Kia Ora

Sorry for the' no 'post last week...

We have been meaning to tell you something about us......

Did you know that we are now authors and illustrators ?

Well we are....just take a look!

The title of our books was Summer Holidays

I wrote about going to the Elephant Park with my Mum and brother. and having my friend over for a play date.....Gabby

I wrote about going fishing with Mum and Randall. I caught two fish........Aieshar

I wrote about going away to Hanmer Springs in our house bus. I went with Mum and Dad and we had a wonderful time there......Luke B

I wrote about going to the beach with Mum, Jeremy and Blue. It was a hot day and we played in the water.....Aaron

I read lots of books in the holidays and went to Aunty Lara's for afternoon tea......Ethan

I wrote about our new chickens that we got in the holidays. They are called Salt and Pepper......Luke U

We had the best surprise this week!

George came back to visit us. He told us all about his new school. He has eight new friends and his teachers name is Pip.

We all talked about how sad we were that Katelyn, Rachel, Jeremy and George are not at Waimairi School any more.

George wrote on the white board how many children were in his new class.

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Welcome back!

Welcome back everyone... we hope that you have all enjoyed the wonderful weather that we experienced over the holidays .

A huge welcome to Ethan who has joined us in the Afternoon Programme.

Ethan we love that smiley face of yours!!!

During the holidays Gabby celebrated her tenth birthday.
On Wednesday we had a celebration for her at school.

Happy birthday Gabby!

Some of us have been very sad that we no longer have Rachel, Katelyn, George and Jeremy with us any longer.

We had to photo copy some photos so that we could take them home to put on our bedroom walls so that we wouldn't forget them!

Guess who came to visit us on Thursday?

Aieshar's Nanny and Aieshars new kitten called Jade.

She is just so cute .

Aieshar told us all about her, what she eats,where she sleeps and where she came from.

Making friends with Jade

Gayle wanted to take Jade home....she loves cats!

Exploring...

Ready for the trip home.

Thank you Mrs Allen for bringing Jade to visit us.

Enjoy your Waitangi weekend.

Last Day.....

It is with great sadness that we farewelled four of our super stars team this week.

We had a ceremony and party to farewell our friends Katelyn, George, Rachel and Jeremy.
We hope that they will think of us when they wear their green stones that they received from the Afternoon Programme.

Rachel...Have fun at Breens with Katelyn
We are going to miss you

All the best for Breens Katelyn.
We will miss that smiley face of yours.

Bye George...we are going to miss you.
Have fun at Allenvale

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From us all at the Afternoon Programme we wish you all the most superb festive season.
Have fun during the holidays.

Take care everyone...we hope that you have enjoyed reading about our learning each week.

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

One week to go!

Shhh....don't tell our parents but we  are busy busy busy making Christmas gifts for them!

Today Paul came in and helped us make a very cute Christmas tree out of a cone. We chose sparkly bits to decorate it with . We think that our parents are going to love them!!

Paul did the glueing with the glue gun and we placed the sparkly bits on 

There will be photos of the finished product next week.


We also made these trees.....

Boy was Gayle and Rachel proud of us with these creations....they said that we had all made the most superb  job of them and that our parents were going to treasure them.

We used strips of paper then glued a star at the top, glued a kebab stick at the back and put them into a piece of polystyrene that we had painted.


Now we are off to do something VERY special on Monday. We have been talking a lot about giving to others...not gifts but our time.
We did a huge brain storm of what we could do for others and then took a vote.
The SPCA was the winner. We wanted to do something for the animals that get abandoned at Christmas. We can't  understand why people do this to animals so we want to help.
We have all donated food for the animals that we will take with us on Monday.
Photos next week.
Enjoy your weekend...where are you summer?????

Christmas is coming.....

On Tuesday the alphabet bag appeared and we had to choose something from it....without looking, then 

write the word up on the whiteboard. We all really enjoyed this game and Luke has asked if we could do the same with the feely bag next week.

Aaron found a dinosaur...

Mmm, Luke wasn't all that impressed at finding an egg shell but he was able to spell egg perfectly!

Great work George....he pulled out an elephant.

Christmas is on it's way so it was time to bring out our Christmas tree this week.
It is quite a sad looking tree but once we had out all of the decorations on it looked so much better!!
What a fun way to spend the afternoon...Christmas music and great excitement and chatter at the thought that Santa is on his way!!! Yay!!

What decorations would I like to put on the tree?

I really love these angels..

This is so exciting!!

Look what I chose...

I will place this decoration very carefully here.....

Thank goodness we had someone tall to out the decorations at the top of the tree!!

I really like this silver tinsel....

Now to put some decorations under the tree....

And on the window....

All finished!

What do you think...have we made a superb job?


We have decided to something special for someone...make sure you read the blog next week to see what it is.

Enjoy your weekend