Massage and well-being

 

I had a lovely afternoon. Getting hand massages, my cuticles sorted and nail polish removed. It was a hand focused day.

-NJ

Cooking

 

I love baked beans so I knew I was going to enjoy baked bean nachos. We added lots and lots of yummy spices to make the beans tasty. I learnt a trick of sprinkling cheese on my nacho chips and microwaving it for some yummy melted cheese

KB

Keys master

 

I got to practice my Mary Had A Little Lamb on the piano today. It was so good and I was able to play it without any mistakes!!

-NJ

Let get creative

I enjoyed starting my new creation today, 

I am making a small mat for my draw. TA

Literacy/Numeracy

 Lenaire practiced her reading out loud today. She did a great job! She read a book about “Charlie the Camel”! WD

Cooking

 

We made omelets and they were really yummy. We talked about how we have to be super patient while it cooks. We mixed up some yummy spices and put it on top while it was cooking and then some great cheese

KB

Life Skills

 

Today I learnt about uncomfortable feelings and how o deal with them. EB

Music fun

 

Todays music session was so fun. We jammed out to a ton of Old School Rock music. 

-NJ

Lets get creative

Starting our Christmas creations nice and early.TA

Literacy and numeracy

 

I am enjoying guessing the animals and the spelling them, I even wrote them in my book with my tidy handwriting. I broke the word up into different syllables and sounded it out

KB

Circability

Having Fun with the circus games learning a new trick or two.TA

 

Sewing

 Cutting off all the loose thread of our new pencil cases ☺️ CR

Relaxing afternoon

Had a lovely afternoon getting pampered.

-NJ

 

Cooking

 

I really enjoyed learning to cook black bean burgers, that we enjoyed with a really simple salad from the garden. We had kumara chips too cooked in the air frier but it got turned off halfway through so we had it as a second course 

KB

Disco fun

 

Such a blast doing this music this afternoon. Lots of awesome dance videos. 

-NJ

Computers/Ipads

 

I enjoyed having time to write a story about my childhood. EB

Literacy and numeracy

 

I enjoyed looking at doing some taking away math, we rolled 2 dice, found out what number was bigger and then made the equation. It was lots of fun

KB

Lets get creative

 I enjoyed making my pom pom dog, Roxy. TA

Music

 Today for Abilities Unleashed we had a beautiful lady come and play musical instruments and sing, it was so fun. 

An

Rotary Park

 

I had such a great afternoon at Rotary Park this afternoon. It was beautiful weather and amazing breezes.

-NJ

Girls Group

 

I enjoyed choosing colours and beads, then threading them to make a sun catcher. EB

Massage time

 

I chose hand and feet massages today. They are so soothing and relaxing. 

-NJ

Cooking

 

I was like "no, i don't want this" when I found out we were cooking board beans, but on the day I said I would try 1 and I really enjoyed it. I think it's because it was cooked in a different way and we took all the shells off. It was rather yum and I enjoyed it

KB

Lets get creative

 Getting to work on my doggie door stopper, such a lot of my favourite wool.TA

Literacy and numeracy

 

I enjoyed looking at the different foods, choosing a price for them, writing it all down and adding it up to see how much I spent on my groceries, it was lots of fun and I had some cool conversations about the cost of different foods

KB

Scavenger Hunt

I had a blast of an afternoon doing a nature Scavenger Hunt at Yatton Park with my friends. Such fun!

-NJ

 

Music fun

 

Such fun jamming out with my friends in music today.

-NJ

Cooking

 

It was lots of fun making French toast, I don't think I've made it before. I made sure that after it was cooked, we had icing sugar dusted on too make it extra yummy. 

KB

Pampered right

I always love my pamper Wednesdays. Foot spas and massages. I'm spoiled here at Arohanui!

-NJ

 

Music Session

 You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em

Know when to walk away and know when to run
You never count your money when you're sittin' at the table
There'll be time enough for countin' when the dealing's done

Music fun

Had so much fun in music today. Had a special guest come in and teach us how to play spoons.

-NJ

 

Computers/Ipads

 

I enjoyed writing my story on the iPad today. I am writing about myself growing up in Auckland, an auto biography 

EB

Cooking

 

I am cutting up the vegetables for the quiche. We added eggs and milk and seasonings with the sorrel and and silverbeat to muffin trays. They made yummy little quiches

Kb

Literacy and numeracy

 

I did it. I did great work on 3 different money worksheets working out how much was in each jar. I am really good at adding them all up, next will be working out how to take them away from each other

Kb

Lets get creative

 I've started my new project, making a door stop. TA

Girls Group

 

I loved having a foot spa and having my nails painted. EB

Literacy and numeracy

 

I loved doing the sign language numbers with my friends. This is the number 8  

KB

Girls group

We continued threading beads for our bracelets. EB

Circability

 

I enjoyed leaning new skills. The flower sticks were good for my arm work outs 

Kb

Photography

 

Looking myself in xray mode. It was fun learning how to use the ipads in different ways and finding the cool filters in the camera mode. There were awesome filters like squeeze and mirror mode. I took heaps of funny photos.