Toy Day Creating

Toy Day Sharing

Toy Day Sharing

Toy Day With Penny

Penny is reading to her toy.

Toy Day With Ava

Toy Day With Aleah

Toy Day

Toy Day

Playing with our special toys during toy day.

Toy Day

Savanna has brought her ponies to school, to play with for toy day.

Giant Bubble recipe

Here is the recipe for the giant bubbles, I doubled it so it would go in the water trough. 

Giant bubble recipe

6 cups water 

1/2 cup dish detergent

1/2 cup corn flour

1 tbsp baking powder (not baking soda)

1 tbsp Glycerine

Dissolve the cornflour in the water, stirring really well.  Then gently stir in the remaining ingredients.  Avoid creating a lot of froth.  Allow your mixture to sit for at least an hour, stirring occasionally if you see the corn flour settling to the bottom.  Some of ours continued to settle even while we played with it, but it was fine.

Here is a picture of the wands that I found on google images.

We only had bendy straws which we annoying, straight ones like these would have been better. Plus ours were skinny, so the technique was - thread the wool into a straw then suck the other end of the straw to pull it through. If you are unlucky and sucked too hard you end up with a mouth (or throat) full of wool. Lots of giggling! 

Giant Bubble Fun at Tuakana Teina Time

Giant Bubble Fun

On Thursday Room Kaponga and our buddy class made special bubble wands using 2 straws and some wool to make giant bubbles. Some people used paper trumpets to blow their bubbles. Here are some of our more successful ones.

Here is our big trough of bubble mix and our big wands.

When our hands got super soapy we could even blow them with our hands!

Super Hero

We had a special super hero guest come to visit our classes today. When he is not being a super hero, his name is HT and he lives with Mrs Daniels. He is a 10 year old Boxer dog (70 years old in dog years). HT is amazingly gentle and patient and he loved us patting his soft fur. We had a big discussion about what his super powers were and what his super hero name might be. These were some of our ideas for our writing.

Here is HT Super dog with Mrs Daniels.

He loved seeing all the kids. He has super manners (AND so do we!)

Here is Troy's story:

Super Dog

Super Dog saves a person.  Super Dog took the person and Super Dog got the person into bed to sleep. Good job for Super Dog.

Here is Kay's Story 

Super Dog

A Super Dog! came to our school. He had a super cape and he could look through walls and people.  He eats weetbix so that he gets strong, so he can lift things with one hand.  The Super Dog walked with it's Super Owner.