Wednesday, September 23, 2009

ICECREAM AND PAVLOVA

15 September 2009
We recently watched a slide show on Manaia Kindergarten's blog sharing how the children there had made ice cream. Our children thought that they would like to make ice cream too, so we emailed and asked for the recipe. Once we had the recipe in hand we set a date to create - 14th September. In the meantime we read a new story - 'The Little Blue Duck' which is about a little blue duck making a pavlova. This led to discussion about how much everyone loves pavlova, especially with ice cream, and so plans were made to make the pavlova to eat with the ice cream, especially as we had to wait overnight to eat our ice cream. We had a lot of helpers on both days (one for the ice cream, one for the pavlova) of creating our yummy snack and everyone was very pleased with the tasty results - they were SO delicious!
Margaret

Saturday, September 5, 2009

OUR NEW GEOGYM

26 August 2009
Today Henry's dad Steve came to Kindergarten with his tools and put together, with lots of help from the children, our new Geogym. Our old white one kept breaking so we hope that our colourful new metal one will last a lot longer. Thank you so much Steve for helping us with building our Geogym, we will get a lot of use from it. As soon as the children saw it completed they couldn't wait to start climbing, swinging and balancing.
Margaret