Recipe for Airborne Honey Slice

Today we made Airborne Honey Slice.  This is the recipe if you want to try it. We made it in the frying pan and it set much faster:

Try this great kids' recipe: Airborne Honey Bubble Slice 

125g butter
2-3 Tbsp honey
125g brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla
4 cups rice bubbles

Melt all the liquid ingredients in the microwave and pour over the rice
bubbles.

Mix and spread onto a flat tray, making the slice as thick as you want.

Refrigerate for 4 hours.

Cut into squares and store in the fridge if you like them chewy, or out of the fridge if you like them soft.

You can add 1/2 cup of cocoa powder for a chocolate version.

Motat Photos, Thanks Julie

School Reports

These went out on Friday. I will be a Year 2 teacher next year so it is possible that I may have some children remaining in my class for next year. Parent interviews are on Monday and Tuesday for anyone wishing to discuss reports.

Kia Ora
Mrs Makani

Motat Trip

We had an amazing day at MOTAT on Thursday. Thank you helpers for your excellent supervision. Photos will follow.

Fancy Feet Day

Congratulations Thomas for working hard!

Arahoe's Got Talent and so has Room 23

Unfortunately I got it completely wrong and the finals were actually held on Friday 6 December. Although Room 23 did not have any contestants we had a successful syndicate Assembly, as 4 of our children won prizes in the Glovers Real Estate colouring competition. They were Mila, Olive, Eric and Trixie. Congratulations to us and Woop! Woop! And then, we were chosen as the best class for syndicate Jump Jam.
Arahoe's Got Talent junior prize winner was Lily Wood of Room 15 with a song, Middles prize winner was Leah Williams with a dance and Tia won the senior prize with a song.

Look who visited us for our sharing news..

Great work with your Reading and Writing Paige!

Update on the Update!

School Reports are now going home on Friday 13 December.

Arahoe's Got Talent finals are being held from 10.30 to 12pm on Friday 13 December .

Just to keep you in the Loop

Week starting 1 December 2013: Swimming starts

Tuesday is Family Night from 5pm. Family night is an evening at the school run by the PSG. It is a relaxed and social time with entertainment provided by various school groups and individuals, including the Parent and Teacher Band. BBQ food and refreshments are offered for sale, there are raffles and prizes. Buying tickets for food at the office beforehand is advised as it is pretty busy on the night.

Wednesdays are still Wheels on Wednesday days (promoted by the Travelwise group) and also $1 iceblock days (promoted by the PSG).

Thursday last block is *swimming day.* Please send children to school with named togs, towel, goggles (optional) and a swimming or plastic bag for wet things.  Thank you.

Friday is Syndicate Assembly first thing and Arahoe's Got Talent finals at a time to be advised.

Be aware that this year school reports are going home on Thursday 12 December and Parent Interviews are held on Monday and Tuesday the following week.

Thursday 12 December is also the day of our MOTAT Trip. The cost is $9 or $10 depending on whether you have a loyalty card. Departure 9.00 Arr. 2.30 back at school. Please write a note in the notebook if a permission slip did not not come home or see Mrs Makani in class. You can see a copy of the newsletter in the November posts. Click on the right hand side of the blog.

Thank you

Great Improvement in Reading and Writing Eric!

Well done for Reading Your Book Every Morning Ameya!

Thanks for Being a Reliable Computer Monitor Ania!

Playground done!

Wasn't it sweet when it was finished:

Symmetry

We explored symmetry in Maths:

Structures

Just as bees build their honeycomb structure to live in, with the playground as inspiration, we thought we would build our own:

New Playground

The new playground took shape before our eyes:

We love fireworks!

And this is our favourite fireworks video.

We are learning about Guy Fawkes. He tried to blow up Parliament buildings in England because he was unhappy with the King. In the UK Guy Fawkes night is also known as Bonfire night. Find out more here:
Bonfire night

Diwali activities

During the week we coloured in rangoli patterns and decorated them with glitter glue. We learned all about the diva lamps filled with oil that are lit during Diwali time. We heard about the massive fireworks that are set off on the 5th day of Diwali and this year it coincided with our Guy Fawkes.

Rangoli Mandala Watch this amazing Rangoli Mandala.

Mrs Makani had a go at making burfi out of ricotta cheese, butter, milk powder and sugar. It was like a milk fudge. You might have to ask the kids how that went!

Happy Diwali - Saal Mubarak

This month we celebrated Diwali - the Indian Festival of Lights that heralds the Hindu New Year. We listened to stories about Sita and Ram. Nishita visited us from Room 3 to share her Diwali greeting card. She brought in a Salwar Kameesz and put it on so we could see what her fancy clothes looked like. She told us about the 5 days of Diwali celebrations. Olive tried on Clio's Salwar Kameezs. Ariana's sister Zara had a very pretty dress on for her visit to Diwali celebrations. Several children from our class had Mhendi patterns on their hands. Ria's Mum even made some burfi for us to eat, yum! What a fun and colourful time.

Dancing at the disco

We had a fantastic time at the bee theme disco though some of us enjoyed the food and drink more than the bee boogie. There were prizes and amazing costumes. I even saw some old school limbo going on.

November

It has been a really busy month and I will update the blog soon. In the meantime there is a trip planned for 12 December 2013 to MOTAT. It will be really great!

28 November 2013

Dear Parents/Caregivers

School Trip: Motat ~ 805 Great North Road, Western Springs

Thursday 12 December 2013

During our Bee Power topic this term we had a focus on the beehive where we looked at the structure of beehives and honeycombs. As part of our learning this term, Rooms 13 and 23 will be visiting MOTAT to take part in a ‘Simple Mechanisms’ workshop. This workshop will require the children to apply their technology knowledge to solve a simple practical technology problem.

The children will be travelling to and from MOTAT by bus. There will be a cost of $9.00/$10.00 for entry and to cover the cost of travel. Accompanying parents will be free and will need to take their own transport and meet us on Stadium Road, Gate C.  If you can be a parent helper and need a ride, please let us know so we can arrange car pooling. We will leave school approximately 9:00am and arrive back at school 2:30pm. 

Children will need appropriate footwear, a packed lunch and water. Applying sunblock at home would also be helpful.

If you are able to support us with parent help, we ask that pre-schoolers are not brought along. This is to ensure safety and that numbers are kept to a minimum.

Thank you

Tania Makani, Lisa Thompson, Trisha O’Connell

I do / do not give permission for my child _____________________ to attend

o I enclose $9.00 and my Loyalty card number is:- ________

o I enclose $10.00

o I am able to come on the trip.  Yes / No

o I can provide transport for other parents.  Yes / No

Phone Number: ________________                    Signed: ______________________

Tuesday Bee Keeper Visit

Oliver McCurdy came to school to talk to us about his work and show us his gear and equipment. The absolute highlight of his visit was a beehive with around 50 000 bees inside, scurrying frantically to continue the work of the hive. Room 23 wanted Oliver to open up the hive and take out a bee to look at, but Oliver thought that probably wasn't a good idea. We saw his protective gear and his smoker that makes the bees less active. We held some beeswax that gets scraped off the frames inside the hive and we even saw the spray that is used to get rid of the Varroa bee mite.

Monday flower finding

Bees need the pollen and nectar in flowers and flowers need bees for pollination so they can produce lots more flowers. To make sure the bees have food in our school, we went looking for flowers they might like. We trotted over to the red Manuka bush by the hall that had many tiny pretty flowers and what do you know? There were bees collecting nectar. I was not fast or tall enough to get photos of the bees but look at the flowers we have in and around the school. On some of them you may even see the pollen.

Friday Honey Tasting Day

Rewarewa tree in flower

These are the 4 honeys we tried on Friday. The first is Vipers Bugloss Honey from Airborne Honey. Airborne Honey sent our Syndicate different samples of honey and we tried this one on our toast. It is very light in colour and is runny. It was delicious. Vipers Bugloss is another name for Blue Borage. Find out more here- Vipers Bugloss Honey.

We ran out of bread for toasting but that didn't stop us.We tried Rewarewa honey next. It was firmer, darker and had a richer flavour. Yum! Rewarewa is also known as the NZ honeysuckle.  

We had to dig into the Bush honey. It is like Manuka, only it has nectar from other bush flowers as well. Also nicely flavoured. 2 and 3 were mainly the favourites.

Cinnamon was either loved or hated. Some children liked it because it tasted like doughnuts and others thought it was just plain wrong! Feel free to have a taste when you are next in.                                                        

What's On..*News flash* Mufti day now Thursday

Monday

Music with Mrs Sadgrove 2nd block.
Sports Photos/Make up photos

Tuesday

Morning - Visiting Play: The Big Sad Wolf

Afternoon - Visiting Beekeeper 

Evening - Arahoe Movie: Walk This Way

Wednesday

Evening - Arahoe Movie: Walk This Way

Thursday

Mufti

Assembly

Evening - Arahoe Movie: Walk This Way

Friday

Possible Syndicate Assembly & Jump Jam outside Room 21 if not raining due to Hearing and Vision Testing in the hall.

The Scholastic Order forms went out last week and are due shortly if you want to order.

Forgot to Take Photos of Honey Tasting on Friday - Look at the bubbles instead...

We made our bubble mix and wands in the last week of Term 3 and had a bubble day!!!It was fantastic fun forming floaty bubbles in, around, over and under each other.

Bee Power

If you have a look on our Teina Page you will see that we are studying bees! If you have any bee  knowledge we would love to hear from you.

Welcome to Term 4 Room 23

Well the big news for this term is the MOVIE! Yes, it's finally here. 'Walk this way' will screen at the Hollywood Theatre, next week. Tuesday 22, Wed 23 & Thursday 24 October. Tickets are $10 adults and $5 children. You can buy them in the morning at the office or put some money in an envelope for me with a note saying how many tickets you want. They are only available THIS week.

Thanks from Mrs Makani

Congratulations to Anushka

For great progress in Reading and Writing. Well done Anushka!

Room 23 Says Farewell To Mrs Baird and We Reflect on our Year

Mrs Baird has been visiting Room 20 this week and lending a helping hand in the mornings as the New Entrants roll continues to grow. From next week she will be working with Miss Watson in Room 20, receiving and teaching the children who have just started school. Aren't they lucky to have a teacher as wonderful as Mrs Baird helping them on their learning journey? 

Although that means Mrs Baird will not be in our classroom, she will just be across the way so we can visit and give her a happy wave when we see her and she will pop in occasionally to see how we are. Noho ora mai, Mrs Baird, Take care.

It is incredible to think that the children are entering their second year at school. Some of our highlights during the year would include:

• the beach trip in Term 1.
• the boat making during that term.
• the Maori topic in Term 2.
• the Museum trip.
• the practice and effort that went into our Production and the tremendous support shown by whanau. Thanks in particular to Alan (Thomas' granddad),Simon (Ezra's dad) and Shane (Mr Baird) for volunteering their time, their equipment and their technical expertise. Looking forward to that movie!
• Coming second in the Ballistics Challenge.
• Assembly in Term 3 - What a catchy song that 'Slippery Fish' is.

And we have a whole other Term to go:-)

Mrs Frances Britz (Fran) our Teaching Assistant continues to work in Room 23 supporting us in in furthering our learning goals. Thanks Fran!

Room 23 Gardening

Hey Room 23 Parents, is anybody interested in gardening?????
We have part of a gardening bed to look after for the year and as it is nearly time for planting we are looking for some volunteers to come in and work with the children to do some gardening. 

We would like help with any of the below:

planting seedlings

propagating

weeding

cooking

planting seeds (to raise on our windowsill)

We love to take care of our environment.

Thank you

Mrs Makani & Mrs Baird

Update on Calendars

On Friday you received the information about ordering your calendars /diaries etc. If you send us an order we will send the photo you like from the production photos or you can send a photo of your own to the link on the flyer. The calendars will be sent to the school.

Hope this makes it clearer, if you have any questions don't hesitate to e-mail us.

Congratulations to Ria

Wow!! Congratulations to Ria for receiving her certificate for Excellence in writing and in developing her leadership skills.

Room 23's and Room 5 s Assembly

Wow we did so well. Firstly I 'd like to Congratulate Trixie on her fabulous job of announcing. You spoke clearly and confidently. Well done!!! Here are some pictures:

Next I'd like to congratulate Luke on becoming part of the 200 club. He brought back $210 dollars for the ballistic challenge and earned a certificate from Mr Limbrick.

Life -education

Yesterday Room 23 had their first visit to the Life- Education bus. It was very exciting and the children loved it. Here are a few pictures of us :

  

                               

We found Harold the giraffe very funny and we learnt about how to look after out bodies.

Congratulations to Olive

Wow Olive , you have made great progress in Maths. Congratulations on your assembly certificate.

Show pictures

More photos from the show for you to choose for your calendar.