Bendigo

What a brilliant day we had at Bendigo. We had fantasic weather, wonderful parents and amazing children who walked a long way without complaining and learnt a lot about Shaft Mining. Thank you everyone who made the day possible. A great place to have a picnic if you haven't been there yet.

Measuring in Maths

We have been measuring how large our classroom is.

First we had to work together to find out about how large a square metre is.

Then we had a guess how many people could fit into a square metre.

 There was 14 people in this sqaure metre! No room for any more.

 There are seven lovely people in this square metre!

 This group is measuring how many metres are across our classroom.

 This group is measuring the length of the classroom.

 We found out that the classroom is 9.75metres or 9 and 3/4 metres long.

We found out the classroom is 7.24 metres or approx. 7 1/4 metres wide.

Our next step is to work out the perimeter (around the edge of the class) and the area

 (all the space on the floor if we were going to replace the carpet.

Joe's Ball Race

Enjoy Joe's animation he made today.

Gold

Try your luck at Gold Mining on the new game. You need to collect your tools, tents, and food from town before you can go mining.

Welcome to Term 2

Haere mai and welcome back to Term 2.
Please try the new activities on our blog, which include Hangman and an Anzac Day quiz. We hope to see as many children as possible at the Dawn Service on Anzac Day at the dam, which starts at 7am. The children have been learning and practicing Pa Mai to perform together.
This week we are having a special focus on our goals, including knowing our goals, displaying them and thinking about how we will achieve our goals.  Look out for a copy coming home by Friday.

Arrowtown Gold Exploration Day

We had a fantastic day in Arrowtown today. 22 children (out of our group) found a piece of gold when we were gold panning. We learnt about the Chinese miners and their lives in Arrowtown, and explored the museum.

Phil Wilson-Gold Miner Visit

Phil Wilson came to Hawea Flat to share his knowledge about gold. He showed us some gold and passed it around the class.-Liam



 

Today Phil Wilson from Queensbury came to our school to talk about gold, and to answer some of our questions. He told us how gold miners made a living by searching for gold. There are all different types of gold such as heavy gold, soft gold, red gold and white gold.-Rata

This piece of gold that Phil found under a tussock. Wow!

Today Phil Wilson from Queensbury came to Hawea Flat School to talk to different classrooms and talked about gold and gold miners. He came in with a piece (seen above), and said if you flattened it, it would be the size of our classroom floor. He also said gold miners had no houses, but lived in rocks, cave and trees.-Ashley