Jesus Ascension

In Room 6 for RE we have been learning about Jesus Ascension. Jesus Ascension is about how he came to Earth after he died and told his Disciples. While he was on Earth he left the Holy Spirit. In my drawing the fire shows the Holy Spirit. The drawing of Jesus in the clouds shows how he ascended into Heaven. The house saying "Gods Kingdom' represents how Jesus house has many rooms for us when we go to Heaven.

What I Did Well - Tracing my drawings
What I need to work on - Finishing faster

Pink Shirt Day

Today on the 17th of May, St. Bernadette's School celebrated Pink Shirt Day. You may be wondering what pink shirt day is, well Pink Shirt Day symbolizes Anti Bullying. Bullying is very bad, because everyone deserves to be treated they way they would like to be treated.  This day is very important because everyone needs to be treated with respect.  Today everyone seems very happy and enjoying there day wearing pink to symbolize anti bullying.

Pink Shirt Day Photos! 

Character Description of My Mother

WALT….

Write a Character description

Use ‘show not tell’ in our writing

Lately we have been focusing on writing Character Descriptions. This week in Room 6 we have been creating Character Descriptions about a special Woman in our life. I choose my Mother, because she is the best woman in my life.  In our character descriptions we had to use paragraphs, also each paragraphs symbolizes a different part of my character description.  For example my first paragraph describes my mothers presence. My second one shows her behavior. My third one shows how she treats others. My last one represents who she is. 

What I enjoyed - Writing about my Mother

What I did Well : Finished my work on time 

What I need to work on - Using better vocabulary 

Mother, 

My Mother the day you were born was a blessed day for the world. You have nice dark brown eyes that sparkle; with your classy black glasses.  You have mid-length black hair.  You have a round face with soft angled eyebrows. You have many freckles that go with your symmetrical face. 

You always want the best for everyone and you are very selfless. You like to sing to every song I put on; even if you don’t know it. Your voice hurts my ears, especially when we scream at each other.  You always manage to make me laugh, because you like telling me stories. 

Whenever you walk into a room, you make most peoples face fill with joy.  You always manage to make me smile, even on my worst days. When I don’t do my chores on time you turn into a dragon.  When I clean without being asked, you turn into an angel. You have an amazing talent, you know how to make anyone feel special.

You are as smart as an owl, because you give me many advice. You are always doing things for me and making me smile. You have an unusual personality; that is why I love you. 

Character Descriptions

WALT : Write a Character description

Use ‘show not tell’ in our writing

In Room 6 we have been writing Character Descriptions about Pig the Pug or Trevor the Sausage Dog, based on the book we had to read as a class. I chose Pig the Pug because I thought he was an interesting Character and he reminds me of people. 

What I enjoyed - Writing about Pig the Pug.

What I did Well - Language features.

What I need to work on -  Finishing Faster. 

Pig the Pug - He is an unusual dog he has a squishy face, as well bunched up wrinkles.  When you look at his face you see his a flat nose, because his fur is so thick.  He has tiny bits of food stored in his wrinkled rolls all over his body, which causes him to get infections. His eyes are intimidating because they are so large and he can look two different ways at once. When you look down at his body, he is so chubby and heavy and at an unstable weight with his tiny legs and paws.

He is a selfish no good dog, because he only wants to be the centre of attention. He wants things to be his way, whether it is good or bad. His attitude is nasty, although it matches with his show off behavior.  He is quite a wicked; especially to Trevor his “friend”.  He enjoys taunting Trevor on a daily basis; making his life horrible. Overall he is a manipulative, mean dog and friend. 

Pig the Pug despises people who beat him, when somebody beats him he makes them feel worthless. When others succeed he gets jealous, which causes Trevor to react.  He hates on others to make himself feel good, when Trevor doesn’t react to the hate and ignores it that makes Pig steam up.  Pig teases, shows off, and puts down Trevor every day. 

Pig the Pugs room is filthy and dirty it is a full-on mess. When you enter his squished up trashy room, you see that he has millions of toys but he never shares them. He has numerous outfits all over the scrubby dirty carpet floor.  In his room there are multiple piles of toys and clothes, Pig the Pug likes to stand on the piles and it gets him into a lot of trouble.  Also, there are many stains on his carpet; most of them are pee. 

Animals At War

In Room 6 we have been doing some interdependent anzac activities. This is my news paper report of how the animals were important in war.

What I enjoyed - Learning about anzac

What I found challenging - Putting the information I read into my own words.

Next time I will - Finish my work faster.

Animals At War

During the war in 1914-1916,  animals were very important in the war. Anzacs in New Zealand and Australia needed animals to carry people.  Do you think it was right for animals to be used in war?

Horses being shipped
There were 10,000 horses used to help the Anzacs in war. About 3% of them died. Also most of them were shipped to other countries. Stock inspectors from the department of agriculture bought most of the 10,000 horses. It cost them £17 but now that would be valued to $2500 dollars to ride horses in 1914. Also they paid £24 for transport horses which is now valued at $3500.

Horse Training
Did you know that horses were sent to training camps? But before they had to go to camps or to different countries they had to go to a remount depot. While they were there they got inspected so that they can be ready for troops work and riding. You may be wondering what did the horses eat and drink?  well the horses were taken three times a day to go out and drink fresh water. Also there were horse hospitails, because there was a very bad disease called strangles which is a bacterial infection of upper respiratory of a horse, it hurts their throat and makes it hard for them to breathe.

A lot of the horses went to German Samoa, in Middle East, Galopilie, and the Western Front, the horses were rode by troops and officers. As well draught and pack horses were used for taking stuff from place to place. Fun fact the most amount of horses carried on one ship was 728, the troops that was made to look after the horses were New Zealand. 3% of the horses died when they were being shipped to other countries, their bodies were thrown off the ship and into the sea. The horses got sick and diseased which illnesses like tona, which causes the feet to be in the shape of a huge sore. Also there was something called colic which is caused by horses kicking each other. 

The horses that were in Samoa worked very hard. They were rode by troops and officers, also the horses had to pull vehicles like trucks, waggons, and a meat van. As well there was indian mule carts, they were pushed by two mules. Donkeys and mules were used to take stuff like water and ammunition, because they could handle not having water and sleep for a long time.

So overall animals had a very hard time during the years of 1914-1916 in the war. They were a very import addition to the war animals helped us with war and peace.

Save South Sudan

WALT - Recognise the impact of a drought and famine on families and communities and describe what happened in South Sudan during the famine in 2017.

In Room 6 lately we have been learning about the people in South Sudan. Also we learnt that they are suffering drought and famine which means they have no food. I worked with Nika to join our two articles together. 

What I found hard : Finishing my work .

What I enjoyed : Working with a buddy.
Next time I will : Be more focused on my work.

Against the Wind

WALT- Identify complex themes and ideas in texts.

This week in reading my group read a story about how a young girl named Ai Mei who lived her whole life in China with her Grandfather and now she has to leave to New Zealand. She and her Grandfather like kites and they make them. Her and and her grandfather have been together since the day she was born. Her grandfather was sad to let her go. But she goes to New Zealand and she starts to feel homesick because everything is different. She finds it hard to understand because the teachers talk very fast also the rice doesn't taste the same like how it taste in china.


What I found Challenging - Making my character web
What I Enjoyed -  Drawing my poster and adding detail 
What I need to work on - Making my work stand out more