Classification

Today we learnt about how animals are classified into groups. Animals are either vertebrates or invertebrates. Vertebrates are animals with spines. And invertebrates are animals with no spine.

Invertebrates  are animals like jellyfish, crabs, insects and octopus.

Vertebrates are put into five groups. They are mammals, birds, reptiles, fish and amphibians.
Mammals have fur or hair and give birth to live young. Birds have feathers and lay hard eggs. Reptiles are cold blooded and lay soft eggs. Amphibians breath through their skin and need to keep their skin moist. Fish breath through gills and have fins.

Five examples of each type are:

Mammals: Cheetah, dolphins, giraffe, squirrel, rabbit.

Birds: woodpecker, sparrow, kiwi, dove, fantail.

Reptiles: Snakes, sea turtle, crocodiles, lizards, chameleon

fish: salmon, eel, sharks, seahorses, stingray.

Amphibians: frogs, toad, salamander, newts, caecilian.

Hansel And Gretel

Today in drama we did small skits of Hansel and Gretel. Some of the groups twisted the story a bit. This a video of my group's skit that we performed. I learnt how to work together with other people. It was a great learning experience and was a lot of fun.

Science Road Show

Good Shepherd year Five and Six students went to a Science Roadshow. We were taught about different temperatures and lots of other interesting facts. One of them was that every human produces 60 KG's of waste every year. There were different experiments that we got to try out such as the spinning chair, the glass mirror, and the skeleton bike. Those were only some of the cool experiments we got to try. It was so fun and we are very lucky we got to go.

Ode Poem

In Room Five we have been writing odes. An ode is a poem that is usually dedicated to something or someone. This is my ode poem to a piece of toffee.

Oh piece of toffee!

you have a sweet sensation that's the best,

your texture crunches in my mouth like a twig snapping under my feet,

you taste like a ball of joy,

you melt my heart with your taste,

oh toffee how i adore you!

The School Production.

In week 8 our school had a production. It was based on a magical toy shop. My friend and I were the leads. Our costumes were amazing! We were Thing One and Thing Two from the Cat in the Hat. We had great big crazy wigs on, and red pants and t-shirts. It was a great thrill and super exciting. 

One thing I learned is that you have to show how your feeling even if your not talking. We had three performances over two days. The set looked amazing and it was super cool getting to practice with the set. I felt so lucky to be a part of that. 

Book Week

On Friday the 22 of June Good Shepherd had their book parade. The book parade is when every one can dress up as their favourite book character for the whole day. Sometime during the day we have a parade so every one can show of their costume. Book week is one of my favourite weeks because we can see every ones different ideas. This year me and my friend Gina went as he Twits. During the week we also had Chris Gurney come in and talk to us about writing. She read us some of the books she wrote. We also performed a skit of one of her books. Chris Gurney writes the kiwi kauka series which is the fairy tales except with a NZ twist. We had a lot of more fun activities but those were the main ones.

Saving Work

Saving work is what people do and say that helps restore people's dignity. Saving work is an example of helping others when they are down, embarrassed or not feeling well. This is an example of saving work.
I will show Jesus's saving work by helping others when they are upset.