Last week Good Shepherd School celebrated all the different cultures that we celebrated with a cultural  week with a  cultural quiz

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 alll 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 gott 41 M&M’s each! We have put our information on a poster.

mini bb fair

Today we had the Mini BB Fair. We sold books and baking. The school are raising money for a mural on the green, ugly power box. They raised $750! Everyone had an amazing time buying books and baking

social justice

Last week it was social justice week we watched a video about a disability square and did a sheet about it

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!

hangi

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

mandarin

诺亚亚历山大·德·罗斯

Noah Alexander D'rose

this is my name in mandarin we learnt  mandarin this term.and a Chinese group came in.

bird poster

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!

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crosses

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.

kiwi story

The Kiwi


Noah D’Rose


I am learning to inform my audience through an information report.

What is a bird that is roughly the size of a chicken, fluffy and and can't fly even though it has wings? Yes, the kiwi. This extraordinary bird can run up to 26 km per hour, that's as fast as the average human. Many people think that the South Island Brown kiwi is the only type of kiwi that exists, but there are actually five different types of Kiwi, The North Island Kiwi, Little Spotted Kiwi, the Great Spotted Kiwi and the Okarito kiwi. All kiwi are flightless birds that are related to some very large flightless birds such as the Emu, Moa and Ostrich. However one giant difference is that the kiwi still remains the size of a chicken. The kiwi is actually quite unique as it is the only bird that has its nostrils located on the end of its beak. The nostrils not only help it breathe but also makes it easier to drink and feed.


Diet
Slam, whack, bam that's the sound of a kiwi killing its lunch. This bird fishes but it gets the most bizarre things from its habitat. They live by streams and rivers so they can catch freshwater crayfish, tuna and salmon. They don't need to drink any water because they eat worms and worms make up 85% of their water. The kiwi bird can live in many habitats like in forest, dunes and more!


Habitat
We all enjoy our own personal space or in other words our habitat. A habitat is a place where a living or a non living thing lives to survive. Kiwis are great adapters, they can live from forest to farmland, sand dunes and snowy places.They like to live by streams so they can fish. They like to make borrows as there home but they have to be careful for many predators are lurking around.

Predators
Almost everything has a predator and this is no except for the kiwi. There are many threats and dangers that the kiwi has to face each and every day. A long time ago New Zealand actually had over 12 million kiwis but that changed as predators have been introduced to New Zealand. Such predators that stalk and hunt the kiwi are pigs, stoats, rats, cats, dogs and possums. This leaving the flightless bird on the forest floor open to these threats. There are now fewer than 100,000 kiwis left in New Zealand.





As you can see the kiwi is extremely precious to New Zealand, it is our native bird that can only be found in New Zealand. We need to learn and study about the kiwi in order for us to understand the diet needs of a kiwi, what the kiwi needs in order to live and breed within their habitat and to ensure it is safe from its predators. If one of these are missing then the kiwi would not survive. Without its diet it would starve, without its habitat it would get eaten and without its predators this bird would not be challenged and it would not evolve and adapt. The kiwi bird is our nation icon, we need to protect the kiwi so it is round for future generations because it is our treasure.

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 beaks

Pointed beak, flat beak and pelican beak are all the types of beaks we used for this discovery.But these things are also known as forceps, tongs and cups. First we learnt about the meanings of the words we need to know like, aim. Aim means trying to achieve something in the experiment we were trying to see what shape beak is the best for picking up food. And we learnt what will we change( the equipment), What we will measure ( the amount of food) and how we will keep it a fair test. The way we can make it a fair test by having a nice steady surface, by having the same person doing each type of food also by having the same amount of time of 30 seconds. We had an amazing time experimenting with rice, peppercorns, gummy worms and skittles and after we got to eat LOLLIES. Thank you Miss Down for this amazing experiment.