Graduation

Had an awesome day on Saturday getting capped at my graduation ceremony. Finally an official qualified teacher with a Bachelor of Education, Early Childhood Teaching!!!...Such a great day and evening, super happy and proud of myself!! Thanks to everyone at KCC for the support throughout my studies..especially my Phoenix House teachers and my awesome Associate Teacher and mentor Deanne. xxxx

Challenging our baking skills!!

Recently we have been focusing on baking and cooking in Phoenix house and throughout this topic the kids have really been enjoying making different things, learning new skills and getting to eat all the yummy things they make. J As part of the set up in our room there is a ‘Woman’s weekly cookbook’ on display and while feeling ambitious we told the children to have a flick through at mat time and pick a cake they thought would be pretty cool to make, the pirate ship cake was the winner.

We decided to tackle this challenge this week together.... and what an awesome job we did!!

Cup Cake Pro's!!

We had a special parent helper in today to teach us how to make delicious looking cupcakes! Maree (Adams Mum) who has a cupcake/cake business, was kind enough to take time out her busy schedule to come and show us how the pro’s decorate cupcakes! We had SOOO much fun learning how to make the perfect icing and how to ice our very own cupcake with the piping bag. The children (and teachers)loved learning a new skill that we can take home or show off in Phoenix House. Everyone had a great time picking what colour icing they would like then decorating our own cupcake with lots of yummy decorations such as Milo, sprinkles, chocolate chips and jelly beans. This was a really special experience as they children had helped to make the cupcakes previously and then got to use their imagination to create their very own cupcake. It was also super special for Adam to have his Mum come in and show his friends what she does at home.

 

 

 

 

 

Dress up day for NZ Sign Language Week

Dress up day on PhotoPeach

A day at the Funhouse!!

Funhouse on PhotoPeach

Watching as the roof goes on Phoenix House!!

Mother's Day

Mother's Day Celebration

Photo Frame, Necklaces and Bracelets Activities

As Mother's Day is on Sunday on 11th May, to celebrate this occasion from last week  Kavita has been taking our photos with mum for our planned activities.  This week we have been making, painting and decorating  the photo frames for our mums. We have also been making bracelets and necklaces for our mums.  Kavita spoke to us at mat time that what our mum does for us and what we do  for her.  We had really sweet and cute answers. Through those fun activities we have shown and felt our love and affection for our mums. We love our mums...........

    
        

Wear Red for Healthy Heart competition

This year the children and teachers at KCC were the national 2014 winners for "Wear red for healthy heart day" which was held in February. The competition is held for ECE services, the ‘Wear Red for Healthy Hearts’ is about running wild with the red theme – everyone dressing in red for the day, decorating their ECE services and doing loads of fun red activities and this year....we were the reddest and the raddest.

As the winners of this competition we were visited by the Healthy Heart character "Hearty" and treated to a yummy fruit and vege platter for morning tea which was kindly donated by 5+ A Day. The Heart Foundation also gifted us a Tefal fresh express food prep appliance to help with prepping our morning tea or with any of our cooking activities during our Master Chef/baking current focus topic. 

Well done to everyone who participated in this special day and helped us to win this award!! 

Phoenix House Fishys

We have new pets in Phoenix House, two little fish...Say hello to Blinky and Goldie..they are super cute and our Phoenix House friends have been so good at feeding them and looking after them, Ka Pai!!

Welcome Back

Welcome back to all our little Phoenix House friends who were away for the holidays!! It sounds like you all did lot's of exciting things in the holidays and in the weekends, we hope you had a wonderful break and are ready for another fun term ahead.

Love from your Phoenix House teachers: Deanne, Kavita, Bex and Amanda xx