Printmaking

Koru prints on PhotoPeach

Harvest Festival

We love Harvest Festival, making and sharing our food.

Harvest Festival on PhotoPeach

Pumpkin Bread

Making Pumpkin Bread on PhotoPeach

Pumpkin Spiced Bread

Ingredients

1¾ cups flour

1 tsp baking soda

½ tsp salt

½ tsp ground cinnamon

¼ tsp nutmeg

½ tsp ginger

2 eggs beaten

1 cup pumpkin puree

50 g butter

¼ cup vegetable oil

1½ cups brown sugar

2/3 cup water

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 160 degC on fan bake. Lightly grease one 23 x 13cm loaf pan.

2. Combine 1¾ cups of flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger in a large bowl and set aside.

3. Beat the pumpkin puree, eggs, butter, vegetable oil, 1½ cups brown sugar and 2/3 cup water until well blended.

4. Gently combine the flour mixture with the pumpkin mixture.

5. Pour into the prepared pan and bake for 45 to 50 minutes.

6. Allow to cool for 10 minutes in the pan, then transfer to wire rack to cool completely.

Pumpkins

It is harvest time again. We collected our pumpkins that were planted by classes at the end of 2015.

We estimated their weight. 

Weighed them, and compared the weight with our own weights. 

We sketched and painted the pumpkins.

Pumpkin Art on PhotoPeach

Hot Air Balloon Visit

Balloons over Waikato on PhotoPeach We were invited to Marian School to share their hot air balloon visit.  We were excited to see it was our very own Hamilton hot air balloon.  A big thank you to Marian School and all our parents that came to help.

Swim Safety

A special 'Thank you' to our swim instructors from 'Find your Field of Dreams'. 

Here we are practicing our safety techniques.

Survival techniques on PhotoPeach

IMG_1556 from Ham East on Vimeo.

IMG_1557 from Ham East on Vimeo.