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.