The Langley children started the week with a cooking lesson from
Miss Kerry. We made scrumptious Houmus dip. We first looked at all the utensils
we needed to make the dip; one of them was a large stick blender. Then we
looked at all the ingredients we would be using such as chick peas, lemon
juice; oil and pita bread that make up our recipe. We placed the chick peas
into a bowl and tried them before we blended them up.
We cut open the lemon and squeezed the juice into a bowl and added
the oil. Then the fun part started, we all had a turn of using the stick blender to smoosh the ingredients together until it was a smooth paste
Alexander told everyone “cover your ears it’s loud.”
We spread it on some pita bread and it was yummy.
“It tastes like yum,”said Lachlan.
“It tastes like butter,” Alexander said with a smile.
Miss Emily has been showing us how to make Rain Sticks. We have
used cardboard rolls and decorated them with feathers and coloured collage
paper then filled the rolls up with rice and covered the ends. When we tip them
from side to side they sound like the rain falling.
“It sounds like music,” said Angus Rawes Ryan.
Connecting to our idea of rain Miss Emily also planted a Rain
Gauge in the yard with the children on Monday; we will be keeping our eye on it
to see how much rain our bottle can catch.
When Miss Emily asked the children what they thought it was
Alexander was quick to answer saying “it’s a bottle.”
Miss Emily said “that’s right; our bottle is going to catch
something that falls from the sky – what do you think it will be?”
Lachlan looked at her and
said “rain falls from the sky!”
Stirling said “I have an idea; the bottle is going to catch the
rain that falls from the sky!”
We have also enjoyed having our faces painted. Some of us were
transformed into butterflies, pirates, and various animals even dinosaurs. We
chose from some pictures the faces we wanted and then sat very still in front
of the mirror while our teachers changed our appearances. We had a lot of fun afterwards role playing
out characters.
We also had a Wacky Hair Day, we used coloured hair chalk , hair
spray, hair glitter, and feathers to give ourselves an outrageous new look.
“I want blue spikes,” said Zander.
“I like lellow (Yellow) and a lellow feather please,” ask Domenic
The children were all having a giggle at their new styles. Even
the teachers joined in the fun.
Miss Kerry , Miss Nicole, Miss Emily and Miss Emma
