Harvest Festival

Every year our school celebrates the harvest of vegetables in our school garden.

Pesto on baguettes.

Cherry Tomatoes.

Pesto baguettes, cherry tomatoes, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds.

Room 6 saying Karakia before we eat.

 

The whole school makes kai to share with each other. It is one of the special things that we do altogether at Hamilton East School.

Making Pesto for Harvest Festival

Our school garden had lots of produce in it. There were beans, pumpkins, potatoes, tomatoes, sunflowers and herbs. With the harvest festival coming up we had to decide what we would make to share with others in the school.
We decided to use the basil to make pesto.

We picked lots of basil leaves and washed them.

                          We needed garlic and pine nuts to go into the food processor.

The food processor chops and mixes all the ingredients together.

Finished product! One jar of pesto.

Recipe:

2 cups fresh basil leaves

1/2 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese

1/2 c extra virgin olive oil

1/3 cup pine nuts

2 garlic gloves

salt and pepper

Mix together in a food processor.

We left the cheese out as there are some kids at our school who can't eat dairy.

Cricket World Cup

With Cricket World Cup fever taking over in New Zealand, it was not surprising that it flowed into school as well. 

Teams from the four Kauri classes played some games. Our class was very enthusiastic, cheering and chanting for our classmates. It was lots of fun. 

Out of the 8 teams we placed third.

  

Face paint for our two teams.

Wicket Keeper, Batsman, Bowler.

The teachers also had a competition to see who could hit the ball the furtherest.

Kauri Swimming Sports

What a fabulous day Kauri team had at Swimming Sports at Tamahere School pool. There was length and width races. The fun races were piggy back rides, sitting on a kick board, bottom diving and dolphin diving.

Project Energise Cooperative Games

Over to Dawson to learn some cooperative games. We needed to use strategies and work together to outsmart the other team. The goal was to get the bean bag animals from the hoop in the middle without being tagged. 

Daily 5

During literacy time we are learning about Daily 5. There are 5 main focus areas. 

They are: 

Read to Self, Read to Someone, Listen to Reading, Work on Writing and Word Work.

The first focus is Reading to Self.

The couch is a great place to Read to Self.

 Read to Self criteria:

- read the whole time.

- stay in one spot.

- read quietly.

- work on stamina.

- stay focused.

- get started straight away.

Read to Someone criteria:

- sit EEKK (elbow to elbow, knee to knee)

- use a soft voice.

- stay in one spot.

- read the whole time.

- get started straight away.

Work on Writing

 Work on Writing criteria:

- write the whole time.

- stay in one spot.

- get materials quietly.

- work quietly.

- get started quickly.

Word Work criteria:
- get started straight away.
- set up materials quietly.
- stay in one spot.
- use soft voices.
- work on stamina.
- clean up quietly.

Listen to Reading using the listening post.

Listen to Reading using the computer.

Listen to Reading criteria:

- go to listening centre.

- start quickly and quietly.

- listen to the whole story.

- follow along.

- stay in one spot.

Cooking with our Buddy Class

                         

Our class was lucky enough to do some baking with our Buddy Class (Room 6).

Room 6 has a great kitchen to work in. 

Look at the Buddy Bikkies that we made. They were so nice to eat.