Awakeri School

Room 11

Who are we?

We are an awesome class of 30 year 5 and year 6 students, with 17 handsome looking boys and 13 pretty little ladies. Our wonderful and awesome teacher is Mrs. Gordon. She is a fun and hard working teacher. The class is always entertained because there's Gus, Gertude and Torro (these are all toys and Torro came back from Spain with Mrs Gordon.) Lots of things to look at are hanging from the ceiling. Our class is very colourful and has many lovely shields and photos of what we have been doing.

Class news

03.07.08
Last Tuesday some of us went Manawahe because we came in the first ten for our school cross-country. We had to run up hills and down some hills and when you finished you got a drink and some stickers and if you come in the first six you got a box of cereal, yummy.
Not long ago we made our felt we got three sheets of wool then layered them by the bottom layer pointing north, the second layer pointing east and the top layer pointing north. We then put it in a tub of water with detergent so we can push it down hard sort of like massaging it. When we had massaged it enough, we would roll it and squish it down to get all the water out. After all the massaging and the squishing we hung it out to dry.
We have been doing a lot of things about Nomadic Tribes. We made soup which had meat, veggies, oil and water. The tribes even make nails out of chicken bones! They wear hats made out of possum. (The hat has a tail sticking out of the back.) The girls wear leather boots so they are protected from snakes! The tribe's homes are called Gers and the door to the Gers always point to the south.

Here we are making some felt. We had to massage it really hard and for a long for it to stick together.

19.6.08
We have a new member in our class and his name is Jesse! Welcome to room 11 kid, hope you have lots of fun!
We have gone further into our study of Nomadic communities by making a Nomadic tribe chart and watching a video. Nomadic people wonder around for food with their animals. Yesterday we had our school photos and everyone dressed up into their most lovely clothes "Smile everyone!'
Tomorrow we are going to the fantastic festival. I hope that its lots of fun. Every Friday we do some jump jam we jump to the left, we jump to the right, so that we get fit. We are also learn how to free write. That means we write like we are taking. Later we are going to make some felt and we have already made some compost and nothing would be better with compost than WORMS!
09.06.08
Mrs Gordon went to Europe, Spain, France and Portugal. For company she took Gus the class teddy bear. She went many interesting places with Gus and took lots of cool photos. She even made a book about her trip to Europe its called "Gus travels to Europe'
Room 11 are learning about Nomadic Communities. They have have started with the Nomads of Mongolia.
Last Wednesday we had cross country and lots of people were excited. After our race we had to go back to our houses. If you came 1-10 you got to go to Manawahe.
We have also been painting some pictures of some grand views by looking at a photo then trying to paint it just by putting paint dots all over the page to make a lovely landscape.

Mrs Gordon and Gus in the snow in Europe. Was it cool over there Mrs Gordon??	Jesse is painting at nice view by looking at a photo and trying to paint it by using different coloured paint dots!

11.04.08
On Tuesday the 8th of April we had Touch day. We played Te Teko, Matata, Edgecumbe, Thornton etc. We had yummy food like sausage on bread, candy floss, iceblocks, chips, water in a bottle! and chocolates. Then on the next day on Wednesday we started writing "Touch Day" reports about our own opinions on things we did that were good. We also remembered how people spoke to us and how we felt playing against other schools. If you want to see some touch day reports please scroll down to students work. Also our wonderful teacher Mrs Gordon has gone on holiday to France. So if you're reading this Mrs Gordon have a good holiday and we all hope to see you soon.

09.04.08
We are learning about mixed colours and what colours they make by mixing different colours.The main colours we focused on were blue, red, orange and a couple of others. We are also learning place names around New Zealand. Last week we had Janie who was teaching us about compost. We made compost bins by bringing our own food scraps and milk bottle containers. First we put soil into our container then put food scraps into the soil and we took them home and we will be looking after them at home.

02.04.08
Each of us are making compost bins in milk bottle containers. They will have Tiger worms in there too. If you want to see some pictures of people making compost bins, scroll down.

06.03.08 Last week we got bits and pieces off the beach and made a collage. After we got the bits and pieces from the beach, we glued them on a piece of black paper. We had to get small pieces so that we could fit a border on the outside.

For P.E we have been practising how to catch a tennis ball. We had to try and shoot at the target with a tennis ball. Bradley Bateson got the most targets!! Good on you Bradley.''It is all about accuracy and how you throw the tennis ball etc.''

26.02.08 We are back from camp. It was great!!! Check out some photos!

14.02.08

In room 11 we have been drawing koru patterns with Miss Robb. We had a white piece of paper and drew a shape of a koru and then coloured the background with a different colour from the koru.
We have also been studying Dotterels. A Dotterel is a kind of bird that lays their eggs on the ground camouflage. They are bigger than a sparrow and are smaller than a black bird. They eat crabs, mollusks, worms and crickets.

12.02.08

Next week our class will be going on camp to Ohiwa holiday park. We will do lots of fun and awesome things at camp. We are also studying sand dunes and local history. We have one new student in our class and his name is Jordan Fretwell.

 

Student's work
18.04.08
Touch!!
On Tuesday the 8th of April 5 schools from the Rangitaiki area had a brilliant touch day. It was held at the wonderful Awakeri school.Over 50 teams played almost non stop from 10am to 2pm.
The food was Great. There was chips, chocolate, sausages, candyfloss, iceblocks and water. But no donuts!The P.A. sold food to raise money.
The five teams were Awake, Malta, Et Tack, Edgecumbe and Thornton. Teams improved heaps throughout the day. There was no winning team because it was a non competitive day.
All of the referees were volunteers. There were teachers, Parents and students that refereed.Most were fair but some took sides.
Before the games we were slightly nervous but were mostly looking forward to the day. When it was finished we were very tired.

By Aroha, Konar , Ben and Brianna.

Teacher's message

Heres room 11's wonderful teacher Mrs.Gordon!

In Room 11 we have 29 delightful and enthusiastic students, 2 fish and 3 class ambassadors called Gus, Gertrude and Torro (Mrs Gordon got Torro from Spain). There are 26 Y6 students and 3 Y5 students of which 13 are girls and 17 are boys.
We have made up a class treaty based on our Virtues programme so we are going to be a very caring, respectful and hard working class always trying to achieve excellence. We are also very aware of our school motto which is to "be the best you can be".

Miss Robb is teaching the students on Thursdays when I have my release. She is going to take Science, Art and Technology. The students are looking forward to doing some cool work.