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

A little bit of NZ history

ANZAC day activities

Flags, Poppies, play-dough and cakes 

This week we have been making lots of art creations in remembrance of the Australian and New Zealand soldier's for ANZAC day this Friday. We made New Zealand flags, a row of poppies, red play dough and a red iced cake for morning tea. At mat-time we sung our New Zealand anthem and Bex spoke to us about what ANZAC stands for, why we have a public holiday and wear red and poppies and why we have ANZAC day...to commemorate all New Zealander's killed in war and to honor the returned servicemen and women. We have learnt a lot about New Zealand History this week and had so much fun doing it!! Ka Pai tamariki ma.

 

 

 

 

  

Easter Treats

                  Becky's Biscuit Blog

We have been doing lots of fun and interesting Easter activities and today we made some Easter shortbread biscuits...Everyone had a turn with adding different ingredients, rolling out the dough and cutting the different shapes. We had cute bunnies, chicks, eggs and duckling shapes. They smelt so yummy as they baked on this cold, grey day..When they were ready, we coated them in pink and yellow icing and ate them for afternoon tea...DELISH!! 

Our Friendship tree!!

What a way to celebrate the special friendships we have here at Phoenix House!!

Deck Party!!

With the building works starting on Monday, it is time to finally say farewell to our deck area.  So we did it Phoenix styles, with a great big deck party.  We had a special treaty morning and afternoon tea and disco dancing and it was the last time we performed our favourite song "Let it Go".  We can't wait to see what our new classroom is going to look like!!


Deck Party!! on PhotoPeach