Fill a stocking - Advent Calendar 2020

This is Ohaeawai's Fill a Stocking - Advent Calendar for 2020.  Team Maunga and Iti children came up with a list of things that we wanted to do for others in the lead-up to Christmas.

 

T-Shirt Bag making with Anouk

Today Anouk visited again and we were able to make some really cool bags out of old T-shirts.  This is teaching us to look for different ways to use things we have outgrown or no longer need.  Now we have some really cool Tog-bags.

To make our T-shirt bags we first had to cut off the sleaves.  This was really tricky and we had to learn how to cut not with the tip of our scissors but with the middle of the scissors.

Next, we cut off the neck hem so we were left with a cut edge (a raw edge).

After that, we cut tassels at the bottom of the t-shirt.

Finally, we tied knots to connect the sides.  This part was VERY tricky and many of us needed to practice tie-ing knots to start with.  Some of us opted to have the bottom of our bags sewn up on Anouks' machine.

We love having Anouk (our local environmental Educator) come and visit it.

(Thanks Photographer Hawaiki-Roa for the cool pictures).

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Pizza Face - Italy and Shared book Focus

This week we have been learning about Italy and the Italian culture.  We have also had a shared book called 'Pizza Face'.  We have loved this book and learning about how Italians are famous for their Pizza's.  We wanted to try making pizza's for ourselves.  We had lots of fun together, and they were delicious too!

Paper Making with Anouk

Today Anouk visited us to help us learn about recycling and reducing our rubbish.  We had a great time making paper with her outside on the grass.  

First, we got the frame and added a picture frame on top.  Then we dipped it into the watery paper pulp and then lifted it out to drain.  We then took it over to the material strips and spent some time using a sponge to remove as much water as possible.  When we had got rid of as much as we could, we tipped the frame over so that the paper we were making was transferred onto the material.  We were then able to remove a little more water from our paper with the sponge. 

Once we had removed as much water as possible we hung them up to dry.  We can't wait to make cards to give to people out of them.

 

Special Visitor and Pasta Making - Italy

This week we have been learning about Italy and its culture.  Dimitri's family are from this part of the world.  Today Dimitri's mum visited and talked with us about Italy.  We even learned a few words in Italian.

After she left we started to make pasta.  We talked about all the steps and made storyboards of this as well.  Mrs. G even gave us a small piece of uncooked pasta to include on our storyboard to match the part where the pasta was added to the pot.

We LOVED our pasta and most of us went back for seconds.  We ate ALL of it and still wanted more.  We really were 'Master Pasta Makers from Italy'. - We sang this song a lot today as well.