Awakeri School

Room 4

Who are we?
Room four is a bunch of 25 year 1 and 2 students. We enjoy lots of fun sports. In our fun and exciting class there are 13 handsome young boys, 12 adorable little girls and one awesome teacher. Our awesome website monitor is Kelsei!
Class News

12/10/09

Interview with Jack, Caleb, Tessa and Corisa

It is great that we are back at school for this is our last term with Mrs. Purches.

In maths we have been learning about volume. That it goes high and low and it is liquid (sometimes).

We also have been going on BBC Typing. It helps to grow confidence and speed in our typing.

We are still learning about Antarctica and here are some facts

Empire Penguin

*Good swimmers

*Flippers are made to create speed

*Slide on their stomachs for speed

*They can hear each other from distances

Orca whales

*As big as a bus

*About two classrooms tall

* Black and White

16/09/09

Interview with Gemma, Paige, Nathan and Cody

We have made an empire penguin and in side it is newspaper. Here is us by the penguin.

Here is our Empire Penguin. He is very handsome.

This afternoon we will be painting our killer whale.

We made some umbrellas and put words starting with U!

We now have a projector in our classroom. We can check the weather forecast for the day, we can go onto the internet and loads more.

01/09/09

Interview with Tayla, Caden and Jack

Guess who got the lollies in the jar........ Cambell Jullian

Since we have been learning about Antartica. We went to the AV room and looked at different animals in Antartica.

We have been learning about that we are unique in all ways. Unique means one of a kind.

This week sometime we will be making our faces with clay.

On daffodil day we raised about 300 and something dollars.

28/08/09

Interview with Kevin, Ryan, Lily and Emma

Today is daffodil day. It is very exciting because when you donated a coin you got to guess how many lollies are in the jar. This afternoon at assembly Mrs Purches will call out the name('s) of the person (people) that got the closest or got the number get the lollies.

We have been learning about Antartica for our topic. Some animals that are in Antartica are... whales, penguins, seals and more.

We have been learning how to play the ukelele, guido and guitar.

We are all looking forward to the operetta. What we've heard of it sounds awesome. Every-one is very excited to watch it.

11/08/09

Interview with Caden and Tessa

We are still working with plasticene and to help us decide what to make, we are drawing pictures. Some of us made kiwis, birds and other animals.

For maths we have been working on worksheets on the topic measurement.

Also we have been doing spelling words like...

where, took, come, came, back and but.

Reading has been getting harder because we have been changed from baby books to big books.

For P.E we have been running around the court and playing t- ball and rob the nest.

03/08/09

Interview with Maci and Zalea

We have been making Plasticene for topics. We have been moulding stuff like cats, dogs, sanils and rabits.

Even though Harold is gone we still do class work on it in our Harold books.

For maths we have been measuring the weight of objects and finding out what's the heaviest or what's the lightest.

27/07/09

Interview with Gemma, Paige and Ryan

2nd week into third term YEAH!!

This morning we watched room 14 launch their hot air balloons. Some caught on fire and some floated down to safety. It was very cool most classes watched it happen. It was awesome!!

We have been to Harold twice now and we are coming up to our last lesson. We have been learning how to keep a healthy balance. We have been painting the food pyramid.

All the juniors and seniors are all excited to be coming up to do the operetta, YEAH!!! It is called Sheik Rattle and Roll and it is a comedy. We are all up for a laugh!!!

20/07/09

Interview with Zalea, Ben, Logan and Nicole

Room 4 is very excited to be back at school for the new and awesome term 3!

Tomorrow Harold is coming to see room 4 we are all so excited!

For Maths we are doing measurement it is very fun. We also have been learning about weight.

Reading this term we have changed groups. That also means we have different work yeah!

This week's big book is "Where's The Sun?".

03/06/09

Interview with Maci, Kate, Noah.P, Reaf

Last day of the term YEAH!!!

Even closer to term 3 which means Harold. Harold is coming to talk to us about fruit and teach us about healthy eating. We will also be given booklets to do when we're not with Harold.

For handwriting we have been writing stories instead of writing just normal letters.

For P.E we have been doing ball skills, to learn how to control the ball easier.

For maths we have been doing some skipping so that we can count and get better.

23/06/09

Interview with Ben, Tayla, Cody and Corisa

Yesterday we had the firemen came and they brought their smoke house. It was a very awesome experience. We also watched a movie about a candle that caught a curtain on fire. We were showed how fast to dial 111 and the speed is 1 touch your nose 1 touch your nose 1 touch your nose.

15/06/09

Interview with Gemma, Tessa, Logan and Caleb

In maths we are now doing reflections. We had to reflect our names and other objects.

We have now moved on from milk and onto firewise. We learnt to get down, get low, get out

and dial 111 in a emergancy. Soon a fireman is coming and he's going to bring the smoke house!

Three weeks to the end of the term and it's exciting!

I just uploaded some photo's of the yoghurt making scroll down to have a look!

04/06/09

Interview with Ethan, Zalea, Nicole and Corisa

Yesterday was our school's cross country. It was fun and we all got a good placing.

Tomorrow we're making yoghurt and putting whatever we want in it.

These are what some of the things some people are putting in theirs

Ethan: lollies and strawberries

Corisa: chocolate and lollies

Nicole: chocolate and lollies

Zalea: strawberries and chocolate

Today we had to bring along yoghurt containers and labels to put on our own made yoghurt.

Tomorrow I'm going to take photo's of them making their yoghurt.

25/05/09

Interview with Paige, Lilly and Kyla

In the computer suite we got a picture of an ice cream and wrote in it about how our home made ice cream tasted like.

For art we have been drawing ukeleles and colouring them in to make them look cool. We also drew leaves but we were not allowed to trace them. We had to look and draw them the best we could. We then coloured them in.

A couple of days ago Kate brought a butterfly for show and tell.

When we did painting, we got to do what we wanted. Some people made rainbows, dragons and most people painted Spongebob.

In maths we're doing geometry, mostly drawing shapes.

20/05/09

Interview with Gemma, Paige, Ben and Cody

We have been doing measurement and in it we have been measuring our selves and other objects.

When we were in the computer suite we have been sponge printing monsters with shapes. Sponge printing is when you get a sponge and dab it on your page and a picture comes out. To make our monsters we got shapes and made them into our own monsters.

18/05/09

Interview with Tayla, Corrisa, Noah.P and Nathan

Since we have been doing some much about milk we decided to make butter and ice cream.

To make the butter we got cream and then shook it in a container until we got butter. We had on bread it was yummy.

To make the ice cream we got milk, ice, sugar and salt then shook it until we got ice cream. It tasted so yummy and it tasted like vanilla.

In art we have been learning to draw lines with art pencils and different colours. It was fun.

11/05/09

Interview with Tessa, Noah. R, Zalea and Jack.

The past few weeks we have been learning how to retell our stories in order of what we did. We also had to make sure it made sense.

In maths we have been doing geometry. Drawing lots of pictures of different shapes.

For art a little while ago we done self-portraits. By the way some portraits are down in students work.

05/05/09

Interview with Tayla, Nathan, Kate and Noah. P

It's great to be back at school for week two. It's getting further and further into the term!

We have been doing lots about milk: talking, writting and even writing poems. By the way down in students work there is two poems from Nathan and Kate.

We have been doing loads of hard training, so that we can run as fast as we can for cross country.

30/04/09

It was boring in the holidays (as if!!)

Back to school yeah! We've ejoyed the last few days at school.

We've been learning about milk, about the taste. It's has been cool tasting them. sofar we've tasted six and two were yuck and the other four were yummy! To taste them we put our finger in and hope for yum

For half the term were are tasting milk and the other we are learning about fire safety

We've also learnt how to make patterns and how to make them bigger. It's so fun!

IT'S GREAT TO BE BACK AT SCHOOL YEAH!!!!!!!

14/04/09

Interview with Maci, Tayla, Logan, Kevin and Nathan.

A couple of weeks ago we went to Otarawaiwere We found lots of starfish , crabs and so many shells. It was a great day to go because it was lovely and warm.

Yesterday we made Easter eggs and Easter bunnies it was fun. We got to make them all pretty and colorful.

20/03/09

The other butterfly has hatched now, it was cool to see them fly.

On Monday we are going to Otarawairere to see the rock pools. It's going to be a long walk to get there (after driving). It's going to be fun, exciting, watery, and hopefully lots of crabs.

We are growing beans. One is inside a cupboard. It looks dead, the other is sitting on the window still. It looks alive (at least!).

The photo's are still coming!

11/03/09

Yesterday in the afternoon, a monarch butterfly hatched in our room! So we took it over to room three and put it on the swan plant. There is still one to hatch, it's gone black now! This morning before morning tea we got given a piece of paper. We cut it into shapes.

25/02/09

We have Mrs. Laurent today. We have been drawing lots of different things. We went swimming. It was freezing, so afterwards we did warm ups like running on the spot and punching the sky and various other things to make us warm.

20/02/09

Friday was the Fundraiser and it was fun. The haunted house was very scary. Yummy food like popcorn, sherbet, fudge, lava rocks and much more. There was also drinks like slushies. They were yummy.

18/02/09

This morning we did graphs on our favourite animals. Now we are doing reading. After lunch we are having a story and then going for a swim. We love swimming. We have swimming tomorrow and we had it yesterday.

Students' Work

I am climbing up the ladder. Tayla	I am standing on the tall castle on the playground. Ethan

This is room 4 preparing their yoghurt. Looks yummo!!!	Ethan is trying his yoghurt. And thinks it's yum!

This morning by the computer suite room 4&5 and teachers watched a fire movie. There was a smoke house too. It was hard to get out the window. Once I jumped out we went to the mail box (safe meeting place). It had fake smoke in it. Someone pushed me out. It was sore I screamed.

It was scary and fun. We pretend that it is a real fire but really it wasn't.

Written by Ben

Teacher's Message

We are a wonderful class of 26 year 1 & 2's. At the moment we are learning heaps about milk. We made ice-cream, butter and casein.

Later this term we will be learning about fire safety A fireman will be coming to visit us and he's bringing the smoke house.

This is Mrs Purches our wonderful teacher!