The Allenvale Formal



Last Friday some of the students in our class attended the Allenvale School Formal. The theme was "Frozen" and the venue was decorated beautifully with giant snowflakes, fairy lights and other pretty things. We all loved seeing everyone dressed up.

Aimee-Lee looked so beautiful in her sparkly dress. She had her hair and makeup done by a family friend, and wore perfect jewels to match her dress.

 

 Colin looked fantastic too. The DJ played music the music we love to dance to, and Colin made the most of the opportunity. We got to choose some of our favourite music for the playlist.

Merit wore a new dress for the occasion. She wore one of her favourite necklaces and looked beautiful. Her mum and sister got to see her dancing with her friends.

 

 Alex couldn't believe his eyes when he walked into the hall. It was so amazing seeing everyone dancing. Georgia looked stunning in her elegant dress, and Alex wore the coolest hat.

 

Everyone enjoyed the supper, and then returned to the dance floor for a bit more action. We were really impressed with the students who had been learning Ceroc dancing. They were showing off the skills they had learnt, and made a real effort to invite lots of people to dance with them. Some of us might like to attend some Ceroc lessons next year.

 

We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who helped to make the night such a success. We thought it was a great idea to invite some seniors from Ferndale and Waitaha to join us too. We are starting to get know some of the other young people who attend special schools because we are meeting up more frequently.

 

We decided that this year was the best formal ever!  





Visiting Rehua Marae

Today we visited Rehua Marae which is on Springfield Road. We went with the Kapa Haka group. We are all members of the Kapa Haka group and some of us attend Whakahuihui on Friday as well.

When we arrived a lady from the Tangata Whenua welcomed us, and Liana called back our greeting. We thought she was amazing. We took our shoes off before we went inside the Whare Nui, which is the big meeting house. We had a powhiri to welcome us onto the marae, and then we had morning tea in the Whare Kai.

Rawiri was very pleased to meet the cat who was prowling around the outside of the Whare Kai.

We went back into the Whare Nui and Matua Bill told us all about the carvings and beautiful decorations. Then the Kapa Haka group performed. Matua Bill said we did such a wonderful job the hair stood up on the back of his neck! We were so, so proud.

A huge thank you to Janette, Matua Bill, Matua John, Liana and Maureen for helping us to visit the marae, to the wonderful, friendly people at Rehua who made us so welcome.

Welcome Spring!

Apologies for the break in blog posts! It is a busy time of year. It has been lovely meeting with parents and caregivers for the ITP reviews. I'm looking forward to seeing the remainder of families soon.

We've been working on finishing off our "Winter" theme for SPEC, and are starting to set up our classroom for spring. We have been feeding the hungry birds in our garden, and have noticed lots of birds in the trees and looking for food on the ground in our neighbourhood. We discovered that the birds don't hang around when we are coming towards them!

We have done a number of amazing screenprints this year. We have developed a great technique which achieves fanatastic results, and is easy for everyone to do. Here are some of our fantastic bird screenprints:

I love the interesting colour effects.

Keep an eye on the blog for updates, and for a change to a "Spring" theme over the next week.

Kumara Wedges

We are celebrating Matariki in Room 14 this week. We decided to make kumara wedges. We had a good look at the kumara to see the difference between them and potatoes. They do look a bit like a red potato, but with pointy ends. Kumara grow under the ground like potatoes.

We had four kumara - Tahi, Rua, Toru, Wha - One, Two, Three, Four.

 

We had to cut the kumara up into small pieces. We are always very careful with the knives because they are sharp.

 

We sprinkled seasoning and a bit of oil onto the chopped up kumara and put it in the hot oven.



 



 

Then we waited for the kumara to cook. Yum! 

Welcome to our class blog

We are so pleased that you have joined us! This blog is a journal of the activities, special achievements, events and current topics for the Room 14 group taught by Fiona. Sue's group is the other Room 14 group, and they may decide to join us here on the blog from time to time. Parents can check in and find reminders of important information that they need, and also to see how much fun we are having learning at school.