Awakeri School Room 10

Class News

14 October. Welcome back to school and it's our 4th term and it has gone so fast. Our production last term was terrific.The days are getting hotter and hotter. ANYWAY ag day is on Friday and a lot of us have pets. Everyone has to do art and we can decide from driftwood decoration, tennis ball decoration, a scene in a tray and a creation made of recycled materials. We all made a something with a curved piece of cardboard and paint them. We will tell you more AFTER ag day.

8 September. Hi people. We have started a new maths unit. We were doing fractions and decimals but now we are doing mass and capacity. It's quite fun! Another thing is Ag day. Room 10 are designing covers for the ag day programme. Lots of people are bringing animals. Here are some of the people who are. . . Tom has a dog called Zazu, Lauren has a lamb called Miley, Bailey has a lamb called Lizzie McGuire, Jessie has a goat called Angel, Katy has a goat called Kandi, Hannah has a lamb called Lulu,Fletcher has a goat called Samantha, Maraea has a lamb called Dodge, Robert has a lamb called Chei and Sharnaye has a dog called Jackson.We are also very busy with operetta. People are getting issued costumes and this week we are having two big practises. Remember to look at our camp photos.

2 September. Hi Everyone! Now it's spring! Wow, the year really is going fast. Lately we've been really busy. Something that sounds really boring but is actually really fun is our. . . buddy reading! We all have partners and one partner reads and the other listens and we have to assess each other on how good we are. Another really fun thing we've been doing is doodle4google. We had to design a kiwi one though, and Katy, Robert and Maiya are school finalists, plus Katy and Maiya's drawings have been sent off to the national competition. We've also been very busy with school production. Everyone has something to do and a few people have big parts.

1 September. We have started putting together a page of camp photos. Click here to have look, but we haven't finished yet!

18 August. Two weeks ago we were at - drum roll please... CAMP!!! We were at Mount Ruapehu tobogganing down 2 slopes but people climb up where some slid down. Okay so we went to a couple of places that the people went last year but it was still awesome. Tom thought camp was excellent and for him the best part was tobogganing for the first time. Felicia also enjoyed the snow. She liked making a snowman. Robert had a really fun time in the burma trail looking for his dad because he was one of the people who scared us. Katy's favourite part was the A.C. Baths and she really enjoyed lunch and the Tarzan Swing.Our Class Camp: this is what Millie and Lauren wrote.
First of all we had to unpack our gear and put it into our driver's car. Then the parents all got a clipboard which had their name on it and they got a balloon to stick in the back of the car. Mrs Petersen gave some instructions and then we were off!
It took ages to get to Lake Tarawera, where we stopped for morning tea and a toilet break. Then we headed to the Buried Village. When we got there, Mrs Petersen told the parents that they could go and have a coffee or go for the walk. Everyone wanted to go inside, so we went into the museum first. Then we went for a walk to the waterfall - it was beautiful!!
After the visit to the Buried Village we went to the Blue Lake for lunch, a play at the park and a walk if we had time, but we didn't have enough time for the walk.

We set off for Lake Taupo playground for afternoon tea. Finally we arrived at the camp. We had to unpack, get our beds made and then we had free time until dinner. For dinner, we had sausages and mashed potato and vegies. After a milo and supper, it was bedtime.
Day2
Getting ready for the snow!! We had morning tea when we arrived. After the snow, we had a nice hot swim at the Tokaanu pools. Then we returned to camp and enjoyed some free time before having our afternoon tea. We also had some train rides and they were fun!!
After that, we had dinner and a Quality Living talk plus free time for games. After supper, we brushed our teeth and then it was bedtime.
First we had breakfast and a final meeting with parents before departing from camp to travel to the Taupo playground where we had morning tea. We flagged the Taupo Bungy jump and went straight to the A.C Baths. We had lunch there and then left there to return to school by 2:30.
The best part of our camp was going down the slope at the snow on a tyre. It was the best camp we have ever been to.
By Millie & Lauren

29 July. Last week Mr Van Der Wouden taught us how to be safe in the snow. It was really interesting especially what to do when you are lost. Rm 10 hopes no one gets lost! .He also showed us his safety equpment. I liked the hand held flare.
We went to Harold the Giraffe and learnt about organs and what they do. Did you know that your nerves transmit pain faster than your blood can travel!

22 July. Welcome back everyone this is our third day back at school lots of people had fun. Lucas went to the snow for his birthday party and every body is excited to go to Harold the Giraffe. We are learning about organs and other body parts and drum roll please... CAMP!!!
We have been talking about camp and what is going to happen. Everyone is excited about going to the snow, got to go bye.

1 July. Congratulations to our dance troupe members Hannah and Maiya. At their competition on Thursday they came THIRD in their hiphop section against several other schools! Well done! Today and tomorrow we have Parent Teacher Interviews and Mrs Petersen is going to say lots of lovely things about us (Right, Mrs Petersen ?)At the moment (Actually, right as we speak the class is doing it) we're writing Term 2 reviews. They're all about the really cool things we've been doing this term. We have a new maths unit. We're doing geometry and it's really fun. Last Friday, with Mrs Wakelin, we made these really cool butterflies. They had to be perfectly symmetrical and now they're up on the wall looking brilliant! We forgot to mention that we made umbrellas and some of them can go up and down Plus we have done these cool as tiger camouflage pictures that look really realistic. Well that's all for now. Next term you get two more cool website monitors, Maiya and Jared. So, Laters!

24 June Hello Earthlings! Well, you might think we are aliens or something, but that's what people in space say, and we are doing some REALLY COOL space projects. We have collected some really cool planet facts and we look forward to seeing the finished results. For skipping, everyone is improving and a lot of people are really good at it, with a few people being' pros'.

19 June Hi again. In class on Fridays we have been making pop up pictures and they are turning out to be quite cool. We have also been drawing and used paper to make facial features and accessories like scars, earrings, necklaces, headbands and clothes. Well bye for now!

18 June. Hi there. Well done to the Cross Country qualifiers Jalen, Fletcher, Lauren and Sharnaye. They will be going to Manawahe in about a weeks time.As a new PE unit we are skipping. Some people are really good but we still hope to improve.We have a new topic. It's is the massive and unknown world of... SPACE! (but we hope that by the end of the unit we will know a lot more! Katy, Hannah and Jessie are doing reading extension with Mrs Cronin. We are writing some brilliant picture books.Oh yeah, we finished our animal projects and they look B-R-L-L-I-A-N-T. By the way, we had great results on cross country, with three records broken by Quest Tipping, Samantha Looney and Samuel Burgess.

3 June. Hi! Today everyone (well,almost everyone) is really excited. Why? Because it's our cross country day! Everyone is hoping they'll come first, and with a bit of luck, they will. For PE we have been doing ball skills. At the moment we are working with small balls. ( Not everybody's good at it but we hope to improve!!) Our animal projects are a succsess, well most of them are at least. Well got to go now bye!!

27 May. Hello. Yesterday we went on a really fun trip to the Whakatane Hunting and Fishing. Well, that was where we went first. It was really cool. We checked out the gun room, all the gear and the stuffed animal heads. When we left we got a lollipop each. Yum! After that we went to the Heads for morning tea and a play on the playground. Then we left...for the SPCA! We saw heaps of cute little cats and dogs. Then (unfortunately) we had to go back to school.
Mr Petersen did EXTREMELY well in his race, he came sixth in 31 hours! Well then, goodbye for now.

20 May. Hi! Next Tuesday we are going on a class trip to Whakatane Hunting and Fishing, the heads AND the SPCA! We're going because we are learning about animals in class and we think it will be really fun.Mrs Petersen's husband is doing brilliantly in his race. He is coming fifth out of 194 people! On day 4 he will run 100 kilometers! Phew!
Our new maths unit is time and calendar.
Katy is doing a new extension with Mrs Gordon. She is doing a project on a Victorian Nursery maid and it is presented in the form of a diary.It is really cool! Well, bye for now.

13 May. Hello! Room 10 have been having LOTS of fun recently. The thunderstorms on Monday were really cool, and when there was big claps of thunder a few people fell of their chairs! In class we have been learning about Maori legends and we have read a couple of them in class. We really enjoy it. Oh, you know how we're learning about the Animal kingdom? We are doing these exciting projects on an animal of our choice. But we aren't allowed to do a project on BORING animals like cats and dogs. We have to study COOL animals, like kiwi ,eagles, butterflies and the list goes on. As well as that we are not allowed to do the same project as anyone else. We have another big piece of news. Mrs Petersen's husband has travelled to Namibia and he will start his race on Sunday! Tom and Robert built a really cool Dropship out of knex, and it is really cool.We have put in a photo of it.

6 May. Hi everybody! With cross country being so near everyone is busy training. Fletcher proudly leads the class around the field most days, as he is a very good runner. Luke says he is looking forward to cross country and he hopes he comes first. We are also training for interschool rugby and netball. Cara says training for rugby is an awesome experience. Brittany absolutely loves training for netball and never wants to stop. Our new topic is the Animal Kingdom ( EVERYONE'S excited about it!)

29 April. Hi There well the holidays have fun for mostly everyone had an exciting holiday, welcome back Liam Sanson with that big holiday in Aussie, well the work has been pretty fun our maps have been really fun,our Holiday Highlights writing is going really well because most people have written at least half a pageWOW! Mrs Peterson heaps of people in the computer suite today. Our Chocolate selling is really bringing the cost off camp down! Well bye for now!

8 April.Hi again. We told you about our composting work for Zero waste, right. We did? Well here's a really cool photo.

Here is Felicia making her worm farm.

8 April. It is the last week of term and everyone is ....um very....happy. We had touch day on Monday and it was very fun and exhausting, plus there was lots and lots of scrumptious food being sold in the canteen. Everybody played brilliantly with teams from neighbouring schools participating in our touch day as well.Many teams from Awakeri won their games and at the end of the day heaps of people were trying hard to stay awake!

Here is our gorgeous teacher Mrs Petersen on touch day.

1 April. Hi everybody! Today everyone is having fun playing all their April fools jokes. The teachers played a joke on Mr Sheathers math class. The fire bell rang and everyone ran out, but there was no one there! Mr Sheather was a bit cross at first but he thought it was funny. Touch day is coming soon and I THINK everyone is excited. Another thing the class is excited about is our Zero waste unit. A lady called Fiona is telling everyone about recycling and reusing. We also get to make a worm farm . For topics we have been doing map tasks. They are very interesting because we get to learn lots of new place names. One last thing before we go today .What room 10 REALLY enjoys is our lovely new computer suite. We go every Wednesday and have LOTS of fun. Goodbye.

18 March. Forgot to mention it last time, but we wanted to congratulate Brady, Thomas and Tom for getting into interschool swimming sports. Some of the class have been using cool websites like Spellingcity and BBC. Taine reckons Spellingcity is pretty cool because he learnt to spell this, that and a few more words. The class also quite likes touch rugby.

11 March. Hello everybody! This week is our last week of swimming (Boo hoo) but we're starting touch (yipee!) We also have parent interviews and Mrs Petersen is going to say lots of lovely things about us. Four girls from our class: Jessie, Maiya, Hannah and Katy have been doing poetry extension with Mrs Petersen. It's really fun and we write lots of cool poems. While we're doing that the rest of the class goes to Mr Sheather to have some fun. Let's see what Millie and Arko have to say on the subject. Millie said that for science they do things with batteries and Arko said that for maths they do times tables.

5 March. Today we have the wonderful Mrs West teaching us because Mrs Petersen is working in the office. She is teaching us about seeds.

4 March. Swimming sports was cool! Maraea won the Biggest splash and Millie won the Neatest dive. The flutterboard width race ended up as the boogie board width race because Mrs Gordon forgot the flutterboards. But it made the race much more fun for us!

24 Feb. Swimming Sports on Monday 2nd is exciting for mostly everyone( Katy thinks she will drown!) Hannah is says she is going to win everything(don't tell her I said this , but she's probably going to sink!) Miss Campbell is with us on Tuesdays and she is a student teacher that went to Awakeri school when she was little! Did you know that her sister and Mum taught here too!

18 Feb.On Tuesday we went to the St John Hall for the first part of our school trip!! We were split into two groups and got to look in the Ambulances! We had thought of lots of questions the day before to ask the St Johns. We checked our pulse too!! Luke learnt that the firemen sometimes have to call the ambulance to come help save people. Cara learnt that the siren was at the front of the ambulance so the cars ahead could hear.

Here are Luke and Jalen taking turns with the emergency chair on wheels!

Leaving the St Johns hall, we headed off to the heads. After a very nice morning tea we had a play on the playground. The swings were very popular, so I hardly got a turn on them. All the boys were jumping off the swings and landing on the ground, which looked quite painful, but the boys didn't seem to mind. Then came the best part of the trip - the swim. There was a long line of rocks as a barrier a little way out into the water, and everyone loved jumping off into the water, but some people, including me, jumped off where the water was too shallow and hurt themselves on the sand. Fletcher said the swim was a time everybody enjoyed themselves. Some boys found a really big ( really big, and that's saying something) log on the beach and they dragged it into the water. Taine claimed the log was a ship and he was the captain, but people kept trying to sink it! Tom also tried to claim the 'ship' as his own by turning it into White Island tours. Hannah was a passenger!
Going to Kohi point after a nice refreshing swim, drawing maps was our next exciting task. When every body hopped out of their car they went "WOW" at the amazing view! Cara said that Kohi Point had a beautiful view because you can see the Whakatane River. Fletcher said he could see the Hub and Coastlands.Finally (boo hoo) we had to go back to school. It was a great class trip and we hope we can do it again soon! ( Mrs Petersen said we might get to go to the police station, so you never know!)

13 Feb. Today is meant to be Black Friday but it's Fun Friday for us, because Mrs Wakelin is teaching and she gives us fun things to do like Art, music and games. Maiya painted a picture of a jockey and a horse. Jalen did a great picture of him surfing at the beach, which Mrs Wakelin recommended for the website.

This is Jalen's painting of him surfing!

12 Feb. Our website moniters are Katy, Maiya and Hannah
We are off to the St Johns Hall on Tuesday the 17th February.
We will also go to the heads for morning tea and a swim and a play on the playground. Then we will do a mapping activity at Kohi Point. Sounds like fun!

Students' Work!

18 March. My Friends horse has got no manners............................. She always rolls in the mud, and sometimes she thinks she's a cow , spitting out cud,she may even do a buck, leaving you to brush off all the mud,then after that she steals an carrot off you(How rude is that!) she doesn't even chew! My friends horse has got no manners you see: and listen to this, when you try to ride her she demands a fee! Oh no look out she bolts(Now this isn't good) In dressage, this earns poor Hannah faults. I secretly think she's quite queer.... But just like any normal horse, she has a lot of hair! By Jessie Schuler