To Mica and Miki!

Hi Mica and Miki!
How are your holidays going in America and Italy?!
Hope you are thinking of us in the cold winter over here! We had snow on the mountains in the weekend and are having many frosts now.
Looking foward to hearing from either of you about your holidays, you could add a comment to this post?!
Love from Room 3.

Stampers working

Kawarau Mining Centre

Stampers, Sluice guns, Sluice box, Gold panning, Miners huts.... phew!! What a big day out our junior classes had last Tuesday.  55 Year 1 and 2 children loved the bus trip there and spent a chilly morning being guided around the sights. We particularly enjoyed watching the stampers and sluice guns work. Check out some of our pictures! Thanks very much to our parents that helped out, especially Lisa, Gina, Susanne, Ros and Nicky from our class.

Kahurangi Dance Group

On Thursday 17th May our whole school was treated to a stunning performance by the Kahurangi Dance Group.  They sang hamonious waiatas, and performed exciting Maori legends.  We thought they had alot of energy and showed great expression and love of what they were doing.

Easter Baking!

HAPPY EASTER!! Hope you all have a lovely easter and a great holiday.

Chocolate Nests!

At the end of term 1 as a celebration and easter treat we made Chocolate Nests.

Have a look at our great photos! Here is the recipe to have a go at home.

Ingredients:

1 cup of chocolate chips.

1/2 cup of any other chocolate

50g butter

2tblspns runny honey

4 cups of cornflakes

Method:

1. Add butter and honey to a pot, gently melt over low heat.

2. Turn off the heat and add the chocolate. Keep stirring until it has melted.

3. Gently stir in cornflakes until they are coated in the mixture.

4. Spoon into greased muffin tray.

5. Set in fridge.

6. Fill nests and eat!

Mayhem Day!

Wild, Wacky and wonderful!! Hawea Flat School was a stunning array of colour and craziness on Friday 30th March as we celebrated Mayhem Day. The money raised went towards Autism and the Guide Dog Appeals. Here are some pictures of the Mayhem in room 3.

Room 3's visit to kindy!

I'm still not sure who was more excited today- the kindy kids getting to see 'big school kids' or the 'big school kids' getting to visit their favourite kindergartern, siblings and loved teachers!

We shared a play and all read a book to some of the kindy children. Very enjoyable, reading to our little brothers or sisters, neighbours and wee friends! We also enjoyed playing with them and found it hard to leave and go back to school. We look foward to visiting again or having kindy over to see us.

Maria Gill - Author

Today a New Zealand Author, Maria Gill, came to our school and talked to us about her beautiful non-fiction books and about being an author. She writes during the day when her kids are at school and writes about 'real' things. She starts from a big idea and does alot of researching, planning, writing and heaps of proof reading.

One of the main points we liked was to BELIEVE IN YOURSELF! set yourself goals and you can do whatever you want (within reason!)

http://www.mariagill.co.nz/

Arrowtown

Denise showed us how to Gold pan. We learnt how to swirl the water around in the pan, but we didn't really enjoy the part of having to have patience... this is hard work!! Congrats to Indi for finding Gold in her pan!

Looking inside the huts the Chinese lived in while gold mining. We were interested in the materials they used, as they have lasted a long time, but this is in summer! What would winter have been like?! Room 3 aren't too sure about this...

Triathlon

On your marks.... get set....




GO!!
What a fantastic triathlon day we all took part in on Friday 2nd March. We ran, biked, and then ran again! Phew! We were all very excited/anxious, and were extremely proud afterwards! Well done everyone for taking part, and for the whole school as well. Big thanks to Jude and Mark Elliott for organising the event and all the helpers/marshalls/bbq workers and iceblock sellers that made the day so enjoyable.