Special Character Prayers

Special Characters did prayers this morning. The focus was on advent. Since Christmas is coming, the Catholic community is starting to celebrate the delivery of Jesus. This is a very important celebration in the Catholic community because Christmas marks the day Jesus was born. We all can't wait for Christmas as it is the day Jesus was born!

R.E Crossword

Today for R.E we did a Christmas crossword. It was quite hard but I got some help. Here is my crossword.

ANZAC Letter

Today for reading we did an ANZAC letter where we type a page of a diary. Here is my diary page. It's about guy called Luke who is fighting in Gallipoli's steep mountains. I hope you like it!

Science: Sherbet

Today we did science. It was about making sherbet. So we had to mix icing sugar, citric acid, tartartic acid and baking soda. There were different groups which had a different amount of teaspoons for each ingredient. Our group had 4 tp of tartartic acid, 2 tp of citric acid, 5 tp of icing sugar and 2 tp of baking soda. The tartartic acid makes it tart, citric makes it sour, icing sugar makes it sweet and the baking soda for a fizz. Our one was really good because it foamed in our mouth.  

Graduation/Last Year Mass

Yesterday at 5:30 Good Shepherd school we had the year six Graduation mass. I'm the year six boy who lit the candles and gave leadership candles to the year fives. We sang our Good Shepherd Songs like "The Lord is My Shepherd" and "Candle In the Light". Then we did a dance performance. The song was "Tyrone Wells- Time of Our Lives". It was really fun doing the dance.

Year 6 Graduation Art

In art for this week we did a little project year 6 graduation art. In this year we did a black paper silhouette under some dye. As you can see I did a lamb and the word "Helpful" was the one word I described this school. I like doing art because it's all colourful and beautiful. I hoped you like my art.

Passport Activity: Dave Dobbyn Slide Show

For my passport activity I did a slide show about Dave Dobbyn. This slide show was thirty points and I think it was worth it. While doing the slide show I listened to Dave Dobbyn's songs. I really liked "Loyal" and "Slice of Heaven". I really loved doing slideshows and research about Dave Dobbyn.  

Passport Activity: A-Z List of NZ Bands and Artists

For my passport activity I did a twenty point activity. It was an A to Z bands and music artists project. It was really cool to see all the bands and music artists from New Zealand. In the process of doing the activity I listened to the bands and artist's music. I really liked 'Don't dream it's all over" from Crowded House and "Rain" from Dragon. It was really cool to learn about those people.

Passport Activity

For the last four weeks we have a passport activity which means that we have to get two hundred points by doing activities. Some activities gave you fifty, forty, thirty, twenty and ten points. It's really fun because this year you had to learn about NZ music from new to old music. This activity is really fun because I like learning about history.   

Science: Spud Guns

For science today we did spud guns. It didn't exactly work because the straws kept bending. In my opinion the experiment was really fun because the potato went flying out occasionally. To make the potato shoot you had to push straw through the potato to have a thick rope of potato. After that you had to take the straw out. Then you had to get a narrow blunt stick to push the the potato out. The first time I did it, it didn't work out, but the second time it was flying out, it traveled at least 3 metres. It was really fun!

School Athletics

Yesterday my school and I did athletics. It was really fun, even though I didn't get a place. I always came 4th or 5th in every race. After an hour or 2 we did other athletic sports including shop put, discus and long jump. It was really fun, I came third in discus which was cool. When time was running out we did relays. For relays Cowley came first, Hillary was second and Blake was third. I was a really intense race. My house is Cowley and I was in the relay team it was really fun how everyone participated and had fun. 

Science: Bird Beaks

Today we did a science experience on bird beaks that were tweezers.We tried to pick up skittles, gummy worms and paper. So there were basically two types of tweezers. The first type was the flat to beaks. The flat beaks were good with skittles and paper because the flat top could slide under the paper which was easy to pick up. The same the happened with skittles too. The second type was a pointed and sharp tip beak. It was easy to pick up the gummy worms because it could jab into the worm very easily. I really liked this experiment because I am very interested into the life of birds.