GSS Book Week 2019

Room 6 was hungry for books during our book week. We had a whole week celebrating all things books. We had author visits from Stu Duval and James Russell. Stu presented workshops on storytelling, cartooning and writing. James shared his books and told us stories. We did lots of cool book week activities in class like making dust jacket covers, wanted posters, bookmarks and story cubes. Finally our favorite day arrived, Friday. We got to dress up as our favorite characters and partake in the literacy treasure hunt. Overall book week is a fantastic week every year. Room 6 LOVES BOOK WEEK!




Here are some photos from our time:

My book week character was: The sorting hat

Water-Care

Water, water everywhere! On Friday of week 6, we were lucky to have Sally from Water-care come to teach us more about the water. We did a drama activity and experiments. Firstly we examined the process that water goes through to become drinkable water in our households. Our drama was based on the process that the water goes through to be cleaned. We were the water going through each stage. We had so much fun as we ventured around the school. Once we learnt how water is cleaned we then had to try and clean the dirty water ourselves. We had to create a filter system in partners. We had to do four different tests for our experiments. We experimented with a range of filters to try and test which filter system was the best.

Cross Country

Good Shepherd School had been busy training for cross country this term and finally the day arrived. In week 6 we all arrived at school in our running gear and had our house colors painted onto us. We were eager and ready to go and win house point. Overall the race was long and required a lot of stamina, but we were prepared. Here are some pictures from our races.

Samoan Language Week

This week was Samoan Language Week. In Room 6 we learnt a lot about Samoa and the Samoan culture. We watched Cultural Hub clips about the Samoan alphabet, animals and body parts. Did you know that the Samoan alphabet has only 17 letters? Also during reading time we did a scavenger hunt, our experts were Matila, Remy and Rosa. Here are some photos of what were looking at.

Eden Albert Soccer

On Tuesday 21st of May 2019 we went to Eden Albert soccer .We played 5 games we drew 2 and lost 3 we didn't even score one goal! I played center back , left back and center defense midfield. Sadly we had to leave at 1:00 o'clock but all of the games were very fun.
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Science in a Van

On Friday 10th of May, science in a van came to Good Shepherd School they showed us the periodic tables and other stuff like balancing big things. We also saw a cloud that they made and we also saw things explode sadly they had to leave to go to the other schools I really enjoyed it.

Growth Mindset People

At school in term one we researched people who had a growth mindset.







I researched Jackie Robinson, I didn't even know anything about him. Did you know he was poor in his young ages and was told he was old when he was 27. I ended up writing 4 whole pages about him.Here are some photos