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Why Eat Bugs

Why Eat Bugs

I am learning to persuade my audience using persuasive writing and emotive words. 

By Ben

Did you know that most people who try bugs really enjoy eating them? If you heard someone was eating bugs for breakfast, lunch and dinner you would think that person is revolting and say “gross!” In my opinion I think that you should have at least have one bug in each meal. My challenge for you today is to try a bug in each meal for one week. Did you know that it turns out, at least two billion people consume insects as part of their diets? That is shocking so I think you should try at least one. There are many reasons why we should eat insects in our diet such as bugs are healthy, low in fat and tasty, fun treats. 

When I mean try a bug I don't mean just go and boil a worm and eat it, I mean you can make a recipe up and make it, such as mealworm fries, cricket chocolate biscuits and much more. Bugs are a nice tasty treat, so you can put them in a bag and have them when you’re out and about. For example, when you’re biking you can have a muesli bar with crickets (yum yum) or maybe you want a little treat like chocolate covered crickets. Not only is cooking with insects tasty and yummy, they are also a healthy option. 

Did you know that bugs actually have the same amount of protein as an egg, or a chicken!? Cockroaches and crickets are one of the healthiest bugs you can eat and beetles are the most common. The good thing is that bugs create a lot less greenhouse gases than a cow, and need a lot less land to raise. Here's the number one reason to eat bugs: They're good for you! They've got protein, fiber, healthy fats, vitamins and essential minerals. You can also be creative with your cooking.

People eat bugs all around the world like China, U.S.A, India. There is outstanding recipes such as crunchy crickets covered in chocolate and there are some yummy mealworm fries and did you know that there are over 2,000 recipes that you can try at home and enjoy and put into your meals. You can even make up your own recipes or even insert bugs into recipes you don’t normally put bugs in. 

As you can see there are many reasons why you should cook with bugs. Like tasty treats you love. Also how it’s healthy, high in protein and low in fat! As well as amazing recipes around the world. So that's why you should try bugs today!

Christmas card!

This is my Christmas card!

Weet-bix tryathlon

On Sunday I went to the Weet-bix kiwi kids Tryathlon

graduation

On Wednesday all the year six's from my school graduated!
Everybody got a present and a certificate.

Level 3 Badge

 I finally got my Level 3 Badge

Assembly

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."
Week 5 was non stop for Room 6 with athletics, kapa haka and irish dancing. But it was also our final assembly for the year, and for some of us our final assembly at Good Shepherd School. This was the perfect time for us to share some of our talents and learning. We had been focusing on New Zealand music through our passport tasks so it was only fitting to pick a kiwi classic; Six Months in a Leaky Boat by Split Enz (written in 1982). We sung along to the words and put some of groovy moves together to create a dance. Throughout the year one of our favourite activities was reading Chris Gurney’s books during book week. Chris has written so many wonderful and humourous traditional tales with a kiwi voice. We absolutely adore her books, so for our assembly we presented a Readers Theatre: Trev and the Kauri Tree.

Prayers

Week 5 and 6 were busy for Room 6 we presented our assembly in week 5 and had whole school prayers on Monday, Week 6.  Our theme for prayers was community, compassion, and discipleship. This was inspired as we approach Christmas and start to think about others and those who are in need of help.  Our Reading was 1 John 3:16-18, we also presented a song that we put lyrical dances moves to our song was: So will I, by Hillsong. This is the song: So will I, it was ok.

Kapa haka

Mana, power and pride would be a few words to describe the feeling as the Good Shepherd School Kapa Haka group took the stage. During the weekend a large group of year 5 and 6 students took to the stage to perform at the Eden Albert Cultural Festival. There were a few nerves before we started but once we were underway the excitement of performing kicked in. We felt proud as a team to perform for so many people. Kia Kaha! The highlight of Kapa Haka for me was the haka.

Athletics

The harder the battle the sweeter the victory!
All of Good Shepherd School piled into buses as we headed to Three Kings Fields for the annual Athletics Day event. We had been training for weeks and we were ready to take on our peers and to compete for a placing. The events were running, long jump, high jump, discus and shot put. My favourite event was high jump and I came third.

Success Criteria

In writing we use a Success Criteria

I am learning to persuade my audience by writing an exposition

I can: 

Identify what my topic is and use technical words

Identify the flow of my paragraphs

Use personal voice

Introduction:

Use a hook to grab the reader’s attention

Write a topic sentence that identifies what you are persuading

Describe what you are talking about

Give the audience some interesting facts that will lead into the paragraphs

Paragraphs

Use time connectives such as firstly, secondly and thirdly to begin your paragraphs.

Use a topic sentence that identifies what the main argument will be about

The next sentences give more detail that describes the benefits and positives

Provide a lead in sentence to the next paragraph, by reinforcing the subject.

Conclusion

No new information into the conclusion 

Summarise each paragraph

Write a concluding sentence

RE Weaving

 

This is my saints day weaving it has the words: "All Saints 1st The Kingdom Of God Church Of Heaven Church Of Earth Pray For Us Change Our Ways"

Saints Day

This is The picture of Heaven, Purgatory and Earth mixed to together.

Miss Down taped everybody into groups then last taped everybody together.

Purgatory is a place where you are getting ready to go to heaven and Earth is the place where you can pray for the people in Heaven and Purgatory and Heaven is a place where your with God.

Shield

This is my shield

Our Waka

This our classes waka 

This is me  

Bigfoot Adventures

On Wednesday we had Bigfoot adventures to come and teach us about bike safety. We learnt that there re three legal requirements on a bike. You need a red rear reflector, a helmet and two working brakes. We had to Everyone learnt those of skills by the end of the day.                    

A Hangi

This is my hangi slideshow.

Painted Crosses

This is my cross I painted for R.E. We had to draw a draft at the start of the term and then we would get a blank white cross that we can paint. mine turned up really well. my teacher helped us a bit and did four herself.

Bird Inquiry

This is my bird inquiry poster, I picked each part of my bird like the beak, the feet, the head and the tail. We also learned about the environment and animal adaptations. Here is my poster of my bird. 

The Kiwi

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

The Kiwi bird is a native icon to New Zealand. The unique adaptations of the kiwi, such as their large eggs, short and stout legs and using their nostrils at the end of their long beak to detect prey before they ever see it have helped the bird to become well-known to NZ. Kiwi are flightless birds because their Latin species name is Apteryx bird, which means wingless. There are five species of kiwi: North Island Brown Kiwi, Tokoeka, Rowi, Great Spotted Kiwi and Little Spotted Kiwi. Each species of kiwi live in different areas throughout New Zealand.

Where does the kiwi live? What is the needs of their habitat? A habitat is where animals live in order for all their needs to be met. The kiwi is very adaptable in the New Zealand climate. Kiwis don't need to live in a native forest, they can be found in scrub and rough farmland, exotic plantation forests, sand dunes and snowy tussocks, even mangroves. Kiwis build holes, borrows, dens and nests to keep away from their predators. But the kiwis favourite habitat is the the damp forest. Where they can find all sorts of different types of food.

The Kiwi is an omnivore, which means they eat plants and meat. Most of the kiwis food are invertebrates which means an animal without a backbone, like spiders, worms, cockroaches and lots more. Kiwis are also known to eat fungi, frogs and their favourite, the juicy earthworm. Luckily for the Kiwi there are a lot of worms here in New Zealand. But while the kiwi is out in search of their food, so are other animals that enjoy the kiwi as their favourite meal, the predators.

New Zealand had no warm-blooded mammal predators before the English came to New Zealand. Now the kiwi is very endangered, because of cats, stoats, possums, dogs and foxes. These are predators of the kiwi, and with the kiwi unable to fly and low to the ground, the kiwi is a target of these animals. The kiwi is nocturnal and partly blind so they rely on a lot of their other senses, they can hear about a meter away from where they are. The kiwi has very short and fast legs so it can run away from its predators. The kiwi is also able to use the physical adaptation of camouflage to hide from their predators.



To conclude the kiwi bird is a very extraordinary bird. It is exotic in every way, its long beak, its fast legs and the kiwis amazing hearing. People need to make changes and understand the requirements of the kiwi in order to protect them to ensure they live for many years to come.

Last Session of Code Club

This is the last session of code club it has been a very fun 7 weeks. I hope we get to do it next term. here are all my projects over the term

Chess

On Wednesday 19th of September we went to the Auckland Catholic Schools Chess Tournament 2018.  The Tournament was held out in Massey at St Paul's School. Our team came third in the Beginner Tournament. 

Ransom Note

Today's Code Club session we made our own ransom note on a coding program called Trinket. Here is mine. 

Factors and Multiples

Why Homework is not Necessary !!!!!!

(1.) What is stressful, time consuming, boring and taking time away from your family. I think this is all to do with the most boring subject in the world! HOMEWORK! Every child would agree that homework is bad? Homework is all the same as what you learn at school, so it’s pretty easy. 

(2.) How long do you think your homework takes in the afternoon. Would it surprise you to learn that some primary schools have worksheets comparable with adults. For most children homework pushes and pressures them. Homework does not do anything it is just a waste of time.

(3.) Children hate homework, they make up excuses like: my teacher gave me no homework or my dog ate my worksheet. Isn’t it so depressing when you get home and your mum says ”Any homework?”If you stop to think about it, the truth is that homework is not necessary. There is no evidence that homework helps your brain.

(4.) Kids already have six hours of school. We start at nine and we go home at three that is already a full days of work. But teachers still give us homework, to take home and do. Some parents come home feeling exhausted, yet they still don’t understand that we have trouble focusing after a full days of work and are tired as well.

(5.) Many families say that homework takes time away from their child's afternoon. One of my reasons is that kids need to relax and take their mind of work. Sometimes homework gets in the way of things like: sports, afternoon activities, playing outdoors and spending time with family and friends.

(6.) Being outdoors getting sun and exercise is very important for our health. Playing outdoors helps us concentrate better and improve our performance at school. Homework is a distraction from time spent outside and teachers should encourage free outdoor play after school for better results in the classroom instead of homework sheets.

(7.) If we are inside our classroom during the day, when we go home we will have to do our homework. Wouldn’t it be so much better if we just did learning in one place. It would be so much better and then you could go home and relax and take your mind of work.

(8.) While school is an important part of a our life, it’s also as important that we take a break from our education. Multiple studies have found that most students are getting too much extra assignments which are leading to sleep problems, levels of stress, as well as related health problems.

(9.) Overall homework is just an extra piece of work we have to bring home everyday. I hope that after listening to my speech there will be no more homework from today onwards.

Code Club

Slide Show on Weather

Science Bird Discovery

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
hing 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

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 realized 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 all 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 got 41 M&M’s each! We have put our information on a poster.

                                             

Grandparents Mass

On Friday 24th August 2018 we celebrated Grandparents Mass with our grandparents, family/whanau and the whole school. We first went to mass to celebrate with Father Bernard Kyle, who blessed our dear Grandparent with a blessing and we sung a special song to them. When mass was finished our PTA team prepared a treat for us. There was lots of sweet and coffee/tea to sip on. By the time the that all the food was finished it was then time to perform some dances for our audience. The groups that performed were the Sheridan Kapa Haka, Choir, Tap dancing, Ukulele and Irish Dancing. That was a joyful day that we would always remember. We are blessed to have such special people in our lives.

Online Profile

In our digital lessons we have been learning what is private and public information. We have created a personal profile for our blogs using this new knowledge. On our blogs there are people we know, and people we don’t know, who can view our profiles. We decided to share personal information that we wanted to share about ourselves. Making sure we didn’t share information that was not for public use.

St Mary Mackillop’s Feast Day

Yesterday was the feast day of Saint Mary Mackillop. We started our day attending our parish mass to celebrate her feast day as a whole community. All the students came back from mass to continue the celebrations by joining our buddy class. Room 4 and 6 together came together to work on paper dolls of ourselves. We know St Mary of the Cross always supported and helped all the children in need. We made a large St Mary MacKillop and we placed all out paper dolls of ourselves around her. Then we were all very lucky to receive a free sausage sizzle from the PTA to continue the celebrations at lunch. In the afternoon we then got to go and play a range of fun games with our buddy class. This was such a fun day working along each other but most of all having fun. Happy Saint Mary MacKillop Feast Day. 

Here is our mural…

Figurative Language

Idiom, hyperbole, alliteration, metaphor, onomatopoeia, similes and personification. These are all language features which we call figurative language. In reading we have been learning about these language features and how authors used them in their writing to make their work engaging and add interest for their audience.  We made posters either with paper pencils or flowers with examples and definitions of the language feature.Here is our figurative language poster.

Science Roadshow

Last week on Thursday the year 5 and 6 students of Good Shepherd School went to Edendale Primary School to experience the Science Roadshow! We learnt so much about ice and fire, the human body and other things that are related to science. We enjoyed watching the hosts do fascinating experiments like dropping an 8 ball into the metal stick with a hoop attached to it, before they dipped it into the liquid nitrogen the ball could thread through the hoop, but after they dipped the stick into the liquid nitrogen the ball couldn’t fit!

We had a lot of fun, and recommend that everyone goes to the Science Roadshow if they get a chance.

Production

Lights, Camera, Action!

Last week Good Shepherd School performed, ‘Zip Zip Zap Avenue’.  We packed the school hall with our family and friends as the rain fell. Most of GSS students were in the holding classrooms covered in make-up and sitting in our toy costumes. 

Zip Zip Zap Avenue is a about a Toy Shop that comes alive once one of the main characters, the Shopkeeper closed up the shop and turned off the light.  The toys would then come alive when all the people were asleep, like the the families that visited the toyshop looking for the perfect gifts.  This certain night at the toyshop the celebration was for Buzz the Bee, he had left the shelf of the toy shop and all his friends came out to celebrate him with dances.  The main toy friends were Thing 1, Thing 2, Tiki, Spiderman, Cabbage Patch Doll, Woody, Strawberry Shortcake, and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.  The main characters introduced the classes as they came in as their selected toy and danced for buzz.

The first dance was the boys and girls of Room 3 and 4 who were transformers, this was a great and powerful way to start the show.  Room 5 then twirled onto the stage as Barbie and Ken dancing to Barbie girl.  Things got a little spooky as the trolls of Room 7 came out in the middle of the night to the song Thriller.  We weren’t too scared for long as the fairies in Room 3 and 4 came out dancing away in their gorgeous fair dresses.  And just when you thought things couldn’t get any cuter the teddy bears from Room 1 and 2 went on their teddy bear picnic.  Room 8 then showed us what teamwork is with their awesome lego outfit and very cool song … Everything is awesome! Next up were the Kiwi toy, with great costumes for the kiwi birds and the wonderful performance of the Poi Dancers.  And finally it was our turn, Room 6 spun onto the stage as Rubix Cubes dancing to You Spin Me Right Around. 

It was a fantastic experience for us all, we learnt a lot about performing and all the work that goes on in the background.  We was a wonderful opportunity and it wouldn’t of been possible without the support of everyone working together just like the lego blocks. 

Book Week

It's week 8 and it is the bookworms favourite week of the year! Book week! A lot of things happened this week. The library was jam packed full of books and other cool stuff like pencils and rubbers, authors and poets were visiting the school, the book parade was on Friday where we were able to show off our costumes of our favourite book character!

Monday saw us in groups competing against one another as we did a literacy quiz! There were 30 questions and three topics. Each question we got right earned us a point! And, we all had to pick a topic where we DOUBLED our points.

The next day Tasman Flinn visited the school. We all sat in the hall and sat on the chairs while she showed us her poems and talked about poetry.

Then on Thursday, all of us year 5 and 6s went to Room 2 so we could see Chris Gurney. She talked about her books and how to make a book. And she picked a few volunteers to act out a play, based off her own book called “Cindy And The Lost Jandal” (Miss Down’s favourite book).

Then on Friday, we all dressed up in our favourite book characters, and finished off the week with the book parade! Where we showed off our amazing costumes on the stage.

We all had so much fun during book week. Thank God for books!

Seed Crackers

In Room Six we have been learning about how we can stay healthy and have a well balanced diet. For a healthy class treat we made seed crackers.
Here is our recipe

Ingredients:
½ cup Sunflower seeds
½ cup Pumpkin seeds
¼ cup Sesame seeds
¼ cup Poppy seeds
¼ cup Linseed/flax seeds
¼ cup chia seeds
½ tsp sea salt
1 cup water
1 sprinkle of flaky sea salt, to sprinkle

Directions:
Heat oven to 170C. Place all the seeds and the salt in a bowl, pour in water and mix to combine. Leave for 15 minutes for the chia and flax seeds to soften and bind everything together. Tip out onto a baking paper-lined oven tray and spread out as thin as possible (around 4mm thick) and sprinkle with some flaky sea salt. Bake for 30 minutes. Remove the tray from the oven and slice into crackers, then return to the oven to cook for another 20-30 minutes until crisp and golden. Remove to a rack to cool then store in an airtight container. Now your crackers are ready to eat.

On the last week of school we are going to be having a Healthy Food Party - Veggie Con on Monday the 2nd July, everybody will bring healthy food for us to eat as a shared lunch.

Check out our blogs for family favourites or healthy recipes we searched.

The Royal Jelly

On Tuesday 29 of May the whole of Good Shepherd gathered in the hall to watch a show called “The Royal Jelly”. It gave us a lot of facts about bees and was really funny. Also three students were lucky enough to participate in the show answering questions from the “mayor”. Over all the show was fun and interesting and we all learned a lot.

Ben's Healthy Choc Pops

Ingredients
1 cup nuts
15 dates
1/4 cup (45g) sultanas
1/4 to 1/2 cup cocoa
20 ml (1 tbsp) coconut oil
10 ml (2 tsp) water

Method
Into a food processor add your nuts and process until crumbly. Add your pitted dates and sultanas, process again. Add cocoa and coconut oil, mix again and then add your water with as much as you need to bring it all together in a dough-like consistency. Press into a small lined, lidded container and chill in the freezer for at least an hour. Roll tablespoon-sized balls, insert some ice cream sticks and turn them into pops!

A Well Balanced Diet!

During our health inquiry we have been learning about a well balanced diet. We created a definition using a solo define map. Here is our definition:

A balanced diet is eating the right types of food that gives your body the nutrients to function correctly. To get proper nutrition from your diet you need to eat a healthy diet that contains the proper proportions of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. You need to eat a well balanced diet to maintain good health and to help you feel your best.

We also have learnt about the food pyramid, proportions, and the eat well plate.

Here is a picture of my food pyramid which includes the food groups and servings sizes. You must eat a balance of all food groups to maintain good health.

Cross Country

It was the Fifth of June. Everyone a bit blue after the end of a long 4 day weekend, and here we are, starting the week off with cross country! Everyone came in their sports uniform. And from the morning up until lunch time, us students were running the Cross Country track.

We raced in year levels, so the year 1's raced with each other and so on. Those young bunches got to only run 1 lap. While us big kids had to run 2 and a half laps! Doesn't seem that much until you add the fact we had to jog all the way up Telford Ave and back twice! It was fun being competitive and racing your friends and other people. Everyone was bursting with positive energy.

Lining up before heading to the track is where the nervousness starts to kick in. We made our way to the netball court and stretched, a bit after that the year 6 girls started running. A few minutes later it was OUR turn to run the track. We all lined up and Mrs Mcleod told us where to go, then after that, we were off. Everyone seemed extremely exhausted at the end, but finishing the race was so relieving.

Congratulations to all the children who came in the top 3 and represented their houses well. And thanks to all the parents who helped motivate and keep us children on track. 

Afio mai to Samoan language Week.

The cultural leaders opened the week with their national costume and dance.

In room 6 we have been exploring the Samoan Cultural with general facts. We searched for our fact card around the room and collected information for our Jigsaw Reading Hunt. 

Next our Samoan experts in class gave us a lesson on greetings and phrases in Samoan.

Then we moved onto counting to ten in Samoan for maths before finishing our math session with a clapping game in Samoan.

Selo-zero
Tasi-one
Lua-two
Tolu-three
Fa-four
Lima-five
Ono-six
Fitu-seven
Valu-eight
Iva-Nine
Sefulu-ten