Awakeri School

Room 8

Who are we?
We are a class of 27 beautiful year 4s, we have the greatest teacher Miss Taggart. We work very hard and we hope to have great fun with our new teacher. Room 8 is a very tidy and beautiful class. We hope to make lots of new friends. We are eager to learn, we are intelligent and our room is very pretty and very colourful with all our gorgeous work. We are having a great term.

Class News
4 July 2008
We have mainly been learning about Kakapos, we have written Kakapo narratives, also we have made Kakapo projects. We are very lucky because Miss Taggart was able to get us some footage of a Kakapo virtual field trip. We have started doing S.R.A cards they are short stories with questions that we have to answer. We are doing some winter sport such as Netball skills and we sometimes play outside games like Moonlight Starlight. We are playing instruments for music.
Scroll down for students work.

19 June 2008
Today we are going to the Fantastic Festival, we think the festival will be great.
We are learning about Kakapo and are doing studies on them, we are trying to find out
- Where a Kakapo lives
- How a Kakapo moves around and survives
- Dangers and eneimes
- How the Kakapo are protected
We are learning netball skills for a sport. We have made a Shell Classification. We have different types of shells in their own section.

9 June 2008
We have been learning about Roald Dahl, Miss Taggart read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to us.
We are now doing a drama about it. Some of us lucky ones went to Mr. Sheather to do photo art. We have also been writing excuses for why there is a hole in the field, why the pancakes exploded and who cut the oak tree down. We have been doing a few NZ map tests, at the moment we are doing writing tests. We have been singing lots of songs in Maori like the Car song and the colour song. For maths we are doing some times tables and a bit of maths swap, Maths challenges, we sometimes play round the world. We are very excited about our next topic Birds. For art we are doing weaving, we are also making golden tickets, we have made posters on how to keep healthy.

3 June 2008
During the last week or so we have been doing senses poems, Cinqain poems and other types of poems.
We have also been making a project about keeping ourselves healthy. For maths we have been playing bowl a fact. We have been doing quite a bit of music like singing songs. We are learning three in particular. They are called Individuality, Bad Hair Day and Wobbly Tooth. Also we are learning how to play percussion instruments. We are learning Te Taima for Te Reo.

9 May 2008
Welcome to the first week back at school
We have been learning about the Anzac weekend, Anzac poems the first World War and the second World War. We have been doing a bit of art, like shell pictures, sea creatures and stars. We were lucky enough have Miss Cotter. We had lots of fun. We have also been doing shared writing, beach reports, spelling. We have been doing fitness, 4-12 minutes runs, playing games with Miss Taggart.

5 May 2008
Welcome to the first week back.
We are learning about White Island, volcanoes and how they erupt and any animals that live around them and there are dolphins, starfish and other amazing creatures. We now know where White Island is. It's 17km northeast of Whakatane. We learnt about when it erupted and that the only survivor was a cat named Peter. In 1400 Captain Cook named it White Island because what you can see looks white. We have learnt about Zero Waste by making desk tidies in art. Also we are making poppies to represent Anzac Day, we also had to draw pictures of either a horse, cowboy or a fish, plus beach pictures. For maths we are learning about measuring and statistics. We are writing our term recounts and goals.

27 March 2008
We are learning about volcanos, Whale Island, we we're learning to protect the beaches. We've been reading stories, doing word boggle, in art we've been doing collages.
For maths we are doing an exciting subject called Statistics and Number Math, also times tables games like round the world.
During P.E. we're playing Seaweed, Stuck in the mud, Moonlight Starlight. We're learning to play touch.

13 March 2008
We are learning about Ohiwa Harbour and we're also drawing pictures about Ohiwa, we're making booklets about Ohiwa Info. Tomorrow we are making rubbish bins for art. Miss Taggart reads big books to us. This week's was 'If you want to be a cat'. We have been learning new games like Scatterball, Seaweed, Starlight moonlight. Scroll down for children's work.

10 March 2008
We are still writing stores about camp and can't wait till we get to write about Top School. I will get some diaries if Miss Taggart will let me.

26 February 2008. Here are some photos from our camp. Scroll down for students work.

21 February 2008
We have just got back from a exciting camp. We went to Bryants Beach. We saw quite a few dead stingrays. We had heaps of fun at the Ohiwa Holiday park. We had to sleep in tents. We also went to the pa site, we had to draw pictures of where we would hide if spies came after us!

14 February 2008
Recently we have been learning about how to look after sand dunes due to our camp being next Monday. We have been learning about how to protect our beaches so that things like plastic bags don't end up in the sea and kill animals. Also our Enviro person is Tiaan Roia and our back up is Milllie Patterson. We are starting to get very excited about camp and all the animals we are likely to see at the beach. It sounds so much fun.

13 February 2008
Back to school again has turned out to be exciting and full of fun. We will be going on our school camp to Ohiwa Harbour on Monday to Wednesday and we hope to have so much fun and find out lots of new facts.

Miss Taggart has been teaching us lots of new strokes for swimming like backstroke and freestyle.
We have been studying the history of Ohiwa Harbour.

Students work

 

 

Some art we drew for our subject volcanos

Rm8 making poppies for Anzac Day

Volcanos we drew in art for our volcano subject

Kakapo Narrative


One cold dark night there was a female kakapo called Kirsty mothering her chicks in a hollow tree they were called K1, K2,K3. All of a sudden she heard a thump on the ground.
As soon as Kirsty heard the noise she froze!

(to be continued)



Five senses poems

Autumn
We love Autumn
Autumn feels like a whirling hurricane
Autumn smells like burning smoke
Autumn tastes like a golden Crunchie Bar
Autumn sounds like crackling leaves
Autumn looks like a golden carpet
I love Autumn
By Katy White

Beach poems
What I saw at the beach, one day I went to the beach and I heard a screech.
The wind was shaking and Granddads elbows were aching. It started to rumble and tumble and grumble. I saw a duck and his name was Huck I wanted to go home but then I felt alone.
By Maraea Porter

Beach Poems
To see the sun up so bright it makes you want to jump. I hear the waves crash and tumble onto the sand .Fish are going back an forth I feel the waves coming close. Seagulls are flying and so am I. I can see dolphins diving through holes in caves and that's what makes me happy!
By Millie Patterson

Beach Report
What is the Beach

What it is: The beach is a sandy,people friendly place that lies by the ocean

Description: A beach is a pretty place by the ocean and is a popular holiday habitat. It has many marine animals on its surroundings. People like to dump their rubbish on the beach part. The beach is many things, such as a holiday park, giant sand pit, swimming hole, but my favourite is the beach itself. I like the beach even if some people are careless and dump their rubbish onto the sand. I really like the beach.
By Katy White

Teacher's message
Room 8 has had a busy first few weeks of school!
In the first week we had to do lots of tests to find out just how clever we all are.
In week two we spent time preparing for camp.
In class we learnt about;
" The beach environment, focusing on the different parts of the beach and how we can protect the beach to keep it looking beautiful.
" Then we wrote about our expectations of camp and thoughts about the different things we might do when we get there.
" We also had a practice drawing what the Ohiwa harbour looks like based on a photo that we saw.

Week three - We were off to camp!!! We stayed at the Ohiwa Holiday Park located near the Ohiwa spit. We had an AWESOME time!!
We went for many walks, explored the beach and the mudflats, walked up to the old pa site that belonged to the Upoko-rehe tribe, played beach games, had many swims at the beach, and the list goes on…
Now that we are back from camp we will spend a bit more time focusing on what we did and learnt at camp and complete a study in class.
We are hoping to create collage pictures using beach materials that we collected from the beach. Then we are planning to add to our 'BEACH MURAL' by drawing interesting marine animals that we saw while camping.
It should be a great, fun filled term!! :