Awakeri School Room 8

18/9/09 Jan came from the civil defence to teach as about natural diasters. She also gave us some pamphlets. Fact: that 40000 years into the future the south and north island will be closer together. We have made a name for the year 4 production celebrating NewZealand. Ditty the frog has been croking a lot. room8 is going to air force next week on tuesday.

9/09/09 Sorry I haven't updated in a long while but production practice has been hectic. Room 8 have been growing crystals and making kites, unfortunately they didn't fly. Today we are going to run through the whole production even singing is involved. We also are going to start making calendars for 2010. I will hopefully get a chance to do more next week when I have a break from production but till then, Room 8 says bye.

19/08/09 Room 8 & 9 do the year 4 production. The year 5 and up do a big production. Mrs Parker is out teaching year 5 & up for production.Yesterday Mr Hawkes taught Jacob, Oliver & Sam but Sam is just replacing Jamie because he went to Wellington. For year 4 production we are singing heaps of Maori songs.

18/08/09 Every day most of room 8 go to science. Today we were seeing which ice cube doesn't melt the fastest with salt, sugar or nothing. two people play a musical instrumenent for music extension and it is Jacob & Courtney who do it.
Today we (Oliver, Jacob and Jamie) were chosen to be news reporters for Room 8's web page.

14/08/09 Sorry I haven't updated for a very long time but since I last went to room 8 they have done so much. This term Jacob and Emma Hannan went to the Kawerau BMX track and meet the one the only Sarah Walker!!!!A few teachers at a school in Singapore gave the class a Meralion intrusument which is kinda like a recorder that is played by the singapore kids. Room 8 have been making kites and are naerly done they have also been making cristals.

25/06/09 The projects have all been uploaded.

24/6/09 I've just uploaded the photo's of some wonderful projects. Scroll down to the students work to have a look.

23/6/09 This week we started studying kites and how they fly we will be making kites in groups sometime after we know lots. Our projects are done and look wonderful on the wall in the classroom,on Friday I will display them in students work. We have been keeping our hands germ free by cleaning our hands with sanitizer after and before play. There are 5 kids from room 8 that are going to Manawahe next week GOOD LUCK!!!

12/06/09 Goals for term 2.. Do my homelearning/ Do tidy handwriting that is easy to read/ Read with understanding/ Can say a simple mihi/ And more. The photo's of the project will be uploaded next week on Monday

5/06/09 Cross country was on Wednesday and room 8 did very well 5 students are going to Manawahe. They are Mikayla-2nd, Ruby-8th, Dannielle-3rd, Jamie-8th, Reece-10th. There is a poem about emotion down in students work.


This is a bee's nest from the Robbies farm.

15/5/09 The teachers message is updated so scroll down to have a look.

8/5/09 This week was all about Anzac day we did poems art and answering questions about it (look at the students work to see some poems). We went to badminton this week and learnt how to play it. The most hits was 23 WOW!!! I can only do 11.

1/5/09 This was the first week back at school and we were welcomed by our new teacher Mrs Parker and having some help by Miss Burn. We have had a few maths test on our 2x 3x 5x 10x. Our includes practicing for cross country and doing laps around the field. We have jobs to do in room 8 and they include running messages around the school and cleaning up after art and getting P.E gear.

9/04/09 This is the last day of term 1. This week we fitted in a lot of fun and new things. Yesterday we went to Thornton beach and played fun games and helped the wildlife by picking up rubbish. The games included a flag race, a scavenger race, drawing White Island, Mount Edgecumbe and making things out of wood shells and more. Next term we have Mrs. Parker as our teacher. We did not have her this term as she just had a baby. This afternoon is reward afternoon so we can bring our skate boards and roller blades, our toy guns and skipping but not for the naughty kids who have been on detention this term. I hope we don't have any kids who have.

3/04.09 This week we practiced a lot on playing touch since it is the up coming Monday. Also we have been visited by the zero waste lady. We learnt more about recycling and reusing glass and plastic. Early this week we did some plays with Mrs Turner. We also did some mono prints that are now placed at the back of the room. In maths swap we have been doing measring with a ruler. We did some writing about safety on road trip. Also we all had a great time at Topschool.

20/03/09 This week we have been doing frog projects. We have been getting lots of information about them. This is some info / In France they eat frog legs/ Frogs were around when the dinosaurs were alive. In maths we have been doing probability and playing mathletics. We also have learnt about a computer program called Spelling City. We learnt how to play touch this week and we have also been learning some songs at Bible.

12/03/09 This week we did some art. We used sponges, it was really fun. The finished result is amazing. We have learnt the life cycle of frogs and how something eats the frog and something eats the thing that ate the frog and so on. We have a tally chart for making good choices and if we make 20 good choices we get a pen or pencil. At the inter school swimming sport two of the kids in our class got ribbons. These two kids are talented Oliver and Shannon.

27/02/09 This week we noticed that we now have 3 frogs and 3 more tadpoles to turn into frogs. We also had a look at the new computer suite it looks nice and way better then the other one. We also did finger painting its fun.

19/02/09 This week we learnt that the fires in Australia has killed over 300 people. Also our tadpoles are growing really fast and we already have 1 frog. Today Mrs. Geor read us a Maori myth called catching the sun, and did art about it. We have been doing Te Reo with Siri, we learnt lots of songs. We are learning different styles of swimming like: Freestyle/ backstroke/ dolphin dive/ doggy paddle/ and diving.

12/02/09 Hi my names Jennifer I am the new website for room 8.We've learnt lots in the first 2 weeks. We've done current events on the fires in Australia (very scary) hope we don't get fires here. Here's more stuff we did this week. Comprehension/Public holidays aka Waitangi day/Art:portraits.

Students' work


ssssss	These are photo's of us eating heathy.

Good job to the kids hard work on the projects.


Ollie differently had the biggest project	Caroline had a nice colorful project.

Chai's project	There are lots of interesting pictures on Sharni's project.

Mikayla's project	Dannielle's project

Anzac poems.

Australian people died.
New Zealand soldiers died.
Zig zag up the hill.
A nzac day is sad for us.
Cannons blow up people.
BY TOMMY

Army soldiers fighting
New Zealand soldiers dying
Zig Zaging up the cliff
Anzac biscuits crunching
Cannon balls shooting
BY RUBY

Australia and New Zealand work together to fight turkey
New Zealand soldier sacrificed themselves
Zippers on the army jackets
Army soldiers everywhere
Cliffs,bombs,guns,still left there.
BY KAYLA.

Emotion poem.

Excited

It tastes like strawberries
It smells like grass with dew on it
It looks like shining ice
It sounds like happy friends
It feels like soft fur.
OLLIE

Teacher's message
15/5.09 The children have learnt about the soldiers experiences during ANZAC. We linked ANZAC to our art and use monet's art techniques to create pictures of poppies. Our goal for 2009 is to identify as many geographical features of towns & cities in NZ. This term the kids are creating presentations about a town/cities in NZ. The kids will learn to write letters ,presents information visually and verbally. The kids are training for Xcountry. They are working hard to increase there stamina in long distance running. We have a busy term 2 in room 8 I am looking to getting to know the children in room 8.

MRS PARKER.