Awakeri School Room 6

Awakeri School

Room 6

2008

Who Are We?

To see pictures
of various things we have done this year...

Here we all are.
Don't we look intelligent!

We are an intelligent class of 11 yr3's and 15 yr2's.
We are the eager pupils that Mrs West has the pleasure of teaching.
We love to learn and we have fun doing it.

Class news

28th July

Well the first week back is over and I'm sure we will of all resumed our daily routines by now. Instead of doing the usual mind map to tell people about our holidays we are going to make a poster to show it.

1st July
The term holidays are coming fast. But before the holidays start there are still fun and important things happening like The parent teacher interviews, The book fair in the staff room on Wednesday, The fun day on Friday when we can bring our skates etc. to play with, and much more happening in our classes.

30th June
We have made our bread in class and then the next step was visiting the New World bakery in Kawerau. We each got our own hair net as well so that we didn't get any of our hair in the bread. We even learnt a joke.
Where do you go if the world explodes?.......
To a NEW WORLD
There will be more about our trip posted within the next few days. In the mean time you can check out some photos of our trip by Clicking Here. There are also pictures of other things we have done this year to view on the page.

10th June
There has been some more pictures on our photo page so don't forget to check it out by clicking the link at the top of the page. The latest 2 pictures are of our graphs and our bread that we made.

5th June
We have got a new student in our class. His name is Samuel Cook. He seems to be fitting in well and has already made some new friends.

4th June
Scroll down to read the new teacher's message.

15th May
Just lately we have been practising ripper rugby skills for our winter sports with Mrs West and shortly we are going to practice for another sport like soccer or hockey with a different teacher as part of our rotation. If you want to see some pictures of our practices click on the link above who r we. We have also been carrying out an `egg drop investigation ' with Rm. 5 and Rm.7 The other day we tested out which materials to see which one will be best to package the eggs so that it survives a trip from Awakeri to North Auckland. From our testing we have agreed that hay would be best as it can fit around the egg and cushion it during the trip. We are having lots of fun doing this, there will also be pictures of this coming later by clicking the link above. :)

8th May
Welcome back to another exciting term. Its going to be a exciting this term due to only the teachers knowing what we will be doing .I'm sure we're all glad to be back at school. If the term holidays were any longer we would probably run out of things to do. And I'm pretty sure were all starting to miss our friends and of course the playground. :)
On Tuesday it was our turn to have a rugby skill session with Brent and Exia ,who are former rugby players that played in high standard of teams. Exia even played in the women all blacks team which was called the black ferns.
On Friday the 4th of April which was a few weeks ago, we went to the Awakeri hot pools participate in deep water activities. For one of the activities we had to jump into the pool with spare clothes on to see what it would be like if you fall over board a boat etc. without a life jacket on. We were all shocked with how much our clothes dragged in the water. To see pictures of this fun-filled day and of our flax weaving session with Siri... CLICK HERE

20th March

The other day we had our first maths lesson using rulers. Up until the other day none of us had used a ruler before. For our first lesson we had to draw an interesting insect with a Head, Thorax and an abdomen which all had to be a certain length and width. Now that our self portraits are finished we have started weaving. For our first weaving session we cut out strips of coloured paper to tread through a specially cut sheet of black paper. The next step in weaving we are going to do the same but the strips of paper will be strips of material and the sheet of paper will be big squared netting used for growing vines. Our next class subject is friendship , how to be a good friend and how to keep the friends we have.

21st February

In our class we have made a weather chart so we can record whether the the weather was sunny, cloudy, windy, hailing or raining. So far for writing we have been writing about our holidays and Christmas.
Mrs West has asked us to tell her a topic that we would like to learn about.
Here are some of the topics we thought of .....
-How volcanoes erupt and..
-How the creatures in the dark part of the ocean see

15 February

Lately in our wonderful class we have been sketching pictures of ourselves by looking in a mirror to see the physical features on our faces.
Once we finished our sketches we made good copies using Indian ink.
We have also made a virtue treaty. If we see someone doing one of the things on the treaty we write that persons name on some paper and put it in a special box. Then at the end of every week Mrs. West counts up the amount of votes each person got and the one with the most votes at the end of each week gets a special prize.

Students' Work
Here are some stories about our trip to the Hot Pools-

Jacob. D 's
On Friday 4th April rooms 5,6 and 7 went to the Awakeri hot pools to learn how to be safe in the deep water.
My group and I went to the tubes. The thing that we did was to climb up on the tubes and when I got on they had to tip us over with our life jackets on. I was a little nervous of going on the tubes and getting tipped. Now I know how to keep safe in the water.

Christian's
On Friday 4th April rooms 5,6 and 7 went to the Awakeri Hot Pools to learn how to be safe in the water. When we got to the Hot Pools we had to get in our groups. My first activity was staying a float. My next activities was capsized boat. My next activity was rescue me and my next activity was sinking ship. After that we had a water break. Then we had to do the activity Will it Float or Sink and then we did our last activity was difficult swimming. Then we got our clothes back on and then we were finished staying afloat is when you need to float on stuff. Capsized boat is when you are on tubes and people pushed the tubes over. Rescue me is when you get people back out of the water. Sinking Ship is when you lie on your back on a life jacket and float. Will it float or sink is when you say it will float or will it not float. Difficult swimming is when you put on your clothes and you take off your clothes in the water. I was excited and thirsty after all the activities. I learnt some ways to not sink in the water.

Teacher's message