The First Candle

On Monday, the special characters led whole school prayers because of Advent. After Prayers, the First Purple Advent Candle was lit. There are three purple candles and one pink one. There is only one pink candle because it symbolizes that Jesus is born and it's Christmas.

St Peter's Orchestra

Last week, we had the St Peter's Symphonic Orchestra play at our school. They played lots of songs for us. My favourite one was the James Bond theme. I liked the James Bond theme because it was very funky.

There were lots of types of instruments. Like Brass, Woodwind and String Instruments.

Sports Assembly

Last week, it was the sports assembly. It was so long, it dug into our home time. The first one was the Year 5 and 6 Kapa Haka group. I was in it. The songs we performed were 

Te Himene O Te Hepara Pai, Te Aroha, Tika Tonu which was the Haka and the Hareruia. We also did this at the Eden Albert/ Rocket park Cultural Festival. Then after a long time, there was the Irish Dancers.  Then it was home time. 

Christmas Tree Ornament

On Friday 30th of November, we made a Christmas ornament. We made Christmas Ornaments to hang up on our Christmas tree.  Here's a secret. Sometimes when we make Christmas Ornaments, some   adults say they'll keep it, but then they throw it in the bin. 

Don't tell or ask your Mum or Dad if they do that! 

We made Christmas Ornaments shaped like birds.  This is mine. It's not finished yet. :(

Science Experiment Fail

Last Week on the 23rd of November, we did a Science Experiment called spud guns. We used potatoes and straws. It was very hard to jab the potato and get the potato out after jabbing it. When we tried them out, it failed. Even the paper straws failed. When we used the paper straws, it was very hard to jab it and it would go soggy once it was inside or already had a potato.

And every time I would jab the potato and would take it out, It wouldn't have a potato piece.

So, after the experiment, we wrote down the results and we didn't have much results. 

Fractions Booklet

Today, we got our Math Review Booklet back. It was all about fractions. There was all sorts of things in there. There was fractions with number lines, shapes, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Learning it was very easy, but it helped me with fractions. 

It helped me a lot with multiplying fractions.

Math 3D Shapes

Yesterday, and the day before that, we made 3D Shapes. Yesterday I made a cone and a cube. Yesterday Yesterday, I made a pentagonal prism and a pyramid. The cone and the pentagonal prism was the hardest ones. I did 1 of each shape. We didn't do a sphere because it was we can't use paper to make a sphere. We could make a sphere out of paper machete one day? The only way we would do it is to glue newspaper around a balloon then wait for the newspaper to dry then pop the balloon. If you want to see the shapes, it's down here.