Manadrin and Brazil

Ni Hao! On Fridays we have Mandarin lessons. And our teacher Ms Li teaches us about the Chinese culture and about the amazing language. I like Mandarin cause it is fun to learn a new language every Friday. We learnt that the Great Wall has been around for many years and was used to keep people from other parts of China to stop coming and trespassing we also learnt a song the number song the greeting song I like the songs especially the greeting song we will be performing that on Friday And we learnt how to write our names in pin yin. If you don't know what pin yin is, it the style of writing they do in China. 


But sadly we are stopping this Friday and starting our other languages for cultural week I got Brazilian. Did you know that 3,000 fish species live in the Brazilian rain forest and 2.5 million of insects live also in the Brazilian rain forest. And now we are learning a dance called Zumba dancing it is a dance they do in Brazil for the carnival. And we will be starting Mandarin next term oh I can not wait. 

Cross

This is my cross. Today i finished my cross. It took about 6 weeks till I finished. At the start I thought it was going to look like a disaster. The things that we put on our cross was to do something with God's creation or the school. The symbols i put was the yin and yang cause it symbolizes the chinese culture in our school. I also did two flags - the NZ flag and the Botswana flag because I am from Botswana and I was born in NZ. I also put a sun cause Good Shepherd is the light of my world. And I had a heart and grass to show the love of the Good Shepherd school field. And last but not lest are the arrows on the top of the cross symbolize all the patterns we have in our lovely earth. 

Digital Fluency

For digital fluency Ethan, Nathaniel and I did a play about cyber bullying we did it without any practice. I was the dad Ethan was my son and Nathaniel was a professional con man and stranger. His character's name was uncle Jake. First we did an act about what you should not do and after what you should do. The crowd thought it was funny and we also thought the play was funny cause we had to do it without any lines and talked from scratch.

Mass

In the morning we went to morning mass. It was fun to learn more about God and Jesus and to listen to the message from the Bible about Jesus filling the net to feed everyone after a few days without fish. And the net was so full they called the people from the other side of the sea to help cause the net was starting to tear and needed the people to use their net for more support. 

During the Eucharist we had the people who haven't taken their first holy communion just put their arm across the chest. Then Father Bernard said some words for us to go in peace.

Speeches

Earlier in term 3 we had speeches. It was exhilarating. My topic was on Why Kids Should Get Out More. I didn't get into the semi finals or finals, but happily my best friend Nathaniel got into semi finals and finals and came 2nd place. Ethan and I were really proud of him and I bet his parents were also really proud and happy for him. Elijah came 1st and he is representing the school for Eden/Albert sometime this month (September).