Koru prints on PhotoPeach
Saturday, April 30, 2016
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Harvest Festival
We love Harvest Festival, making and sharing our food.
Pumpkin Bread
Making Pumpkin Bread on PhotoPeach
Pumpkin Spiced Bread
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.
Pumpkin Art on PhotoPeach
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
Sunday, March 13, 2016
Our Sneaky Visitor
Mrs McKenzie came to work on a Saturday morning.
She moved one of our yellow, wooden boxes.
Out rolled a hedgehog. Yikes! Boy, did he smell bad!
How do you think he got in there?
How long do you think he was stuck in there?
We wrote our own hedgehog adventure stories ...
Arghhh! It’s raining. I need shelter. That place looks nice. There’s a box I can lie in. BANG! Oh no! It fell on me. How can I get out? I know, I’ll scratch my way out…
Five days later,
I’m curled up in a ball. Mrs McKenzie
pulls the box up. I’m free! Mrs McKenzie gets a shovel and carries me to
the Nature Trail. “I’m home,” I
said. I feel so excited to be home.
by Anna
Arghhh! A bird is chasing me. I am scared.
I want my family. Aye! The
light. Yay, I am free. I am on a shovel. Mrs McKenzie lets me go. I am standing there looking at her. She stands there looking at me. I’m on my way home. Don’t worry my family, I am coming home!
by Lydia
Mrs McKenzie
opened the door. I rolled into a ball
and fell into the box. I’m stuck.
Finally, Mrs
McKenzie lifts the box. Mrs McKenzie
screams and the box stinks. She gets a
dustpan and she puts me on the Nature Trail.
Yay, I’m free.
by Hodan
Once upon a time
there was a hedgehog. A bird chases me
into this strange place. I bump into a
box. Thud! It falls on me. Help!
No one can hear me. I am too
quiet. Oops, the children are
coming. Shhh! Wait, it’s quiet now. I will see if I can nibble my way out. Nibble, nibble. Oops, I can’t. Oh no, it is getting brighter. Yay, I’m free. Wait a second. There is something coming towards me, I don’t
know what it is but it is lifting me to home.
Yay! Oops!
Thank you Mrs
McKenzie.
by Sam
I get into the
door, then I crawl over to the box. The
box falls on me and I am stuck! One day
Mrs McKenzie comes into the classroom,
suddenly she lifts the box. I
come out of the box. She lifts me on a
red dustpan. She puts me outside in the
bush. I feel happy.
by Jamie
Oh no, I am stuck
in the box. Who will help me? I am stuck here for six days. Aha! I’ve got an idea, I am going to chew the
box. But I can hear Mrs McKenzie. She lifts the box. She gets a fright and jumps up in the air. She gets a shovel and takes me outside to the
Nature Trail. I felt frightened like Mrs
McKenzie.
by Dezyre
Wow! A hedgehog.
I wonder how he got inside our box.
I think he walked in when we were working and hid in the box. Then it tipped over and fell on him when the
children walked in. They went past the
box and BANG! I wonder how long he was
there…
Hedgehog…
I wonder how long
I am going to be here. I could try to
dig a big hole but that doesn’t work.
The next Saturday, someone’s coming. Hide! I curl up into a ball. Help!
Someone has picked me up on a shovel.
I’m free, I’m free, smell the beautiful air. Yay, I’m free, I’m going home. Yay!
by Cassia
This looks like a
nice place. I crawl up the ramp and peek
around the corner. I slowly walk into
the classroom and walk towards a box. I
accidently roll into the box and it falls on me! Help, help!
It’s dark in here…
Finally, I can
see light. Oh no! It’s going to eat me. I’m on its scoop thing and it is so loud. Where are you taking me? We’re outside, yay! I’m coming family… Mum, dad, I’m here. I went on an adventure.
by Ashen
I am in a scary
box. It was very frightening when the
box landed on me. I am trapped. But someone saves me, I am finally free. I race down Putikitiki to my family. I have a mum, dad and an uncle. We live in the bush. My claws were left in Room 16.
by Logan
I am a hedgehog
and I am stuck in a box. I am
scared. I try to scratch my way out but
that doesn’t work.
Wait, I see Mrs
McKenzie coming. She screams loud
as! I’m on a shovel. I’m coming home.
by Carmelo
I am in a
box. “Help!” No one can hear me. One day Mrs McKenzie lifts the box. She gets her shovel. Oh no!
She puts me on her shovel and we go outside. She puts me down outside. I feel happy.
Yay, I am free and I go home.
by Hassan
Sneak, sneak,
sneak went the hedgehog. He rolled and
rolled until a box fell on him. How long
did he stay there? Ten days, he was like
a spy. But Mrs McKenzie got him and took
him outside. He was happy because he
could be with his mum again.
by Ezra
I curled up in a
ball and rolled, THUMP! Someone put down
the box and I was stuck. I am really
scared and frustrated. I try to get out. I scratch the box and the carpet. Finally someone opens the box and I am
free. I am on a shovel and then we are
outside. I curl up in a ball and roll to
a bush and down a hole.
by Tyson
When I bump into
it, I get stuck in a box. I can’t get
out from here. I try eating the
carpet. Boy! The smell is disgusting. I poo in here too. I am only a small hedgehog. I am stuck and scared in here. I can’t get out from here. How long could I be here for?
“Help, help!” Someone looks under the box and I get
out. I am free! Now I am fine and back with my family. I am happy with my family. It is a happy ending for me, I am having fun
now.
by Jasnoor
Yum! Look a snail trail. I am going to eat that snail. Climb, climb, and climb, up the stairs. Slowly I enter the classroom. Swoop!
Arghh! A falcon. Phew!
A dark and smelly place.
BANG! “Help!” Yay, Mrs McKenzie saves me. This is even better than I thought in the
first place. “I’m home, Mama, Papa,
Grandma. What an adventure guys!”
by Nicholas
I was walking to
find some food. But as I walked, something
was different. Swoosh! A bird came.
I bounced and bounced and then I ran as fast as I can. I heard kids coming so I bumped into a
box. I’m stuck in the box for a
week. Mrs McKenzie finally got me
out. She got a red dustpan and put me in
the Nature Trail. Yay! I can go home.
by Noah
I quietly and
slowly climb up the stairs. I hide behind the schoolbags. Thump, thump,
thump! All the children run past. It is quiet now.
Swoop! A bird is chasing me. I quickly run into the classroom. I hide behind the reading trolley. It is dark and smelly. I sneak along to the yellow wooden box. BANG!
Oh no, the box fell on me.
“Help!" Nobody can hear me. I can’t get out.
Stomp, stomp,
stomp! The children are coming
back. Shh! I scratch at the box, scratch, scratch and
scratch. I scratch the carpet, trying to
dig my way out. “Ouch”, my spikes get
stuck in the carpet. I will have to stay
here all night.
Tap, tap,
tap. Oh, the light is bright. Mrs McKenzie lifts the box. “Wheeee! I’m free.” Oops, now I’m on a red dustpan. Where is she taking me? I can feel the breeze, I can smell the
air. Yay, I am going home. Hooray!
by Brooke,
Keeley, Ariana, Matiu and Raumati
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