Week 6 Family Friday

On Friday mum and dad came in and talked about their job. Mum and dad both work at OPSN and love it. The children had tonnes of questions about eyes for dad. My parents were very generous and gave everyone a gift bag with badges, stickers, bookmarks, balloons and a glasses cleaning kit. Thanks so much mum and dad, you’re the best!

Lachlan

Room 9 Shake

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On Friday we had our second assembly for the year. It was based around the Oscars. Our class made this video to show as one of the nominations, it's a famous dance called the Harlem Shake and we made our own version. It was heaps of fun filming. We hope you like it!

Room 9

Ata’s Family Friday

Today my dad (Jared) came in and talked about his job as being a postman. He told us where about he delivers mail. He showed a few signs most of them were about dog they said: watch out for dogs!!! and another poster said: My dog is not going to bite…Yeah Right. At the end he gave us some fire blankets that will protect you, some first aid kits and some flakes to hand out. Thanks dad for coming in!!! J J J J

  

By Ata Marie

Student Teacher

On Monday we got a student teacher! Everyone was very excited and could not wait to meet her. Her name is Miss Johnson; she has been working with groups in reading, writing, and maths. She has also helped us with doing plays and little things around the place. We have had her for two days now and she has been very nice.

By Lucy D

Family Friday Week 4

At my family Friday my mum talked about my heart. It’s different to others and I really like that I’m different. She also put a video up on the board with a picture of my family that it is really big. I liked that as well and that was my family Friday.   

By Curtis

Curtis' Story

This term we have been learning how to write narratives. I hope you enjoy the story.

The big adventure

A long, long, long time ago.  There was a stampeding elephant. One day he found a mirror it was a gold mirror! He accidentally ran into it and got teleported to the land of fire. He found an injured bird. He healed it and helped it so they became best friends. They both excitedly ran back into the mirror but got teleported into a desert! The elephant said “look a giant snake!” So they ran as fast as they could. The elephant and bird found a cave. The bird said “this cave won’t last long!” So they ran to the end of the cave and found a passage. They had lots of time so they stopped and then sneaked out. They found the mirror and jumped into it and everything went back to normal.

The end.

By Curtis

Family Friday Week 2 Term 4

Family Friday J

This week my Dad came in to talk to my class about money! He showed us three videos as well as a short PowerPoint. My dad also told us a bit about his job as a lawyer, and answered some people’s questions.  

By Corum

Tonga's Family Friday

On Friday my mum came in to talk about Tonga. First we talked about the Tongan rules which are to not talk back to your parents. Then we talked about the most important thing about Tonga like family and religious. Family  is important because the mum and the dad does everything but dad is the head of the family like if you say I want mum and dad to stop fighting then they will have a family meeting. And when they said sorry it’s over.

By Tonga

Kia Kaha

We are role playing a bullying scenario with a positive outcome.

Kia Kaha

We are role playing a bullying scenario with a positive outcome.

Kia Kaha

We are role playing a bullying scenario with a positive outcome.

Kia Kaha

We are role playing a bullying scenario with a positive outcome.

Kia Kaha

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We are role playing a bullying scenario with a positive outcome.

Kia Kaha

We are role playing a bullying scenario with a positive outcome.

Kia Kaha

For the last two weeks Room 9 have been learning about Kia Kaha, which means to be brave and strong, and stand up for yourself. Children and young people should be encouraged to believe in themselves, their qualities and their abilities and to stand up for themselves so that they will not become victims of bullying. Today we role played a bullying scenario with a positive outcome. We hope you enjoy our videos.

Class Waka

Room 9 has made a class waka. Everyone has made a person and a paddle for the waka. The waka is very big. It can fit thirty paper people. We put our class strength’s on the paddles too. We presented it in the cloak bay and it looks great.

Room 9 Plays

Every Friday we perform plays in our class to practice our oral language skills, expression and speaking in front of an audience. This is a play from a journal. We hope you enjoy it.

Assembly Room 9

We sang "Happy" at our assembly last term This is a video of our class.

Daniel's Family Friday

On my family Friday my mum came in to talk about Korea. It was fun telling the classroom some Korean words like thank you and good morning. Mum also told them about some famous food and music about Korea. Thanks mum.

By Daniel

First Holy Communion Celebration

At the end of First Holy Communion Mass we celebrated in the hall. There was lots of food and drinks. The people that received their First Holy Communion got to sit at special tables on stage and eat and celebrate together. At the end Father cut the delicious cake that Sharon made. It was such a wonderful day with lots of special memories. Congratulations First Holy Communion students of 2014.

First Holy Communion

On Sunday 7th September some Good Shepherd students celebrated their First Holy Communion. This means that they can receive the Eucharist, which represents the body and blood of Jesus. The whole school came and it was a glorious day. The girls wore pretty dresses and the boys were dressed smartly.

Caritas

Thank you Gemma for teaching us about Caritas. We also learnt about giving poor people money to survive. We had lots of fun learning about caritas with you. We also looked at different countries. I liked when you asked me questions.    

BY MICHAEL

Market Day

On Thursday we had a market day. The school Councillors organised it. There were lots of stuff to buy like books, toys and baking, there were even a lucky dip which had three cakes. Thank you School Councillors

By Leilani

Family Friday Week 7-Arnie

This week it was my family Friday. My mum came in and told the class about Japan and what kind of food they eat, where they are on earth, what their seasons are like, popular sports, their tradition and the similarities between New Zealand and Japan. She also gave us lessons on how to make t-shirts for father’s day.

Family Friday Week 6

Today my mum came in for Family Friday. First she talked about her job as a physio and got us to do some exercises. Then she taught us about how to decorate a cupcake. The best part was we got to decorate our own cupcakes and eat them too! Thanks mum!

By Lucca

Family Friday Week 5 Term 3

At Family Friday Janine told us about her job in a clothing factory and brought in some machine-knitted clothes. She told us about all the old knitting history. She showed us a clip about her job too. 

Thanks mum for informing the class about your interesting job.

By Daniel

Curtis’s and Garath’s masks

We made a mask for reading and it was a Rhinoceros mask we read a Rhinoceros book it was fun and great.:D

By Curtis and Garath  

R.E Sacrament

This week for R.E Sacrament strand. Our class morphed into a word saying church and it was very complicated  to do. The R hardly got in shape properly!! It was very fun and exciting to morph and each class desk group formed a letter!

By Felicity

Speech Finals

On Wednesday we went to see the speech finals. We had Natalie in our class who went into the finals. She came 2^nd. Well done Natty!

By Caitlin

R.E Sacrament Strand

In RE we learnt that all people can be anointed by the Holy Oil. We also learnt about anointing the sick. We also  made a quilt with pictures, prayers and the Ritual of Anointing the Sick.

By Samantha

Family Friday Week 3

On Friday my dad came in and he showed us how to make a web site, it was awesome. Lots of kids got paper

to write how to do it. He called it Room 9 how to make a web site and he coloured the title. We loved it!

Some of room 9 are going to make a web site.

By David

Mary Mackillop

                      

We went to church and celebrated Mary Mackillop day, we sung songs about her.

We read a story about her and made mosaic pictures. It was fun!

By Daniel.N and Micheal L

Family Friday Term 3 Week 2

Today Justine my mum came in and told room 9 about our trip around the world. She also gave us French food it was really yummy!!!!!!  Thanks mum for coming in it was fun to have you.

By Caitlin

Inquiry Term 3

This term our topic in inquiry is on living things and surroundings interact and change. We have a specific focus on extinct animals such as the moa and dinosaurs and endangered animals like the kakapo and tiger. We have made define and describe maps about what we think causes extinction, what we think extinction means and what endangered means. 

By Arnie

Speeches

We did a competition on speeches this week and we are voting for three year 4's and three year 5's. We were able to write a speech on any topic and it needed to be 3 minutes long. We were very nervous. The three year 4's and years 5's that get voted for will go in the finals with people in other classes. Good luck everyone!

By David and Garath