Leaf Art

Leaf Art - Mixing colours on PhotoPeach

Room 8's Turangawaewae Movie.

Holiday News

Here are some of the things we got up to in the school holidays.

• Alexis went rock climbing and saw Liam and his sister, and Yusef and his brother. She could climb up using the small hand holds.
• Niaana got some huge, juicy feijoas and gave them to her friend for her birthday party.  
• Braden went on a mission to find a donut shop.  The mission was successful and the shop was open.
• Ella had her birthday party. Her cousin was the mad hatter, and her mother's stilt walker was also a mad hatter and having two crazy mad hatters was a lot of fun.
• Lance got a game called Roblox.  He built an airport and an aeroplane and he also made a  cloud which could fly through the air.
• Lyrica went to Auckland to Rainbow's End for her cousin's birthday.  She loved all of the rides.
• Chloe watched the go-carts.  They went so fast that they were too scary to ride on.  So she went to Time-zone and played lots of games like the Zombie games.  It made lots of noise which attracted crowds at the window. She also lost a tooth and got $3 for it.
• Timoa watched X-Factor and saw Jessie make it to the final selection for Boot Camp.
• Nandani's parent's had their wedding anniversary during the holidays and friends took a surprise around to celebrate it with them.  A delicious red and white cake. They also took a rose for Nandani's dad to give to her mum.
• Laura rode on the skyline in Rotorua which was very high, and she also went on the Luge.  At the bottom of the Luge they got on the chair-lifts and Laura saw a jandal which had fallen onto the net below.  She also went to see the smelly, muddy, bubbling hot mud.
• Lucy went to her Grandma's in Dunedin and while she was there she went to Brighton Beach.  She also moved house in the holidays.
• Daniel went to see Iron Man 3.  He had some popcorn and Coca Cola while he watched the movie with his 3-D glasses.
• James went to a friend's house and drew some pictures.  He also witnessed a lightning storm but he thought it was a bit boring.
• Allyana went fishing one morning and it was so windy it blew her hat off. Her dad tried to fish it back in with his rod. He was successful.
• Esitia went camping in Raglan.  She went fishing at the beach with her cousins and caught lots of little sharks in a net.
• Jordan celebrated his birthday.  When Christopher got to his house Jordan invited him to have a ride on the drift trike but he was too scared.  When Jordan rode on it he nearly crashed into a parked car.  Oops. He also went on a camp.
• Liam went to a school holiday programme and went on a bus trip to Auckland Action World.  There was a confidence course with tight-ropes and trapezes.  There was also a thing called a gladiator where you stand on a platform and try and knock your opponent off using a long pole with foam ends. He knocked his sister off. 
• Eva went to the movies at the Base and watched the Croods.  Some parts were scary and there were funny bits too.
• Saalihah went to Lollipops and Felicia saw her there, but Saalihah didn't spot Felicia.  Saalihah's favourite activity at Lollipops was jumping on the bouncy castle.
• Miss Langdon did lots of gardening and ate too many feijoas.

Harvest Festival

Salsa Preparation

The Last Swim.

Kauri Team went to Matangi school for swimming sports in week 7 - our last school swim for the year.

Before I got in I felt nervous because there were heaps of bees and wasps swarming around the pool. (Lucy)

I thought the water would be hot, but it was cold when I got in! (Hussain)

When we were coming from the bus I was excited but when I saw the pool I was nervous because I thought it might be deep at the shallow end.  (Mele)

When I got in the second time I was climbing along the rail with my hands trying to get all the way to the deep end. (Lance)

When I got to the pool I thought the deep end wasn't that deep but when I got in it was very deep.  (Bradley)

I felt scared and nervous before the race but once I did it I enjoyed it. (Chloe)

Saalihah and I thought we would lose because everyone was so fast. (Nandani)

I was surprised to get into the finals for one of the races. (Rebecca)

I thought I was going to drown in the deep end so I was glad when I could touch the bottom

again. (Felicia)

I held the side of the pool when I went to the deep end so I wouldn't drown. (Saalihah)

Smittens comes to visit

Learning to Be - Relating to others

Here is our classroom treaty.  Part of the Hamilton East School toolkit is 'Learning to be'.  Our treaty reminds us of how to get on with each other so we can all enjoy learning at Hamilton East School.

We are showing how we can work in groups to achieve our goals.  Here you can see we used our bodies to make letters of the alphabet.  Can you guess what letters we are?