Ruby's Video on Friday, 5 August 2016

Ruby's Photo on Wednesday, 25 May 2016

Hine's Post on Tuesday, 3 May 2016

We welcomed Mrs Clark to our school today. Our Kapa Haka group performed for her and our school joined in. We sang our school song- Ko tenei Te wa.

Hine's Video on Tuesday, 3 May 2016

Our Fabulous Farm Visit

Today we went to the Hayward's Farm - Premier Cattle Company in Cambridge. 

We saw two cows named Sweetie and Blueprint. The farmer Derek showed us how to milk the cow. We tried to hand milk Sweetie and Blueprint.

We made ear tags on a bit of cardboard.

We put our finger in the cup to feel the suction. The cup goes on the cow to milk it and in the dishwasher to get clean.

We gave the milk from the cows to feed the calves. 

We watched the calves drink the milk. They were very hungry!

We met out buddies from Ruma Warou at Goodwood School. Their school is across the road from the farm. 

You can see their blog to read about their farm visit and today's visit from us. We had a wonderful day full of experiences. Thank you Derek for having us visit today, we hope the cake was delicious.

Thank you to Dairy Nz too for helping us with our trip. We loved looking at all our 

Rosie's World goodies. 

Making an apple cake

We are going to the farm tomorrow. This apple cake is for the farmer to say thanks for having us to visit and showing us around his farm. We hope we have a good time at the farm. 

We used this recipe:

Spiced Apple Cake

125 g butter

1 cup of cooked apples or 225g can apples

1 cup sugar

1 egg

1 1/4 cups flour

1 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp each nutmeg, allspice and salt

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 cup sultanas

Preheat oven to 150 degrees C. Melt butter and combine in a bowl with the apple and egg. Leave to stand for five minutes. Sift dry ingredients. Add to the apple mixture along with the sultanas, stirring until just blended. Spread in a greased 20cm tin and bake for 50 minutes or until springy to touch.

Sprinkle with icing sugar when cool.

The Harvest Festival

We put our pesto onto crackers and shared it at the Harvest Festival. We even shared a bowl with Room 9 so they could have it with their gnocchi. You can find their recipe on Room 9's blog.

Look at the yummy food our school made. 

We listened to a beautiful karakia then we tasted lots of yummy foods with the whole school. 

Making basil pesto

Our class made pesto from basil leaves. We put it in the blender and the leaves got chopped up small. We are making the pesto for the Harvest Festival. 

Room 3 Shared writing

This is the recipe we used:

Basil Pesto

Into a food processor place about 2 packed cups of basil leaves, 2 large cloves of garlic, peeled and sliced, ½ cup of good quality olive oil, ¼ cup parmesan cheese (optional) and salt and pepper to taste.

Puree until they form a smooth paste. Store in the fridge or freeze in small containers.

Visiting Marian School

We went to Marian School and we saw a balloon.

It was locked in a cage. Caleb

We saw a balloon basket and a truck was holding the balloon basket so it didn't fly away. T.T and Jayden

The balloon got bigger because the hot flame was filling it up with air. Molly

We saw the balloon being spread out. A man went inside it. Bella

Butterflies in our classroom

Yesterday we had two butterflies hatch in the morning before we got to school. We were able to help them to get outside. We watched them fly over the courts and into the cabbage tree.

This morning when we got to school we were able to watch and wait for another butterfly to hatch. It was so exciting watching the butterfly drying it's wings.

Making patterns

In Maths we are learning about making a pattern. We used different materials to make a pattern.
Patterning on PhotoPeach

Swimming with the swim instructors

We have been having swimming lessons with our teachers and the swim instructors. Their names are Holly, Robyn and Gem. We swim with them on Tuesdays after lunch and Fridays before lunch.

I have been swimming with the board and I have been kicking. Jason

We have been floating with Hine. Dayton 

We swim in the pool every day.

I like floating with the noodles. Katy

Family Picnic

Tonight is the family picnic. It will be by the school hall from 5pm.

We can bring our family and some kai to eat. 

There will be books for sale at the book fair, games and swimming too. 

We hope you make it.

Reading activities

I played with the puzzles. I could make a house out of it. Molly

I sat down in the library corner and I read some books. Bruce

When it was reading time I was reading a book and I was drawing. T.T

I liked writing on the whiteboard. Jayden

Kowhai Positive Assembly

We went to Positive Assembly in Room 5 today!
We had a positive draw and some children got a prize for getting their positive card pulled out of the box.

We even had Toolkit awards. You can see who got the certificates in Kowhai team this week.

We sang some songs and danced.

Baking scones

We visited the Cool Kids Kitchen and baked some scones. We visited the kitchen garden to collect some herbs for our scones. We think the scones were delicious. We want to do more baking. You can find the recipe that we used by clicking the link here.

Learning to swim

Swimming on PhotoPeach

I like swimming by myself- Molly

I like splashing in the pool with my feet- Bella

I like swimming with Jason- Caleb

Me and Caleb swim in the water with the boards -Jason

I like swimming in the pool. I dive deep and I like jumping. T.T

I like touching the bottom of the pool and sinking down. Kiki

I like walking in the pool. Aala

To Taonga - Our Gateway

We visited the Hamilton East gateway. We listened to stories about the gateway, sketched the special Taonga and watched a movie  made by Room 6 last year. You can watch the movie below.

Kowhai welcome letter

Kowhai Team Newsletter, February 2016.  

Kia ora and welcome back to school for 2016.

My name is Hine Blair, the children call me Hine and I look forward to getting to know your child this year.

The first two weeks of the year are spent getting to know each other, developing class routines and expectations. In this time stationery needs to be purchased and organised. Book bags and reading books will come home once this process is completed.

Swimming begins immediately as we have only a short window of warm weather in which to swim and it is compulsory. Kowhai children swim each day. Please send named togs and towel in a plastic bag. Togs can stay at school if this suits you.

Sunhats are compulsory and are purchased with stationery.  You can collect your child’s from their room and take home for a wash if needed.

School Lunches Lunch eating is supervised to ensure all children do eat. Hamilton East School is part of Project Energize and supports healthy food choices. Suitable lunches consist of sandwiches, fruit and other healthy snack food. If your child is used to eating rice or other prepared food then send this along in a container.  Packaged sugary snacks and chips are discouraged and sugary drinks are not permitted.   We also respectfully ask parents not to send yogurt to school. Although a healthy food it is so easily spilled and has ruined many books and book bags. Please save for an after school snack.

As an Enviro school we encourage the use of lunch paper and reusable containers rather than plastic wrap. Children are encouraged to drink water and can access their water bottle in the classroom at any time.

Home Readers  After teachers have established students reading levels and stationery is organised, book bags will begin to come home.  They will contain a reading book or reading activity to be shared at home with parents. This reading time should be short (10 mins) and enjoyable If your child is unable to read the material then read it with them.

Home books will begin to come home on Fridays in place of a reading book. They are a reading resource of poems and stories your child has written.

Book bags need to come to school each day and Home books returned on Mondays.

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask. We look forward to meeting everyone at the Family Picnic and Goal Setting Conferences later in the term.

Keep in touch with what is happening in Room 3 by visiting the class blog via the school website www.hameast.school.nz.

Hine Blair

Kowhai Team, Hamilton East School

Exploring our environment

We explored the grounds at Hamilton East School. 

We looked at some of the places in our school.

Our classroom

The rainbow playground 

The water trough

Fairyland

The butterfly garden

The kitchen garden

The swimming pool