1. end of 2018

math presentations

For math we have been making slideshows to show how symbols have symmetry this is my slideshow.

Christmas card

In class we did art for art we made Christmas cards with tree silhouettes on them here is mine.

 

🐜Why You Should Eat Bugs🐛

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

Term 4, Liam T-P

If I said to you close your eyes and picture a bug in your mind, You would probably think of small red bugs with black spots. Now picture eating a bug, you would probably screw up your face and say gross. If you’re like that then remember a long time ago people thought that eating vegetables was weird! I believe you should eat bugs but don’t feel bad they are very tasty.

When people think of things that are tasty, edible treats bugs aren’t really on the list, but did you know around 90% of people who don’t like bugs actually end up liking bugs? If you want a jump-start on eating bugs you should try these delicious bug recipes such as ginger cricket cookies, spicy critter fritters, wax worm tacos or bug kebabs because when properly prepared bugs are very healthy.

If you’re still not sure if you should eat bugs or not, the answer is yes, because they’re not only healthy for you but are better for the planet. This is because bugs produce far less greenhouse gases than other animals and need less water, food and space than other animals, plus ounce for ounce bugs have more protein than eggs and most meat. If you want to eat bugs but don’t have enough inspiration there are tons of creative insect meals to choose from.

Lollipops, cakes, cookies and kebabs what do all these foods have in common? They all can be made with bugs! If your reaction is what! Bugs! No way! Well yes they can be. Disgusting vegetables on a kebab can be replaced by yummy crickets, insects can substitute unhealthy icing on a cake, flour can be made from crushed up crickets and you can put scorpions in a lollipop to make it healthier which is why I believe you should eat bugs.

As you can see bugs are delicious, healthy and creative meals that take your taste buds on a scrumptious trip around the world every time. This is why I strongly suggest you should eat bugs.

code club

A long time ago I started a project on trinket. The project is a magazine called magazine this is how far I've gotten. more coming soon!

passport

For one of my passport tasks I did a slideshow on a band called Blam Blam Blam here it is.

Religious Education

For Religious Education we did a slideshow of a saint James A and I did a slide show on st peter.

Religious Education

Our focus this term in Religious Education was the Communion of Saints. We learnt about the three parts of the Communion of Saints and how we are all connected. The Communion of Saints is bonded through prayer, baptism and the Eucharist.

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 favourite activities was reading Chris Gurney’s books during book week. Chris has written so many wonderful and humourous traditional tales with a kiwi voice. We absolutely adore her books, so for our assembly we presented a Readers Theatre: Trev and the Kauri Tree.

Kapa haka

Mana, power and pride would be a few words to describe the feeling as the Good Shepherd School Kapa Haka group took the stage. During the weekend a large group of year 5 and 6 students took to the stage to perform at the Eden Albert Cultural Festival. There were a few nerves before we started but once we were underway the excitement of performing kicked in. We felt proud as a team to perform for so many people. Kia Kaha! The highlight of Kapa Haka for me was the haka the song was tika tonu.

Prayers

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:

athletics

Today we did athletics i came last in all the running things.

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Athletics

On Wednesday the seniors are going to go to three kings for athletics day I hope I get to come 3rd-1st in high-jump.

Year 5 Retreat

Last Friday all the year fives went to the st Francis retreat center. When we were there we did a lot of praying. at the end we all took a group photo.

 

Passport

In room 6 were doing a passport a passport is a set of activities that when there completed you get points here is my slideshow on NZ artists and bands.

persuasive

In writing we have been learning to write a persuasive piece of writing. We have co-constructed our success criteria together. here is our introduction criteria check list.

mandarin

 in room 6 we have been learning mandarin we are currently learning about the face

Our waka

In room 6 we have been doing kia kaha. kia kaha means stay strong we have made a waka and on our oars we put a word that describes us. I'm pointing to me

 

weather

for Maori we have been learning what the weather is in Maori some examples are Ra for sun ua for rain and uira for lightning here is a picture.

problem solving challenge

Last term we did the problem solving challenge. the problem solving challenge is a year 7&8 math challenge i only got a participation award hears a picture of it.

The Kiwi Bird

By Liam Turner-Padgett 

I am learning to inform my audience through an information report 

Which bird can’t fly, is native to New Zealand and has four toes? If you guessed the Kiwi then you would be right. Did you know that the Kiwi was also on a bank note and still is present on New Zealand coins. Most people believe there are only one species of Kiwi but did you know there are actually five different sub-species of Kiwi? They are, the North Island Brown Kiwi, the Great Spotted Kiwi, the Little Spotted Kiwi, the Okarito Kiwi and the Southern Brown Kiwi. Kiwi birds have some surprising traits such as they can run as fast as a human! Or they can run the length of their territory (up to 6546 m) in one night! With all that running they must get really hungry.

Diet
Kiwis eat a lot of things also they aren’t picky over food, they eat small spineless animals called invertebrates, seeds, grubs, crayfish and even eels! The way they collect food from bodies of water such as eels is that they use their beak to pull them out of the water and whack them into submission. Kiwis don’t drink a lot of water, a reason is jucy earthworms can be up to 85% water and they are nocturnal so they don’t get all that hot and bothered in the sun. A kiwi bird could not survive in the wrong habitat.

Habitat

For every animal there is no place like home, this is what we call a habitat. A habitat is a place where animals naturally live that provide protect, food, water and their basic needs that work with their adaptations. A kiwis natural habitat could be from native forests to rough farmlands so you don’t need a beautiful palace to keep this bird happy. A kiwis habitat needs to provide it food and keep it safe from predators.

Predators

If animals eating each other was a crime then the main culprits would be stoats and cats, as they like to eat the kiwis. A second would be dogs because kiwis have weak chest bones and even a small nudge can kill a kiwi and because they have a musty smell which dogs find irresistable and have to investigate it. Although they aren’t predators hedgehogs, rodents and weasels also eat the same food as kiwi and are prey for the same animals that hunt kiwis keeping predators high.

To conclude kiwis are important icons to New Zealand, that are endangered. In order for the kiwi to survive we need to make sure they have a source of food, a safe habitat that can provide all of its needs and to keep predators away to make sure the kiwi will live for a long time.

Chess championship results

For the chess I came second for board two
and our team came third over all.
We all got a participation award.

Hangi

For the past few weeks we have been working on our Hangi stuff me and Soeun did a slide show here it is.

The last code club

Today was the last code club either of the term or of the year☹️😞😟. We
have been working on lots of stuff like html and scratch here is my game.

Prayers

On Monday it was cultural language week and my class did whole school prayers I did a little prayer about our cultures in English. 

Pre-Chess competition

Next week I'M going to the Catholic inter-schools chess competition. The people in my team are Ben,Ethan,Maxine and me. I hope we win for the next two years if we do we would of had it for three years.

the excita bill experiment

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

common multiples

for math we did a slide on common multiples and factors here it is.

weather slideshow

For math we did slideshows on what the weather was in different countries I chose Greece.

Author visit

Today an author named Raymond Huber visited us. he taught us about bees and some of his books. It was really fun. My favorite one of his books was called sting it was about a super smart bee who journey to find his real parents. I think you should read it.

the Liam bird

For reading we made posters of birds, we used different parts for different birds this ones mine hes called the Liam bird.

Happy birthday roald dahl

This Thursday in the library  it's s roald dahl's birthday there's a word search,quiz and other stuff I think it will be Fun! 

cross art

In room six we have been painting cross art for the fence. We first had to draft our design on a piece of paper 3 or 4 times. Then we did our final copy with colors. This is how mine turned out...

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.

A Joke

Grandparents Mass

On Friday 24th August 2018 we celebrated Grandparents Mass with our grandparents, family/ whanau and the whole school. We first went to mass to celebrate with Father Bernard Kyle, who blessed our dear Grandparent with a blessing and we sung a special song to them. When mass was finished our PTA team prepared a treat for us. There was lots of sweet and coffee/tea to sip on. By the time the that all the food was finished it was then time to perform some dances for our audience. The groups that performed were the Sheridan Kapa-Haka, Choir, Tap dancing, Ukulele and Irish Dancing. That was a joyful day that we would always remember. We are blessed to have such special people in our lives.

Personal Profile

In our digital lessons we have been learning what is private and public information. We have created a personal profile for our blogs using this new knowledge. On our blogs there are people we know, and people we don’t know, who can view our profiles. We decided to share personal information that we wanted to share about ourselves. Making sure we didn’t share information that was not for public use. 

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 Whakataui is a proverb, what is truly valued in the Maori Culture.

The Whakataui 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 Matthew: 14.

Vertebrates evolution

In room 6 we have been learning to classify animals. scientist classify animals and plants into groups in order to to easily identify, sort and name them.

classify = sort

there are many ways to group living things

you can classify animals into two main groups. vertebrates and in vertebrates.

all vertebrates have have ...

• covering of skin that protects them
• skeleton inside their body
• muscles inside that help them move
• blood that moves through tubes
• lungs or gills for 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 supports their weight
• some have a hard covering or shell on the outside of their bodies for protection

Liam t's private and public infomation

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 Idiom, hyperbole, alliteration, metaphor, onomatopoeia, similes and personification.

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.

Lights, Camera, Action!!!

Last week Good Shepherd School performed, ‘Zip Zap Avenue’. We packed the school hall with our family and friends as the rain fell. Most of G.S.S 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!

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!

Melissa's 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.



Check out our blogs for family favourites or healthy recipes we searched.

The Royal Jelly show

On Tuesday 29 of May the whole of Good Shepherd gathered in the hall to watch a show called “The Royal Jelly show”. 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 a lot.

liam t's Banana loaf recipe

Banana loaf recipe

Ingredients 

1 3⁄4 cups self raising flour 

1⁄4 teaspoon baking soda

1⁄4 teaspoon salt

1⁄2 cup sugar

2 eggs

1⁄4 cup milk

75 g melted butter

1 cup mashed banana (approximately 2 bananas)

directions

1. sift the salt, baking soda and flour into a bowl
2. mix in the sugar
3. in another bowl beat the eggs
4. stir in milk, banana and butter
5. mix quickly into the dry ingredients stirring until ingredients are just combined
6. spoon into a greased and lined 22 cm loaf tin
7. bake at 180 c for 45-55 minutes
8. leave in the tin for 10 minutes before turning it out on to a wire rack

A well balanced diet!

During our health inquiry we have been learning about a well balanced diet. We created a definition using a solo define map. Here is our definition:

A balanced diet is eating the right types of food that gives your body the nutrients to function correctly. To get proper nutritions from your diet you need to eat a healthy diet that contains the proper proportions of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. You need to eat a well balanced diet to maintain good health and to help you feel your best. 

We also have learnt about the food pyramid, proportions, and the eatwell plate. 

Here is a picture of my food pyramid which includes the food groups and servings sizes. You must eat a balance of all food groups to maintain good health.

Cross Country

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.

Afia 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.

The Life Cycle of a Sea Turtle

Life Cycle of a Sea Turtle

I am learning to: inform my audience through explanation writing

Sea turtles are amazing and these are just a couple facts about them. First they have been around since 150 million years ago. That is a long time compared to humans who have only been around for five to seven million years. Second, they were alive when the dinosaurs were alive and survived whatever killed the dinosaurs.

What is small white leathery and like a ping pong ball? A lot of people would say ping pong balls but in this case they are sea turtle’s eggs, which is what the first stage is. A female sea turtle slowly crawls onto the beach she was born on to lay her eggs. Once she is at a suitable spot she digs a hole with her flippers and lays the eggs in the hole. Once she is finished she pushes sand into the hole with her flippers. In about two months about 80% of the sea turtles make it to the young turtle stage.

The next stage is the young turtle stage. Once the turtles hatch they are about the size of your palm and start to make their desperate dash for the sea. On the way to the sea they have lots of challenges they have to face like holes, crabs, raccoons and sea birds. Sadly only about 50% out of the 80% of the sea turtles that hatch make it to the water. Once they make it to the water they have new predators like big fish, sharks, dolphins and birds. For the first few days the turtles look for seaweed to hide in. Now only about 20% of the turtles are alive for the adult stage.

You know how big a dinner table is right? Because that is how big they grow up to be Well the leatherback does anyway. When leatherback sea turtles, are growing up they are the size of a dinner plate at one year old, 24 years later they are the size of a dinner table. Now that they are adults their only predators are big sharks such as tigers, bowls and whites and the occasional killer whales. At this stage they mate with another turtle and the cycle starts again.

Sea turtles are amazing, precious creatures. Humans need to do more to help them otherwise they will be extinct.

Assembly

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 mother

My handprint

Here is my handprint,

Five fingers and all, 

Outside they are short,

but the middle is tall.

You'll find them on windows,

You can find them on the wall, 

They make a big mess,

For something so small.

One day I will grow,

and leave them no more.

My handprints 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.