Making pikelets

We bake most Mondays with help from a dedicated group of parents but today it was pikelets instead.

Lots of children tell us they make pikelets at their house too.

It was fun to make them and then eat them straight away with jam!!

A special dough cake

We have some fantastic pictures from an amazing wedding cake magazine and the children have a very creative time using some of the pictures as a model.

Look at this

This child has looked very carefully at the model and reproduced it beautifully. Her mum tells us she has taught her mother how to make these intricate rolled decorations after practicing often at kindergarten. She has even worked in more than one medium creating these clay decorations using the same technique. this is fantastic learning, practicing and honing her craft skills.

Off to the school and mountain

We visit school each term all together as part of our transition to school process.

The school is just wonderful, making us very welcome and teaming our children up with a school child for the duration of the visit. We go into the classrooms, join the children in their activities and then we go up the mountain for morning tea.

Our mountain, Mangere is a favourite place. We tell the legend, visit the landmarks and can see all over mangere Bridge and further across to the city.

For our children being up high is a real treat and we just love the open space to run and roll and climb.

A new guinea pig house

Well great excitement, not only do the guinea pigs have a new enclosure for outside play, they have a new house to go inside the enclosure.

It arrived this morning Dave had built it and it looks just so cosy.

The guinea pigs popped in and out having a fun time.

thanks again Dave it is so nice of you to use your expertise for us.

A new outdoor space

What a treat!!!

Dave arrived to build us a new outdoor guinea pig enclosure. We had gone to get timber and netting last week and now the building was to begin.

He laid it out on the flat concrete out the front and away he went cutting, hammering and putting it all together.

He had some help from some experts with a hammer and in two days we had the most fantastic walk in enclosure. this will be the day space for our guinea pigs and when they were put in there they went crazy. They ran around in circles and leapt in the air. Ecstatic is the best description.

We watched with delight as they settled in and enjoyed the new big space.

Now each day they can go out and enjoy being outdoors. This has created an environment to really foster the wellbeing of our much loved guinea pigs: Biscuit and her 3 babies that we have kept Snowy, Bars and Muffin.

thank you SO much Dave. We are truly very grateful for your effort.

The Samoa Tsunami appeal at MBK

A trip to the skytower

A trip to the skytower is one of the highlights of our excursion events.

We take the bus to the station, the train to Britomart and walk up Queen St.

It is always interesting on the train and this time we saw a man with a Segway, a lady with her supermarket shopping and the station itself.

On the walk up Queen st we saw huge buildings and even a rack of bikes.

Once we arrived we were just in time to lie down and wait till a person jumped from the top.

then we went up and walked on the glass and looked at all the points of interest around the city. We could even see our mountain from there. The bus is always waiting for us when we come down and Dawn drove some very sleepy people back to kindergarten.