MONARCH BUTTERFLIES....

We have becoming very  knowledgeable about the life cycle of the Monarch butterfly,

Last week week we planted a swan plant in the hope that a Monarch will come and visit and we can watch the life cycle process in action. We are all amazed at how beautiful the cocoon is...how does that happen?????

Come and see the beautiful butterflies that we have made...they will be on the wall next week.

On Thursday we made butterfly cakes and decorated them with sprinkles. They were very scrummy.!

There are masses of wonderful photos to show you but we are having issues with downloading....sorry will have them for next week.

WELCOME BACK TO SCHOOL !

Happy New Year everyone...hope that you have all had a relaxing break.

The Afternoon Programme team are all ready and fired up for a fun term of learning.

We have had a busy two days catching up on the children's holiday news...they have produced some stunning drawings and next week they will be writing a story about their holiday fun.

This year for our welcome board of super stars the children have chosen a T Shirt of their colour choice and we all brainstormed the wonderful attributes about one another . These words will be attached to the TShirts. ......come and have a look!!

The holidays have arrived!

It is hard to believe that 2012 is drawing to a close.

The last two days of the Afternoon Programme were filled with Christmas treats.
We went and visited Santa's Grotto much to the delight of the children..watching their faces as they went through the Grotto was one of pure delight...they were all so animated!
After the Grotto we all headed to the park to have an ice-cream and farewell Jacob as he is off to Breens Intermediate.

Jacob we are all going to miss you. It has been a pleasure having you in the Afternoon Programme and it will take a a while  getting used to not seeing your smiley face!
We all wish you happy times at Breens.

To all those who read this blog,we wish you a very Merry Christmas and hope that it is filled with lots of fun and laughter.

Take care and we will be back' blogging' in February.

Christmas is on it's way!!

With Christmas just around the corner it was time to put up the Christmas tree this week.

Learning Support was filled with Christmas music and great excitement!

Katelyn, ,Jeremy,Luke B, Luke U,Rachel,George and Jacob...what a fantastic effort...your Christmas tree looks amazing!! 

 Aieshar was away but the children left some decorations for her to put on the tree the next day.
How is that for caring about one another!!! These children are truly SUPER STARS!!!!

A and P Show

We hope that you all enjoyed your long weekend.

Last Thursday we all had a fun day at the A and P Show.

The smell of the animals didn't appeal to some of us but it was amazing being able to pat and cuddle so many different animals.

Aieshar would have stayed all day with the lambs
She thought that they were very soft and cuddly.

This dog just loved all the attention from Katelyn!

There was so much to see at the show. We climbed on tractors,talked to the lady in the Ambulance,watched horses  jumping over fences,saw very strong men chopping wood and had heaps of fun dancing to the music.

Luke B was fantastic...he was a real tidy kiwi and went around collecting rubbish.

We were all VERY tired when we got back to school!!!!!

We watched  Carrot and Pickle's show. They are very funny clowns.

Here is our super duper tidy kiwi out looking for rubbish!

Sunflowers

Last week we planted sunflower seeds and already they have started to grow.

For art this week we drew sunflowers with pastels and then dyed them, In the middle of the sunflowers we glued on poppy seeds to make them look like  real sunflowers!

Gayle and Rachel said that we were fantastic artists! They were very proud of our work.


Wednesday arrived and we were once again participating in Get Out, Get On,Be Challenged.

We had some laughs trying to jump in our sacks for the sack race!

We have  missed George and Luke this week and hope that they will be back soon.

Apologies again!!!!!!

Sorry there are no photos this week as there has been issues with downloading!

We have had a very busy week.

On Wednesday we were all super stars at the Athletics.....we certainly lived up to this terms, Get Out. Get On. Be Challenged.
We all gave it our best and had a great time participating.


Our cutting skills have also been "tested" this week....we planted sunflower seeds and then got busy with the scissors cutting out petals....we are going to all make our own beautiful sunflower!


On Thursday we were just about to start making Easy Egg Tarts when we had a surprise visit from a hen and her four chicks. They were all so cute and soft, What a treat getting to hold them.

Then it was back in to make our tarts.....they had eggs,ham,cheese and parsley in them. They were very scrummy! It is a shame we haven't got any photos to show you but they were so easy to make that we will all be able to make them at home for lunch one day!!.