Why we should eat bugs

I am learning to persuade my audience


By Siena


Have you always wanted to add the crunch back into your dinners, The excitement into your meals and the flavour back into your dishes? Then I definitely recommend that you start eating with bugs! I believe that us human beings should consider cooking with bugs because eating them won’t just reduce greenhouse gases but you can try different meals!

America, Ireland, China and so many other countries have come up with delicious meals already! Like mealworm fries and spicy critter fritters! My three main points is that you can be trendy with “bug-alicious” meals that are sweet and savory , my second point is that

Eating insects will help to reduce greenhouse gases and my third point is that you will be gaining a lot of health benefits.


America, Ireland, China, Thailand and Australia are only a handful of the range of countries that cook with bugs like mealworm fries, fried grasshopper and spicy critter fritters, I have already given three great dinner meals that you could have for tea tonight! Every child and adult has a sweet tooth at times so why not try a caramelised cricket cheesecake or a scorpion lollipop or even better, chocolate covered crickets! These are only many of the dishes you could cook with to give your friends and family a spectacular surprise that will reduce greenhouse gases!


As I mentioned before, if you decide to eat with bugs you won’t just boost your health but you will be helping to save our planet, we all know that supermarkets are reducing plastic bags to help our planet but maybe that’s not just the answer. It is true that eating bugs will reduce greenhouse gases because a cow does 70kg - 120kgs of methane a year. Methane is a greenhouse gas and the bad effect of it is that the climate of it is 23 times higher than the effect of CO2 ( a colourless, odorless, incombustible gas) and it will reduce and help our ozone layers giant holes, WHICH is a big problem in New Zealand . So what does this mean? means that eating a grasshopper in our cake, a mealworm in our fries, a scorpion in our lollipop and a cricket smothered in chocolate could actually save our planet. Besides, bugs are seriously healthy!


Nutrition , protein , zinc and iron are only many of the beneficial standards that a human needs and the answer to eating different is right under your nose! AHA, bugs! They have been right outside the whole time! And we all think that they are creepy-crawly spine-shivering creatures that give us bites time to time but it’s cruel how we don’t think about how healthy they are. Mealworm fries, they are the healthiest bug you can eat because they have the highest protein value. as high as 2 eggs to be exact! It may sound disgusting but I assure you it’s a nice crunchy treat with a bug hidden inside!



As you can see, eating bugs is a great way to try different things! It’s not just that, but you will also be helping our (New Zealand) ozone layer that has many holes within. And lastly bugs are full of protein, zinc and iron. So why not try a bug today? They are so healthy and give us a nice crunch in our meals! In my opinion bugs are a great way to try something different whilst getting all the nutrition, protein and other health benefits that we need… So why not try a bug today?!

symmetry

In maths we have been learning about symmetry. how things are rotated/folded and match up perfectly, basically mirroring, here is my project.

Gadgets, has one line of symmetry as it is a construction hat (on the left) and their slogan is; "Inspire, Think, Create."

Dudes, also has one line of symmetry, which is a blue t-shirt, (in the middle) and their slogan is;" Dudes, instant, radical, ready for you."

Sweeties!, which does not have any lines of symmetry though it would if i removed the logo (on the right) and their logo is; "Tasty treats that are good for your teeth"

Algebra

In Maths, We have been learning about algebra we learnt that algebra is a puzzle, here is an example;

X 𝒙 Y

X=10

Y=5

10 x 5=50

Christmas Cards!

In Room 6, we have made Christmas cards for someone special in our family. We used pastels and we smudged it to make a beautiful ombre!

Graduation

On the 5th of December, the year 6 class of 2018 graduated! they performed a dance to the song "Time of our lives" by Tyrone wells.

Passport Tasks

In Topic, we have passport tasks to do!

The topic is "Kiwiana/ New Zealand, for one of the tasks i interviewed my mum to find out what her favourite band was and she liked "When The Cat's Away". Here's my slideshow presentation.

GSS yearbook

Finally! The GSS yearbook could be going home with you since they are now available for purchase

Room 6 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.

Athletics

                                                      

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 because i came 3rd in all my races!

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 that we performed!

Room 6's 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.

Saint Cecilia

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.

Maths Problems

In maths we have being solving maths clues to find who kidnapped the witch!

Athletics

Good Shepherd School is having their annual athletics on the 14/11/18! but before then we have been doing sports rotation with the participating sports:

Long Jump

High Jump

Relays

Discus 

Shot put

But my favourite sport is discus because it is very enjoyable and i came 2nd place when i last did it.

All Saints Day!

In room 6, we were learning about communion of saints and we learnt that the living, purgatory, and the people and heaven are all together at different times and also that the people in heaven can pray for the people undergoing purgatory and so can the living.

Our 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.

Our Class Waka

In Room 6, we learnt to work as a team and that we all bring our different qualities together to make our class waka! and our ore represents what quality we have to bring to push our waka!

Communion of Saints

In Religious Education, we have learnt that All Souls Day is on the 2nd of November and that All Saints day is on the first of November.

Mandarin

In Mandarin we learnt what the different body parts here's an example!

Eyes=

眼睛

Yǎnjīng

Shields

In Room 6, we created a shield to show how unique we and how different our class is!

Hangi

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

My Chinese Name

My name in Chinese is


锡耶纳


Xī yé nà

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

The Unique New Zealand Kiwi Bird

By Siena

I am learning to inform my audience through an information report



What is a native bird to New Zealand, that has wings but can not fly? Yes, a Kiwi. The common kiwi is the size of an average chicken, the female kiwi is often larger than the male kiwi. Commonly the kiwi is brown in colour and has wings, however these wings are not strong enough to lift the kiwi and make them fly. The kiwi is related to a group of larger flightless birds, such as the moa, emu and the ostrich. The kiwi however is the smallest flightless bird. Many years ago the population of kiwis was over 12 million, but now with many threats the kiwi population is less than 100,000 left. The kiwi is now endangered. With five different species of kiwi they can be found all across New Zealand from the top of the North Island all the way down to Stewart Island. In order to understand the kiwi, we need to have an understanding of their diet, and predators to ensure they are able to survive. Such as, their dietary needs.

Diet
Kiwi’s have a great range of food. From seeds to amphibians, kiwis are omnivores which means they eat both meat and plants. They eat invertebrates, grubs, berries, worms and leaves. They also don’t need to drink a lot of water because the worms provide 85% of the water kiwis need. Luckily New Zealand is rich in earthworms so they are easy to access and berries, amphibians, grubs and leaves are easy to find as well. However, they need to be cautious of predators at all costs.

Predators

A kiwi has many predators like dogs, cats , stoats, and weasels. These are all predators of the kiwi. But occasionally, wild pigs will hunt down kiwis as well.
Sadly the kiwi is not fast enough to run away from these predators and they also can’t fly because their wings aren’t strong enough. But the kiwi can run as fast as a man which is a great advantage but won’t help them as much in the wild.


In conclusion, it is important to know the kiwis diet like what they eat, what they are and what predators they have so that we can do everything we can to save them from going extinct. Overall, the kiwi bird of New Zealand is an extraordinary bird that needs our help and hopefully they will stay around in the future for many generations that pass by.

My cross

In Room 6, we painted crosses that are going on our tennis courts, we learnt how to flat block and the crosses are supposed to have a Religious meaning that can be seen easily.

Code Club

For the past 7 weeks we have been doing scratch and html to make games and quiz's and today is our last session, My favourite coding was the randsome note with the different fonts and sizes! I really enjoyed code club and hopefully we can do it next term.

The Problem Solving Challenge

This Year a whole bunch of Different students did the problem solving test, including me.
It was hard but it was good to take the challenge and complete the test in only 30 minutes!

Mystery letter

In Code club today, we used coding on trinket to create a ransom note, here is mine.

Author Visit

Yesterday, Room 6 met a New Zealand famous author Raymond Huber, he talk to us about his books and his passion for bees, we got to sing one of his very own songs and he answered the questions and awaited to be answered. We were so lucky to meet Raymond Huber and his stories.

The Cheeky Raptorsaurus

In Reading, we were reading all about birds and their different beaks, feet and tails and they are all different sizes, we got to mix up different beaks,feet and tails to make a bird of our own!

Weather Predictions

The 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, okulele and Irish Dancing. That was a joyful day that we would always remember. We are blessed to have such special people in our lives.

Online Profile

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's our mural.

Whakatauki

In Maori we have been learning about a Whakatauki

A Whakatauki 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

In Room 6, we have been learning to classify animals scientists classify animals and plants into groups in order to easily classify identity, sort and name them


Classify=Sort.

There are many ways to group living organisms.

You can classify animals into two main groups. Vertebrate or Invertebrate.


All Vertebrates have

• Covering of skin that protects them
• Skeleton inside their body
• Muscles that help them move
• Blood 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 back bone
• Many live in the ocean because the water supports their weight
• Some have a hard covering or a shell on the outside of their bodies for protection
• -Insects, Spiders, Crabs, snails, clams

Private and Public information

I am learning to identify what information is public or private.

Our Figurative Language Posters!

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. 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 d definitions of the language feature.Here is our figurative language poster. and add interest for their audience. We made posters either with paper pencils or flowers with examples and definitions of the language feature.Here is our figurative language poster.

The 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.

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

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.



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”. 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.

Siena's Kiwiana Dip Recipe

Siena's Kiwiana Dip 

Veggiecon 2018

Ingredients

1 Nestle condensed milk

1 Maggi packet of onion soup

1 tsp of lemon juice or vinegar

Sliced up carrots

Instructions

Get a Bowl and put Nestle's Condensed Milk in it, 

Right after Insert Maggi's Packet of onion soup,

before you mix add one tsp (teaspoon) of lemon juice or vinegar (your choice)

then glad rap the top of the bowl and leave it to refrigerate overnight.

Then enjoy your Kiwiana dip!

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.

Samoan language week

                                                  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

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🐢

I am learning to inform my audience through explanation

Have you ever been so fascinated about a reptile that has been here aeons before you have? Not Sharks ,Tuataras , the duck billed platypus or the saw fish... I’m talking about sea turtles! And this their life cycle. It all begins with an egg.

                                                                                           The female sea turtle will go back to the same beach where she started her cycle,

Go past the high tide line and into the perfect spot to lay her eggs.  Once she has, The eggs will be bericated in the deep sand. This will prevent predators coming and eating the eggs before they hatch.Roughly 20% of these eggs do not hatch, but the ones that do will start to venture to the ocean. This is called the young sea turtle stage.

Once the baby sea turtles are in the ocean , they are basically going into the hunger games. Like searching for food , Squirming away from predators etc. For shelter the baby sea turtles can hide/ rest under bits and bobs(seaweed) until they are strong enough to venture in the ocean by themselves. Whilst growing up, Sea turtles usually eat  seaweed, jellyfish, fish eggs and more they also eat these foods in the adulthood.

Finally, the adulthood! A sea turtle living its normal life, swimming free in the ocean. Swish Swoosh! Ooh this female sea turtle has come upon the breeding stage, where she’ll prepare to lay eggs. Again, she will go past the high tide, go into a cave looking place and lay her eggs. Once she has she will cover them with sand so that it’s not easy for predators to munch on them for lunch. The mother will now go back into the ocean to her everyday life.

Years and Years have gone by and it’s finally time for this mother sea turtle to have her eternal rest. Sea turtles are miraculous reptiles, that will live aeons after us. I’m glad you had an opportunity to read the document on your screen.

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.

Maori Verbs

In Room 6 we have been learning verbs in maori (action words) The question is 'kei te aha ia?' which means what s/he doing. ia is the pronoun for both he and she.

we have matched verbs up, filled in crosswords, and played Simon Says.

For My Mother

My Handprint
Here is My handprint,
Five fingers in all,
Outside they are short,
But the middle one is tall,


You will find them on windows,
You can find them on the wall,
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 cant wipe away,

My present to you,
This Mothers day.

The Ascension of the Lord

In RE we learnt about 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.

City Rail Link Art

As part of an art class with Miss Down we created images that will be displayed in the country’s busiest rail station, once it opens to the public in 2023/2024.
This image will be used and turned in a ceramic tile and display within the station.

Abot City Jobs

I am learning to: write a narrative based on an image.

It was blustery weather in Abot city, but that didn’t stop Andiee the unemployed inventor from looking for a new job… it was four months since he got fired from his dream job at Inventorrz Headquarters as lead inventor. He was replaced by a more handsome, younger and smarter inventor.

Andiee scampered around town in his soggy leather boots looking for some work. It didn’t take him long to discover an old rusty shed that faintly said Mechanic’s Outlet in black paint. Even though being a mechanic wasn’t Andiee’s cup of tea he was willing to get at least ONE job.

Feeling anxious, Andiee pounded on the door like he was a zombie ready to eat a human brain that was locked inside. Within a split second he felt that the ground started to shake and the sound was getting louder and louder… Suddenly a mischievous shadow started to form under the door.

KKKKKKKKKKKKK….SSSSSSKKKKK RRRR AAKK!!! The door scratched on the ground making an unpleasant screak. Before long a meteor sized red rusty robot filled the hallway. The fascinated and petrified inventor asked “do….do…. do you have a job for me here?” unexpectedly he heard, “yes we do, what’s your profession?”

“Inventor,” Andiee said as the robot grinned “perfect!” said the robot.

Andiee finally got a job he desperately needed.

My pepeha

Tena koutou, 

No New Zealand ahau

Ko Mount Roskill te maunga

Ko pacific te moana

Ko Lorraine tōku māmā

No samoa ia

Ko Jared tōku pāpā

No New Zealand ia

Ko Siena tōku ingoa

Room 6 has been learning about cyber safety.

Room 6 has been learning about Cyber Safety, We have learnt a lot about being a digital citizen.
Here are three key things 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 & 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!

Mindset Goal

I have created a mindset goal and motto on bunting.

Growth Mindset

“Don’t stop until you are proud”

To me this mindset means…..

To always give something your best

I could use this mindset when……

I’m doing work and we have to present it nicely

Me Boards

At the start of the year, Our class Has Been learning more about ourselves with Me Boards!

This Is Me!

I am learning to post a photo on my blog.