Strawberries

We tasted really juicy red strawberries.it was really soft with lots of flavour.

By Liam and grace

Future Computer Technicians

The students are having fun dismantling some old computers.
I wonder what we are going to do with all the parts?
Mrs Bava says we have to wait and see... 

Making Tipare

We had some lovely visitors to our class last week who taught us how to do flax weaving. We made Tipare (headbands) to wear to the Kapa Haka Festival next week.
Here are some fabulous pictures of us creating out Tipare then modelling them.
A big thanks to Miss Spooner, Mr Mill, Mr Jean-Louis and Mr Ensor.
We had so much fun!

                                  

Affirnations

Here are some of the lovely positive affirmations the Room 9 students wrote about each other.

Leigh, I like the way you try your best and love to learn and learn to love. By Greer

Manaia, I like the way you are kind. By Ebonie-Rose

Lachlan, I like the way you are kind to everyone. By Hunter

Liam, I like the way you are a kind and caring friend. When I am sad you cheer me up and include me in your games. By Hunter W

Mikaela, I like the way you are a role model for others in the Junior Syndicate. By Luke

Kylah, I like the way that you are always ready to do monitor jobs straight away after Mrs Bava says. By Manaia

Luke, I like the way you are the caring kind because you include other people in your game.   By Ashka-Rose

Ezekiel, I like the way you include others in your games. By Kylah

Mrs Bava, I like the way you’re funny and kind. By Quinn

Mako,I like the way you include others in your games. By Liam

Piata, I like the way you are the caring kind by helping people. By Lachlan

Hunter W, I like the way you share with others and you’re a good friend. By Grace

Tawhiorangi, I like the way you are an Awapuni super kid and are a great friend to others.     By Brooke

Ashka-Rose, I like the way you are ready to go by sitting on the mat every morning.By Kyra

Greer, I like the way you are kind to others by including other people in games. By Lucy

Quinn, I like the way you are ready to learn by having your pen or pencil and book ready to learn. By Piata

Kyra, I like the way you finish your work in time. By Mako

Hunter, I like the way you are great at running. By Ezekiel

Ebonie-Rose, I like the way that you are kind to others and always give things a go. By Leigh

Sapphire, I like the way you are fast at running. By Lucy

Zarneo, I like the way you are always nice and kind. By Tawhi

Grace, I like the way you play nicely with me. By Sapphire

Brooke, I like the way you are kind and let people play in your games. By Hunter

Lucy, I like the way you are always a good friend and include others in your games. By Zarneo

Celebrations.

Room 9 is looking at Celebrations.

We are celebrating ourselves! Why we are Awapuni kids, what we love to do (learn) what we are good at and much more...
 Come on in and check it out!

We have created a celebration quilt and it is hanging in our classroom window.

Athletics Fun

Wow what a fantastic day we had on Tuesday. Athletics day was so much fun. 

Everyone had a go at the 50 m and 75 m sprints and ran the 200 m. To finished off our fantastic day we had a fun  doing tabloids games.

Here are some pictures of our day. :)

                                                                  Room 9 already to go!

 Girls having fun while they wait for the race to begin.

 Proud winners!

Discovery Centre

   

Our Discovery Centre is growing fruit and vegetables.

Our strawberry plant has a big white strawberry growing, I wonder when we will be able to eat it? nom nom nom...

The Dwarf bean is sprouting two purple beans - wow I wonder what a purple bean tastes like??

Our Growing Friends

Week 4 and our tadpoles are getting fat! I wonder when then they are going to grow legs and turn in to Froglets.

Writing time.

This morning we had some room 8 students join us for writing.

What lovely writing they shared with us all.

Thank you so much Jessica, Kayden, Callum and Maverick - keep up the fantastic writing!

Athletics practice

                              Room 9 has been practicing getting ready for Athletics 

                                       day on the Tuesday the 4 th of November. 

      

                                   

Special visitors

       We welcomed some special visitors in to our classroom in week one. 

                  Our baby tadpoles will  grow into Golden Bell Frogs.

               We are tracking their growth by taking photos each week. 

 

Highlights

Check out our busy term 3...

Tooth Defenders Song

Here is the movie of room 9 singing and performing the 'Tooth Defenders Song' at the middle syndicate assembly last term. A big thanks to Michael Hollis for sharing this movie with us.Room 9 is filled with Tooth Defenders!

Use your WITS

Walk away

Ignore

Tell someone

Say an I statement

Over the last two weeks Room Nine has been unpacking the 'IGNORE' part of WITS. 

We had lots of discussions and fun creating an i movie to present to assembly.

We have some budding  actors and actresses in Room Nine!!!

Check it out and see what you think?

Report Writing

I present to you

'Wild Boar'

By Hunter W.

Report Writing

I present to you

'Kangaroo'

By Ashka-Rose, Kylah, Whetu and Greer.

Report Writing

I present to you

'Polar Bear'

By Ezekiel, Piata, Grace and Hunter.

Report Writing

I present to you 

'Cheetah'
By Lachlan, Sapphire, Mikaela and Leigh.

Report Writing

I present to you 

'The Monarch Butterfly'
By Lucy, Kyra and Brooke.

Report Writing

We have been looking at report writing. Room 9 worked in groups to create reports on animals then turned them into a movie using the web tool Animoto.

It was a lot of fun and the children have created fantastic movies.

I present to you 

'The Yellow Eyed Penguin'

 by Tawhiorangi, Manaia, Mako, Liam and Quinn.

Making Pizza

Using our instructional writing skills we were able to write instructions and then follow those instructions to make delicious Pizzas. 

                                       

Oral health

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Room 9 has been learning about Oral Health since last week. We have been having lots of fun with Oral  Heath doing activities sand learning about it. In our integrated unit books we have a title page with a books.tooth and describing words in it.

By Kyra 

Te Reo Maori week

We are learning to speak as much Maori as we can.

For example , I brush  my niho twice a day. 

Spot the Maori word...

Have fun speaking Maori. 

Ka Kite ano.

Manaia & Luke 

Yummy Math

                 

We created 3D shapes using wine gums and toothpicks!

We had to make a creation then share what shape it was, describe how many faces,edges and vertices it had then have our photo taken and then start creating again! 

The best part was getting to eat the wine gums at the end.

We can't wait until we do yummy mathematics again. 

Mikaela Hanging out with the Warriors

Mikaela shared her exciting news. 

She had a fun time helping her Dad in the commentating booth at the Gisborne Warriors vrs Sharks game.

Mikaela got to meet some of the Warriors players and even her book signed, a cool hat, a Warriors teddy bear and a cool top.

As you can tell by her beaming smile...she had a great time!

Share the road!! Honk honk...

                             

We had special visitors to our school teaching us the importance of being safe around BIG trucks.

It was so much fun! The best part was climbing in the big cab and getting to pull the cord that makes the horn go. HONK HONK!! We also got to talk to the other children from Room 8 in their truck on the radio! We learnt about blind spots and how to load and unload a truck and also how old the tree logs are by counting their rings!

What a fun adventure we had!! 

Origami

Part of our Literacy Centre is our choosing board where we 

can pick from lots of different and cool activities. 

Origami has been a real challenge and fun to make.

Look at our cool creations. :)

Geometry Madness.

Geometry madness has hit Room Nine.

We have been creating shapes from nets and they look fantastic!

Come in and check out our colourful shapes hanging around our classroom.

Enjoying our school library.

Room Nine children LOVE visiting the school library. 

You never know what adventures are going to happen! 

It's so great to see the enjoyment the children get from reading.

Awesome - keep up the great reading! 

Sneeze Safe

This term our topic is keeping safe.

We investigated how we can keep safe when sneezing this winter.

There are 4 very important steps.

1. TRAP IT 

2. BIN IT

3. WASH IT

4. DON"T EAT IT

We did an experiment where we sprinkled glitter on  Leigh's hand and she walked around greeting her classmates and shaking ther hands.

Once she had greeted the whole class we had a look at our hands and discovered that everyone had glitter on their hands.

This represented the bugs that we carry on our hands when we sneeze into them!

Our Science Table

                               A popular spot in the mornings is our science table.

       Our crystals are growing and spreading along the wool. Some look like snow flakes.

Book Week Parade

                  Something strange happened in Room 9 on Friday 23rd May.

When I arrived into class I was surrounded by beautiful and colourful book characters.

                      Where have all the Room 9 children gone? Can you spot them?

                            

                           

FLUBBER...

                            

More science fun.... 

The same recipe but mixed with white craft glue instead of clear glue.

Introducing FLUBBER. 

A much more sticky messy mixture but just as much fun.

Check out the science table in our class and have a look, smell and feel!

Science Experiments - SLIME

Connor shared with us his recipe for making Slime.

We all loved learning and Connor was a good teacher.

The slime was gooey and sticky and so much fun.

Trip to the Museum

       Learning how to create clay creations! 

Fun, fun, fun. We had an amazing time learning new skills. 

Thanks to Aaron  for teaching us about clay creations. 

The Oosterdam Cruise Ship

                                             

                                                   Wow! It's huge and so close. 

                             We sat in the warm sand and sketched the cruise ship. 

                                    What a wonderful way to spend the afternoon. 

As we sketched and added the finishing touches to our pictures we wondered what it would be like on board the massive ship. On the way back to school Mrs Bava said we should google the Oosterdam cruise ship. We had a look online and WOW! It looks amazing. We wished we could go on board, maybe next time??? 

Off on another adventure!

                        A beautiful day at Waikanae beach. 

                                What treasures we found... 

            

                    Back to class to write about our adventure! 

                     We love outdoor adventures and learning. 

Middle Syndicate Sheild

It was an honour to present the 'Middle Syndicate Shield' this week to one of our lovely room 9 students.

                              

                              Congratulations to Sapphire who always shows

                                 the 'six kinds of best' in everything she does. 

         

Week 4 - Student of the week is...

                                  

                               Luke you have amazing mat manners and are a great role

                                                 model in room 9. Congratulations! 

Week 4 - Middle Syndicate Stars

Awesome Job. 

Ebonie-Rose has been working hard on her writing this week.

Hunter has amazing knowledge about the Octopus, he is great at sharing his interesting facts he has learnt with Rm 9.

                         

                              Kyra has been doing Fantastic research about Crabs...                                                  Not only at school but also at home.

                                         

Week 4 - Kind Assembly

Well done Liam, you always show respect!