Yay...the sun has returned!!

Hi everyone,

This week we all welcomed a new  member to our the Afternoon programme.....Ryan.

"Welcome Ryan...it is great to have you in our team"

It was such a miserable day on Wednesday.    Sadly  athletic sports day had to be cancelled and we were all a bit sad about that, so what would we do instead?

It was put to the vote and we all decided that Kiatoro time would be perfect so out came the dough,art activities, duplo and sand tray.

Ryan and Gabby set up a bakery with the dough....they made amazing cakes and pizzas. 

Cutting the bananas....

Now for the milk....

After they made their products Ryan and Gabby set up a shop to sell them.

Great team work going on here.....

On Thursday we made milkshakes.

The flavours we chose were....banana, chocolate and banana and chocolate.

The ingredients that we used were...milk, milo, ice cream and bananas.

Now for the ice cream...

 Now to turn on the blender....

Mmmm.....this is delicious!

I just have to make sure the lid is on properly....

Cutting the banana....

Adding the milk....

The ice cream is quite hard to get out of the container because it has been in the freezer...

Let's hope that the sun will stay out for the weekend!

Week 2

Kia Ora everyone.

As part of our Winning Ways to Wellbeing we went on a walk to 'notice' all the beauty and sounds that are around us.
Sometimes we are too busy running or talking to notice them so off we went to see what we could see and hear.

We heard:
A very noisy roar of a motor..... What was that?    Luke B knew..it was a chainsaw.
People chatting.
The noise of the cars on the road.
Builders hammering.
Birds chirping in the trees..
A plane.

We saw:
Old houses.
Heaps of trees.
Beautiful blossom trees.
Pretty flowers.
Daisies.
People walking.
A bridge.
New buildings.
A pink car.
Shops.
Mrs Pickles having coffee with a friend.

Daisies..

Aaron knew that this was a maple tree...

We didn't know the name of this tree..

Lupins..

These flowers had a beautiful smell....

Stunning  blossoms...

Mrs Pickles having a coffee with a friend....

Yesterday we arrived at class to find that we had a surprise in store for us.

Te Puna had invited us to join them as they were having a visit from the Fire Brigade.

The fireman told us all about how to keep safe in a fire and them we went out and had a turn squirting water from the fireman's hose!!!

We were all VERY excited!!!

When we got back to class we had a story about how firemen keep us safe then we practised dialling 111 on the phone and saying our name and address.

Gabby Willis speaking....

111....

My name is Luke..

I must remember 111...

I know how to dial 111....

We are hoping that you will all enjoy the long weekend.

If you are going away please drive safely.

Yay...we are back!!!

Welcome back everyone!
We all hope that you had fun over the holidays and soaked up the glorious sun.

Our topic for this term is Winning Ways To Wellbeing.

Mmmm...we wondered what that meant.
Luke B summed it up perfectly....being fit and healthy...not only with our bodies but in our mind as well.

So first up was being active.
A few of us are not that keen on the physical side of this so we had to come up with a plan of keeping active but with a fun element.

This is what we thought would be great....a treasure hunt, egg and spoon race, sack races, dancing to our favourite music and PMP.

Then we all took part in a discussion about baking versus cooking.
Since we are keeping active it was decided to do cooking....healthy of course!!!!

First up was scrambled eggs....we made them yesterday.

We have to be honest and tell you that a few of us  weren't very comfortable about that choice.

Cracking the eggs into the bowl....

Whisking the eggs...

Now for the mixture to go into the pot....

Wow...the mixture has gone from a liquid to a solid....

Mmmm...I'm not sure about this

Star of the day!!!

Luke was our star of the day...he didn't want to eat the scrambled eggs but he gave it a try and he thought that they were okay.

Well done Luke...not only did you try something new, you surprised yourself that you actually quite enjoyed them.

We are all hoping to follow in Luke's footsteps with trying things that we are not feeling all that good about.

This means that we will be setting ourselves some new goals for the term.

On Monday we celebrated Luke's birthday.

He had a fun time celebrating it with his friends during the holidays.

Enjoy your weekend everyone!

They have arrived!!!!

Yes today is the last day of the term and what a term it has been.

Our learning has skyrocketed about connecting with the Arts in our City of Christchurch.

We have also had the courage to get up in front of an audience and perform to them.

This took heaps of courage and practise.

It was decided to celebrate this courage with a celebration!!

Guess what we had?........yes a party!!!   Whoo Hoo!!

We were all able to choose one type of food...so we had cherrioes, chips, chocolate chip muffins, ice cream,  chocolate milk, marshmallows and lollies.

After we had filled out tummys with this scrummy food we sat around and chatted about our learning for the term and what part we had enjoyed the most.

Of course we all thought that this was a wonderful way to end the term!!!

Our ESOL friends came to visit us on Wednesday. They were all dressed up in their national costume and looked magnificent.

Gabby had a connection with one of the students. It was Miguel.....he is from Spain.

They told us which country they were from then they showed us where that country was on our world map.

The countries that they came from were......Spain, South Africa, Israel, Fiji, Samoa, Afghanistan, Korea, Romania, Brazil, Japan and the Philippines.

Margarette showed where the Philippines were......

  Our gorgeous Denise and Sairusi

And here we have Afghanistan...thanks Mariam.

What a wonderful way to end our Connecting with the Arts term.

Thank you for coming to visit us.

And now it's time to say goodbye for two weeks.

Enjoy your holidays ...have fun because we are!!!

See you all next term!

Gabby, Luke, Aaron, Aieshar, Luke U and Ethan.

OUR BIG DAY OUT!!!

 OUR BIG DAY OUT CONNECTING WITH OUR CITY.....

Phew it has been a HUGE week!!!

We seem to have been practising for today for weeks...yes weeks!

But it all paid off as we entertained our audience at the Library today.

Part of our display on graffiti at the Library...

We met Edith the guide dog when we arrived at the Library.....

She loved us ...her tail didn't stop wagging. Her owner told us that Edith loved children.

A few pukekos filling in time while they waited for their turn  to sing and dance.

Time to introduce ourselves and do the Pukeko Stomp

Now for the colour song with our parents....we were the best listeners!!!! They found it hard listening and doing the right actions!!!   They were laughing so much we think they didn't hear the words!!!!!

Lunch at the Commons.....

Time for  the trip back to school in a double decker bus!!!

Pukekos connecting with a pukeko of a different kind.....this one was made with bottle tops.



We all arrived back at school very tired but we had a fabulous day connecting with all of our school friends as we performed different items for our big arts day in our city.

We are sure that we will all sleep well tonight....probably Mary and Gayle will too!!!