Holiday Games

Hope you are all having a great holiday. Here are a few games to keep you busy in the car. Sweet or Sour - wave with big smiles at every car that passes if they smile or wave back you say sweet, if they do nothing or look grumpy you say sour. It doesn't sound all that fun but once you get a few sweet smiles it makes you feel a whole lot happier.
Pick a colour, choose a colour each for a car that will pass, when your car colour passes you have to count out loud as fast as you can. You keep counting until someone elses car colour passes then they start at one again. The winner is the person who can count up to the highest number before the next person starts.
Number Plate addition when a car goes past or you are following one add the numbers in the number plate to see what they make eg BMD359 3+5+9 would add to make 17 or you could make it 35+9 or any combination you like.
Alphabet find, instead of the original I spy why not only look for things beginning with each letter of the alphabet, see if you can get the whole alphabet, hope the queen is in town or you are driving past a quayside.
Silence is golden, see who can stay absolutely silent for the longest, use a timer or the odometer to measure distance. See if you can stay silent for more than 5 kilometers, then see if Mum or Dad can.
Hope you enjoy your break see you at the start of the year

CAMP ROCKS!

What an awesome time we had at Blair Lodge Camp last week. We stayed there on Thursday night after we had stuffed ourselves with homebakes and nachos. We had some very talented people performing at our talent quest. Robots, Ambulance drivers, army guys and even some singing and dancing girls. I can't wait to see what they come up with at the real Pahoia's got Talent lunchtime competition coming up. Here are some of the photos from the camp. Thanks to Jack and co for taking them. Great to see camp through the eyes of a 6 year old.

We have been on another adventure back in time! On Thursday 9 September, Rooms 5 and 6 travelled to Mystery Creek to visit the Agricultural Heritage Museum. We enjoyed being shown around all the exhibits. We learnt about what a blacksmith did and we saw all the tools that they used to create horseshoes, tools and even bikes. We explored the very first hospital that was in the Waikato and it only had 2 rooms! This building was very special becuase it was over 100 years old and we were lucky enough to go inside a 100 year old church as well. The day was lots of fun, even in the pouring rain and Mrs Radley and Mrs Youngman said our behaviour was absolutely amazing!

We made pretzels in Room 6. We used the same ingredients used to make bread and we investigated how the mixture changed from the beginning to the end. We learnt that yeast, when mixed with warm water, helps make bread rise. We also learnt that kneading the dough to put air into it, helps the bread rise as well. We shaped our pretzels into the first letter of our names. Then we cooked them. You can see from our photos that they looked amazing and they tasted delicious!