Awakeri School
Room 9

Who are we?
We are a cheerful and talented year 4 and 5 class of students who are handsome/beautiful. We have a web site monitor named Hamish. We have three goldfish, Bubbles, Lucky Fin and Goldilocks. We have the pleasure of having the one and only Mrs. Cronin as our teacher.

Class News

Tuesday 19th August
Hi everybody. This week we have been straight into work now that some of the sickness has passed. We have chosen an athlete from New Zealand and we are designing a suit which must reflect their sport and movement. While Mrs. Cronin has been sick we have been doing contour drawings with Mrs. Sheather. For those of you that don't know what it is, it is basically a picture made up completely of lines. For Te Reo Maori we are doing Nga Kai which is Maori for food. We have started up this thing called fishy words. It is when we find a hard or interesting word in a book and we write it down, put it in a box and when we have time we reach into the box and grab some words out to learn. We have been having some games and doing some printmaking with symbols. We have been doing some poetry on the emotions of some athletes. Well it has been a busy week and tomorrow we have the interschool soccer and hockey day so I wish all the team the best of luck and I hope they have some fun out there.

Tuesday 13 August.
Hi everyone. Sorry it has been so long since the last update but everyone has been really busy doing the Olympics and having a look at science fair. There is lots of reading going on to do with the Olympics, world geography and our country study. We are loving Mathletics and have it as our homework and we even have someone in the top 100 of New Zealand. We are also looking at parts of a story and are writing our own settings and in some cases full stories.

Tuesday 29th July
Welcome everyone and hi, this hasn't been much of a week but we still enjoyed it. Our teacher has come back from looking after her husband and we are glad about that. We have started to get into teams for the interschool hockey and soccer day that is coming up. We have started a unit on Roald Dahl who wrote the best books ever. For physical education or PE to some we have been practicing our skills of hockey and soccer. The school is going to have its own little Olympics on the same day as the real one so room 9 are learning a bit about the country they have been given to represent in that. Our popcorn crunch was yummy or as Mrs. Cronin would say, gobsmacking. Well that is all for this week and until next week I will see you around on the web.

Tuesday 22nd July
Welcome back everybody from a wonderful holiday. Some people went to Auckland or the snow while others went to a friends or stayed at home or had someone come over to their house. With all those wonderful holidays we all are ready for a wonderful, funfilled term. Enough about the holidays, lets talk about the classroom. We are now studying the world instead of New Zealand. We made a banana cake recipe yesterday and we are going to make some popcorn crunch this week. The holidays haven't been perfect for some because of sickness and Mrs. Cronin's husband has fallen ill with the flu so Mrs. Cronin is at home looking after him. Meanwhile Mrs. Sheather is teaching the class in her absence.

Tuesday 1st July
Hello everyone and I hope you have had a wonderful week. The fit people are at Inerschool cross country in Manawahe. This is the last week of this term and we all are happy about the break. We will be just as happy to get back and see our friends. On Friday is something our school would like to call a rewards day. On this day we will be able to bring toys and skate boards and roller blades if you have been good and if you have the safety gear. For PE we are learning some ball skills and we are having fun. We are finishing off our camp unit with a camp record. The bean plants are all growing heaps and I have taken a picture of the one that has grown the most. In this entry I would like to say farewell and good luck for the future as Miss Goodman has left this school.

Tuesday 24th June
On Friday we went to the fantastic festival and got given some really cool story telling stones. We are finishing of some camp recounts and camp art. The end of the term is coming up in a couple of weeks and so is the parent interviews. We are excited about the end of the term but we aren't that excited about the interviews. Our bean plants are sprouting out leaves now and we are all happy about that. Well that's all I have for this week and I give you an update next week.

Tuesday 17th June
The school is having its photos day tomorrow so that means we can update the photo above. On Friday our class is going to go to the Fantastic reading Festival in Whakatane. Some of our bean plants are starting to come out of the ground. Room 9 is very excited about all these events and will most likely have a wonderful rest of the week.

Tuesday 10th June
We have been starting a new plant unit for science. We have done some cool things already. We have started growing our own bean plants and I will give you a picture of what they look like before Room 9 takes them home. We have started some more testing like spelling or basic facts. We have a new trainee teacher, named Miss Goodman to help out Mrs Cronin and learn a few things.

Tuesday 27th May
Our trip to Lake Taupo Christian Camp was both refreshing and informing. We all had an awesome time. The food was just delicious. We had free time choices, for example we could play Ping-Pong, play on the playground etc. Olivia and Karaitiana agreed that Ping-Pong and the lullaby were the best things they liked on camp grounds, and of course the food. But lots different people liked different things, those are just two opinions. We had activities of low ropes, rock wall archery (which Kyla and Thomas came first in), slug guns (all supervised by the wonderful parents), mini golf and much more. On the last day we all had a miniature train ride which was really sore on your ears because when you went through the tunnel everyone screamed. After the train ride we went to the Huka Falls and its prawn farm. While there we tried to hook a prawn but didn't have much success. When we got back to school we went home, had a nice sleep and then started writing thank you letters to all the parents and the two teachers that organized the camp for them.
Click here to see some cool photos from our camp.

Tuesday 15th April
The reason why you haven't heard from me in such a long time is because we were having our Interschool touch tournament last Tuesday. Tomorrow is the senior syndicate's fundraiser. There are six food stalls and ten fun things to do stalls such as Bomb Fitzy, which is when you try to water bomb the school principal and sumo slammers, which is when you play sumo wrestling safely. For art we have been doing "My Dream Bedroom" and a type of art which is when you draw a nice boarder and then draw a funny face inside it.

Tuesday 1st April.
We have had a visitor in the class. A woman from Environment Bay of Plenty came and talked to us about rubbish. I know it doesn't sound like much but Room 9 learnt heaps. Logan and Liam learnt that the amount of rubbish in a dump is as tall as the sky tower and as wide as a rugby field. We are learning about our local area for topics.

Tuesday 18th March.
We are all looking forward to Easter! The class is busy doing follow up work after our trip to town and the Whakatane Coastguard station. We had heaps of fun looking at the Coastguard boats and equipment. We got to climb up onto the boat and have a look at the R.T.(Radio transmitter) and steering wheel. When we got down we got to have a look at the motor. It was all really cool and we got to have most of our questions answered by the Coastguard themselves. We had a swim at the beach to cool off from the heat of a hot summers day.

Tuesday 11th March.
We have been making paper mache coat hangers this week for art. Top School is this weekend and room 9 is really excited. There will be Lucky Jars, Lucky Dips, Train Stop, Goldfish Throw (not when you actually throw goldfish but when you try to throw a ball into a jar to win a goldfish.), Jelly Slurp, raffles and food. Our marvelous tree by the back courts had to be cut down to make room for the new classrooms. The same thing happened to the pine tree by the log as well. Room 9 will dearly miss them both. We have been doing a self esteem unit and we have it presented on our wall if you want to have a look. We do have this photo for you to look at if you can't.

Monday 3 March
Three weeks ago we started to practice some plays using our W.I.T.S. We had to have a freeze frame, no touching and as least amount of talking as possible. Well after three weeks we were experts at it and it looked really cool. If you get the chance why don't you pop in and have a look at our wonderful artwork up on the walls. If you scroll down you will find out what W.I.T.S. are.

 

Students' Work

For art we have been making praise cards. It is when you make some cards and every time you get a praise it goes in the card. I have chosen the best boys and the best girls to put on the website. They were Kyla's and Dillons.

 

 

 

Teacher's Message
Tuesday 12th August
There is lots of reading going on around Olympics & world geography and the country study. The children are all enjoying mathletics and they got their passwords last week. We are learning about parts of a story. The children are starting to write their own settings and their own stories.