Eating Bugs-introduction

By: Harrison

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

Did you know that there are hundreds of people around the world that actually eat bugs? Such as spicy critter fritters, ginger cricket cookies and wax worm tacos, just to name a few. What would your favourite bug recipe be? In my opinion I believe that all people should cook with insects. Most people are disgusted at the thought of having insects in their meals but it has been proven that people who do try bugs end up loving insects, when most people look at bugs it creeps them out, but once cooked these bugs can’t crawl and are delicious. When cooking with insects there are many benefits to include them in your diet, they are tasty treats for everyone, bugs are healthy and low in fat and cooking with insects can give you creative meal options from all around the world.

A-Z NZ Bands and Artists

Year 6 Graduation Mass

The year 6's did a performance at the year 6 Graduation Mass on Wednesday, they also handed out blue candles to the year 5's and we hope that the year 6's have a great end of the year.

Eating Bugs

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

Did you know that there are hundreds of people around the world that actually eat bugs? Such as spicy critter fritters, ginger cricket cookies and wax worm tacos, just to name a few. What would your favourite bug recipe be? In my opinion I believe that all people should cook with insects. Most people are disgusted at the thought of having insects in their meals but it has been proven that people who do try bugs end up loving insects, when most people look at bugs it creeps them out, but once cooked these bugs can’t crawl and are delicious. When cooking with insects there are many benefits to include them in your diet, they are tasty treats for everyone, bugs are healthy and low in fat and cooking with insects can give you creative meal options from all around the world.

Don’t judge a bug by its cover, judge it by its taste. We all have a sweet tooth at times for some tasty treats, so it’s silly not to cook with insects. Everyone should at least try cooking with insects once. We all do enjoy a treat or two, so why not try insects for a nice tasty snack? Try something like scorpion lollipops, mealworm fries, chocolate covered crickets. These are all exciting snacks that are easy to take with you and have them on the go. But if you don’t like having much sugar, you should go for one of the healthy options.

What is high in protein and full of vitamins and minerals? If you guessed bugs you’re correct. They are a great source of protein, so I don’t think It should be an apple a day keeps the doctor away, I think it should be a bug a day keeps the doctor away! Beetles, cockroaches and crickets are one of the healthiest bugs you can eat. Any type of insect generally has the same amount of protein as an egg but the best thing is they are lower in calories which means you can eat as much as you like without putting on weight. Bugs can be a very healthy and nutritious food but if you are still feeling a bit squeamish about them you can try creating amazing meals with them that taste just as good as one of your favourite foods!

Did you know that these yummy foods can be made better for you by just adding a nutritious bug? Foods like this have been made all around the world with bugs in them. They are so delicious that you don’t even notice you are eating a bug, so you’re not only getting the tasty treat but it becomes guilt free since it has the added nutrients from the bug. There are thousands of recipes with bugs that can make you rate them ten out of ten.

Finally as you can see there are a lot of reasons why you should cook with insects. Using insects in treats can make them taste better than without bugs and that is also the same with the healthy foods as well, you only need to just add a bit of bug and your food will taste great. But you can’t always tell what it tastes like from the looks.

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.

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!

Assembly

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

It was 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.

St Francis of Assisi

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1S3IqQQYKujvsfVhvPamG5b4oUFsXmiMbm-cK8e_-mWA/edit#slide=id.g45d785d3e9_1_8

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 favourite event was the running races!

Top NZ Music

https://slides.google.com/presentation/d/16fYTd5yZ95vqOW4ARPKHO8R1aifXzsQjn7AEvB1-Byc/edit#slide=id.p

Year 5 Retreat

We went to St Francis retreat centre we had a lot of fun.   We did a lot of fun games, and had an amazing time there.

Writing success criteria

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.

Waka

All together my class made a Waka. My person has dark hair and has a fishing rod.

Weaving

In Room 6 we have made paper weaves.

Kia kaha shield

In room 6 we have been doing kia kaha. Kia kaha means to encourage strenth or confidence. We have been making sheilds in this subject and this is what mine looks like this

Bird posters

This is my bird inquiry poster, I picked each part of my bird like the beak, the feet, the head and the tail. We also learned about the environment and animal adaptations. Here is my poster of my bird.

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.

Kiwis

By Harrison

I am learning to inform my audience through an information report 

What New Zealand bird is small, rare, native, nocturnal and cannot fly? If you said the Kiwi bird you are 100% correct! There are a lot of people who think there is only one species of Kiwi bird, but there are actually five different species of kiwi in New Zealand. They are, the North Island Brown Kiwi, Southern Brown Kiwi, the Great spotted kiwi, Little Spotted kiwi, and the rowi. Each of these species all live in a different part of New Zealand and have different diets, habitats and predators but are all relatively similar. One interest fact about the kiwi is that it can run up to the speed of a human, these means they need a healthy diet to power those legs.

Diet
Kiwis are omnivores because they eat both meat and plant to get energy. However the diet of a kiwi is mainly collecting small invertebrates, insects without a backbone that can be found under the forest floor and close to the ground. Luckily their diet can be found close to the ground cause the kiwi can not fly. They enjoy a diet of seeds, grubs, and a lot of different species of worm.They can also eat fruit, small crayfish, eels and amphibians. The kiwi diet is important in order for the kiwi to survive, a kiwi needs a habitat where all its needs are meet.

Habitats
There is no place like home and kiwis also love their homes. The habitat is a home for an animal that provides shelter, food and safety from predators. The kiwi is very adaptable and they live all over New Zealand. They aren't fussy animals and can adapt to any habitat. However they prefer places where they can burrow and find lots of food close by. They can live in forests, farmlands, sand dunes and even snow tussocks. The habitat protect the kiwi bird from predators. The kiwi sleeps in a small hole with an entrance which is usually underneath tree roots. The Kiwi has brown feathers to blend in with the ground, but the Little spotted kiwi has silver feathers so they blend in with the rocks.

Predators
Kiwi birds have many predators such as the stoats, ferrets, weasels, dogs, pigs, cats and possums. Kiwis need to stay safe! To do this we need to move them away from predators or take away the threat. The larger predators eat and attack the adult kiwi, while smaller rodents and animals attack the kiwi eggs and chicks. The rodents such as hedgehogs and weasels also present a problem as they both eat the same food as the kiwi. We need to make sure that these threats aren’t around for the kiwi.

In conclusion the kiwi is important to New Zealand because it is our native bird, that is a national symbol and is a rare bird to New Zealand. The kiwi needs a good selection and balanced diet, safe habitats that will protect them from the predators that can get to the kiwi as they live close to the ground. We need to start making changes to make sure the kiwi bird survives and does not become a forgotten bird.

Hangi

In Room 6, we were doing
Maori and we had to make a presentation on how to make a hangi.

Social Justice Week

This Week is Social Justice Week.In this activity we were learning about making the world better for people with disabilities. Making it fair for everyone.

Cross

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...

Excita- Bill

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

Mandarin

Ni Hao! This term we have been learning Mandarin. Room 9's teacher Ms Li i from China so she has been teaching the whole school lots of mandarin we have learnt to songs the greeting song and the number song. Xie Xie for listening. Zai jian!👋

Mini BB Fair

Today we had the Mini BB fair. We sold books and baking. The school are raising money for a mural on the green, ugly power box. They raised $750! Everyone had an amazing time buying books and baking.

M&M chalenge

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.

God is faithful

In Religious Education we are learning about how God is Faithful we have made a title page and learnt how Abraham and Sarah also known as Abram and Sarai and Their journey and how God promised them a baby. You can read Abraham and Sarah's story in Genesis 12: 1-7.

Grandparets 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.

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….

Evolution Verterbrates

In room six we have been learning to classify animals.

Scientists classify animals and plants into groups in order to easily identify, sort, and name them!

Classify=Sort

There are many different ways to group living things. 

Classifying Animals

You can classify animals into two main groups.

Vertebrate or Invertebrates.

All vertebrates have...

*Covering of skin that protects them.

*Skeleton inside their body.

*Muscles that helps 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 helps supports their weight.

* Some have a hard covering or shell on the outside of their bodies for protection.

( e.g. Insects, spiders, crabs, snails, clams. )

Private and public information

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.

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.

The 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.

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 we were 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

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

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 a lot.

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

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 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

The life cycle of a sea turtle

What reptile can live over 100 years of age and has been around since the dinosaurs that still lives now? If you thought it was sea turtles your right. Did you know that sea turtles can’t pull their head into their shell. There are four main stages of a sea turtle's life cycle. The egg stage, the baby sea turtle stage, the growing up stage and the adulthood stage but you are about to read the egg stage.

Eggs
A female sea turtle swims to the beach that they were born and digs a deep hole, lays her eggs in it and covers the hole. Then the eggs face their first challenge, the eggs stay in that hole for usually six months until 80% of them hatch. Sea turtle eggs are the same size and colour of a ping pong ball but rather quite leathery.

Baby sea turtles
Once the 80% of baby sea turtles hatch from their egg, they will need to face their next challenge getting out of the hole alive. Then the surviving ones that managed to wriggle their way out of the hole are usually the size of the palm of your hand and have
to face their third challenge, a really hard challenge which most baby sea turtles do not survive, they need to squirm to the surface as fast as they can as well as dodging seagulls and crabs.

Growing up
The baby sea turtles who made it to the water swim in groups underneath piles of seaweed facing a very tiring challenge with small predators like large reef fish, which most sea turtles in their third stage get too tired and can’t catch up to the others then they sadly fall back and that usually leaves four sea turtles alive.

Adulthood
The four adult sea turtles now at this stage usually decide to have their own lives and live by themselves in the deep, now their predators like some of the large sharks and the killer whale. The female sea turtle breeding age is usually the age of 20 the beach they go to is the same beach that they were born on to breed.

I think others should think about how a sea turtle has it’s challenging life. So I believe sea turtles are a miracle.

Happy brithday 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.

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 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 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.

The Ascension of the Lord

The Ascension of the Lord

Friday 11 may 

In R.E. we learnt abut 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 to his Father in Heaven. We used crafts to show how Jesus went body and soul to heaven.

Inspirational Heroes

During reading we have been researching people who have faced challenges and have stood up for what they believed in. They have either been a voice for those that don’t have one or are a person who never gave up when facing challenges.

Come and have a look at my presentation about Henry Ford in Room 6.

Cyber Safety

Room 6 has been learning about cyber safety we have learnt a lot about being a digital citizen. 

Here are three key rules that I think are Important:

1.Be careful of what you post on the internet. All information and images leave a digital footprint.

2. Never share your personal details such as full name, age,
address and passwords with any people, even those who say they
know you.

3. Be nice! No one likes a digital bully. Be respectful and be a great
digital citizen.

If you are ever unsure check with an ADULT!

Too good to be true

I am learning to: write a narrative based on a picture

In 2050 there was a ten year old boy named Joe, who lived in a two story house with just his parents that made him clean up his room every time he messed it up, which was every day.

One night Joe snuck into the family computer room at midnight he turned the computer on. Then Joe went on an online website and bought the latest robot ever made and just as he clicked the button to get it delivered there was a knock at the door. Luckily, his parents didn’t wake up from the loud banging. When Joe quickly opened the door and saw a massive package with a label on it saying ‘this package is for Joe’.

Joe heaved it inside and ripped it open. Inside the package was a humongous, red robot that was one meter and three quarters tall and in the shape of an oval with a face down by its legs. It had two scrawny arms on the sides with two fingers at the end of them. Joe had a good look around the robot and found a big, red switch on it’s back that said on underneath the switch and off at the top.

Joe pulled the switch down, then the robot turned on and said to Joe “what would you like me todo for you.” “Every afternoon at 2pm,” Joe said “I would like you to tidy up my entire bedroom without being seen by mum or dad, so whenever I come home from school and look in my room it will be very tidy. Come I can show you a good place to hide.”  The robot followed Joe into his room. “This is the room that you will be cleaning up each day at 2pm,” said Joe.

Joe told the robot that there was a trapdoor underneath his bed that had a ladder which went down to a room with an alarm clock on a empty shelf that rang every day at 2pm. At the same time, both Joe and the robot bent down to look at the trapdoor, “this will be your room,” said Joe while opening it. “I wonder how we’ll get you down there since your so big and fat” Joe said. “Don’t worry I can just shrink myself down to your size” said the robot. Then the robot shrunk to Joe’s size and crawled underneath the bed, climbed down the trapdoor ladder and into the other room.

The next day when Joe came home from school his mum was standing with the angriest face she ever had and said “why did I see a robot in this house at 2pm this afternoon?” Joe was an honest boy and told her what he did. From that day on mum made Joe clean his room and mum got rid of the robot.

Pepeha

During this term Room 6 has been learning how to write a Pepeha. A Pepeha is a Maori introduction that establishes your identity and heritage. We learned how to say our Pepeha and then we said it in front of the class and then we used screencastify to video it.This is my Pepeha.

Tena koutou, 

No Australia ahau

Ko mt albert te maunga

Ko Pacific Ocean te moana

No Good Shepherd te kura

Ko Jane te tumuaki 

Ko Nicola tōku māmā

No Aotearoa ia

Ko Paul tōku pāpā

No Aotearoa ia

Ko Harrison tōku ingoa

Growth Mindset

       Mistakes Are Proof That You Are Trying

To me this mindset means....
To keep on trying even if you think your not good at it

                           
I could use this mindset when....
If I miss a goal in football

Pasta Mixed with Cauliflower

I am learning to inform my audience by sharing an entertaining moment.
One day I was at home watching TV at 5pm and a minute later mum called me to dinner. I went to the table and asked what mum had cooked for dinner but she didn’t answer she just gave me it instead!

It looked like it was just pasta and it smelt hot and cheesy. When I got some food on my fork, I didn’t just get pasta on my fork I also got some cauliflower on it as well. So when I tasted it was absolutely 100% disgusting and it felt so sludgy in my mouth. It felt soft and slimy and it tasted worse than brussel sprout mixed with corn flakes in a bowl of milk.

There was only 1 person in who was on my side and that was my sister called Zara. Everyone else loved it.

ME BOARD

In Room 6 we did me boards and this is mine

This Is Me

I am learning to post a photo on my blog.