Look at our colourful Lillies!

Lots of Lemons Everywhere

Look what we made with the lemons that Sahara brought in from her garden:

Lemon Slice

Recipe

150g butter

1 cup flour

1/2 cup icing sugar

Topping

2 tablespoons of custard powder

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup lemon

1 tablespoon lemon zest

3 eggs

Melt the butter. Remove from heat and mix in flour and icing sugar.

Press the base into a square, lined cake tin. Bake in pre-heated oven

at 180 degrees C for 15-20 minutes.

Mix all the topping ingredients together until combined. Pour over base

and bake for a further 25 minutes until set. Cut into slices and enjoy.

Thank you to Sahara and family for the lemons from your garden.

Watch this space for more lemon recipes that the children have

experienced.
Thank you also to the Edmunds Cook Book for the recipe idea.

Lost Property

Hello to you. Thank you for logging on to this blog. Depending on how successful this post is I may continue to add similar posts to help reduce the lost property that we seem to accumulate.
I have attached a slide show of a number of lost pieces of clothing that want to be re matched with the owner. Please browse through and either add a comment or let one of the teaching team know which item belongs to your child.

Don't forget to check back on our blog regularly to see when more posts are added and if you want to be added to our mail out list, which means that you will be notified by email when a new post has been added to the blog, let me know and I will add you to the list.

Happy Father's Day

Father's Day evening has become a regular event to celebrate the families in our community and the many different ways that they come to us. We appreciate and value the contribution that our families bring and this is one way that we can give back to them. A relaxed, low key, informal evening, an opportunity for the teaching team to connect with the dads/grandad and share stories about their precious children. In true NZ style we shared fish and chips for our evening's kai.

Thank you to Gerald, one of our dads that comes back to help us even though his son is off to school. He is prepared to share his vast knowledge and skills in technology. Without him, our Father's Day evening would have been somewhat more challenging!

For the mums, grandmas and aunties out there, don't feel left out as we have plenty of whanau nights and, just for you, we have a Mother's Day evening too. We will let you know when, just stay tuned.

I hope you enjoy the following slide show as much as I did. Thank you to Jonny for your speech at the end. We appreciated your words and it made our evening all the more special. A big thank you to all the dads that could make it and we look forward to next year.

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Eden's Yummy chocolate!

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Eden came up to me with a chocolate case she had found and wanted to make real chocolate, so on Thursday 2nd September, I brought some chocolate, and look what we made!

Our visit to St Dominic's Primary School

We visited St Dominics Primary School Please hit the link for the St Dom's website.

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Move to the Groove - Compliments of Justin Bieber

Hit 'here' for Justin Bieber - Baby song

Birthday News

General reminder:
Don't forget to click on the birthday link on the right hand side to see the latest birthday celebrations.

Tantalising Lemon Muffins

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Mandy has some renovations going on at her house at the moment and mentioned to some children how she likes to make muffins for the builders to enjoy each Friday. Grace wanted to taste one of Mandy's home baked muffins and so Mandy said she would try to remember to bring some in. Unfortunately, there was only enough for the builders and so we decided to make some of our own muffins 'Learning Curves style'.


Mandy thought that this was an awesome opportunity for the children to learn using all of their senses and by participating within the process - it is good to learn by 'doing'. Learning stories will be added to the portfolios of the children involved but in the mean time, please take a moment to view the photos.


As always, we appreciate any comments in the box below. 

Tantalising Lemon Muffins:

Firemen Visit

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