Awakeri School

Room 5

2008

Who are we?

We are 25 cool year two kids, who are really smart. We have an awesome teacher called Miss Geerlings.

Class News

08-08-08

For maths we have been learning about 3D shapes and lines of symmetry. Lines of symmetry are lines that show when we fold things in half.

We have also been learning about the Olympics. We are learning which countries are in the Olympics and here are some of them: Argentina, China, Kenya, Brazil, Jamaica, Spain, Netherland, Canada and Korea.

We painted half of a butterfly then folded it onto the other half of the paper and then we unfolded it and it is awesome.

30-07-08

Last week we made trains. They are sheets of coloured paper. We put animals, hearts and food in the carriages so that we could learn how to skip count.

We are making buses by cutting out peoples heads from magazines and glueing them into the buses windows. We are glueing black bus wheels onto the bottom of the bus. They are looking fantastic.

There is a holiday story down at students work.

27-06-08

We made hats. We then made a pattern for our hats on a big piece of paper and cut them out. We then pinned it on to a piece of purple, blue or brown polyester. Then we cut it out. We sewed it together with Miss Geerlings' sewing machine. Then came the best part. We put on the hats and showed them at assembly. They are really nice and warm. They are nice to wear in winter.
We also made sticky playdough. The ingredients we used were flour, salt, food colouring, water and oil. We put in the ingredients one by one and we mixed it all together. It was fun.

09-05-08

Hello, we are back from the awesome school holidays.
We have been learning lots. We are learning about when we should drink water.We are also learning about Heat and opposites.
We are learning songs from Miss Geerlings like: She'll be coming round the Mountain, In the Mighty Jungle, ob-la-di ob-la-da and Mummys taking us to the zoo.

11-04-08

Last week we went to the Awakeri Hot Springs. We played learning games in the water. We had to get in the pool with our clothes on! We also sat on tyres and the parents tipped us out of them. Naughty parents!! We did silly dances on the edge of the pool and then fell in on purpose. We had an awesome day

07-04-08

We made clocks. First Miss Geerlings gave us plates and we traced around them onto cardboard. Then we cut the circles out. After that we coloured the circles in.

06-03-08

We have got swimming skills fish and we have been colouring in the activities that we can do in the swimming pool. We cut out blue and green pieces of magazines and glued them on the back of our fish . Then we covered it in glue and stuck small pieces of tin foil on top. This side will also have our swimming goal on it .

Students' Work

30-07-08

In the holidays I went to the snow with my family . It was an hours driving. I thought it was a long way to the motel. Shauni and I were really happy when we saw the snow again. When I had my ski lessons I learnt how to go fast and slow. To go fast you do french fries and to go slow you do pizza.

By Casey

28-03-08

We've been writing about what we did this Easter.

This Easter I went to my Grandmas and I played with one of my cousins there. We played hide and go seek .

By Emma

I went to Lake Rotoma and I went on a boat. I went biscuiting twice. I saw people water skiing.

By Anika

This Easter I went fishing with my Nana, Pop, and my sister Jordan. I didn't catch anything.

I also stayed two nights with my Grandma and I played with my cousins .

By Hayley

This is some awesome weaving that we did with Mrs Sheather.

We've been learning why others are special. Here are some examples:

I feel good about myself when I help cook tea.
I am really good at playing with my cat.

By Nakisha

I feel good about myself when I help wash dishes.
I am really good at skipping and making my bed.
I am a happy person.

By Lucille

Teacher's Message

11-04-08

To finish off a great term of learning to swim, our class as well as room 7 and 6 went to the Hot Pools for a deep water learning experience. We had a great team of parents to help with the activities and the children had to imagine being in all kinds of deep water situations !