Awakeri School

Room 6

2008

Who Are We?

Here we all are. Don't we look intelligent!

Class news

8th May
Welcome back to another exciting term. Its going to be a exciting this term due to only the teachers knowing what we will be doing .I'm sure we're all glad to be back at school. If the term holidays were any longer we would probably run out of things to do. And I'm pretty sure were all starting to miss our friends and of course the playground. :)
On Tuesday it was our turn to have a rugby skill session with Brent and Exia ,who are former rugby players that played in high standard of teams. Exia even played in the women all blacks team which was called the black ferns.
On Friday the 4th of April which was a few weeks ago, we went to the Awakeri hot pools participate in deep water activities. For one of the activities we had to jump into the pool with spare clothes on to see what it would be like if you fall over board a boat e.t.c without a life jacket on. We were all shocked with how much clothes drag in the water. To see pictures of this fun-filled day and of our flax weaving session with Siri...CLICK HERE

20th March

The other day we had our first maths lesson using rulers. Up until the other day none of us had used a ruler before. For our first lesson we had to draw an interesting insect with a Head, Thorax and an abdomen which all had to be a certain length and width. Now that our self portraits are finished we have started weaving. For our first weaving session we cut out strips of coloured paper to tread through a specially cut sheet of black paper. The next step in weaving we are going to do the same but the strips of paper will be strips of material and the sheet of paper will be big squared netting used for growing vines. Our next class subject is friendship , how to be a good friend and how to keep the friends we have.

21st February

In our class we have made a weather chart so we can record whether the the weather was sunny, cloudy, windy, hailing or raining. So far for writing we have been writing about our holidays and Christmas.
Mrs West has asked us to tell her a topic that we would like to learn about.
Here are some of the topics we thought of .....
-How volcanoes erupt and..
-How the creatures in the dark part of the ocean see

15 February

Lately in our wonderful class we have been sketching pictures of ourselves by looking in a mirror to see the physical features on our faces.
Once we finished our sketches we made good copies using Indian ink.
We have also made a virtue treaty. If we see someone doing one of the things on the treaty we write that persons name on some paper and put it in a special box. Then at the end of every week Mrs. West counts up the amount of votes each person got and the one with the most votes at the end of each week gets a special prize.

Students' Work
Here are some stories about our Easter holidays

Teacher's message

Along with children and parents from rooms 5&7. We had a tremendous learning experience at the Awakeri hot pools. All children participated in the 6. One activity named Difficult Swimming was gaining understanding of what it felt like falling into water with clothes on and attempting to take them off. The children were amazed at the weight of the wet clothes . Another activity named capsized boat was how to wear a lifejacket and what it felt like when a boat capsized. Many thanks to the parents who worked alongside the children in the pool. Children have been learning how to weave, Miss Riini has been showing the children how to weave a flax flower. I would like to take the opportunity to wish everyone a happy safe time during the holidays that begin next week.

Mmm, chocolate!