Plant life cycles - Room 12

We have been learning about the plant life cycle. As part of our learning we planted our own seeds so we can watch them grow, see the different stages of the cycle and discover what will help them grow.

This is what our planted seeds looked like on the first day. We could not see our seeds anymore because we covered them in soil.

We can't wait to watch them grow.

Pumpkin growing contest - Room 6

Last year the children at Hamilton East School planted pumpkins. They were harvested this week and some will be entered in the pumpkin competition that is happening at the Hamilton Gardens this Sunday.

Look at our photos from today. First we guessed the weight of the pumpkins at Positive Assembly, then Ms Jones weighed them. Some were 3 kilos and the biggest was about 45 kilos. Hine couldn't even lift it!

Room 6 went back to look at the pumpkins. We found the ones that our classes planted last year. Some children were in Room 8 so they looked at the pumpkin they had grown from their plant and some children helped plant the pumpkin for Room 6.

Last year Hine was in Room 14 and that pumpkin grew really funny. We decided it looked like a cat so we carved a cat face. We will enter it in the competition at the Hamilton Gardens on Sunday.

The great pumpkin growing contest on PhotoPeach 

Baking in the kitchen

Today Room 6 baked scones with our some students from our buddy class. Next week we will bake with the rest of our buddy class. We went to the kitchen garden and picked some basil and tomatoes. Then we came back to class and baked our scones.

If you would like to make scones this is the recipe we used from the Edmonds website. 

Room 6 children have the recipe in their Home books.

We all agreed they were very yummy. 

Lucky we made enough to share with the buddies who missed out on baking this week. 

Thank you to our buddies from Room 10 who took the photos. 

Sunflowers- Look, draw, look by Room 1

Room 1

Taking time out to look at 

and draw our sunflowers ...

Look what we found ...

SEEDS!

Our pumpkin

Sunflowers - Room 14

Look how tall the sunflowers are. We went for a walk to see the Kitchen Garden and we couldn't believe how big the sunflowers have grown!  They almost reach the top of the hall. 

They are beautiful.

Celery and Marigolds are what we have planted outside our classroom.  We need to remember to water them each day so they grow bigger.  Hopefully we will have big healthy plants ready for our HES Harvest Festival.

Tane Mahuta Day by Room 5

We celebrated Tane Mahuta Day.

We had a good look at all the beautiful trees at Hamilton East School.

 

We looked at the leaves.

We looked at the trunk and touched the bark.

 

We threw the leaves in the air.

 

The Redwood tree is massive.

We think it is awesome.

Katie says the Redwood tree is taller than her Dad.

 We sketched the Redwood tree too.

We even wrote about our favourite trees at Hamilton East School.

I  like  the  Kauri  tree.  It  is  big.

By  Kate

I  like  the  hugging  the  tree  and  I  like  touching  the  tree.

By  Johnathan

I  like  touching  the  big  big  big tree.

By  Vahoi

I  like  the  Totara  tree  and  I  hugged  it.

By  Div

The  leaves  are  flying  in  the  sky.  They  landed  on  Shelley's  face.

By  Ashaar

This  is  a  tree  blowing  in  the  wind.

By  Jhyrome

What is your favourite tree?

Harvest Festival by Room 4

The harvest festival was yummy because we got to try heaps of food.

It was fun because we were with lots of other classes.

 

There were silverbeet rolls and roti. 

We ate sunflower seeds. They tasted like peanut butter. 

There was a chilli tomato sauce with flat bread. It was spicy.

 

There were beans as well.

There was lettuce and tomatoes. We ate the tomatoes with our hands.

We even got to taste potatoes.

 Room 4 shared zucchini cake, herb scones and banana muffins.