Class News

28 October. 2009 Welcome back to term 4 in room 3. This week we were writing sentences about dogs. We are starting athletics again this term. The whole junior sydicate are having a go at discus (but we are using quoits), shotput( were using beanbags), how to do the scissor jump in high jump and to get even further in long jump.

24 September. 2009 1 more day till the end of term three!!! YAY!!! This week we have been making name badges out of clay and we are going to show them at Ag Day. In reading we have been making our own little play and made masks for it. Today we made BISCUITS YUM!!!

16 September. 2009 Yesterday We were making these awesome patterns( and I'm sure thats everyone's opinion). We have also been making some Maori headbands that have some pretty cool designs. Tomorrow we will be experimenting with clay and making some models, IT'S GOING TO BE AWESOME!!!!! Yesterday we were also writing out the Alphabet in order from Aa to Zz

7 September. 2009 Last week we made our calendar art. We still have to finish them though. We were also practising relay races on the field. We are now experimenting with clay and making quite different stuff than what we were making at the start of everything. We are learning about nouns instead of verb families. At the moment our tallest bean is standing 44cm tall and that person's one is Katy. For story writing we have been writing about our experience at the supermarket.

31 August. 2009 We had a great time at the supermarket on Thursday. The jobs there are Checkout operators, shelfpackers, butchers, bakers, resource deliverers and the manager. Our beans stalks are growing really fast. We are going to measure them this afternoon. Another thing we have been doing is learning our verb families.

24 August. 2009 On Thursday we are going to the supermarket (PAK'n'SAVE). We will be looking at all the jobs there are around the market. We are learning about different types of skipping at the moment. All the other stuff we have been doing is math, reading, writing and all the other stuff.

19 August. 2009 On Thursday we finally started and finished our recycled instruments. We have also had some of our bean plants sprout and there are some with bean pods on them. For story-writing we have bean writing about our beans everyday.

10 August. 2009 On Friday we went to Mr Sheather's class (rm 15) and did some experiments on oxygen. Also we were practising our throwing and catching with the gutter-ball. On Wednesday we saw a KIWI!!! It is a brown kiwi, born and raised at Rainbow Fairy Springs. Today we planted beans. We are going to nurture, water them and keep a log book. We have been writing stories about the kiwi. We have also been trying to get to the making stage of our recycled instruments. For maths we have been learning our basic facts.

3 August. 2009 We had a great week once again in room 3. We have been reading on the mat with our teacher Miss Scott. We have also recently had the heart foundation Jump Rope. All of the Juniors and Middle school where jumping ropes and fundraising money for the charity. We have also been making posters that Life Ed (Life Education) and Harold the giraffe gave to us.

27 July. 2009 Hey and welcome back to another wonderful term everyone. This term is going to be extra cool because we have our teacher back, Mrs Scott!
We also made these little shapes on strings called moboloze. Last week we were practising our soccer skill........................................... AGAIN! Today we saw some of room 14's hot air balloons. We liked it when the balloons caught on fire and then Mr Hawkes put them out with a fire extinguisher..... YAY:-)
We have also been going to Life Education and been learning about eating healthy food and not getting too fat.

29 June. 2009 This week is the last week of the term YAY!!!!!! Tomorrow we will be having a disco. We will be bringing our own music and be dancing, Seth will be making a tribute to Michael Jackson by doing a Michael Jackson spin. We have also been writing about Japan. That's all for now folks, see you next term.

23 June. 2009 Yesterday little J (John) and BIG J (John) came to school. They are from the
fire- department but we don't know if he's from Whakatane, Edgecume or well, let's just say we don't know. They brought a inflatable test house for us to try out. The point in taking the test house was for us to STOP,DROP and ROLL, and for us to have faith and jump out the window. Also another fire-wise thing we did was made our own posters, we get to stay fire-wise while having fun SWEET!!!

15 June. 2009 We have been making winter people and summer people out of material for our focus on
fabric. We made rakau sticks with Maori designs and have been practicing the waiata. We are getting really good at using them.

8 June. 2009 This week we have been drawing the outline of the skytower and then cutting it out.
Today we have been drawing frogs, rabbits,butterflies and elephants. We started jump-jam in the morning to keep active and warm. We were making plain wool into beautiful woolen plaits and we are going to make them into pois.

25 May. 2009 This week we have been doing more story writing. Alex's story says... Monkey is crawlingand springing shoes, this was written on the 22nd May. Cody's story says... Monkey is climbing in his shoes, also written on the 22nd May. We have still been studying about cows milk again.

18 May. 2009 We went to the recycling centre on Wednesday which was very interesting. We also drew pictures with crayons and then we dyed over them. For P.E. we were practising soccer skills by dribbling, passing, trapping and kicking.

11 May. 2009 We drew pictures this week and then we died the picture with another colour and they look awesome. Sune drew one about a castle and a house. Today we also wrote a story in the morning about what we did in the weekend. Last week we made yoghurt because milk is our topic, but now we are looking at recycling and this week we are going to a recycling plant(the kids are really looking foward to it).We were also doing some maths with numbers this week.

4 May. 2009 Welcome back to another wonderful term at school. This week we have 5 new class members so now there are 25 of us. We have been making ice-cream out of pure cows milk. It was a delicious French Vanilla flavour. Mmmmmm Yum! Ezra's been story writing about trucks this week.
We have also been practicing our soccer skills by kicking the ball to each other and trapping the ball with our feet. We have been practicing plating woolen string and just need to put the top bit on so that they can have a poi each to play with.

9 April. 2009 This is the first last week of the term for 2009at Awakeri School YAY!!!!!! The class has been making rocket ships and putting numbers on them with lots of colour(s).
The class has been studying healthy food and made fruit kebabs. YUM!!!
The class collected things like leaves,sticks and acorns and made letter prints using these.

23 March. 2009 We have been making cool little butterflies using our hands as the wings.
We have really been interested in butterflies so we have also been colouring in monarch butterflies.
We love reading indoors and out in this class and we have been reading soooooooo much this week that
it's just not funny.

16 March. 2009 We have been trying to get to our swimming goals and most of us did so that was good.
Today when Joshua came in we were story writing(their stories are pretty good) about the stuff that we did in the weekend. We were reading this week about butterflies and caterpillars. It's really interesting if
you ask me. The class has been counting high numbers, Brodie can count up to 40!!!!
1, 2 miss a few 39, 40.

10 March. 2009 We have been drawing this week, Ezra drew a cool push bike and Ella went for a pretty flower picture.

27 Feb. 2009 This week we have been making poems,food lists to help us eat
healthier food and get stronger without working out.
We have been working on our counting again except this time we made number rockets.
We also have been making paintings with our pictures on it.

19 Feb. 2009 This week we have been making place mats for our writing.
We also have been making number caterpillars to help our counting as well as portraits and
books about ourselves.

12 Feb. 2009 Welcome back to room 3 everyone.
This year is going to be awesome.
I the one and only Joshua Klein Ovink am room 3's new website monitor.
We have 20 delightful little kids, 12 girls and 8 boys.

Students' Work

Our Lovely teacher Mrs Scott.	Reading time.