Awakeri School Room 10

Room 10 is an awesome class with 31 year 4 and year 5 students. They are looking forward to an exciting new year with their teachers, Mrs Petersen who teaches on Mondays to Thursdays and Mrs Wakelin, who teaches on Fridays.

Class News

28.07.08.
Term three is here already and they've already done lots of work, like art, maths, and English.
For art room 10 have been focusing on weaving, with different materials. They've also done cartoon strips.
For their topic they're studying the Olympics and making quiz's. Their quiz's have lots of questions in them like, When did the Olympics start? And where was the first Olympics held? They've all been put into countries for our school Olympics coming up soon.
As usual they've been doing maths. They're doing Geometry and are doing quick tests on subtraction, multiplication, addition and division.
They're writing poems about their exciting holidays.

21.07.08.
Today is the first day back at school after the long, relaxing holidays. We, hopefully, are all ready to get back into school work again.
This term the year fives in our class will be participating in the school production and we'll all be participating in our school Olympics. We're all looking forward to an exciting, busy term!!

27.06.08
Today is Friday so Mrs Wakelin is teaching in room 10. They've been doing lots of art like drawing flowers with overlapping and writing their names with patterns inside. They are finishing doing a 'Mathletics' trial, which is a maths game on the internet. For P.E they're doing ball skills.

11.06.08
Room ten have settled into working again after their exciting camp a few weeks ago. They've been doing some fun maths on the internet. They play it almost every school day and those who have the internet at home play it on the weekends!
They are learning about where the main places in the North Island are on maps, they are also finding their co-ordinates for example E5.
As cross country was last week they are in the proccess of writing cross country recounts.
Since camp, they've made camp booklets and camp posters. Look in 'Students work' for some photos.
They're still doing lots of art with Mrs Wakelin.

19.05.08
Today is the first school day back from camp. We all had loads of fun! check out these camp photos.


One really cool thing they did on camp was have a ride on their little train. They'd go along the small train track until they reached the tunnel at the end.	One of the activities there was BMX biking. There was a challenging course that had lots of bumps and hills.

We went to the prawn farm. At the prawn farm we learnt lots of things about prawns like how to tell the difference between a female and a male prawn.	At LTCC (Lake Taupo Christian camp) there was a cool mini putt area.

Archery was one of the activities. Tio is aiming. Will he get the bulls eye??	On camp we went to the AC baths- hot pools. There was a cool 'Tarzan swing'. You had to swing off a big rope and land in the water.

At LTCC there was lots of scrumptious food. YUM YUM!!	In the Rec hall there was table tennis and pool. Arko is getting ready to aim.

15.05.08
Yesterday room ten went to camp. They'll be coming back tomorrow after school. They were all very excited. When they come back, I'll put some photos on!

12.05.08
This term is going to be very busy, on Wednesday we go to camp. The camp is lake Taupo Christian camp. They will be doing lots of fun activates like BMX, Mini golf, archery, slug guns and on one of the nights they'll be doing a Burma trail. A Burma trail is when you have to follow a rope while the parents scare you. On the first day we'll be stopping off at the Redwoods (in Rotorua) and have morning tea. On Friday they'll be coming home and on that day they'll be going to the prawn farm and going for a swim. It's all very exciting and everyone is looking forward to it.
Last Friday, with Mrs Wakelin they made some collages of the seasons.

18.04.08
Today is the last day of the term. After today we'll have a two week holiday, YAHH!! This will give us a well deserved break and then it will be back to the usual maths, english and topic in the classroom with Mrs Peterson.
I hope you've enjoyed finding out what room ten has been getting up to this term and I hope that it will be interesting and updated for the rest of the year as well. Hope you all have a safe and happy holidays, your web site monitor Rachael.

11.04.08
Room ten have worked really well this term, they've done heaps of art like perspective paintings,
tree pictures, maps of our area and they've also just finished 'stick figures in action' pictures and a design for a new sports shed for the Astro turf which is nearly ready! These designs were done in pairs and they came up with lots of ideas, like making the sport shed under ground or having security cameras or alarms for safety.
They've also finished their desk tidies which are really cool! Some kids made them so that they could put all pencils into different slots or made the tidier itself a cool shape. For example one of the kids made an army truck.

9.04.08
Yesterday was Inter-school touch day. Lots of other schools came to take place in a fun day of touch for year three's to year eights. Our kids did really well, showing good sportsmanship and a good attitude towards the day. Check out room ten's touch players.


Matthew has just rolled the ball under his legs, but where is the dummy half???	Don't we look great!! In our rugby shirts (which were 3 sizes too big!!).

8.4.08
Last week a lady called Janie came to talk about the environment. With her we made some 'desk tidiers'. We made them out of recycled materials like cans, cardboard boxes, plastic containers, egg cartons, tin foil, and bottle lids. Here's a couple of photos of them creating 'desk tidiers'.


Ethans hard at work making his 'desk tidier' out of cans and tin foil.	Here is Joey making his 'desk tidier' out of recycled materials.

26.03.08.
We're back!! We've had an awesome, five day, Easter holiday break and now we're back into work again.

20.3.08

Room ten has still been doing maths, handwriting, reading, but they've also have been doing some really cool things like studying 'The local area'. They've drawn some maps of the local area and went on a trip last week. The trip was to Kohi point, a lookout in Whakatane. After that they went to the Information Centre and then to the beach for a refreshing swim. They also saw the coast guard boat there too and were lucky enough to go inside.
On 'fun Fridays' with Mrs Wakelin they are playing the recorder. They're getting very good at playing now and can even play 'Mary had a little lamb' and 'Old Mcdonald had a farm'.
They've just started selling Cadbury chocolate to fundraise for their upcoming camp, which is really exciting!!
They've been trying to show these virtues: Kindness, Self Discipline, enthusiasm, respect, caring and honesty.

13.3.08

Lately room ten has been reading articles, finding keywords, and then writing a story with the words.
They are still swmming in our pool for P.E. Last week we had our school swimming sports and yesterday was the inter-school swimming sports.
They are studying the local area for topic, and have drawn some awesome maps (if you look in students work there's a photo of one!).
They are doing an artist study on Mrs Sheather- a relief teacher in our school.
They've drawn pictures of our old tree which was pulled down lately, and have also written some amazing stories. They're some in 'students work'.

25.02.07

On Fridays room 10 has Fun Fridays with Mrs Wakelin. They have been painting perspective paintings and learning to play the recorder. On the recorder they are learning to play 'Mary had a little lamb.' They have already painted a perspective painting of them looking out of a window to the hills.
For Te Reo they have been studying 'Nga Tae' which is colours in Maori.
They have done a study on the treaty of Waitangi, as Waitangi Day was a few weeks ago.
They have written a story on 'introducing me' to introduce themselves.
They have been investigating the different temperatures in the fridge, freezers and around the school.
They have been studying stories and writing their main messages.
They have also have been doing current events, like on the news.

12.02.07

Hi, my name is Rachael and I'm room ten's new website monitor. I'm looking forward to a cool new year and finding out what room ten's getting up to.
In room ten they're doing a topic called 'Introducing me'. The children have been writing and drawing about themselves. They've started making some bookmarks as well.
They've also got three new children in their class, Tio, Reilly and Tianna. Tio was from Thornton School, Reilly is from Limehills School (in the South Island), and Tianna is all the way from Belmore South School in Australia!!

Students' Work!

11.06.08
We've been doing lots of work lately. Want to see?


Since camp we've made camp posters, with lots of photos on them.	This is (from left) Jamie, Matthew, and Loisa. They're all holding their camp booklet and Matthew also has his decorated box that he made with Mrs Wakelin.

Last week one of our trees were cut down to make way for our new classrooms. They had to paint a picture of the tree with Miss Rob. Instead of using strokes to paint they only used dots. They've also written some brillant stories of how the tree was cut down. Here is a painting and Luisa's story.

They painted some amazing pictures of the trees.

Disturbing nature
'Disaster, Destruction,disappointment'
These thoughts ran through my head a million times.
The sound was of waves crashing on the coastline. It felt like a thousand arrows shot through me.
I saw the tree I had known, ever since I came into B block, tumble over.
It felt like a little piece of me had been torn out.
Somehow, it smelt like my dad coming home from a hard day of powdering big, beautiful, marvelous trees.
Some people might have felt that it was like fireworks at a carnival but I felt helpless like a little baby was being taken away from me. There was nothing I could do about it. My old friend , the tree, was torn like old wallpaper..
The cheering of the crowd broke me down even more.
I know some people enjoyed it but truly I say to you why did we have to do it?
I don't want to be a destroyer. I want to save nature and even if I can't I will remember every second of destruction I see. But now I'm ready to build myself up again. Now a note to my old friend.
This day I don't want to live over I wanted you to stay tall and strong. But, the end of the day has come to your peaceful, graceful sway in the wind and now I understand. I'm sorry you're gone but now I must say good bye my old friend the tree.
And that's the end of my sad story.
Luisa Williams

Room 10 has been writing stories to introduce themselves to Mrs Petersen. Here is Jamie's.

Introducing Me

I am a motor- x person.
I've got a cat and three dogs, named Bell, Chokie, Tess and my cat, Paris.
My chores are going and getting milk at the shed.
My favourite sports are soccer and rugby.
I have 7 people in my family. Mum, Dad, Shayne, Joshua, Rycc, Danyon and me.
My favourite things are marbles because they bounce around.
When Dad gives me a fright it makes me happy!
By Jamie Arrol