Awakeri School

Room 1

Class News

6 November

ATHLETICS is today and i have a feeling KOWHAI!!! is going to win followed by the other great houses. (wink wink). We all have practised hard for today and will be very proud of ourselves weither we come first or last. On Wednesday was all the other events like high jump, long jump, shot put, bean bag throw and more. Good lick to evryone and remeber be the best you can be!!!!!!!!!! GO KOWHAI

29 October

we had a great day yesterday having a visit from two rabits Daisy and Rosy. We have made rabits like the ones we saw and we can't wait to complete them. Today we are going out for athletics and practising Vortex. We have done some lovley art of our beans we grew. They have very tall steams and we explained how we had to look after them. We have reed the book Going to School and were thinking about how scary it was starting a new school with alot more people and different teachers. Word of the week is Amazing and have been using it in our writing to make our stories more exciting. For maths we have made some graphs. As a class we all made a graph about birthdays. Most of us had our birthday in October and only one persons birthday was in June. We made another one about Ag day. Only three people brought pets. This afternoon we are learning and making broken bottle art. We are learning about the letter Ff we have made green jumpy frogs that are leaping all around the classroom.

 

21 October

We had a very interesting start of the day today. We got a visit from 12 mice today. First there was only 2 and now theres 12 baby mice.we only got to see one because the rest were all shy and didnt want to come out. We have been learning the letter Ii and have coloured in islands and put under where we were on it. They look beautiful and wish we could go to them in real life. We have about 6 caterpillar plants slowly growing. Soon we will be able to plant them in a special place around the school. Today we have another practise of athletics and improving as we go.

9 October

Today afte lunch we had some fun practising athletics. As you can see our class was practising shotput with the bean bags. We have learnt how to hold it and the way your feet must be pointed. (here are some photos). We had a great time on the big kids playground learning all the difficult bits that you could go on. Down below are some stories.

 

12 October

We are into October already and have remembered all the fun things we did on our holiday. Someone was telling me they went to the Coast and others were visiting grandparents, friends and family. We are now back at school and learning about pets and animals. We will be excited on Ag day to see all the different kind of pets. We know that there will be Cats, Dogs, Goats, Lambs and even calves. Soon we will be learning about road safety and keeping out of the sun and the W.I.Ts. We now have a 11 pupils in our class plus 5 new students. We have a new library corner with heaps of books we are going to enjoy reading. Today we read SNAP.

24 September

We were very lucky to go to the Air Force today. Apart from the rain we really enjoyed it. We learnt that the Air Force has their own fire truck and it's bright YELLOW. We thought the production was awesome, with the sounds and lighting and even the smoke machine. Some of us liked seeing the king die in the first scene when others liked the prince and even the lost legionnaire's singing. We got a big fright from the cannon when it boomed out at us. Some of us are moving to room 2 and are happy to be moving where we can meet new friends. Well done to the kids and parents who brought in yummy stickers, this year we collected 4094. Last year we only collected 3500. I hope everyone has a good holiday and will be ready for next term.

This is us planting our beans.	We enjoyed all the dirty mess while we planted the seeds.

18 September

We had some great fun balloon blowing and even made our own balloons that are floating around the class room. We made some magic wands and under them we wished for something. Some wished to be a racing car driver, others wanted to be kittens and some would have loved to see a real dinosaur. Cc is the letter this week and have been learning heaps of words beginning with the letter. We read the Hungry Bear. It's about ruby red strawberries, we enjoyed it. In maths we learnt about making patterns.

15 September

From our supermarket trip we have made our own little trolleys with the different foods we would buy at the supermarket. Some put bananas, sausages, bread, milk and even lollies. We had been reading the story Greedy Cat and wrote stories about what Greedy Cat stole. A lot of people looked like they have had a good weekend. Some went to their nanas, some went swimming and Adian was lucky enough to go to Auckland. We have planted our own beans and can't wait for them to grow nice and big. Also Happy Birthday to Jacob and for Issac tomorrow.

4 September

We started the morning off with a jump jam (YMCA). Then afterwards we fed our stomachs with POPCORN. All of us had a great time cooking it. We even added golden syrup. Today we had six visitors looking around our school. Mrs Gordon was lucky enough to get some of room ones popcorn. (wheres mine?). Ethan got caught being good today and he helped me with website. Ethan's favourite game is Murtle turtle. It's a game with a dice and if you roll a zero you're out. We had a nice quiet time in the library reading heaps of books.

We enjoyed going to the supermarket and learnt lots too.	We learnt to scan food and how the system works.

28 August

We made some delicious fruit kebabs with heaps of healthy fruits. We also had a great time at the Supermarket with room 2, scanning food and learning all the different jobs there are in a supermarket. We got a bit freaked out seeing a cow, lets just say it was very pink! At the supermarket we learnt where the food comes from. It was really interesting to find out.

21 August

We had some fun with art today. The ladies from Singapore gave a beautiful picture to the school. We decided that it was so cool we would make our own and decorate it with wonderful bright colours and pretty sparkles. We have 2 new people and they are enjoying the school so far. We are reading a story at the moment called the Rainbow Fish. We got to colour in our own rainbow fish. We have almost learnt the alphabet and soon will know all the letters.

This is Aidan's beautiful rainbow fish swimming in the sparkly water.	Aime did a wonderful job colouring in her magnificent fish.

 

13 August

We have had an awesome day so far. In the morning we made cold milos because this week's letter is Mm. We have been learning about Ag Day and what it is and got to see some real ribbons from when Mrs Wardell had her calf. Soon Rm 2 and we are going to the supermarket (Super Value). We have been learning what you buy there and the stuff you buy. We had some great fun blowing bubbles and our stories are below. Mrs Wardell is very happy about the new electronic white board that has just been put in and soon other class rooms will have fun with it too.

10 August

We were very excited because we got to see a real kiwi. It was a baby kiwi and we learned lots about it. It had a long beak and its coat was brown. We also learned that there are not many kiwis left because of dogs and pests that harm them and their eggs. We learned a new food poem and enjoyed learning all the healthy foods and all the treats. We also had some fun with farm animals in groups. I would like to thank Cate for helping me with website today.

30 July

Today we had another awesome pajama with Rm2 because we have been wonderful people and had earned all our marbles in the jar. At the party we had treats and we learnt that it goes at the top of the food pyramid Harold taught us that. We have had 3 visits from him and learnt all about the food pyramids and food for energy. We have been practising our skipping for the heart foundation tomorrow. On Tuesday we had a visit for Jessie (Mrs Wardell's) dog. Some of our comments are down below we loved having her come to our class and can't wait to see her again. Soon we will be learning about the supermarket and we are quite excited. We are doing clay making in art and love getting our hands stuck in it. We only have 10 kids in our class plus four that are brand new, they came last week.

20 July

I hope everyone enjoyed their holidays and have came back nice and safe to another busy brand new term.

29 June

Today I had Cambell Julian and Regan Henderson help me with website.
They have beautiful Mrs Turner today and have been doing maths and have been writing stories about the weekend. In maths they have been learning to count to 50 ( keep practising!). On Friday they enjoyed playing Rob the Nest and Stuck in the Mud in the afternoon. The word of the week is............Evaporate.

19 June

We have six new people in our class and I'm sure they are enjoying all the fun things at Awakeri. We tasted some sherbet its sweet because of the icing sugar and it was fizzy because of the baking soda. We are learning firewise and about Mr Cool. We learnt that if you get a burn from a fire you put it under cold water for twenty minutes. As well as the marble jar we also have a raffle. If one of our class mates be very good and follow the virtues you get to write your name down and put it in the box, at the end of the week we draw a person out and that person gets to pick something out of the bucket of treasure. We are going to have another pajama party soon if we earn our marbles. We were learning the letter Jj, we coloured in jumbo jets and under the jet we wrote where we would like to go some wanted to go to Auckland and others were around the other side of the world. They are on our classroom wall pop in and have a look.

5 June

Its the start of a new month and Bob the fish is doing fine. He is as happy as can be. On the sound table the letter this week is T. We have a couple of new people visiting our class and we have been putting our best manners on. We had Mrs West yesterday she joined in at jump jam. We really enjoyed cross country yesterday.

25 May

We have a marble box and if we earn all the marbles out of the box we get to go on the big kids playground. Also the word of the week is HORRIBLE.

11 May

We have been learning about drawing faces and we had to draw ourselfs. We also made some yummy pikletes. We watched them sizzle. Around Bob's fish tank we put some rules like dont touch or bang the tank, keep the tank clean and only feed once a day. For art we are going to keep working on drawing faces. And we are still looking at the word Disolving.

 

1 May

We have three new people in our classroom we have showed them around the school and have been the friendly and kind kids we are. Five of our other class mates have moved to room three. Bob our fish is doing great, he is very happy. We found out that fish need a background in their bowl so they feel more happy and they think they are in the ocean. We all coloured in a background for Bob and we change it every week. The special helper feeds Bob everyday. Today we made chocolate crackle and at the moment we are learning about Melting Mixture and disolving. Its really cool because the playcentre next door will join us every Friday for jump jam.

29 April

I hope that everyone is enjoying our first week back at school. It was nice that everyone had a good holiday and everyone came back safetly and ready to work hard for another great term.

3 April

We got a new pet fish in our classroom. His name is Bob. We made milo milkshakes. They were yummy! This week our letter was M. So we made mousse with Mrs Leus. Every Friday we do jump jam to get our fitness up. We are very excited about the holidays.

 

27 March

Room 1 had a pyjama party. I hope no one fell asleep. Probably not you would be having too much fun. We wrote some cthings we liked at the party. Some liked the delicous sausages some like the yummy muffins and others liked the big fluffy pillows. We are really enjoying
our days at school and we can't wait until the holidays.

 

20 March

Room 1 went to Vets for Pets in Edgecumbe. They wrote some things they liked there. Some liked the puppies and others liked the x-ray machine. Also our bag boxes look great and awesome. We painted something different on each side of the box. Have a look outside our class room.

9 March

We have made a treaty. Our treaty is:
Have fun
stay in safe places at school
Use our manners
put our hand up when we want to speak
Make sure everyone has someone to play with
use our wits
and heaps more other good rules.
We are also learning stuff in the pool like entering the pool saftely and float like a starfish and heaps of others.

27 February

We have been learning about pictographs. We did a Fast food pictograph and a transport one. We are also learning about safe places to go around school like on in the school car park alone is not safe. We are reading a story (Just Like Me) and looking to find T's in the story also learning how to write a capital T and a lower case t. We also made toasted sandwiches. Some had cheese and tomato when others had cheese and marmite they were delicious.

13 February

Today we are painting our names with tennis balls and doing some printing art with puzzle pieces and paint. We also have some new kids visiting our class.

12 February

Kia ora I'm Briar and I'm the new website monitor for Room One. I welcome all the new people to Awakeri and hope you enjoy 2009.
I'm looking foward to getting to know you all and the things you're doing in your class.

Students' Work

we loved blowing different shaped bubbles.	We huffed and buffed trying to blow big bubbles.

 

 

Playground

I am under the slide
by Jack
I am holding on to the chains.
by Hayden
I am in the tunnel.
by Mark
I am climbing up.
by Isaac
I am on the steps.
by Sammy

Bubbles

I like the bubbles. The bubbles were popping.
by Prabhnoor
I blew the bubbles. The bubbles popped.
by Beth
I like the bubbles. I like popping the bubbles. We blew bubbles.
by Keaton
I like popping the bubbles. I like blowing double bubbles.
by Ethan

Kiwi

I can see a kiwi. I see feathers.
by Oscar
I see a kiwi. I see wings. I see an egg. I see a leg.
by Cate
I can see a kiwi. I can see some feet.
by Prabhnoor
I see a kiwi. I see a bill.
by Aidan

Jesse

Jesse is jumping on me.
by Joel
Jesse went to school.
by Cate
Did you know that the puppies didn't come close to me? I wanted to pat them.
by Tom
Jesse was cute.
by Beth

Beautiful art done about healthy food.	In maths we have been learning about measuring things.

 

Teacher's Message

Our beautiful teacher Mrs Wardell