Prizegiving

Congratulations to our class members who recieved an award at prize giving. Jasmine Tawhiti got the most improved student. Amotai Reti was awarded the best all rounder and Aria Lawton got Academic Excellence. We were also pleased that Ksharne Watson got the Junior Role Model award. Amotai Reti got the Junior sportsboy.

On the radio

Today Mike West from More FM (92.2) came and recorded the children at our Prizegiving. He will be playing it on the radio on Tuesday 13th December at 7.45am.

Dear Mrs Zander

Last week we made kites because the letter of the week was Kk and kite starts with K. We also know that Ksharne, Kierra, Kiwi, Kangaroo and Kookaburra start with K. Mrs Duxfield told us that the you said the Kookaburra would wake you up in the morning! Have you seen a Kangaroo in Australia? We all want to know if Ella had a good birthday? We think it's funny that Ella is scared of the Ibis bird. We hope you are having a phenomenal time. We miss you.

From Room 9

Our assembly 2.11.11

Here are some pictures of our bird Assembly.

We did the bird dance and a play called 'What is a bird'

Homework stars.

Congratulations to Brydyn, Ksharne, Aria and Harmony for getting 5/5 for their spelling this week. Also well done to Arnav and Amotai for getting 4/5. Well done to Zahara, Ayan and Kierra for learning to read some basic words. Mrs Zander is sorry that she is unable to mark the maths before going on leave.

Term 4.

Welcome back to term 4. It is fabulous that New Zealand and the All Blacks won the Rugby World cup. This terms theme is NZ Birds.

Canada

We have been learning about Canada because the All Blacks are playing them on Saturday. We have learnt about the maple leaf, the flag and Mounties. The maple leaf is red and it comes from the maple tree like maple syrup. The flag is red and white, it has three stripes and it has a maple leaf on it. Mounties are policemen who ride horses. We hope the All Blacks win on Saturday. GO ALL BLACKS!

Daffodil Day

On Friday the 26th of August it was daffodil day so we made these beautiful daffodils. We worked really hard to get them looking this good. Arnav brought real daffodils to school so we were able to make sure we made them look right. We Learnt that daffodils have six petals. Have you made daffodils before? Did they look like our ones?

Student led conferences

Thanks to all the parents and students who have come to the student led conferences. It has been great to share learning.

Mrs Duxfield.

Holidays.

Hello to everyone who is checking out our blog over the holidays.

What have you been up to over the holidays. I am having a nice relaxing time at home. I've also been helping Mrs Duxfield get ready for the new term. We went to a ICT course and learned some new activities to try on the laptops with you.

Looking forward to seeing you on the 1 August.

From Mrs Zander.

The new laptops

Mr Soutar bought some new laptops. We got to have a turn on them today. We had to typed our names and the alphabet. We took picture of ourselves on 'Photobooth'.

Our new trainset

Mr Soutar bought a new trainset for room 9 children to play with. What do you think of it? They children think it is fantastic.

Ronald McDonald's visit

Room 9 and 3 had a Ronald McDonald visit them to tell them about road safety.

He said:

- "Stop, look and listen before you cross the road.

- "Wear your helmet when you ride your bike."

- "Put the seatbelt on when you ride in the car."

He lost his red and white stripey sock. The children found the sock behind his back. He sang a song for us.

He liked Awapuni School and the children's smiles and sitting up.

We were really surprised and we felt sterling about his visit.

20-24th June homework superstars.

Congratulations to both Aria and Ksharne for scoring 5/5 on their spelling. Both girls have yet to get one word wrong since we started our new homework system.

Spelling homework

This weeks super stars with 5/5 are: Aria, Arnav, Ksharne, Harmony B, Harmony H and Jahvan.

Well done to Brydyn, who got 4/5.

Rhymth Interactive

We went to the hall for a show. When we got there we found lots of drums. We played the drums until our arms hurt. Even the teachers had to play the drums. We also did some clapping and singing. We danced and the big people played the drums. It was noisy. It was fantastic and sublime.

Harmony's Birthday

Harmony celebrated her 6th birthday on Wednesday. (Wow - can you believe that she has been here a year!) Her family brought in an ice cream cake for room 9 to share. What a way to finish off the day.

Matariki

On Wednesday Awapuni School celebrated Matariki. We had a shared lunch of burgers and fruit kebabs made by Whaea Raina and the children, we watched a movie and danced with Whaea Shari, we played rakau games with Mr Fawcett and decorated stars with glitter and stickers with Mrs Zander. Doesn't our hall diplay look fantastic!

Fish pictures

Here are some photos of us creating our artworks for the hall.

Cross Country

Today at school we held the annual cross country event. The junior school course is around the front field, and then half way around again.

Well done to all those that ran today - you can be proud of yourselves. Special praise to our champions Aria and Amotai - you trained hard and deserved to get a trophy.

You can make a happy cake.

All week we read a big book called 'The fantastic cake.' As a treat, we made our own cake. It is called a happy cake. It is based on a Junior reader.

Now you too can make your own happy cake.

Melt 100g of margerine/butter in the microwave.

Add: 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence, 1 cup of sugar and mix well.

Next add: 1 cup of flour, 1 teaspoon of baking powder, 1/4 cup of cocoa and mix well again.

Pour into a 20cm dish and microwave for 5-7mins on high. Cool a little in the dish.

Cut out face shapes and place place them on the cake. Sprinkle with icing sugar. Remove paper carefully.

Admire and eat the cake.

Queen's Birthday

We learned about why we have a holiday on Monday. You could ask your child:

• Is it really the Queen' birthday? - the answer is no. Her birthday is in April. It is the anniversary of her coronation or being crowned as a Queen.
• Is the Queen a girl or Boy? We also discussed some princes become kings and some princesses become queens. The children thought that Whaea Christina would make a good Queen of Awapuni School and Mr Soutar the King. Mrs Zander is the Queen of room 9.
• What gifts did the Queen get at her coronation? The royal jewels - her crown, an orb (ball) and the septer (stick). She sat on a throne.
• What gift did she give her loyal servants? A day off - or holiday.

We also looked at some real photos of the queen, in scarves and hats, with her pets, riding in a carriage and her image on our coin money.

We finished this section off by making our own crowns.

Friday 3 June - Wow! what a day.

Today at school we found out about Queen's Birthday, We finished our artwork for the hall, baked a cake and had the Cross Country. Check out our blogs about it.

Friday 3 June

Remember to bring your homework book and cross country clothes to school today. Dont for get that is Mr Fitzgerald's last day today. Lets make it a nice one for him.

How to post a comment

Hiya, some parents have been asking how to post a comment on this site.

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30 May - 3 June

Hello to all.

This week in class we are learning the letter 'Ff', the blend 'ph' and to read the word 'for'.

In maths we continue addition and subtraction to 5 and 10. You could also ask your child to count in 2s, 5s and 10s.

The children write stories everyday so you could talk about what they could write about.

Don't forget Room 3s Assembly this week on Wednesday at 2.30pm and the Cross Country on Friday afternoon.

Homework superstars.

Well done to Aria, Amotai and Ksharne. Your homework from last week was exemplary. All three of you did very well at maths, reading and especially spelling.

Our Pirate pictures

Mrs Zander gave us some pirate stickers and we had to draw the rest of the pirate picture. Here are three of them.

Friday's learning

Today at school we make police badges and ID cards. Whaea Emily was in Room 3 and she thought the badges looked good. Whaea Christina was worried that she might have to go to jail.

Thank you Whaea Raina

Whaea Raina did lots of work to set up this blog page for us.  Hasn't she done a wonderful job!  Thank you for that Whaea Raina.

Mr Fitzgerald

Room 9 welcomes Mr Fitzgerald (Roger) to our class.  He is a Student teacher from Massey University and is with us until 3rd June.  He is working with individual children, small groups and the whole class.