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4 Hour Class - All Pho One and One Pho All!

This week we made Pho which we learned is Vietnamese noodle soup

These are some of the ingredients that we needed to prepare

Yvette shows us the different ingredients - these are two different kinds of onions.

We waited patiently for our turn to help.

Then we got to help Yvette by cutting up all the ingredients

We had to keep the different vegetables seperate because 
some take longer to cook than others

We cut everything into bite-size pieces

Then waited for it to cook

Everybody tried some

And the majority of the class really liked it!
Many of our friends had seconds

The Pirate Ship (and the Treasure Chest)

This week we played with the pirate ship again

It was a very popular toy and alot of our friends wanted to have a turn with it

We waited patiently and took turns - 
the pirate ship also has only one treasure chest 

So Clayten made his own

And so did Noa

Decorating our Snowperson

We helped decorate a snowperson for our holiday party 

Dominic draws a sun on the snowperson's body

Clayten, Ashton, and Domenic play with the new marble track

Mayu and Ella show me the marbles

We painted with a wide variety of tools

Adam plays with the magnetic abacus

Justin reads a book

Weston plays with the sand

Ella experiments with the coloured blocks and the light shining through them

Clayten noticed this pig in the hall...

...and so he made one of his own!

Weston builds a fire truck

Ella and Noa climb on the playground

Justin, Domenic and Erik try to escape the zombie

Adam and Clayten play with the animals

Dominic tells Ella a secret

Weston pulls Ella and Adam around the gym

And Patricia visits the salon

Weston irons Patricia's hair

And Noa twists it

And now for an ICE exploration update:

We were playing at Garden City Park on Monday

It was quite cold

And we noticed that there was a whole lot of ice on the ground

We also took note of the grate which appeared to lead to the pond

So we wnt to check it out

This was the other end of the tunnel

And sure enough, we were at the pond

The pond was covered in ice which we very quickly began to investigate.
It was very cold and we decided that it would not be a good idea to swim in it.

We cracked off pieces

We threw pieces and watched them shatter -
They made a very interesting noise as the shattered pieces scattered across the ice


In this clip you might be able to hear it if you listen closely

Then we went into the tunnel

Which lead to the grate we had seen at the park so we called the rest of the class over

We talked about safety - it is not a good idea to walk on the ice 
it might not be thick enough to hold our weight.

The ice had things like leaves and sticks frozen into it

Some of the ice was quite thick

Clayten managed to turn this log over - it had been frozen stuck in the ice

A few of us fell in the mud but no one complained - 
the ice was so interesting and exciting that it was worth it!

Then we went back to school to get changed and have lunch!

What an amazing time we had! We were so lucky to have found such an incredible tie-in to the very thing we have been discussing in the classroom! We were all wet and muddy by the time we left but it was fine because we knew we had clean dry clothes waiting for us at school. Plus we got to play with the ice and get some real life, hands-on experience with it! 

Coming up next week - we will be doing bottle returns and collecting money for our sponsor families so that we can buy some presents for people who need them. 

Thanks everyone,
Nicole




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