Awakeri School

Room 5

Who are we?
Room 5 is a fun loving class of 27 Yr 2 and 3 children that are very willing to learn new things and have fun all the time. We have the one and only Miss Geerlings as our really cool teacher. We will have a good year and will try our best at every thing that we do.

Class News

6th November.
This week was athletics week so sorry about it being a bit late. We have had a few placing in the classroom for the sprints. The tests have finished and a few people got 100% on them. Look at the newsletter to find out who. We have been learning all about how to collage and how to do it tidily at that. Also for art we have been learning how the colour wheel works and we even made on that is BIG. We have an art assignment of a fish with collage bubbles and seaweed. They are looking awesome! We had a special guest to our classroom and his name was Eric Cahl. We all had fun and hope he comes again. It may be spring but it feels like summer. The hot days are just coming in and we wish that either they slow down or that the school pool will open. For Ag day we made some cows and they are cool. For maths we are learning about the same things as last week but we are also learning about money as well. Today the photo's are going to be replaced by new ones so I hope that you enjoyed them.

29th October
This week we have been learning about mass for maths. We have had a while on this and now know how to put things in order from heaviest to lightest. For Te Reo Maori we are learning how to say Maori words like Kai (food), Aroha (love or compassion) and a lot more. Also we are learning about time in Maori. For a follow up of Ag day we did a crossword. We have also been doing a lot of tests. We have also been testing each other on a few words a day. We have been practicing how fast we can do our addition, reading and subtraction. For fitness we have been practicing high jump, small discuss, long jump, beanbag throw and track events (less than 100 metres though). there are going to be a lot of photo's of our bugs that we made on the computer, down in students work but only for a week because they will be replaced by some new ones. Well I have to go so bye!

Thursday 21st October
Welcome back everyone. Last week was the official start of the term but because of Ag day I didn't get to update till now. Speaking of Ag day, Rhylee Looney and Stacie martin both got a ribbon. Well done to them. Last term I mentioned the bugs being made using the computers. I will put some photo's up by next Thursday. For the indoor part of Ag day we made push flowers ,flower arrangements and suns made out of clay. Again I will get a photo on the web page. For maths we are learning about time and we now know how to read clocks. Also for maths we play Mathletics in the computer suite, still. For fun we are learning songs at the end of the day. We are doing acrostic poems to go with our penguins that we drew. Well that is it, Bye.

Thursday 24th September
Today is the last day of the term for the year 5 to 8, Yay! Room 5 went to the New Zealand Air Force base today. We did a lot of things like looking at dirty water and clean water, go in a plane and wear a helmet and a parachute. I wont get some pictures of the trip yet but I will next term. Yesterday the junior school got to go to the production. It was awesome and really funny. This is the reason why people got a day off school. We have finished our penguins. We have been learning about pie graphs. Heaps of people have entered Ag day so good luck to them all. We are making dioramas of Antarctica. We have planted some carrots and they are starting to grow. We have been learning how to use virtues and we will practice them throughout our lives.

Thursday 17th September
This week room 5 has been learning about how to play hockey, how tall an emperor penguin is, about words, about blends, maths, reading, writing and all the other stuff. For calendar art we have been drawing a meadow of flowers. The finished result looks really good! For art we made spirals out of square pieces of cardboard. For more art we are drawing a penguin. First we made an outline guide of all the shapes then we colored them in. Well that is it for this week. I will get a picture of the penguins into students work.

Friday 11th September
Today is the anniversary of the 911 bombing of the twin towers. Just take a minute of silence for that. Onto happier things there are some photo's in students work of the thingamajigs and the awesome line art. Enjoy!

Thursday 10th September
These past few weeks I haven't updated because of production practices so I finally have found a time that will suit all. Onto happier things we have been learning how to play with the Rakau. It is the Maori word for sticks. What we do is learn songs and actions to do with the Rakau. It is really fun! The class got a new globe so everyone is happy about that. We are studying about Antarctica and it is a really cool place. Bit of humor there. We made some awesome line art that I will but up on students work tomorrow. We planted a potato plant but it hasn't been growing yet. After we wrote about our thingamajig we decided to draw them. Finally we have been doing our calendar art. we are doing bugs on the computer. Well that is all for now, see you later.

Thursday 6th August
This week we have been learning about the heart and our blood. We are learning about Acrostic poems and how we make them. So we are starting to make an acrostic poem about the Heart or Blood. For art and mathematics we are making tessellations with crayons or making bugs with Word Art For handwriting we are doing lower case letters because we need to improve on them. We are also publishing some stories on the computer, So stick around and I will update you on them. For singing and dancing we are learning how to dance the 'Hoe Down Throw Down' and we are learning how to sing all the classics like 'Tony Chestnut Knows I Love Him', 'Leaving On A Jetplane', Disney's 'Camprock' and 'Country Roads'. That is it for now but keep logging on weekly for a new update, if you want.

Thursday 30th July
This week we are learning how to skip for jumprope for the heart so that we can do well in the jump off. It is when the middle syndicate and the junior syndicate have a competition to raise the most money in a skipping competition. You can bring any donation from silver coin up, even a note if you want. This all goes towards the Heart Foundation and in turn we get some more skipping ropes. This week we had our last session with Harold. We will now have to wait till next year. For maths we are learning about time. So now you can ask us the time and you will know! We have been doing Smartwords for a while. We are still playing Mathletics and some people have gone up a level. We made pizza! It was so fun and it was edible which means that we could eat it so that was even better! We have been learning how to do a dance and sing the song 'Leaving On A Jetplane'. We have been continuing our story writing. Well that is all, Bye

Thursday 23rd July
Oh my gosh. I hadn't realized how long it had been since I last updated this page. But it is really hard to update the page with the holidays. Well school has started so that means that the page should and will be updated regularly from now on, starting with this.
This week we have been learning how to use the 5 'W' words: Who, What, When, Where and Why. We are learning how to speak loud and use expressions. We have also been learning about thinking what we are going to write before we write it.
We have also been doing some drawings of a kettle for art.
For Te Reo or Maori word learning, we did a colouring test and then sung some songs.
When we went to Harold we had a lot of fun learning about how our body works. What happened was that we shrunk down to a very tiny size and then we went inside someone's body through the digestive system and bloodstream. Well that is all for now, Bye!

Friday 26th June.
Like I promised there are some photo's in students' work. Scroll down and take a look if you want to.

Thursday 25th June.
We have been doing a lot since this page was last updated which I have not been doing lately so I apologize for that. Onto happier news we have been making a lot of stuff in art like our greedy cat pictures, animals of choice, butterflies and fire wise posters. We have been playing musical instruments, skipping and playing games to do with ball skills. We have been practicing and presenting the play 'Goldilocks And The Three Bears' and we even tried some porridge. The principal arrived back at school this week and brought the classrooms a new game called Dance Mat. We have also been learning how to improve our long story writing. We have started to do Smartwords and it is really fun. We are all on the same level. Last Monday we made some bread and it was really nice. Tomorrow there will be some photo's in students' work. See you later.

Thursday 4th June
Yesterday was the school's cross country. It was happy to have had gotten a good placing for those that did and the happiness overpowered the tiredness that most of the students must have been feeling. This week we made our own playdough to play with. We used flour, salt, water, colouring and oil to make the playdough. We followed the instructions carefully and then in the end we had three different groups of playdough, two yellow and one pink. We have been doing tests as well. Some people may not like them but they have to be done! We have also been writing goals for the term. Last week on the 25th to the 28th of May we made some greedy cat stories and pictures, learnt about how to read big words by looking at smaller words within, learning about 'tion' words (That is words with those four letters in them, in that order), patterns for art, With Mrs. Geor we folded up a piece of black paper then drew random lines on that piece of paper and cut it out. We then unfolded it and glued it onto a piece of paper. For maths we learnt about Reflection, Rotation, Tessellation and Translation. There will be some photos down in students' work.

Thursday 21st May
This week we have been learning how to play Padder Tennis. For art we are learning how to draw posters with lots of different colours but only a few words. For our science experiments we have been finding the perfect amount of water to a cup of flour. We added half a cup of water to make a nice thick dough after a few trial runs. When we cooked it we ended up with a texture like bread in the middle. We have also been adding heat to butter, ice and dough to see what would happen to it. For our last experiment we added water to coffee powder, salt and sugar to see which one dissolved the fastest. The salt was the fastest.
We are still learning how to write interesting stories. For handwriting were are learning how to write "sh". We are learning about symmetry in maths. For a fun activity with Mrs. Toopi we folded some paper, drew some lines then cut along the lines to make our own really cool shapes. With Mrs. Geor we made some people out of shapes. We used heaps of colours and made them look really cool. We are learning the doubles rap. It is a fun song to learn and we will enjoy it. For fitness we are training for the school's cross country around and in the school. Most of the children will be participating except if they are sick or injured or too young. Tylar Hall (from this class) brought a few crystals for the class to look at. We all enjoyed the experience.

Thursday 14th May
This week we have been learning about drawing birds and our bodies. Our duck stories are nearly finished and are starting to be coloured in. There is a teacher's message down in teachers message for you to read. We have been learning the song Midnight Special. We have been doing hand writing regularly and we are currently learning the letter "g". In math's we have been learning how to do subtraction. In our writing we are still learning to us punctuation. We have been learning how to do an experiment to do with science. Unfortunately I don't have any photo's but maybe I might next week. Have fun out there!

Thursday 7th May
Welcome back to Room 5's website page for 2009. When we got back from the holidays we wrote some stories about what we did when we were relaxing. I have put up a couple of stories down in students work. We have been doing hand writing every week. This week we have reviewed some stories that we wrote ourselves. We have also been drawing little duck pictures because Shayna brought her ducks to school. We also wrote some stories about the ducks. We have also been typing out our holiday stories in the brand new Computer suite. Every day (except Fridays) we have reading swap after Interval or playlunch as we know it. This week we had the Awakeri badminton teams come and give us our session. We had ours today. It was so fun. We also play scatterball after the day for fun! That is it for now. Bye!

Thursday 30th April
Last term Room 5 went on camp to otarawairere. We learnt a lot about crabs and fish and sea urchins or kina as New Zealanders know them by and all the other creatures that are found there. After the trip we did art and stories for a fun activity. For art we made some cool fish. Room 5 found a trapped fish so we brought it back to school to keep as a class pet. Unfortunately it sadly died afterwards though. There are some pictures of art in students work that you can check out if you want to. If you do, scroll down to students work. If you remember about when we drew ourselves and still want to see a picture then scroll down to students work. We have been writing stories about what we did in the holidays. I will put some up next week and I wont forget! We are doing handwriting and are learning about how to write punctuation. Also in students work are our patterns that we made not so long ago They are very cool! For maths we are learning about shapes and Adding and subtracting equations. Well if you want to se more new stuff then go down to students work.

Thursday 19th March
This week room five has been very busy planning their trip to the rock pools at Otarawairere. They have been practising how to swim a length of freestyle of the school pool, blow bubbles in the school pool, putting speech into our stories, making a wacky Wednesday booklet, handwriting, and some art. At the beginning of the year we signed a class treaty in the funkiest way possible...by using our hands. What we did was we drew our hands onto a sheet of paper. Then we coloured them in, cut them out and then we put our names onto our wonderful hands and then that was it. The most recent artwork that we did is our fruit art. What we did was we drew some fruit shapes, cut them out, glue them onto some paper, dye them and then let it dry. If you are in the area and want to see some of their art work then you can look in from the window and admire them. There is also some other artwork on the wall to do with our word sounds. Well that is all for now I wont be putting up news next week because I will be at camp.

Thursday 5th March
Room five have been very busy swimming, assessing themselves on swimming, drawing themselves for their artwork, doing handwriting daily, doing math's and enjoying playing mathletics which is really fun but not everyone has mathletics so they play games instead. Anyway for artwork, as I said above, we drew what we think we look like and then we got a friend to write a few nice comments about us. Our friends couldn't be able to think that we are bad anyway because that would be a lie. Well that is all for now I will try to update the page with some photographs next week. Until then Hasta Pronto (that means see you soon in Spanish).

Friday 13th February
Hello everyone I am Hamish and I am the website monitor for Room 5, as of yesterday. I will update this page every week or so and you can visit it to see what it is like in Room 5, Awakeri school. Throughout summer we will be swimming three times a week as a part of the program for the year. I will try to get some photo's up on the website for you to see. When Room 5 does some artwork or book work like a poem or story I will put it up in students work which is just below this entry. Well that is it for now and I hope that you will have a good day.

Students' Work
Friday 6th November.
Here are some more photo's that I hope you will enjoy.

Here are some more bugs. Sorry if they are the same.
This is one of our clay suns.	These are our penguins. Sorry about the long wait.

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