Awakeri School
Room 9

Who are we?
Hi we are room 9 we are funny friends. We love to do art with Mrs Cronin. We are happy year 4 and 5's. We play a lot of games out and inside. Our teacher (Mrs Cronin) thinks she's a dragon when she's unhappy. But she is really nice most of the time. We like to work hard and do our best in our work. If someone is stuck we help them. We look after each other. Well that's us we hope you enjoy hearing what happens in class.

Class news

Monday 12 October

Today has been cool to catch up with every body and share what has happened in the holidays.

At school we are starting up athletics. Lots of us are very excited .

Tuesday 22 September

Today room 9 watched the year fours production called celebrating New Zealand it was awesome!!

There was lots of singing and dancing it was cool to watch.

Tuesday 1 September

Today we had the schools Talent Competition. We had lots of competing people. We all enjoyed it.
Room 9 is learning about a new topic which is seasons. Today were just doing a quiz and the title page. Most of us have almost finished but not yet. For P.E today we did a game that was crossed between dodge ball and long ball it was so much FUN!!!!!!

Monday 24 August

Today we did some P.E the game we played was a mixture between basketball and netball but mostly netball. We got tested on how well we shared the ball and got along with other team members. For reading at the moment we are doing an activity called reading between the lines which is inference reading.

Tuesday 18 August

At the moment we are doing art on camp we have to pick a scene of our experiences on camp. We had to paint a background on an A3 piece of paper then do a sketch on an A4. We're only allowed to use mixed colours, no normal ones. We have to use chalk for the outline once we're finished.

Today we have been selected as website monitors (Paige and Molly).

Monday 10 August

Camp was awesome!!. We had so much fun, and we learnt so much at the buried village about Mt Tarawera eruption. The food was so delicious especially the desserts! At the snow it wasn't actually that cold but we still wore at least three layers of clothes. Tobogganing down the slippery and snowy hill was awesome. We really enjoyed the tarzan swing at the pools. Everyone is exhausted from camp, and some are happy to be home.

Here are some photos of what happened at camp

This is Jayden and his Dad sliding down the hill!	This some of room 9 on the train at the park.
This is Georgia and her Mum having fun at the snow!	This is Daniel and Christian relaxing in the pools!

 

Thursday 30 July

We are all busy with preparation for camp. We also went to the library and Mr Van der Wouden taught them about safety in the bush. We have started our research on Roald Dahl. Today we brought our snow pants to school so we could do our fashion show. Some people are wearing there snow pants to the snow if they don't have any at home. For art we are doing calendar art and we have to dye the background and put a picture on it.

Tuesday 21 July

We are soooooo happy to be back at school learning again. We are all looking foward to another exciting term with Mrs Cronin. We are going to start doing some research on Mount Tarawera. Mrs Cronin is reading us a chapter book called the Canoe in the Mist. For our exciting camp to the snow in three weeks, we have to make snow pants out of big plasic rubbish bags an we will be doing a fashion show. For fitness we are practising our large ball skills and we are doing a little bit of skipping. The topic we are doing for life education is the brainy bunch. For maths swap we are doing geometry and we are doing problem solving for extension with Mr Sheather.

Wednesday 24 June

Room 9 are working on making a picture of a fruit or vegetable out of dough. We are making the dough out of whipped cream, tartare sauce, water, oil and salt. We are learning the place names on the New Zealand map. For writing room 9 plays a game called writing bingo. They have a sheet with lots of different subjects that they have to write about. Room 9 is always on their best behaviour (cough cough) well, if they are, they get a stamp on their wonderful praise cards.

These are our wonderful fruit and vegetable pictures!

 

Friday 19 June

Just before I start talking about room nine, I have to say that there is a new website monitor, me Abbey. Room 9 students are learning about fruit and vegetables (yuck!! Just joking). They also drew and coloured in a lovely art picture about their favourite fruit or vegetable. They showed their art pictures at Friday's assembly and they were fabulous and colourful. Room 9 have to pick a name out of a box and and seceretly buy them something special. They called it their seceret friend. Fantastic Mrs Cronin gave them a project they had to study for their homework. The project they had to study was about any city or town in New Zealand.

Thursday 4 June

We are doing projects on Rotorua. Some people have picked a game for their project. One of them has Dargaville on it. Did you know that Dargaville is in the North Island.

Monday 4 May

We are learing to do are 10, 5, 3 and 4 times table. We are also using rulers for maths. We are also making poppies for Anzac and we are thinking about how we could make war fun. For homework we pick a country and do a speach on that country. We are enjoying our second term.

Tuesday 24 March

We are enjoying our second month in room 9. We have been doing maths, reading and more. We have been doing fun games and a lot of art. We have had some birthdays. On the 22nd we had Topschool. The food was wonderful and the teams had fun. There was a lot of fun games like the boat. We are a great group and are becoming great friends with each other. Our teacher is not a dragon, although she thinks she is! She is a fun teacher. We feel like we're at home.

Thursday 19 February

We have done some flag art and we have been on a trip. Here is one of our flags.

This is one of our flags. We made our own New Zealand flag.

 

 

Students' Work

Wonders of the world. Tarawera Eruption. By Tiaan. On the 10th of june 1886,at 3:00am, mount Tarawera erupted. Ash was thrown over thousand of square kilomitres of farmland and forest. The eruption was heard in Auckland and Christchurch. At least 153 people were killed, and three moari villages were destroyed. They were Te Wairoa, Te Ariki and moura. Sadly for the world. The Pink and White Terraces. The terraces had been formed by a guyser over thousands of years. The guyser left silica behind, Which gave the terraces its pink and white colour. Rotorua Mueseum and the Bruried Villages are great places to visit to get an idea of what it was like during the eruption.

 

Teacher's Message

18 August

Our camp booklets are near completion and there has been some fabulous work done. The children are proud of there work I'm sure! The year 5's are enjoying there first year in the school production. The year 4's are just beginning to get into thier musical celebrating New Zealand.

30 July

The countdown to camp is on.
We are off to the snow next week. On Monday we are going to the berry village were we will learn alot about the Mount tarawera eruption.On Tuesday we are going tabagganing at Mount Ruapehu and on Wednesday we are going for a relaxing swim at the AC baths before our return to school
WE CAN'T WAIT!

21 July

Mrs Cronin is feeling great to be back and teaching at school with the lovley kids in room 9. Camp is in three weeks so we are busy with preparing for camp. For our camp we are going to the snow. They are doing lots of exciting reading and they are doing a reading unit on Roald Dahl. We are also doing character studies.

4 June

Room 9 is about to start a science unit with Mr Sheather while I take English Extension. They are looking forward to that. We have a new person in our classroom. Welcome P.J. It was his first day at school and he got 2nd in cross country. Congratulations to Quest who broke a record that wasset in 2006. There has been some fabulous writing from our Writing Bengo unit. The class is doing lots of activities.

4 May

Term two has already started!! its great to be back. The kids are doing a very indepth study on Anzac Day and its history. Cross Country training is happening as well as a P.E unit is on Rugby and netball skills. Well done to all those children who have passed their Basic Facts and are moving up the learning ladder.

3 April

It is just great to be the teacher of room 9. We have done so much already this year! At the moment we are concentrating on the geography and history in our Topic work. The children have written humorous Verb Poems, then we are going to turn them into skipping rhymes. Music has been fun. The children have picked up the rhythm of Colour My World. Room 9 and room 10 are still busy selling chocolate products for their camp funds.