Awakeri School

Room 4

Who are we?
We are class of 6 boys and 17 girls. But instead of 1 teacher we have 3 lovely teachers, Mrs Purches, Mrs Elliot and Mrs Leus.
Class New
8 August 2008
We have been learning our 2 and 10 times tables. We have been getting better at our reading and some of the students in Room 4 have been getting articles out of the newspaper about the Olympics.

31 July 2008
We have been learning our maths.On the 30th we had ice creams from Julian Berry Farm for lunch. There were many flavours for us to choose from.

This is Emily eating her ice cream.

24 July
Room 4 has been learning their times tables. They have been drawing some rockets and been doing self portraits.They have been writing poems about balloons. Head down to Students Work to read some poems.

2nd July
We have been learning about space and we had drew the planets. We have been learning about Picasso. He is an artist we have been learning about. We have been getting better at our maths this term.

This is one of planets we made.	This is the sun we made.

4th June
We have been writing some stories about what we have been doing lately. This afternoon we will be running our cross country. We are divided up into four groups. They are Rata, Rimu, Tawa, Kowhai. We will have our races in age groups. Boys and girls run separately.

14th April
We have now got some tadpoles in our room. We are going to watch them turn into frogs.
We have also been weaving and writing stories.

20th March
To celebrate Easter we made rabbit masks and colourful eggs with glitter. We have also been making cards to someone special like our Mum, Dad, Nanny or Poppa.

13th March
We love to play on the computer. We like to play on a fun game called The Magic School Bus: Solar System.

3rd March
We are studying geometry for three weeks. We have also done some art.

22nd February
Today we watched a movie called Peter and the Wolf. Lately we have been learning how to move to music and Peter and the Wolf has a lot to do with music.
We like to play a fun game called buzz. Buzz is a maths game. We have a new Maths group called the Diamonds. We now have our reading groups, they are called Kangaroos, Unicorns, Cheetahs, Tigers and Dolphins. We also have our swimming groups and they are called the Sharks, Whales and Dolphins.

15th February
We are practising our numbers, letters and math's. For maths we are split up into three groups Squares, Triangles and Circles.

Students' Work

A balloon is sitting on a flower.
By Sophie

Once I was a balloon.
A girl took me home and she dropped me.
By Chanel

It looks like Shayna Penberth likes looking at Africa

My mum poems

My Mum

As pretty as a diamond bracelet
As busy as a baker making muffins
As happy as a child
She's kind just like me

Taryn

Stories

Once I fell on a big rock. And I had a big headache. I went to hospital.

By Korben

True stories

I got a jersey for my Birthday. My dad squirted us on the bouncy castle and we got wet. Linette and Tylah came and Emily, Taryn, Ella S and Ella M came too. I had heaps of people come.

Zoe

I went to Hamilton. I saw the V8 racing. I liked it. I went to Sunday School in Hamilton. I liked Sunday School.

Mannia

Teacher's Message