Awakeri School
Room 9

Who are we?
We are a cheerful and talented year 4 and 5 class of students who are handsome/beautiful. We have a web site monitor named Hamish.We have three goldfish, Bubbles, Lucky Fin and Goldilocks. We have the pleasure of having the one and only Mrs. Cronin as our teacher.

Class News
Tuesday 15th April
The reason why you haven't heard from me in such a long time is because we were having our Interschool touch tournament last Tuesday. Tomorrow is the senior syndicate's fundraiser. There are six food stalls and ten fun things to do stalls such as Bomb Fitzy, which is when you try to water bomb the school principal and sumo slammers, which is when you play sumo wrestling safely. For art we have been doing "My Dream Bedroom" and a type of art which is when you draw a nice boarder and then draw a funny face inside it.

Tuesday 1st April.
We have had a visitor in the class. A woman from Environment Bay of Plenty came and talked to us about rubbish. I know it doesn't sound like much but Room 9 learnt heaps. Logan and Liam learnt that the amount of rubbish in a dump is as tall as the sky tower and as wide as a rugby field. We are learning about our local area for topics.

Tuesday 18th March.
We are all looking forward to Easter! The class is busy doing follow up work after our trip to town and the Whakatane Coastguard station. We had heaps of fun looking at the Coastguard boats and equipment. We got to climb up onto the boat and have a look at the R.T.(Radio transmitter) and steering wheel. When we got down we got to have a look at the motor. It was all really cool and we got to have most of our questions answered by the Coastguard themselves. We had a swim at the beach to cool off from the heat of a hot summers day.

 

 

Tuesday 11th March.
We have been making paper mache coat hangers this week for art. Top School is this weekend and room 9 is really excited. There will be Lucky Jars, Lucky Dips, Train Stop, Goldfish Throw (not when you actualy throw goldfish but when you try to throw a ball into a jar to win a goldfish.), Jelly Slurp, raffles and food. Our marvelous tree by the back courts had to be cut down to make room for the new classrooms. The same thing happened to the pine tree by the log as well. Room 9 will dearly miss them both. We have been doing a self esteem unit and we have it presented on our wall if you want to have a look. We do have this photo for you to look at if you can't.

Monday 3 March
Three weeks ago we started to practise some plays using our W.I.T.S. We had to have a freeze frame, no touching and as least amount of talking as possible. Well after three weeks we were experts at it and it looked really cool. If you get the chance why don't you pop in and have a look at our wonderful artwork up on the walls. If you scroll down you will find out what W.I.T.S. are.

 

Students' Work
For an Easter treat Mrs. Cronin said we were making marbled eggs.
We had heaps of fun making them and we've got the instructions so you can to.
A1.Write your name on a piece of paper towel.
A2. Put on an art shirt.
A3.Choose the colour you want to dye the egg and dip it in.
A4. Take the egg out and put it on the paper towel to dry.
A5.Go on with other activities.
B6. Using a fork stir the oily mixture,(gently), so that you have made a swirling pattern.
B7.Roll the egg around in in it and take it out. Pat off excess liquid and let it dry. The colours will get brighter as it dries.
B8.Take your egg home, put it in the fridge, and eat it the next day.

Teacher's Message
Room 9 is looking forward to the holidays. Planning for our camp to Lake Taupo on the 12th of May has begun this week, along with learning about ANZAC Day. I was really proud of the progress the children made on our interschool touch day. Have a lovely, safe, holiday everyone.
Love,
Mrs. Cronin.