compassion, and discipleship. This was inspired as we approach Christmas and start to think about others and those who are in need of help. Our Reading was 1 John 3:16-18, we also presented a song that we put lyrical dances moves to our song was: So will I, by Hillsong. This is the song: So will I

R.E Slide

Top NZ Music

Year five retreat

 This year the year fives when on retreat. We when around looking for matching leafs and we reflected to God.

BigFoot bikes

In room 6 we have had Bigfoot bikes come in, to teach us about bike safety.

Paper Weaves

In Room 6 we have made paper weaves.

Waka

All together my class made a Waka. My person is the blonde one with a fshing rod.

Kia kaha Sheild

Me and the rest of  class (Room6) made a shield to show how we are unique but different.

My chinese name

Liam=Li ya mu

Science

Pointed beak, flat beak and pelican beak are all the types of beaks we used for this discovery.But these things are also known as forceps, tongs and cups. First we learnt about the meanings of the words we need to know like, aim. Aim means trying to achieve something in the experiment we were trying to see what shape beak is the best for picking up food. And we learnt what will we change( the equipment), What we will measure ( the amount of food) and how we will keep it a fair test. The way we can make it a fair test by having a nice steady surface, by having the same person doing each type of food also by having the same amount of time of 30 seconds. We had an amazing time experimenting with rice, peppercorns, gummy worms and skittles and after we got to eat LOLLIES. Thank you Miss Down for this amazing experiment

Cultural week

On Friday the 21st we had a cultural week. I was in the Brazil group.

M&M Challenge

Last Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday we did the M&M challenge. The class got into groups with one leader in each group. Miss Down gave us some M&M’s and we had to count how many we had and next figured how much M&M’s our group had. After we found out how many M&M’s we all had many people realised that some people had a very small amount of M&M’s while others had about 50. The next thing we did was counting how much of red we had then blue then yellow until we had finished all the colours we had. When we did everything Miss Down told us to share all the M&M’s equally with our group and everyone in the class got 41 M&M’s each! We have put our information on a poster.

Speech

I want to talk about Teina Pora, a man who spent over 20 years in jail for a crime he didn’t do. I want to explain how this happened. My dad was involved in this case and went on for weeks, months and years even when I was little. So let’s get started. In 1993 Teina Pora confessed that he was there when the victim Susan Burdett was murdered. This wasn’t true but the reason Teina said it was because of the reward money. Teina was very poor. He grew up poor after his mother died when he was four years old. In 1993 he needed some money for his family so they can survive. He was 17 and he had a 2 year old daughter. The reward money Police were offering was 20,000 dollars. After he confessed, he was arrested and went on trial in 1994.In the end there were two trials and two appeals. After his first trial he spent 5 years in prison. He appealed after Police charged another person with Susan Burdett’s murder. His appeal was successful and he was given a new trial. At his new trial in 2000 he was found guilty again and sent to prison for life. When I was about two years old, my Dad and two lawyers, called Jonathan and Ingrid, began to work on his case again. They discovered Teina had FASD. When I was about two years old, my Dad and two lawyers, called Jonathan and Ingrid, case again. They discovered Teina had FASD.  FASD is a brain injury that happened because his mother drank alcohol when she was pregnant with him. Because he has FASD, Teina doesn’t understand consequences. The consequences of saying he was there was that he was charged with murder. He also gets confused easily because of FASD and got confused during the Police interviews. Back when Teina first confessed people didn’t know about FASD. The appeal was successful and Teina got out of jail. The government investigated his case and found out he was completely innocent.The government said sorry to Teina and paid him 3.5 million dollars in compensation.(com,pen,say,sion) I know Teina, when he was released I meet him. He is very strong, smart and kind. I hang out with him sometimes. There has been a book and a movie about Teina’s case, both called In Dark Places and both made by the same person, Michael Bennett. I am in both the book and the movie. Michael had me act my older brother Luke for the movie. Xavier my younger brother acted me. Acting made me earn over 100 dollars. Luke was a assistant director, he help call the scenes. I hope you learnt something about Teina Pora. I hope you enjoy the restof your day, Thank you.

Hangi

Chess

On Wednesday the 19th of September 2018. I went to the Auckland Catholic Schools Chess Tournament. The tournament was held out in Massey at saint Paul's school. I can fourth place on my board.

Liam: The native New Zealand Kiwi Bird

The Iconic Bird, The Kiwi

By: Liam Mckinnel

Do you know what a New Zealand Kiwi is? If you guessed a kiwi fruit you are incorrect, but if you guessed the Kiwi bird you are 100% correct. The Kiwi is a native New Zealand bird, it is also the smallest flightless bird! You may think that there is only one type of kiwi but no, there are five different species of Kiwi. All Kiwis have a long beck. There nostrils are at the tip of the beck unlike most birds. The Kiwi has two legs like human but only have four toes not five, Three of their toes are located at the front, The fourth is on the side. The Kiwi has feather like all birds. They also have small wings on each side. The male Kiwi is smaller than a female. A Kiwi can run up to the speed of a human. The Kiwi is apoxalmenly the size of a chicken, even though the Kiwi is related to the Moa, Ostrich and Emu an those are some of the biggest bird. The Kiwi is basically blind so they rely on their sense of smell. The Kiwis diet is Extraordinary! 

The Kiwi eats almost everything! The Kiwi is a omnivore, so it eats plants and meat. The Kiwi loves to eat berries, grubes, small eel and crayfish, invertebrates and leaves. To get grubs and worms the Kiwi puts its long beak in the ground and attempted to get grubs and worms from the soil, if it gets no food it moves to a new location. In the place were the kiwi lives gives it a different diet.The diet depends on the habitat and where they live.

The Habitat is major for a Kiwi. It is there home and their protection. The Kiwis home can be all over New Zealand, from the South Island to the North Island. Kiwi need native forest, and are also found in scrub and rough farmland, exotic plantation forests, sand dunes and snow tussocks, even mangroves. They especially like places with wetland vegetation, but where they live has predators!

The kiwi has many predators too. All of predators of the Kiwi are wild pigs, wild dogs, stoats and cats. A predator is a animal that hunts them. The kiwi is protected so humans can’t kill them, if they do it is illegal. They kiwi is mostly hunted by cats. New Zealand is working to provide save habitats in order to protect the kiwi from their predators

As you can see the kiwi is an amazing bird that is truly valuable to New Zealand, as it is our native and iconic bird. There are many interesting and wonderful facts about the kiwi. In order to protect and to keep our native kiwi bird we must understand the diet needs, the importance of a habitat and those predators that threaten the kiwi. When we understand the kiwis needs we can makes sure the kiwi will continue to survive to remain our special native bird. animals. I hope you learnt something about Kiwis diet predators and habitat.

Weather in Cuba

My Cross

Cyber safety

St Mary Mackillop’s Feast Day

Yesterday was the feast day of Saint Mary Mackillop. We started our day attending our parish mass to celebrate her feast day as a whole community. All the students came back from mass to continue the celebrations by joining our buddy class. Room 4 and 6 together came together to work on paper dolls of ourselves. We know St Mary of the Cross always supported and helped all the children in need. We made a large St Mary MacKillop and we placed all out paper dolls of ourselves around her. Then we were all very lucky to receive a free sausage sizzle from the PTA to continue the celebrations at lunch. In the afternoon we then got to go and play a range of fun games with our buddy class. This was such a fun day working along each other but most of all having fun. Happy Saint Mary MacKillop Feast Day.
Here is our mural…

Whakatauki

In Maori we have been learning about a Whakatauki

A Whakatauki is a proverb, what is truly valued in the Maori Culture.
The Whakatauki that we have been learning about is if we all shared then no one would go without.
We would be able to provide for all that come to us.
There are also Proverbs in the Bible that encourage us to share.
Read these proverbs : Proverbs 19:17; 22:9; 31:20.
Jesus also showed us the teachings of God when he feed the multitudes of people with the fish and the loaves. Read more about this in the Gospel of John: 6 or the Gospel of Matth4.

Evolution Verterbrates

In Room 6 e have been learning to classify animals. Scientists classify animals and plants into groups in order to easily identify, sort and name the.

Classify = Sort
There are many ways to group living organisms.

You can classify animals into two main groups. Vertebrates or invertebrates.

 All vertebrates have

• Covering of skin that protects them
• Skeleton inside their body
• Muscles that help them move
• Blood moves through tubes 
• Lungs or gills to breathing

Invertebrates

• 90% of all animals are invertebrates
• Tend to be small because they do not have a backbone.
• Many live in the ocean because the water helps support their weight.
• Some have a hard covering or shell on the outside of their bodies for protection.
• (e.g Insects, spiders, crabs, snails and clams.

Public and Private Imformation

My Healthy Brownie

1 and 1/2 cups dark chocolate chips separated, I use 53% cacao
1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons coconut oil LouAna brand recommended
1 cup vanilla Greek yogurt*
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup coconut sugar brown sugar can be substituted
3/4 cup oat flour just blend regular oats in your blender
Optional Frosting:
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
2 tablespoons unsweetened vanilla almond milk or whatever milk you have on hand
2 tablespoons vanilla Greek yogurt
3/4- 1 & 1/4 cups powdered sugar

Figurative Language

Idiom, hyperbole, alliteration, metaphor, onomatopoeia, similes and personification. These are all language features which we call figurative language. In reading we have been learning about these language features and how authors used them in their writing to make their work engaging and add interest for their audience. We made posters either with paper pencils or flowers with examples and definitions of the language feature.Here is our figurative language poster.

Science Roadshow

Last week on Thursday the year 5 and 6 students of Good Shepherd School went to Edendale Primary School to experience the Science Roadshow! We learnt so much about ice and fire, the human body and other things that are related to science. We enjoyed watching the hosts do fascinating experiments like dropping an 8 ball into the metal stick with a hoop attached to it, before they dipped it into the liquid nitrogen the ball could thread through the hoop, but after they dipped the stick into the liquid nitrogen the ball couldn’t fit!
We had a lot of fun, and recommend that everyone goes to the Science Roadshow if they get a chance.

Production

Lights, Camera, Action!

Last week Good Shepherd School performed, ‘Zip Zip Zap Avenue’.  We packed the school hall with our family and friends as the rain fell. Most of GSS students were in the holding classrooms covered in make-up and sitting in our toy costumes.   

Zip Zip Zap Avenue is a about a Toy Shop that comes alive once one of the main characters, the Shopkeeper closed up the shop and turned off the light.  The toys would then come alive when all the people were asleep, like the the families that visited the toyshop looking for the perfect gifts. This certain night at the toyshop the celebration was for Buzz the Bee, he had left the shelf of the toy shop and all his friends came out to celebrate him with dances.  The main toy friends were Thing 1, Thing 2, Tiki, Spiderman, Cabbage Patch Doll, Woody, Strawberry Shortcake, and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. The main characters introduced the classes as they came in as their selected toy and danced for buzz.

The first dance was the boys and girls of Room 3 and 4 who were transformers, this was a great and powerful way to start the show.  Room 5 then twirled onto the stage as Barbie and Ken dancing to Barbie girl. Things got a little spooky as the trolls of Room 7 came out in the middle of the night to the song Thriller.  We weren’t too scared for long as the fairies in Room 3 and 4 came out dancing away in their gorgeous fair dresses. And just when you thought things couldn’t get any cuter the teddy bears from Room 1 and 2 went on their teddy bear picnic.  Room 8 then showed us what teamwork is with their awesome lego outfit and very cool song … Everything is awesome! Next up were the Kiwi toy, with great costumes for the kiwi birds and the wonderful performance of the Poi Dancers. And finally it was our turn, Room 6 spun onto the stage as Rubix Cubes dancing to You Spin Me Right Around.  

It was a fantastic experience for us all, we learnt a lot about performing and all the work that goes on in the background.  We was a wonderful opportunity and it wouldn’t of been possible without the support of everyone working together just like the lego blocks.

Book Week!

Book Week!
It's week 8 and it is the bookworms favourite week of the year! Book week! A lot of things happened this week. The library was jam packed full of books and other cool stuff like pencils and rubbers, authors and poets were visiting the school, the book parade was on Friday where we were able to show off our costumes of our favourite book character!
Monday saw us in groups competing against one another as we did a literacy quiz! There were 30 questions and three topics. Each question we got right earned us a point! And, we all had to pick a topic where we DOUBLED our points.
The next day Tasman Flinn visited the school. We all sat in the hall and sat on the chairs while she showed us her poems and talked about poetry.
Then on Thursday, all of us year 5 and 6s went to Room 2 so we could see Chris Gurney. She talked about her books and how to make a book. And she picked a few volunteers to act out a play, based off her own book called “Cindy And The Lost Jandal” (Miss Down’s favourite book).
Then on Friday, we all dressed up in our favourite book characters, and finished off the week with the book parade! Where we showed off our amazing costumes on the stage.
We all had so much fun during book week. Thank God for books!

Seed Crackers

Seed crackers

In Room Six we have been learning about how we can stay healthy and have a well balanced diet. For a healthy class treat we made seed crackers.
Here is our recipe
Ingredients:

½ cup Sunflower seeds

½ cup Pumpkin seeds

¼ cup Sesame seeds

¼ cup Poppy seeds

¼ cup Linseed/flaxseed seeds

¼ cup chia seeds

½ tsp sea salt

1 cup water

1 sprinkle of flaky sea salt, to sprinkle

Directions:
Heat oven to 170C. Place all the seeds and the salt in a bowl, pour in water and mix to combine. Leave for 15 minutes for the chia and flax seeds to soften and bind everything together. Tip out onto a baking paper-lined oven tray and spread out as thin as possible (around 4mm thick) and sprinkle with some flaky sea salt. Bake for 30 minutes. Remove the tray from the oven and slice into crackers, then return to the oven to cook for another 20-30 minutes until crisp and golden. Remove to a rack to cool then store in an airtight container. Now your crackers are ready to eat.

On the last week of school we are going to be having a Healthy Food Party - Veggie Con on Monday the 2nd July, everybody will bring healthy food for us to eat as a shared lunch. 

The Royal Jelly

The Royal Jelly
On Tuesday 29 of May the whole of Good Shepherd gathered in the hall to watch a show called “The Royal Jelly”. It gave us a lot of facts about bees and was really funny. Also three students were lucky enough to participate in the show answering questions from the “mayor”. Over all the show was fun and interesting and we all learned all about bee's.

Crosscountry

Cross Country

It was the Fifth of June. Everyone a bit blue after the end of a long 4 day weekend, and here we are, starting the week off with cross country! Everyone came in their sports uniform. And from the morning up until lunch time, us students were running the Cross Country track.

We raced in year levels, so the year 1's raced with each other and so on. Those young bunches got to only run 1 lap. While us big kids had to run 2 and a half laps! Doesn't seem that much until you add the fact we had to jog all the way up Telford Ave and back twice! It was fun being competitive and racing your friends and other people. Everyone was bursting with positive energy.

Lining up before heading to the track is where the nervousness starts to kick in. We made our way to the netball court and stretched, a bit after that the year 6 girls started running. A few minutes later it was OUR turn to run the track. We all lined up and Mrs Mcleod told us where to go, then after that, we were off. Everyone seemed extremely exhausted at the end, but finishing the race was so relieving.

Congratulations to all the children who came in the top 3 and represented their houses well. And thanks to all the parents who helped motivate and keep us children on track.

Afio mai to Samoan language

Afio mai to Samoan language Week. 

The cultural leaders opened the week with their national costume and dance.


In room 6 we have been exploring the Samoan Cultural with general facts. We searched for our fact card around the room and collected information for our Jigsaw Reading Hunt.


Next our Samoan experts in class gave us a lesson on greetings and phrases in Samoan.


Then we moved onto counting to ten in Samoan for math before finishing our math session with a clapping game in Samoan.









Selo-zero

Tasi-one

Lua-two

Tolu-three

Fa-four

Lima-five

Ono-six

Fitu-seven

Valu-eight

Iva-Nine

Sefulu-ten

Ra Whanau Suzanne Aubert

Ra Whanau Suzanne Aubert

In room 6 we have been celebrating Suzanne Aubert’s birthday by making flowers for the theme, “Always choose the little flower of hope.”
Suzanne looked after sick people, people with disabilities, children whose families couldn’t care for them, and the elderly. The work she started continues to this day in places like Wellington’s Compassion Soup Kitchen.
Suzanne left her home in France and came to Aotearoa to support the Maori people. She honoured the Maori people, their tikanga, reo and rongoa. Suzanne loved God and always thought about what he wanted her to do, not what she wanted, even when that wasn’t easy.

Life Cycle of a Sea Turtle

🐢🐢🐢 The Life Cycle of a Sea Turtle 🐢🐢🐢 

Sea turtles are amazing animals. There are eight different species of sea turtle. The Leatherback, Green, Kemp's Ridley, Hawksbill, Loggerhead, Olive Ridley and Flatback are endangered. The Galapagos Green is not endangered. A male sea turtle will stay underwater its whole life, but a female sea turtle will come out of the water to lay its eggs. But now we have to start with the egg stage.

Eggs

A sea turtle’s eggs are very small, about the size of a ping pong ball. The egg feels leathery. Approximately 1000 eggs get laid. The eggs are buried as deep as the sea turtle's flipper can go. A Leatherback would make a bigger hole for the eggs then the Kemp's Ridley.

Baby Sea Turtle

Once the eggs hatch the baby sea turtles come across their first challenge. Each species of sea turtle have different survival strategies. About 80% get to the water. More Leatherbacks survive then Kemp’s Ridleys. But still 40% that make it to the water perish. Once they get deep they come across more challenges such as sharks, sea birds and killer whales.

Growing up

After a couple of years a sea turtle has many less challenges but there are still dangers for them such as some of the bigger sharks called greats tigers and bulls. Once a sea turtle makes it to adult age they mostly die from pollution such as oil.

Breeding Age

Once a sea turtle gets to breeding age they start the life cycle once again.

Sea turtles have three main life stages. It is the last stage that we humans can help by stopping pollution. We need to do something to help these endangered animals.

Lights Camera Action

Lights, Camera, Action

Room 6 presented their learning about not being a bystander at their assembly on Friday week 3. In week 3 all school around New Zealand made a stand by wearing pink. PINK stood for Peaceful, Inclusive, Noble and Kind. Our assembly was a success and we all had fun.

To my mum

My handprint

 Here is my handprint,

Five fingers in all,

Outside they are short,

But the middle is tall,

You will find them on the windows,

You can find them on the walls,

They will make a big mess,

For something so small

One day I will grow,

And leave them no more,

My hand prints will be missed,

Of that I am sure

So here is one now

That you can't wipe away

My present to you,

This Mother's day

Religious Education

In RE we learnt about the Ascension of Jesus. At Galilee Jesus told his disciples to take his Gospel to the whole world. He promised to send the Holy Spirit to be with us always and then he returned, in Glory ti his father in Heaven. 

We used crafts to show how Jesus went body and soul to Heaven

Pepeha

No New Zealand ahau

(I am from)

No Glen Eden ōku kainga inaianei

(Where I live now)

Ko Te Hapara pai te kura

(I go to Good Shepherd School)

Ko Tim, Mckinnel tōku pāpā

(___is my Father) \

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Ko Megan, Mckinnel tōku mama

(____ is my mother.  Students must ask mother if they want maiden surname down or family name)

Ko Liam, Mckinnel  tōku ingoa

(___________ is my name)

Retro

I am learning to write about what happens before, during and after an event

“Wow” whispered Joe, “Thats a big project” said Zac. “I know and the robots due in a week ” whispered Zac back. That night Joe sprinted to Zac’s house to start the project. Knock knock knock. Eeeee Rrrrrrr the door opens, its Zac. “We better get started, let's start with some research” explained Joe.

Click bang zap “Wow” said Joe we're all most done. “I know, but it's taking all night” said Zac sleepily. BANG! SMASH! BAP! “Finally, DONE!” They shouted. The robot was big and red it had razor sharp pinchers and had beady eyes. “We’ve gotta win” said Joe “Now to turn it on.”

“Hello my name is Retro and now I will destroy you”,“RUN” they both shouted as they ran to the door the robot chased behind them. “Why has the plug not came out” said Joe. “Wait a minute” shouted Zac. Pop!

Eeee Nnnn. Power offffffffffffff! “Now what do we do for the project?” asked Zac. “Maybe a mini robot that builds things” suggested Joe. "Good idea" said Zac. The mini robot will be equipt with hammers, screwdrivers and sphere nails. 

At the competition the judges thought the mini robot was so cute and helpful so it won first place! That’s why bigger isn’t always better.

“Mistakes are proof you are trying.”

To me this mindset means it’s okay to get stuff wrong as long as you try. Mistakes help us to learn.

I could use this mindset when you fail.

Me Board

This is my Me board that I have made to tell people about me.

This is me

I am learning to post a photo onto my blog.

Stir Fry

I am learning to inform my audience by sharing and entertaining moment.

Have you ever had stir fry? Well a have, its disgusting but some people love it for instance my dad. This is not a happy story about stir fry, it is rather a horrible event that took place.

One evening I was sitting watching tv when a HORRIFYING smell crept up my nose. What's for dinner? I thought to myself as i was hoping it wouldn’t be stir fry.

As I was deep in thought my dad then called me and the rest of my family for dinner. Making the long walk to the dinner table. I was right it was stir fry. My stomach sank.

I took a bit of effort, it was so disgusting. I managed to swallow half of it, which my dad thinks is enough. So then I was able to carry on with everyday life as known as TV.

Well until the next disgusting meal. 

My Hoiday

There I am sitting in my mums car. When I exited the car I saw my brothers friends house, we were going to see his new puppy Buddy. When I opened the gate I saw the little dog running to us. Buddy is about up to my knees. (By the way I don't know what breed Buddy is). When I get inside my brothers friends was doing homework. He asked me if I wanted to play star wars battlefront 2. I said “Yes”. He won because he is a lot better than me. For the last ten minutes I played Lego. Then we had to go home.