Awakeri School

Room 11

Who are we?

We are a fun and fantastic group of 29 that are determined to dazzle you with their hard working and AWESOME personalities. Adding on to our awesomeness there are three new students in our class. We all are pleased to meet our small friends Gus, Gertrude and Torro as well as Splish and Splash the class fish. I'm sure that Mrs Gordon and other teachers will agree that we are the BEST!!! (well Mrs Gordon might, but, well dream on! - Mr H)

Class news

30.10.09 Yesterday we visited the Buried Village. We learnt heaps and saw a lot of things like guide Sophia's photo and what she looked like. We also saw Tohotu's whare and some of us went into it. We learnt the Maori names for the Pink and White terraces Otukapuarangi (pink) and Te Tarata (white).

This is guide Sophia who led the tourists to see the sights.	Our class on the jetty in front of Mt Tarawera
Dylan, Aaron and Blyne in front of the waterfall.	Kodi, James and Jaydon in front of Tuhoto's Whare
These are one the terraces aren't they awesome!!!!	This is the tree that in the eruption a sewing machine landed in the tree!!!
This is us on our trip sight the waterfall flow down stream!!!	This is the awesome waterfall!!!

27.10.09 On Thursday week three room 11 is going on a fantastic trip to Buried Village that will follow our study on Mt Tarawera. We will be walking past where the Rotomahana Hotel once stood, and many more places along the way. We willl update you after we have been to the Buried Village

17.09.09 We have been learning about Pablo Picasso. He was born in Spain and then moved to France at 23. When he was poor he drew or painted furniture on the wall so it didn't look so bare. Scroll down to see some of our amazing faces.

27.08.09 This term Room 11 has been learning about Mongolia. We had to do a project including information Of Genghis Khan, Animals, Food, Houses, Clothing, Weather and Climate and a venn diagram. Scroll down to see some of our work.

11.08.09 We went to Ohiwa and planted 600 Pingao.

Come on Josh get to work	We were all amazed at how the sand dunes have grown
Look at all the pingao 600!!!	All working hard!!!

 

31.07.09 Today the middle school persevered in what people called tiring JUMP ROPE!!! We had nine stations, which we participated in, with different skipping routines, including two rest stations. Mrs Gordon played the music while we skipped for eight minutes, when she stopped the music we were to move on to the next station. It was a fun filled hour and twelve minutes.

R11 helped raise money for the Heart Foundation.	Daniel Gow and Marc Anderson jumping for joy!!!
Renee King and Rebecca jumping for joy!!!	Jordan Edhouse, Mekaela Leamond and Samantha Looney

02.07.09 Today we had Samantha's brother Phillip came to school to share his two ferrets. One was called Oscar and he was the dad to Gizmo but Gizmo is bigger than Oscar. Did you know that they can weigh up to four kilogram. They also had their own cage that had a hammock to play and sleep in. One of them enjoyed crawling up Mrs Gordon's jumper and once came out the other side!

Phillip is telling us about his Ferrets.Did you know they eat cat biscuits.	Samantha and Ruby holding Gizmo and Oscar.
This is Gizmo close up.	Gizmo in his hammock.

 

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22.05.09 Yesterday we made diorama's of the gumdiggers. We had to have all of the gear like a spear, a steel metal rod with a spade handle that could start at two metres high and end up at 8 metres, a spade for using to dig up the gum, an axe for bleeding the tree, a pikau (sack) for carrying the gum, a hurdy gurdy a steel cast iron round container for separating the gum from dirty to clean and a sieve, which they used to get out the the mud and small pieces of gum of a Kauri tree. There were many more equipment need but these were the main. We also included a Shanti a Gumdiggers house. If we wanted to put tables, chairs, trees and anything else that related to the topic we were welcome. We had a choice of many colours and textures of materials to choose from. They are all are looking great. We will soon have some photos of them on here so keep a look out.

18.05.09 This term we have been studying the Gumdiggers and how they lived in a swampy and scrubby enviroment, what they ate and the equipment needed to dig,clean and search for the gum. On Friday the 15th of May Room Eleven decided to futher our knowledge about the Gumdiggers by cooking camp oven bread. Mrs Gordon had already put the mixture for the bread in the camp oven, we lit the fire and waited until there were enough embers to cook the bread. We then put the embers on the lid and under the camp oven to cook. look at the scrumptious bread and the process below.

The embers are our top element.	This is our final stage EATING IT!!!
This is soooo nice and warm.	Wating for the fire to die down and become embers.

 

04.05.09 Rooms 9, 10 and 11 are practicing for the Rugby and Netball tournament on week five of term two. The students who play and others who want to play Netball and Rugby will get to play. When the tournament is over we will update this site.

25.3.09 The teams were very eager to play as TOUCH day was soon coming. We will play many schools from the Bay Of Plenty and will join the fight to win all their games also, there will be canteen lunches available for those who wish to buy their lunches. We welcome those to Awakeri for good and fun games for that day. Awakeri school has been practicing hard and they are progressing as the days go by and have tried really hard to persevere in all their games. GOOD LUCK TO ALL!!!!!!!!

23.03.09 Yesterday we had an awesome day at top school as many other schools competed for the title for the "TOP SCHOOL" we had four people in our class competing in the events. Congradulations to Tiaan Brownless, Jordan Edhouse, Nicole Theobald and Dylan Hoefsloot they came fifth out of ten other schools.

20.03.09 Hi, scroll down to see a story from camp and some other camp activities.

03.03.09 Yesterday was a challenging,exciting and nervous day for many as this was swimming sports. Hearts were pounding as there race was about to begin. Rimu won the relay which was closely followed by Kowhai as for the other houses disappointment raged through their bodies but it was a successfully and tiring day but all went home proud.

23.02.09 An exciting occasion for room 11, can you guess what it is? That's right it was camp.
This cool camp brought laughter and excitement to our class especially when hiking to the glow worms in the dark and the bouncing on the bouncy pillow. The students thought that those two activities were opposites to boredom. One of the employees, Wayne from Coast Care came and gave us a check up on our knowledge on the beach/ Sand Dunes. He talked about the history of Ohiwa. We also planted a gauge to tell how high the sand build up from the sea. We had an awesome Camp!!!

12.02.09 On week 3 of term 1 room 11 are camping outdoors at the Ohiwa Arbor campground. We will be doing series of outdoor activities including hiking (at night) to see glow worms. We are currently studying a bird. Its habitat is on the spit of Ohiwa. It is the Dotterel. I'm sure we are going to have a great time at Ohiwa.

 

Students' work

 

Pablo Picasso Pictures

Daniel Gow amazing work!!!!	Tio's wonderful face!!!!

 

 

Ger Poems

Ger
Mobile, drecorative
Protecting, inviting ,heating
Nice and very comforting
Yurt

By Dillon Murray

 

Ger
Portable, round
Heated, strong, patterned
Gives shelter to people
House

By Nicole Theobald

 

Ger
Snug, colourful
Warm, cosy, round
The ger is smoky
Home

By Bleyne Heberley

 

 

 

Mongolia Stories

Mongolia
Out of money
Not many vegetables
Gobi Desert
On the steppes
Love their animals
In land area
Animals

By Tio Geerlings

Mongolia
On the steppes
Nomads
Gobi Desert
Often poor
Little people
In Between Russia and China
Amazing Animals

By Daniel Gow

 

Mongolia Studies

Jaydon's very colourful work!!!	Samantha's wonderful work!!!

 

 

 

 

Camp oven bread stories below

Last week on Friday, Room Eleven made camp oven bread at the back of the field. We made the bread because we were living "A day in the life of the Gumdiggers!"
We lit the fire by putting some kindling and a big piece of wood as well. Kodi did the honours of lighting the fire. It took about three strikes for the match to spark but in the end he managed to light the fire.
Once the fire had burnt down we used the embers of the fire as a element on the bottom of the camp oven and also the top of it. That is how the bread cooks.
Marc and Daniel P were the minders while we did our spelling test and the we went back and laid the bread on the embers of the fire. We left some of the embers on the bottom and spread the rest on the top. We also laid two strong green sticks underneath the camp oven as it didn't have any legs. Then we left it for about fourty minutes.
For morning tea Jordan, Nicole and I were watching the bread cook and i also took the photos.
After morning tea and before assembely we took the bread off and ate it! The camp oven bread was golden brown, crispy and gloriously crunchy!
DELICIOUS!!!
Written by Olivia McKay

 

 

On Friday we went down to the blue gum trees where we were making camp oven bread. We found a spot on the ground for the fire.
When the fire was lit the class made homes just like the gumdiggers. They just looked good enough to live in. Then we had to go and get some wood for the fire to get it going to make the bread.
When there was enough embers to go ont the top of the pot so it could cook. We had to put some embers on the top so it could start cooking.
It took an hour to cook. When we got back we had to see if it was still cooking. At lunch time we brought it back to the deck. Then we cut it up into thirty pieces.
At the end we got to eat it and it was very good making camp oven bread.
Written by Joshua Ruiter

 

On Friday Room Eleven went to the back of the field. Next we lit the fire,we waited and waited until it burned to embers.
While we were waiting for it to burn to embers we made shanties with logs and leaves. Finally it burnt down to red hot embers.
Mrs Gordon put half of the embers at the bottom and the other half on the top. After that we had morning tea.
After morning tea we went back to the awesome fire and it was ready, so Mrs Gordon and I carried it back to class. Mrs Gordon cut it into twenty nine pieces.
Written by Daniel Perkinson

 

At Ohiwa camp, we went for lots of swims. On the way to Ohiwa we went to this native place but I don't know what it is called, and we talked to this guy called Mr Slade. He gave us lots of information about the native birds at Wainui.

At Ohiwa, they had a bouncy pillow, we jumped on it lots. We found some Pipis at the sea beds and we got about a bucket full. We ate the Pipis for part of our dinner, it was like the FEAR FACTOR eating them for me!!!

At the beach we were swimming and Edgar got stung by a baby Blue Bottle, OOOUCH!!! I had a great time swimming. Mrs Gordon got bitten by a crab, that was funny!!!

Then we talked this guy called Wayne, now we know lots about the Spinifex and pingao. I enjoyed my time at Ohiwa camp!!!

Renee King

 

Rebecca's amazing diarama	Kylie's on fire diarama

 

Teacher's message

I'm so lucky to have a wonderful class of enthusiastic, hard working and caring students. We have 16 boys and 13 girls. We welcomed Marc, Rebecca and Grace to our class, and they have settled in really well. We are looking forward to a year of exciting learning and new experiences. We have a number of interesting activities to look forward to, like camp, kayaking, planting pingaeo, mathletics, cooking camp oven bread, a visit to the supermarket to check out the quality of our food, and lots more learning. Torro, Gus, Gertrude and Splish and SpIash are also very important members of our class who help the students with their work. I am looking forward to a great year with great kids. Cool Bananas!!!!!!

 

Heres room 11's wonderful teacher Mrs.Gordon!