The Zoo in Kindle 2

Look at this fantastic zoo. The girls worked really hard to make it!

Banana and Rolled Oat Cookies

Some of the children in Kindle 2 love to bake, so at Discovery Time on Friday we made some simple cookies. The main ingredients are bananas and rolled oats.

Preheat the oven to 200°C

Mash enough banana to fill 1 cup.
Add 2 cups of rolled oats (gluten free if there are children with allergies).
Mix.
Put spoonfuls onto a greased or lined tray and press the top with a fork.

Bake for 15 to 20 minutes.


You can add other ingredients like: ½ cup dried fruit, ½ cup dessicated coconut, ¼ cup honey, ¼ cup olive oil, ½ tsp cinnamon.

Mmmm........... quite delicious!

Art Gallery

Today Kindle 2 and Room 4 went to the Art Gallery on the bus. Our visit started with a welcome and waiata from John Neumegan. We responded with a waiata. We went to look at some of the art works in the art gallery. We played Pokarekare Ana on the bells, then we dramatised the story of how Maui slowed the sun.

We went and looked at some more art works, then we went into the classroom and made our own art works. Stop by Kindle 2 and have a look if you can. They are fantastic.

Gingerbread Recipe

As a finale to all the measurement activities with gingerbread men. Mrs Dakers went into production and baked some, so that the children in Kindle 1 and 2 could decorate them at Discovery Time on Friday.
125g butter
½  cup brown sugar
½  cup golden syrup
1 egg yolk
Sift the dry ingredients
2 ½ - 3 cups of flour
2 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp baking soda
The first 3 ingredients were heated in a pot on low,  the dry ingredients were added, then the mixture was kneaded on a board and rolled out. The gingerbread men were cut out with a special cutter, then baked.

 The children decorated them and ate them for morning tea on Friday. Yum!

A bridge for the gingerbread man

Maybe if the gingerbread man had found a bridge when he needed to cross the river, he wouldn't have had to ask the fox and then he wouldn't have been eaten. The children in Kindle 2 spent some time designing and making a bridge for the gingerbread man that was long enough to go across the river. Here are the results:

Measurement

Today we used Gingerbread Men to do some measuring in the classroom.
These things are taller than a gingerbread man.

These things are shorter than a gingerbread man.

Swimming

The children from Kindle 2 have just finished 8 days of swimming at Dunedin North Intermediate school pool. We walked to swimming every day with the help of a lot of parents and grandparents. Thank you for all the help, we couldn't have done it without you. The biscuits, dried fruit, marshmellows and pikelets were really appreciated. We were very lucky with the weather. All of the children in Kindle 2 made great progress over the 8 days thanks to the teachers from the Jill Clarke Swim School :)