Kia Kaha- Shield

This term we are learning about Kia Kaha. Our theme is the same, but different. We made shields to show why we are unique and why our class is special. This is my shield. 

Personal Profile

In our digital lessons we have been learning what is private and public information. We have created a personal profile for our blogs using this new knowledge. On our blogs there are people we know, and people we don’t know, who can view our profiles. We decided to share personal information that we wanted to share about ourselves. Making sure we didn’t share information that was not for public use.

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..

Whakatauki

In Maori we have been learning about a Whakatauki

A Whakatauki is a proverb, what is 

truly valued in the Maori Culture.
The Whakatauki 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 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 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 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 support their weight.
Some  have a hard covering or shell on the outside of their bodies for protection. -Insects, spiders, crabs snails, clams.

Private and Public

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 saw us 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!