Room 6 Monsters

The monsters are coming!

Calendar Art

In the past two weeks, we finished our Calendar Art. Coloring and drawing wasn't hard. But our hands did hurt after that. When we finished our art, it looked very good. And the theme of my calendar art was the weirdness of the unknown.

Marae Trip

A few days ago, we went to the Marae. We rode the bus to the Marae at Unitec. We were welcomed and someone at the door welcomed us with a Waiata. Then the school council did the Hongi with the members of the Marae. After that, they told us a story about a man that rode to New Zealand on a stingray. After that, we had morning tea and it was delicious. Then they taught us a dance. And after that, we performed the Haka. Next, we went back to school. We were sad because the trip had to end.

How to Blow Bubblegum

Mixed Media Artwork

Title: Mixed Media

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.

Room 6's Assembly

Last, 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:

Whole School 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 are some pictures of our prayers:

Matariki Acrostic Poem

Last term, we did some Matariki activities. there were lots of Matariki activities that my

Egg Sitting

Last week, we did egg sitting. Egg sitting was frustrating for some people, but it was fun for the other majority. Egg sitting is all part of the "Keeping Ourselves Safe" program. We all acted like the egg was the baby. The instructions were to keep it safe, and to not crack it. When people got their egg, they were pretty eggcited. And when it was near the end of egg sitting, people were pretty eggravated and tired of taking care of their eggs.

Famous People In The Early Church

Last week, we learned about famous people that helped Paul and people in the Early Church(his real name was Saul)spread the word of God. My group's poster was about Peter. He was a fisherman and he was the first apostle that was chosen by Jesus.

Here are some facts that were not on the poster. Some of them might be on the poster. 

-Peter's friends were tormented by the Roman Emperor Nero.

-Peter was a fisherman.

-Jesus chose Peter because the name "Peter" meant rock or stone, which Jesus said that he will build his church on the rock.

Paul's Journeys

Today we learnt about Paul's Journeys. Paul went to many different places to spread the word of God. Before he went to spread the word, he was scared to come out, but then he was filled with the Holy Spirit. Then he went to spread the word. But on the way there were people that helped him. There was Luke, who was found at Troas, Lydia who sold purple dye, was found at Phillipi. Then they found Aquila and Priscilla at Corinth. Then he stopped the journey,  because he went to Jerusalem and got caught spreading the word for his beliefs. 

Book Week

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:


                                                 

The Water Cycle Explanation Writing

The Water Cycle 

I am learning to inform my audience through an explanation.

By Peter

When you take a drink, do you ever stop to wonder where water came from or how it came to be? Maybe you drank water that cavemen drank millions of years ago? Maybe it could be from a plant! Maybe it came from the water cycle! The definition of a cycle is a series of events or steps that are repeated over and over. The water cycle is really simple anyone could understand it (except babies). 97 percent of water on earth is salt water, leaving the other 3 percent fresh water. The only problem is with freshwater, is that we can only drink 1 percent of the freshwater because either the water is groundwater or it’s ice. The water cycle consists of the three main stages, evaporation, condensation and precipitation. When precipitation ends, the water cycle will restart all over again. The first stage is evaporation.

When you look at your clothes on the clothesline, it may seem wet, but after a while, all the water’s gone off the clothes! This is because the sun evaporated the water off the clothes. It’s the same with the water cycle. The sun will heat up the water and the atoms in the water will move super fast, then the water steams up. And when all the steam is gone, it already has turned into vapour, which you cannot see. The sun will evaporate the water from the plant, but that has another name called transpiration. The heat from the sun will transpirate the water from the plant into steam and into vapor. The vapour now leads us to the next step of the water cycle, condensation.

The next step leading on from evaporation is condensation. An example of condensation is a hot shower. Since the water from the shower is already hot, the hot water will evaporate itself and when it meets the surface of the cold mirror, the mirror will become blurry. This also happens with the water cycle. When the water vapour has risen into the atmosphere, it reaches its dew point and starts to cool down and turn into very tiny water droplets. As the tiny water droplets fill the cloud, the cloud grows darker. The dark clouds leads us to the last step of the water cycle, precipitation.

The last step of the water cycle is precipitation. As the cloud grows darker, it fills up to its maximum limit of water droplets, causing it to rain. Rain state of matter being a liquid.. It can also fall as snow or hail this is its solid form, mist and fog in gas form. Rain that falls to earth that collects together forming a body of water is called collection. But if water falls onto soil, it may seep into the soil and become groundwater. And water that falls onto land, could take another route to a source of water. This is called surface runoff. And if the water falls into a moving stream, that is called streamflow.

In conclusion, the water cycle is something that we cannot live without. Every step is needed for the water cycle, or the water cycle will cease to exist. Evaporation turns and heats the water into steam, condensation, turning the vapour into clouds, and precipitation water falling back onto the ground or a water source. We should take more care of our water and should not pollute the water or else we wouldn’t have water.

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

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 point. 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? We had experts teaching us greetings and phrases.
Our experts were Matila, Remy and Rosa.

Science in a Van

A few days ago, we had science in a van. During "Science in a van", they did some cool experiments.
They balanced a mop on only two fingers using physics. Then another guy did another physics experiment. He picked up a table with a bottle with a cloth underneath it. Then he removed the cloth  underneath it and the bottle didn't move at all. They did more experiments, but the last experiment was my favourite. They got some dry ice and sealed it tight in a container. And for a moment, it didn't do anything... but popped off when you least expected it.

Balloon Experiments

Yesterday we did some science experiments. We blew some balloons and tested the pressure. The balloons were red, yellow and blue. The blue was the one with the most air pressure because it was so big and all the pressure was getting all pushed and it was really packed. The red was the least because it was so small. We did another experiment, where someone blew the balloon and put it underwater in a bucket. When he unleashed it, it went back to it's original size, then water came splashing out of the bucket. 

Growth Mindset Studies

In term 1 we learnt about growth mindset.
We studied about famous people like, Marie Curie,
Thomas Edison and Martin Luther King ,JR. Our group chose to study about Albert Einstein.

This is mine. I chose to study about Albert Einstein because he discovered the famous equation e=mc2.

Up Up and 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 a bunting triangle to show our Growth Mindset goal and motto that we want to work on. (Came 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 Jesus loved us all as His children.  We are all blessed with the gifts of faith, hope and love

Saint 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

February 2019

Peter 

I am learning to entertain my audience through a recount

Have you ever fallen down and landed on your back, not knowing how you fell off? Of course, all of you have! Before the sun was even up, we woke up early because we were going to my uncle’s house all the way doooooooooown in Hamilton. We got changed, packed up some pillows, blankets and then we were off. When I got there, I was really tired and the first thing I saw was the AWESOME house, but then came the second thing … the TV. It was playing Mamma Mia.

So a few hours later or an eternity for me at least, we went for a picnic. We ate food, chased ducks, and 

ate cake. I could see out the corner of my eyes the teenagers looking so smug with all their tricks on their skateboards. I wanted to look as smug as them , so I asked them if I could have a go. I was trying so hard not to show that I was scared on the skateboard, but inside I was wondering what had I gotten myself into.

Building up my confidence I was ‘Grinding’ and Chilling’ looking very smug at this stage. I felt like a Pro and decided I had to go faster and really show those teenagers. But then the ‘Crasher’ my cousin had entered the stage. He had wanted to crash my performance. He took out the flaming skateboard of doom and challenged me to a duel. I had not choice but to accept. I got ready… One, Two, Three! Foot on the skateboard, foot on the ground, pushing harder for more friction, then…Crash!

I fell off the skateboard, dropping backwards, losing all control. My whole body ached in pain, my hands hurt, my back hurt, everywhere hurt. However my cousin on the other hand. was ok though. The only thing he said was …”YEET.” Walking off in shame I grabbed some cake, Doritos, Mountain Dew and lots of blueberries to help me feel better while I sat there in pain. But I still “Grind” to this day.

Ash Wednesday

Two days ago, on Wednesday 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.

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 Sharyn 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.

Shrove Tuesday

Tuesday was Shrove 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 Shrove 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.

Shine Week

Shine Week

A sea of orange flood Good Shepherd School on Friday the 8th of March. This week was 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 are some pictures:

My Mihimihi

Mihimihi

Peter 

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 Maungakiekie tōku maunga (Mountain)

Ko Manukau Harbour tōku moana (ocean)

Kei Tāmaki Makaurau tōku kāinga ināianei (I now live)

Ko Te Hepara pai tōku kura (school / Good Shepherd School*)

Ko Arcilla tōku whānau (family name)

Ko Noel Arcilla tōku pāpā (father)

No Philippines me te Chinese ia (Father is from, share diverse backgrounds)

Ko Sahlee Balana tōku māmā (mother, ask if maiden or family name)

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

Ko Peter Arcilla tōku ingoa (your name)

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

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

Year 5 and 6: Charism

Year 5 and 6: Charism

Did you know the reason Good Shepherd School named their syndicates Connolly and Sheridan? Connolly and Sheridan were the names of the first two sisters that worked at Good Shepherd School when it opened. That is just one of the fun facts we learnt this week when we explored the charism of our school. The charism of our school is the flavour of our school, it is what makes us Good Shepherd School. Over the week we looked at the history of the school and unpacked the visual Image of the Good Shepherd Cross with the values, scripture, feast days and the St Mary MacKillop sayings. We unpacked the values and why we have those values. In groups we identified what each value looked, sounded and felt like before making up definitions. Another new fact I learnt was our school was where the church was and the church was where our hall was and there was nothing at our school back then.

Year 5 and 6: Piece 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. 

“It’s always the small pieces that make the big picture.”

Year 6 Leadership Role

This year I am proud to take on the role of Vice Chairperson. I look forward to this role because I really want to see how the school council works and I really looked forward to work with the Chairperson and the Secretary.

Year 6 Camp - Leadership

Year 6 Camp - Leadership

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 favourite activities were: Archery and Abseiling.