Symmetry

 We have made a slide show about symmetry so our teacher gave us three company names and we made three different logos for each company and we could do phrase for the company
her is my slide show about my company's
  

Christmas Art

Today we made our Christmas art for 2018 and we did a silhouette of a Christmas tree 

and I chose a tree on a hill and a sunset with lots of stars.

Graguation

On Wednesday we had our graduation mass and we basically hosted the mass. We did all the readings and we handed the leadership candles to the year 5 and after that we did our year 6 performance.

Algabra

We have been doing a algebra math sheets that is testing our algebra and our teacher has been teaching us about algebra and we started doing the algebra sheets

pursasive writing

🐛Nibbling on Crunchy Bugs🐛

I am learning to persuade my audience by writing a exposition

Feeling hungry? How about some spicy grasshoppers with a side of mealworm fries? The thought of consuming such a meal might turn your stomach, but the eating of insects is common across many areas of the globe, largely due to its nutritional benefits. I strongly think people should eat bugs.You might think bugs are just little animals that live on the ground and are absolutely the grossest thing ever, but did you know that 90% of people who try bugs actually enjoy them and start eating them more often? Farming contains lots of water 22,000 litres of water for cows, 3,500 litres for pigs, 2,300 litres of water for chickens and one litre for crickets. 80% of the world's nations eats insects, that is 1,000 species.

There is over 1,900 edible species of insects. In 2005 over two billion people eat insects worldwide. Human insect eating is common to cultures in most parts of the world. In the year 2050 approximately nine billion people will eat bugs all around the world. Today, insect eating is uncommon in North America and Europe, but insects remain a popular food elsewhere, and some companies are trying to introduce insects into western diets. Lots of places of the world eat bugs including China, Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and some developing regions of Central and South America. All these countries are eating delicious bugs so you should try one yourself.

Eating bugs can change your life. Just eating a scorpion's tail will make you stronger. Eating bugs could combat obesity. Insects are considered highly nutritional. The majority of them are rich in protein, healthy fats, iron, calcium and low in carbohydrates. In fact insects are just as, if not more nutritious than commonly consumed meats, such as beef. Did you know that 100 grams of crickets is 121 calories, 12.9 grams of protein, 5.5 grams of good fat and 5.1 grams of carbohydrates? Insects are so beneficial that you should add them to your daily diet to help you grow healthy and strong.
If you are sick of eating the same bugs raw everyday you can search up online for recipes for bugs and there are loads of ideas like chirp cookies, scorpion lollipops, mealworm fries, chocolate covered crickets and so on. In many countries there are lots of different recipes around the world. There are thousands of ways to make a bug taste like a five star restaurant meal. There is outstanding recipes such as grasshopper cake and there is a gum made from spiders. Bugs are so tasty that if you put them in a meal you won't even know their there. So why not give it a try today?




In conclusion I think bugs are small but can do a huge difference if we eat them and if all of the people in the world ate bugs I think world hunger would disappear. Bugs might solve the obesity problem and give you a ton of protein so you get healthier by eating bugs. So if you see someone in a market selling them I encourage you to eat bugs.

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.

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 being the leader for the haka.

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.

Culture Festival

Next Saturday Good Shepherd school will be performing at the Eden Albert culture festival for most schools in Auckland will be performing and we will be doing three Maori songs and a Haka. we are doing Te Aroha, Hareruia, Himene mo te Hepara pai and the haka is tika tonu.

St Patrick

Our focus this term in Religious Education was the Communion of Saints. We learnt about the three parts of the Communion of Saints and how we are all connected. The Communion of Saints is bonded through prayer, baptism and the Eucharist.

Communion of Saints

We have been learning about that we are living saints. On all souls day we were learning about three Saints the living Saints on earth the Saints in purgatory and the Saints in heaven. In the picture we're all the Saints together but before be were separated into three groups living saints, purgatory and the saints in heaven.    

writing

In writing, we have learning to write a persuasive piece of writing.

We have co-conducted our success criteria together.

Here is our introduction criteria check list.

The same but different

we learned that  we can't judge people for what they look like  

All saints day and All soul day

we made a paper weaves and it's for all saints  and all souls day

and the communion of saints  

waka

we made a mini me and put them in a waka 

and put a word on our paddles 

shield

our class did a shield for what your unique about and why your class is special

moari weather

On Monday the 15th of October we learnt to say different types of weather in Maori and did a test to match the word with the picture.

My reports on the Kea

lately we have been working on writing about native birds to New Zealand and we have been working on these for a few days and my native bird was the Kea also known as the New Zealand mountain parrot.

hangi

we had a display of a Maori oven called a hangi we paired up for around two weeks to make a slide or a diorama and me and my partner made a diorama and this is what it looks like 

prayers

On Monday we did prayers for hole school and it was on cultural week and we said a prayer in Maori,Samoan and Chinese and we had fun doing it. 

calendar art

We have been working on our calendar art for 2019. We have been working on these for  all term and will be put on a calendar  for 2019

God title page

We have been learning about God and we have made a title page

Mandarin

we have been learning about the langue mandarin we have been learning about mandarin for eight weeks and we have been learning how to do a conversation in mandarin and we have been learning our names

Author visit

A author came to visit our school his name was Raymond Huber and he is a New Zealand author and he came to our school to talk about his books and his addiction about bees 

Abraham and Sarah

we have been learning about Abraham and Sarah and how God gave them a baby by following Gods instructions. Before Abraham was called Abram and Sarah was called Sari. Abraham and Sarah were 40 years old and did not have a child but they wanted one then God said I will give you a child if you travel to the land of cannon and it will all be yours but Abram and Sari had doubt in God but they still did it they traveled to the land of cannon and then God gave them a baby boy.

social justice

We had a social justice week and we watched a video about being fair to others 

and it was about a square not fitting in with all the other shapes so it showed some shapes helping him fit in and treated the same and the lesson is that everyone should be treated the same no matter what they look like. 

speches

How kids can make a difference

Do you know what can start small but can do humongous things if you guessed a child you are correct.Now we will get serious do you see around you you might see a nice tree a butterfly the beautiful sun but this not this all around the world.

Now I will talk about the dangers of the world. There a dangers to the world and I will list them for you explosive weapons, world war, poverty, global warming and extra .You might think it’s fine but you're wrong all of this will keep growing and growing until the human race is gone.

Now I’m going to talk to you about solutions to those problems. Stop littering if every kid in new Zealand pick up one piece of rubbish that's 1.4 million pieces of rubbish gone from pollution sounds like a lot right but what if every kid in the world picked up one piece of rubbish that’s 1.9

billion rubbish WOW! But that’s is only one of the many world threats. World hunger the suction food but how do we get this food I know make a food grower that makes food get bigger. You might think that’s not possible but it could if you try really hard.

People that have made a difference think about it.If people have made a difference how do you think Martin Luther king jr what he did as a kid you think he would of sat there just no he would of trying to fight to make a difference look at him now he made the world change.Elbert entine he is one of the most smartest people ever to live.

what do you think he did as a kid he couldn't talk till he was four years old but did that stop him from be becoming one of the most smartest people ever to live he worked and worked till his limits were accomplished. These people have done everything they can as a kid look in a history book they are amazingly famous.

Okay have you got all of this information.Now you know how to make a difference so why don’t you go out there and make a difference.

kiwi information writing

KIWI

Do you know what bird that can’t fly but is a national treasure if you guessed the kiwi bird you are correct. Now some fun facts do you know kiwis lifespan is approximately 30-50 years, kiwi height is 33-63 centimeters. Kiwis we discovered in the mid 1800’s. Many people think there is only one Kiwi but did you know that there are 5 types of Kiwi birds North Island Kiwi, Southern Brown Kiwi, Little Spotted Kiwi, Great Spotted Kiwi, Okarito Kiwi. Kiwis do not have very good eyesight so they have to rely on their touch sense for navigation .The kiwi has the egg size of a Ostrich egg but the Kiwi is the size of a chicken, interesting right. There are lots of interesting thing about the kiwi bird. There are three main things about the kiwi which are the diet, habitat and predators.

Diet are very important in a Kiwi’s life to have a healthy life and so they do not look yummy for the predators. First of all Kiwi’s love to eat invertebrates ( invertebrates are animals without a backbone) for example worms, spiders, beetles and extra . When the Kiwi eats his delicious plate of icky sticky worms he swallows them down his enormous beak into his digestive system bye bye worm. Kiwi birds don’t just eat insects they also eat small crayfish, fruit, plants ,eels, fungi and amphibians so the kiwi bird is a omnivore. The kiwi does not need water because worms are made up of 85% of water.Some people wonder if kiwis eat kiwi fruit apparently to google the answer is no .The kiwi bird has to have a home with lots of food around it so the habitat is next

Home for a kiwi bird is a place where predators are away and food is near but where is this home. Kiwi birds home are usually underground or a borrow. Kiwis live in the forest because they prefer somewhere dark, damp and and where's it has wetland . There are 15,000 that have made a home in Stuart island. The kiwi is a sensitive creature and needs the right habitat or they will parish that's whats so important about a habitat and where it’s at. Kiwi birds are wise of how they get home .

Predators are a the biggest threats to kiwi there are many threats to the kiwi bird. All of the predators were all brought by the English they brought stoats, weasels , possums, cats, dogs and extra .there was over 12 million kiwis and now there are fewer than 100 thousand around.

In conclusion the kiwi bird is one of a kind. A kiwi bird is a bird that everyone wants, to have in there country but if we want it to stay alive we have to take care of it but taking care of our world.  

bird creation

These are our bid creation we picked a body part of each and created 

our own bird and all of our class made our own and it took two days to do a draft and the poster  

and it was worth it

Grandparents mass

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, folk 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.

weather slideshow

cross

We have been painting on a cross for putting on our school gate so people look at our creations. We have been working on these crosses for weeks and we started on doing a draft on paper three times get ready for the real thing. Some people are doing two crosses for early finishers. The school have been working so hard for these crosses and this is what they look like.   

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 realised 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.

science experiment

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 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

online file

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.

saint Mary Mackilop 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…

Maori proverbs

A Whakatauki is a proverb, what is truly valued in the Maori Culture.

The Whakatauki that we have been learning about is if we all shared then no one would go without.

We would be able to provide for all that come to us.

There are also Proverbs in the Bible that encourage us to share.

Read these proverbs : Proverbs 19:17; 22:9; 31:20.

Jesus also showed us the teachings of God when he feed the multitudes of people with the fish and the loaves. Read more about this in the Gospel of John: 6 or the Gospel of Matthew: 14.

Evolution vertebrates

In room six we have been learning to classify animals. scientists classify animals and plants into groups in order to easily identify, sort, and name them.

Classify = SORT

There are many different ways to group living things.

Classifying Animals

You can classify animals into two main groups. vertebrates or invertebrates 

ALL vertebrates have..

*Covering skin that protects them. 

* skeleton inside their body.

*Muscles that help them move.

*Blood moves through tubes.

* Lungs and gills for breathing.

Invertebrates 

* 90% of all animals are invertebrates. 

* Tend to be small because they do not have a backbone.

* Many live in the ocean because the water helps support their weight.

* Some have a hard covering or shell on the outside of their bodies for protection.

- Insects, spider, crabs, snails, clams

The 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.

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.

Produchion

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 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 blocksthey 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.

Book Week

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

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/flaxseed 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.

Bee show

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.

Henry's Recipe

             Henry's banana bread 

ingredients:

1. 3 ripe bananas, mashed          

2. 2 eggs

3. 1 3/4 cups of flour

4. 1 1/2 cups of sugar

5. 1/2 cup vegetable oil

6. 1/4 cup of milk

7. 1 teaspoon of baking soda

8. 1 teaspoon of vanilla 

9.  (optional) 1/4 -1/2 cup of walnuts

HOW TO MAKE BANANA BREAD
Combine the oils,eggs,sugar,milk,vanilla and mashed bananas.
Then add the flour and baking soda after that stir for a good 2-3 minutes. Put the ingredients in to a greased pan and the bake in a preheated 160C degree for 1hour and 20 minutes

Definition 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 nutritious 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

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 math 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

Happy birthday Suzanne Aubert

Ra Whanau Suzanne Aubert

In room 6 we have been celebrating Suzanne Aubert’s birthday by making flowers for the theme, “Always choose the little flower of hope.”

Suzanne looked after sick people, people with disabilities, children whose families couldn’t care for them, and the elderly. The work she started continues to this day in places like Wellington’s Compassion Soup Kitchen.

Suzanne left her home in France and came to Aotearoa to support the Maori people. She honoured the Maori people, their tikanga, reo and rongoa. Suzanne loved God and always thought about what he wanted her to do, not what she wanted, even when that wasn’t easy.

Sea turtle life cycle

I am learning to write explanation writing

Do you know what animal lives in the sea and was living 150,000,000 years ago? If you guessed sea turtle you are right. There are seven different species of sea turtles I will list them Leatherback, Olive Ridley, Flatback, Loggerhead, Green, Hawksbill and Kemp's Ridley. Did you know sea turtles can hold their breath for four-seven hours. There are four stages of life for sea turtles, the egg stage, the childhood stage and the adulthood stage. Should we start with the egg stage.

THE EGG STAGE
First a female sea turtle crawls far up the beach so the water does not drown the eggs under the sand. The female digs a hole till her flipper can not touch the sand.Then PLOP! Here comes the leathery ping pong ball sized eggs. The female lays approximately 50-200 eggs and around 1000 eggs a year. Sadly about 20% do not hatch but their are still babies and babies are cute.

THE CHILDHOOD STAGE
After the eggs hatch the next stage is underway. The babies wait till it is night time so there will be less predators. When the babies crawl to the surface they make there desperate dash to the sea. They can not see well so they see the moon’s reflection on the water. That is why if you see a sign if you are in a car that says ‘turn off your lights’ that is because the baby turtles see the light and they will crawl towards your car. The baby will most likely crawl towards the sea they will face some predators such as dogs, crabs, raccoons, birds and cats. Some of the baby turtles will drown from the waves crashing into them. Approximately 50% will parish trying to get to the sea. When the baby turtles make it into the sea they will face some new predators as fish, sharks, dolphins and sea birds when they come up for air. They will travel about 1,200 kilometers away from the beach they were born on.

THE ADULT STAGE
With growth comes some protection so now the main threats are tiger, bull and great white sharks and the occasional killer whale. Now at about two decades of age the female will now travel back to the same beach she was born on. The female turtle will meet as many male turtles as possible for more eggs which means more chance for survival. The turtle will find her beach that she was born on. When she has found it she will lay her eggs and then the life cycle start all over again.

CONCLUSION
To conclude, sea turtles have three distinctive life stages. The adult stage is the hardest for the turtles to survive because of human interference and pollution.

Room 6's assembly

 Camera, Lights, Action

Room 6 presented their learning about not being a bystander at their assembly on Friday week 3. In week 3 all school around New Zealand made a stand by wearing pink. PINK stood for Peaceful, Inclusive, Noble and Kind. Our assembly was a success and we all had fun.