My Mandarin Name

We have been doing mandirin classes with Miss Li and last week we learned our mandarin name.

Multiplication Posters

In maths we have been learning decimal multiplication. This is my poster.

Weather Predictions

In math we have been predicticting what the weather is in different country. We have presented our work on a slide show.

Hangi Slide Show

This week room six did a presentation on how to cook a maori hangi. This is my slide show.

The Problem Solving Challenge

This Year a whole bunch of  students did the problem solving test, including me.

It was difficult but it was good to take the challenge and complete the test in only 30 minutes!

Cultural Week

Last week Good Shepherd School celebrated all the different cultures that we celebrated with a cultural celebration assembly that was held last friday. The cultures were: Korean, Spanish, Brazilian, Filipino, French, Japanese, Indian and German

Chess Competition

Last Wednesday a team from Good Shepherd went to St Pauls to compete in a chess competition. They played six games each with one team coming 3rd. It was an amazing experence to go to St Pauls and play chess.

Author Visit

A few weeks ago Raymond Hubber (an author) came to talk to us about his writing e told us the steps of how to be a good writer. He read us a chapter of one of his books and told us a story later we got to ask some questions. Thank you for coming in Raymond Hubber.

Kiwi Bird Stories

The Flightless Kiwi

By Soeun 

I am learning to inform my audience through an information report.

It’s brown, it’s nocturnal and it is a New Zealand treasure, yes it is the kiwi bird. Many people believe that there is only one specie of kiwi but there are actually five, The Great Spotted Kiwi, the Little Spotted Kiwi, the North Island Brown Kiwi, the Okarito Kiwi and the Southern Brown kiwi. The kiwi is a rare flightless bird that is only found in New Zealand. Kiwi’s have many unique things about themselves like the nostrils on the end of its beak, it is the only bird that has their nostrils located on the end! A kiwi can run as fast as a human but with predators around they are endangered as they can not fly it isn’t easy for their to get far away and it is important that they stay alive because they are New Zealand's native animal. A kiwi life span of a kiwi is up to 40 year, if they don't get caught by a predator.

Predators: Mustelids, Pigs, Possums, Rodents and hedgehogs. There are four groups of predators for kiwi. Let's start with Mustelids. Stoats, ferrets and weasels all eat eggs and baby kiwi that weigh under 1kg and about 4 to 5 times bigger than them. Pigs eat kiwis in their nest and destroy eggs. Some people purposely release wild pigs to catch kiwi. New Zealand has started put traps out for pigs so we can save our precious treasure. Possums were first brought to New Zealand in 1837 to establish a fur trade but after that they have gone crazy. Possums kill adult kiwi and are starting to have a big impact on New Zealand birds and native animals.Rodents and hedgehogs may not eat the kiwi but compete for the same food as it, so the kiwi’s food supply could die down or a rodent or the hedgehog could simply push the kiwi and kill it. A diet is something important all animals need and so does a kiwi.

Diet: Weta, worms and beetles. No one will want a breakfast of that but guess what, a kiwi eats that survive in its habitat, and if they can not find food that they like they can sometimes eat leaves, berries and several species of leaves. Do kiwis drink water? Well they rarely ever drink water because of the food they eat is mostly water, did you know that juicy earthworms are 85 percent water. Kiwi’s a nocturnal is also another reason of why they do not drink much water because they will not get bothered and hot by the sun. When they do drink water they tilt back their beak and guzzle down the water. Kiwi’s get all the food they need in a habitat.

Habitat: Kiwis are adaptable which means they can basically live everywhere as long as it is not too dry or too wet. Kiwis are found it wetland environments, sand dunes, scrublands and even mangroves. The kiwi likes to be near the soil because they are soil feeders. A kiwi lives in these areas to get food and have it suited for their needs. Some kiwis live in zoo’s where they are protected and looked after.

In conclusion the kiwi is a endangered New Zealand treasure that we must protect. Now you know that in order for a kiwi to survive it needs a habitat and food to keep itself healthy and happy. We should do our part to save the kiwi because they are our national animal.

Bird Posters

In reading we have been learing about bird beaks and feet and that it help's it adapt to it's enviroment. After a lot of learning we made our very own bird!

Crosses for the Mural

In room 6 we have been painting our crosses 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 it 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.

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, Folk 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. 

The Bird Beak 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