Nude Food Day

We really, really, really, REALLY want to win the Nude Food Day competition. Look at all our amazing 'nude food' lunchboxes.
We have some fantastic material wraps for our sandwiches and cakes too.

Keep it up Room 16!
Nude Food Lunches on PhotoPeach

Changes

We went for a walk around our school to see what changes had happened in the holidays. We all wrote about what we found. We have been learning about similes and included one in our writing. You can find our stories in our new individual blog links on the righthand side of our class blog site.

Harvest Festival

We love Harvest Festival, making and sharing our food.

Harvest Festival on PhotoPeach

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

Our Garden

We went for a walk to explore our class gardens.

It was very exciting to find so many vegetables busy growing over the holidays.

Look what we found...

plump tomatoes

juicy, red strawberries...

and a GIANT pumpkin.

We hope Room 16 wins the Pumpkin weigh in at our Harvest Festival.

Harvest Festival

It is Harvest Festival time again.

We started with the 'Great Pumpkin Weigh In'.  

Ms Jones tried to be sneaky and lent on the scales so her class would win, 

but we were NOT tricked!

Our wonderful Mrs T harvested her feijoa tree.  

We made two production lines and chopped all the feijoas in half.  We also tasted a few, ha ha!

All the classes took their food to the courts to share. 

What a feast.  Another wonderful school Harvest Celebration.

Nude Food Day

http://www.nudefoodday.co.nz/

Fantastic Room 16
Look at all our wonderful healthy lunches,
we used containers and NO wrapping!

Don't forget...

Every Wednesday is Litterless Lunch Day 

at Hamilton East School!

Our Class Garden

When we came back to school 

our class garden looked 

          like this... 

The tomatoes had gone crazy 

and a pumpkin plant was trying to steal our garden.

          So...

we staked our tomato plants

  

 pulled out the weeds...

and thanked the marigolds for keeping the bugs away

 

            We found...

 basil, spring onions, capsicum

and lots and lots of tomatoes.

 Wow! We are going to be able to 

make the most delicious pizza's

from our Pizza Garden!

Yum!  We can't wait!!!!

Observational Drawing using our School Environment

We have fantastic observational drawing skills in Room 16.

Our Goals are to use our sketching pencil to  

• create fat and thin lines 
• dark and light areas
• show detail and patterning
• show shading.

Planting Our Spring Garden

Yay! Summer is coming.

We had a class discussion 

and chose to plant a pizza garden this Spring.

Why?

Because we all LOVE PIZZA!

We chose plants that make great pizza toppings

basil      peppers      tomatoes      spring onions

Tylah-Dawn and Nevaeh-Lee measured our garden space.

 

 We planned where the plants would fit.  We had to use lots of measuring and maths problem solving!  We decided our garden is too small and we couldn't fit all of the plants in.  We could only plant 2 tomato plants, 2 capsicums, 4 basil plants and a few spring onions.

When Kullan was in Room 1, he learnt that if you plant marigold flowers in your vege garden, they help keep the bugs off your plants.  Snails do not like marigold flowers.  This is called 'Companion Planting'.

Thanks Kullan, what a great idea!  So we planted 4 marigold plants too! 

 

Our vege garden needed some compost.  Dugan got us a wheelbarrow of compost from our worm bins.  Pooh!  It didn't smell very nice but we know the plants will love the rich nutrients.  We turned the dirt over in our garden, put the compost on top, then mixed it up. 

Planting our Pizza Garden on PhotoPeach

Litterless Lunch Wednesday

 

Our Craigburn Primary School buddies in Australia 

told us that they have a 

Litterless Lunch Day every week.

We thought that was a really good idea for our school.

 So... 

Bradley asked the Student Council 

if they thought it was a good idea, and they agreed.

Then...

We planned how to tell all the classes.

We made 5 groups.

 We planned a job for everyone in the group to do.

 1.  Tell the class about Litterless Lunch Day

 2.  Explain what it means, NOT to bring any wrapping to school.
 3.  Show everyone how much rubbish we collected from the playground.

 4.  Tell the classes about the rubbish videos we saw and how we are trying to save our planet.

And...

We decided to make posters for each class 

to put in their window and remind them every WEDNESDAY.

Maths Problem - How many children should work on each poster?

 

Also...

We sent Rochelle, in the office, an email

and asked her to put a notice

in the school newsletter.

We told all the Mums and Dads about

'Litterless Lunch Wednesday'

Then...

We practiced our speeches.

And...
we watched ourselves!

We talked about what we did really well,

and what we could do to improve.

Listen to our speeches now!

Do you think we improved our speeches?

On Wednesday, Bradley and Kullan went to visit each class and gave all the children with 'Litterless Lunch' an Enviro card.  Hope they win a prize at Positive Assembly on Friday!  Well done Hamilton East School, you are helping to look after our environment. 

We challenge each class to see if they can all be litterless next Wednesday.
Which class do you think will win!