Oh My Goodness...it is week 7!!!!

Morning all...yeah the sun has finally returned! It has been a wet and miserable week.

We have been continuing with our learning about healthy food .
On Tuesday we were on a mission...to put together a skeleton . We all had one each..all the bones had been cut out for us and all we had to do was to put them together...well that was the plan!!
We got out our body book so that we could match up all of the bones.
Luke B was incredible ..he was a real whizz at it so we decided to call him Mr Bowen the Orthopaedic Surgeon!!!!

Our whizz!

  It took us some time to join all the body parts together with the pins but we were very pleased with the final outcome.
After some discussion we all decided  to give our skeletons a name that was different to ours.

Every day this week we have been writing sentences about healthy eating and exercising and keeping a food diary.

We have decided that it is okay to have treats now and again but we need to eat lots of healthy food for our bodies and brains to work properly.

On Thursday we chose to make popcorn as our healthy snack.
It is easy to make and is delicious to eat.


Fingers crossed that the sun stays with us over the weekend.!!

Week 6

Apologies for no blog last week....it wasn't that there wasn't anything to write about...Gayle forgot as she does the blog on a Friday and it was Show Day!.

Speaking of Show Day, we had a fabulous time at the show looking at all the different exhibitions,climbing on the tractors, watching the horses, seeing chickens hatching out of their  shells, patting rabbits,trying not to walk in animal poo...that was hard at times!!!

We loved being able to touch all the lambs...they were so cute! The calf tried to eat George's yellow vest!!!!

After searching out all the animals we went and had our lunch and listened to the New Zealand Army Band....they were so awesome . We all got  up and danced to the music...it was such fun!!

By the time that we got back to the bus we were all very tired.

This week we are back on track with our healthy eating. On Thursday we made fruit kebabs. We have to be honest and tell you that we did put marshmallows on the kebab as well....they were delicious.

Have a wonderful weekend...it looks like that it is going to be a wet one!

Off to the Supermarket!

On Thursday we all headed off to the Countdown Supermarket to look at the fruit and vegetables.

We found several things that we didn't like to eat and some  fruit and vegetables  that we had never seen before.

Mmm...mushrooms...Luke B made it VERY clear that he doesn't  like them!!!!!

Coconuts....not many of us knew what these were and where they come from.

Grapes and strawberries put a smile on Aieshar's face!

Yes you are right George...they are peppers.
They are also called capsicums.

We all knew what these were but some of us don't like them!

Now we really didn't know what these were....but Gayle told us that they are called Paw Paw's....mmm I wonder what they taste like?

We had never seen these before...they are pomegranates.

Red bananas....who has ever seen a red banana before?....certainly not us!!!

The pineapples have a very rough skin...almost prickly.

What does that smell like Jeremy?

It has been a week that has been all about food...healthy food, so we have made our own ham sandwiches and a banana smoothie. If you ever invite us to your place we can make these for you!!!!

Enjoy your weekend...let's hope that the sun stays shining.

Week three....

It has been a very short week, but we have packed quite a bit into it apart from Wednesday.
The athletic sports at St James Park were held in the morning and then we walked back to school and boy were we tired, so we were allowed to have choosing time for the afternoon. Some of us had to lie down for a while as we were so exhausted from all the sporting activities !!!
Sorry there are no photos. Guess who forgot to take the camera?????

We are still studying  about our healthy food options and on Thursday we completed our own charts of all the fruit, meat and vegetables that we knew....next week we will be off to the Supermarket to learn about  even more vegetables and fruit.

Speaking of outings....there has been a change in the law regarding children travelling in cars.
If there is anyone out there reading this that has a booster seat that they no longer require? We would love to take it off your hands!
We are going to have to get a supply in so that we can continue with the wonderful outings that we have in the community.

We are now very capable of making our own toasted cheese sandwiches, so as from next week we will be learning to make fresh sandwiches with healthy fillings....mmm... we are wondering the choices might be!!!!!!

Enjoy your weekend.

Week 2

We enjoyed having visitors from Ladbrooks school this week.
Charlotte and Brock joined in with all our activities and it was wonderful making new friends.
We hope that they  enjoyed their time with us as much as we enjoyed having them.

Here we all are...George, Luke,Jeremy,Aieshar, Katelyn, Charlotte,Brock and Rachel.

On Thursday we started our healthy eating and made scrambled eggs. Most of us really enjoyed them and we would like to make them again as they are really easy to make. We are becoming expert egg crackers!!!!

Perfect!!

This is hard work....

Now to stir the eggs all together...

Voila!!! A meal made in a minute!!!

This is great...an 8 out of 10!!

Amazing table manners.....

I really love scrambled eggs.

Enjoy the long weekend and we will be back next Friday!
Take care  when you are out and about as there will be lots of cars on the road!!

Term 4

Welcome back to the Afternoon Programme's blog.
It is great to be back but hard to believe that it is term 4 and counting down to Christmas!!!!....well some of us are!!!

We have got off to a great start ...planning what we want to do for our Health and PE topic for the term.
It is going to be a full on term with what we have come up with...dance, PMP, yoga, hopscotch, sack races, zumba, healthy food and learning about our bodies...phew hope that we have enough weeks to fit it all in.
We are going to be super fit by Christmas!
On Wednesday we had a surprise visit from Mrs Jenkin's gorgeous puppies. They were so cute and very soft to touch.

Mmm...I wonder what my dog would say if I came home with this!!!

Our dog whisperer1

Very cute!

Sorry George ....you already have two dogs at home!!!

Have a wonderful warm weekend everyone!!

Week nine....

Oh my goodness...it is the end of term already !!!!
We are so pleased that the sun had finally arrived as Aieshar and Luke B are away on school camp this week.

Have you read Perfect Square by Michael Hall?
If you haven't it is definitely  worth going to the library to see if they have it.

From a perfect square we made a water fountain and a garden....have a look.

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What do you think?    We thought that we were all very artistic . Come in and see display on the wall in Learning Support if you have time.

Thank you all for reading our blog during Term 3.

We all hope that you have a fun filled holiday...keep safe and we will be back Week 1, Term 4!!!

Katelyn,Jeremy, Aieshar, Rachel, George, Luke B, Luke U, Rachel and Gayle