Awakeri School
Room 13

Who are we?
Room 13 are a groovy bunch of 25 children and are very fun to be with.
We are very good at sports and other games and so is our fabulous teacher Mrs Shaw.
We can't wait until the rest of the year!
We are now seniors!!! Yippee!!!

Class News
Term 2 + 3

27-10-09-We are doing a new topic called: Tuning into Vegetables...
and we decided to grow our own Dwarf Beans.
So I have some great photos of our fabulous day...

Luisa looks rather happy with her bean!!!	Vincent just loves his black bag...
Jessie loves to make her bag look glamorous...	Ashleigh is just waiting for her bean to grow... any minute now...
Michael, Dan and Steph work together as a team to make their beans work.	It is all fun and games for Jordan F!!! Ha Ha Ha!

 

 

20-10-09- Kia Ora-
Everyone seems to have recuperated after the big Production and Ag day has been.
We are very proud of those who had animals and we wish the children with Calves, Lambs and Goats lots of good luck!!!
We were very lucky with the weather on the Friday of Ag Day because we have a record of having rainy, cold and freezing
Ag Days so we had a big surprise.

23-09-09- Hi we have now only got 2 days left of school until the end of term 3!!!
We have done one show which was last night's show (Tuesday)...
The crowd loved all of our actors and we do too!
We hope that everyone wont be too tired by the end of the Production.

15-09-09- WOW!!!
This term is going fast and we are already a good 2 thirds of the way through our Production.
The production has been a tradition since 1987. So we have been doing it for 22 years and if you click on the history box you will see what the name of each operetta dating way back to when it all started.
We are selling tickets for...

Children:	$4.00
Adults:	$8.00

Also we are looking forward to the Middle-School play this year and I believe it is called Celebrating New Zealand so we have plenty of ideas what theirs might be about...

10-09-09- We had to do some paper macheing for Miss Robb 2 days ago and we got some great photos.
We made them for the production later on in the year. So here are some photos...

This is a pretty much all boys group and as you can see they are having lots of fun!!!	Ashleigh loves the paper. She reckons that it looks like dreads!!! te he he he he

25-08-09-This week we had Miss Robb and we made some finger puppets.
We made them out of cardboard and lots of different colored paper.
We went to the computer suite and did some research on Daffodil day and also went on the BBC dance mat which is a typing game that teaches you to type properly on a keyboard using the correct fingers.
Also we are finally starting the Production and some of us were lucky to get parts like:
Nikoli- Meryl the British explorer,
Jessie - Lovely Linda,
Vicky - A main spy and
Ethan - A main thief.
Also the year 7's that do technology at Edgecumbe each made a vibrating robot and we watched them jitter along.

18-08-09-here are the photos of our Inventions...
These inventions were judged by Mrs Shaw and we had 3 weeks to make them.
We were very proud of our finishing results...

This is Ravneet and her portable chocolate salesman!!	This is Tyrin and his shower timer that beeps when your favorite program is on!!!
This is Alicia and her fish feeder that feeds your fish every 12 hours!!!	This is Nikoli's dinner cooker and it runs on solar power!! cool!!
This is Logynn's home-workinator and it does your homework for you!!	This is Shane's Toilet Scrubber!! Tee Hee Hee
This is Jessie's bird mind gamer for her bird and it works!!	This is Joshua's Washing washer!!! cool as!!
This is Ashleigh's chore do-er!! I'd sure buy that!!	This is Ethan's portable life saver!! Sounds interesting!

07-08-09-
Today we are doing our Invention Convention.
I will very soon put some photos of our inventions on here and I hope you will like them.

03-08-09-
Room 13 has just started S.R.A cards for reading and are becoming champions at it.
We have been going to Mr. Sheather's every Monday to work on the computers and learn how to use different things.
Our slide-shows hopefully get to be finished by today.
Our slide-shows are about camp.
We have some new writing in the children area so if you wanna check it out just scroll down.

22-07-09-
Room 13 have been doing lots of different things during the holidays like
Paragliding (like skydiving)
Hanging out with friends
Picking out animals for Ag Day
Shopping
Going to birthdays
Seeing family
Swimming and heaps heaps more...

03-07-09- Hello-
We have had a lot of fun this term and we are up to the last day before the holidays come.
Today we are having rewards afternoon and heaps of children have brought games and toys and lots of things. I brought some books.
We have just watched the movie Hatchet and we thank Miss Robb for bringing along her movie. For English we have been doing Descriptive Writing and we had to describe a horse from the book The Black Stallion. Some of the writing was so good that I just had to put that on the website!
We also have a new child in our class, his name is Sam and he already has made new friends.
We are doing Geometry for Maths and we love it. (Well most of us!!)
So I will talk to you next term.

19-06-09-Hi-

I have so much to tell you so here goes:
1st: We had the school disco and we want to thank the parents that set it up!
We had an awesome time partying the night away!!

2nd: We are doing our 12 minute run today.

3rd: We are learning about Firewise. It is great!!
Firewise is a program that teaches children what to do if there is a fire in your house or classroom or where-ever really!

4th: We had Cross-country- Congrats those who got in!!
Cross-country was where we got in our age groups and we ran all the way around the main road , through an orchard and through a paddock and all the way back!!! Long way isn't it!!!

28 -05-09
Check out some cool photos from camp. Click here.
Talking about camp we all cant wait to go back in one or two years!!!

13-05-09- Kia Ora ,
We have been doing lots of art work for the last few weeks and we love it very much.
We did a study on Vince Van Gogh and we chose some of the main features from his painting "Starry Night" and then used his same technique which is small brush strokes so it took us a long time (actually most of us are still doing it!! tee hee hee!!).
We (earlier in the year) did some music and we learnt the different notes and what their names are like crochets and minims
and other names as well.
We are also going to camp in week 4 and you will be hearing loads from me then!!
So Adios Amigos!!!

28-04-09-
We are now getting closer to Tui Ridge Camp!! Yay
We have just recently seen some photos of last years camp and what they did
and it looks so fun!! Room 12 are coming with us.
In the last couple of weeks in Term 1 we had a Touch-Rugby day where all the schools get together and
play a good couple of games of touch (as we call it)

12-02-09-We have had lots of fun this past week and we have already starting new things like:
Spanish,
Karakia to start the day,
More sports {Yee-Haa!!},
lots of new friends{Yee-Haa!!},
not much maths{Yee Haa!!sort of}.
Something else new is me Georgia{I'm a new website monitor}
I love working as a website-monitor at school and I have learnt lots about being a website monitor and I have so much to write about.
At the moment we have Top School Tryouts and we have about 12 kids entering in it including me{wish me luck!}and our teacher has high hopes for us all!!
We live next door to two also cool teachers but we personally think that we are the best!{don't tell the rest!}
We do this thing called the 12 minute run and we have to run for 12 minutes!! OMG!!
We are doing a fundraiser and we have
Champion Jumpers,
Crunchy Cove,
The Galactic Munch,
The Chocolate Factory
and last but not least
The Boogie Bombers{Where they water bomb our good OLD Mr Fitz}

18-02-09-We are reading a book called ''The secrets of Spirits Bay'' sounds interesting doesn't it
Our Spanish is going well
Mrs Shaw loves teaching it to us.
Some of the things she has taught us in Spanish are:

Spanish	English
Buenos tardes	Good afternoon
Buenos dias	Good morning
Buenos noches	Good night
Un memento	Just a minute
Senorita	Miss
Senora	Mrs
Senor	Mr
Que tal?	How are you?
Adios	Good Bye

We have already finished the end of week 3!

 

Students' Work

All about Me
Hi my name is Vicky
I have a brother and a sister and a brother.
I live with my mum and dad.
I was born on the 16th of July 1998.
I have a dog and a cat.
My hobbies are
Baking,
Hockey,
Art
and playing with my dog.
I have a talent for singing and writing storys. I wish to work on playing the Guitar and Recorder.
I don't like maths and P.E because I'm not good at them and it makes me feel bad about myself!!!
My Favorite colours are Red, Black and Green.
When I grow up I wish to be a famous writer.

Vicky Rogers,
10 years

 

Descriptive Writing
Mrs Shaw read our class The Black Stallion.
We had to describe the horse in a story.

The horse is black, with a long mane, a long tail and long legs. It has a shiney coat.
The horse is big , tall and strong.

The horse swims and runs really fast.
It screaches and rears up.

The horse acts wild and is very helpful.
The horse screaches when its scared or mad.

The horse doesn't like fire but likes sugar, apples and oats.

The horse is helpful and brave and friendlyness is what makes him special.

He likes apples so much that if he smells it he will try any way to get to ii even if it's in someones pocket.

Alicia Fella,
11 years

Animal in me.
There is a wolf in me.
With fangs as sharp as diamonds and claws like knives.
It howls like the lowest note on a flute.
It scrapes trying to get out, it lives in my soul and it makes me brave, it makes me feel adventurous.

by Ethan Vincent
11 years

 

 

Teacher's Message
28-04-09-
Already a quarter of the year has gone by!
Our focus for the start of term 2 is Tui Ridge camp in week 4.
We started preparation for this on the first day of school when the students veiwed photos of
last years camp.
Students will continue with physical fitness for the camp and for the cross-country which is
later this term.
Other things to keep in mind for this term for this term are the speech competition
and planning for the science fair.