Matariki

This week is Matariki. There are 7 stars in the sky. There names are Matariki, Waipuna-a-rangi, Ururangi, Tupu-a-rangi, Hiwa-i-te-rangi, Tupu-a-rangi, Waita, Waiti, and Pohutkawa. They are all sisters. I made an acrostic poem here are some photos.

  

Spreading the Good News

Today we did R.E on Spreading the Good News. It was about St Paul and where he traveled. I learnt that Paul made a lot of friends while on his Journey. Here is a picture of mine

The Water Cycle

How Does the water Cycle Work?

I am learning to inform my audience through an explanation.
By Riley

Do you ever wonder when you are taking a drink of water, that you could be drinking water that a caveman may have been drinking or even a dinosaur? This is all because of an amazing cycle that earth has called the water cycle! A cycle is something that repeats over and over again and never ends. Do you know that there is only 3% of fresh water but 2% of that freshwater is locked away in ice caps, so that means the other 1% is the actual drinkable water. The other 97% of Earth's water is salt water in the ocean. There are three main stages of the water cycle, evaporation, condensation and precipitation but evaporation starts off the water cycle.

Evaporation is when a heat source warms up a liquid forcing the liquid to change into a gas. The water cycle an example of this, the water in an ocean, lake or river is heated by the sun it turns the water into water vapour. An example of this in our homes is when you are drying your clothes on your washing line, the damp water in your clothes does not all fall to the ground. The water from your clothes evaporates, the sun heats up the water and it changes into water vapour. Another example is with a kettle you can see the water as steam just before it changes to vapour before it disappears! If you cool the water vapour down it will condense back into a liquid. You may think that the water cycle is finished but its still has a more stages to go through.

Now I will be talking about condensation. When the water vapour gets high enough and the atmosphere starts to cool the water vapours down they begin to collect and start to form a cloud. The cloud goes higher in the sky and the water vapour in the clouds start to get heavy and eventually will fall from the clouds as either rain, snow, hail or sleet.

Precipitation is when the rain droplets from the clouds comes down in sleet, snow, hail Then when it starts to rain the water droplets return into the sea, lake or just on the ground. When any type of rain falls on the ground it is called groundwater, once that step is completed the three main stages evaporation, condensation and precipitation start all over again and it will never end.

So, as you heard the water cycle has three main stages evaporation, condensation and precipitation, they are all very important to the water cycle and if one step was removed we would not have water. So you are probably wondering “is that how water is recycled?” Yes that is how water is recycled, through all those complicated steps it final makes water.

GSS Book Week 2019

GSS Book Week 2019 

Room 6 was hungry for books during our book week. We had a whole week celebrating all things books. We had author visits from Stu Duval and James Russell. Stu presented workshops on storytelling, cartooning and writing. James shared his books and told us stories. We did lots of cool book week activities in class like making dust jacket covers, wanted posters, bookmarks and story cubes. Finally our favourite day arrived, Friday. We got to dress up as our favourite characters and partake in the literacy treasure hunt. Overall book week is a fantastic week every year. Room 6 LOVES BOOK WEEK!

My book week character was: Jesus

Here are some photos from our time:

Watercare

Water, water everywhere! On Friday of week 6, we were lucky to have Sally from Watercare come to teach us more about the water. We did a drama activity and experiments. Firstly we examined the process that water goes through to become drinkable water in our households. Our drama was based on the process that the water goes through to be cleaned. We were the water going through each stage. We had so much fun as we ventured around the school. Once we learnt how water is cleaned we then had to try and clean the dirty water ourselves. We had to create a filter system in partners. We had to do four different tests for our experiments. We experimented with a range of filters to try and test which filter system was the best.

Cross Country

Good Shepherd School had been busy training for cross country this term and finally the day arrived. In week 6 we all arrived at school in our running gear and had our house colors painted onto us. We were eager and ready to go and win house point. Overall the race was long and required a lot of stamina, but we were prepared. Here are some pictures from our races.