World famous at Hamilton East School Giant Pumpkin competition

Yes folks, the time has finally come to reveal which class grew the heaviest pumpkin in our school giant pumpkin competition!

Last week we harvested the pumpkins and displayed them in the window of the resource room.

Then we started a competition to see who can guess the weight of the pumpkins.

Hmmm......... verrrrry tricky! How much does a pumpkin weigh?

The pumpkins varied greatly in size and weights.

Room 13 children carried the lighter ones to the resource room.

But we had to get Dugan to bring the heaviest ones in the wheelbarrow. The smallest ones were still pretty heavy!

Then on Friday at Positive Assembly we had the weigh-in.

Here are the pumpkins ready to be weighed.
Friday was also Race Relations Day and Room 13s entry into a poster competition called I am Aotearoa is displayed on the wall above the pumpkins.

 The three heaviest pumpkins were grown by Room 4, Room 9 and Room 13. 

Here's Ms Jones and Dugan weighing Room 4s pumpkin. It weighed 29 kilos!

Room 9 and Room 13s pumpkins were too close to call. About half the school thought Room 9s was the heaviest. 

Here is Room 13s pumpkin on the scales. It weighed 37.25 kilos.
Room 9s was 36.75.
 

 Oh, so close!!!! 

Room 13 won the giant pumpkin competition 2014 by half a kilo!

The winners of the competition will be announced at Positive Assembly this Friday. 

Drawing still life

We spent Friday afternoon drawing fruit platters made up of apples, cape gooseberries and grapes from Ms Jones's garden. We will complete them next week, though we won't have the fruit anymore to look, draw, look at. MMMMMMMMmmmmmmm, it was delicious!


Look, Draw, Look on PhotoPeach

Our class

Here's a selection of images of Room 13 enjoying learning.

Room 13 at work and play on PhotoPeach

Self portraits

Here are some of our self portraits. We have practiced drawing our eyes noses and mouths in proportion and focused on just drawing our heads and shoulders. We are going to enter our portraits into a competition to design a poster for Race Relations Day.