Harvest Festival - Carrot dip recipe

Carrot Dip 

iNGREDIENTS

• 1kg carrots, peeled, coarsely chopped
• 60ml (1/4 cup) olive oil
• 2 teaspoons ground cumin
• 3 garlic cloves, crushed
• Salt & freshly ground black pepper
• Serve with flatbread or rice crackers

METHOD

• Step 1
  Cook the carrot in a large saucepan of salted boiling water for 30 minutes or until tender. Drain.
• Step 2
  Place the carrot, oil, cumin and garlic in the bowl of a food processor, and process until smooth. Taste and season with salt and pepper. Transfer to a serving bowl and serve with flatbread or rice crackers.
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Tukana - Teina Catching and throwing a ball

Tuakana - Teina time is not always reading. Today we read a story then we got the small, soft yellow balls to practice catching and throwing. Lots of fun. It was great to hear everyone encouraging each other to catch and to keep trying.

Project Energize - Healthy Lunches

Erin from Project Energize, talked with us about the different food groups and how we can make our lunches healthier.

GLOW foods are fruit and vegetables.

GO foods are grain foods like grainy breads.

GROW foods are meat & meat alternatives and milk & milk products.

We need GLOW, Go and GROW foods to help our body to function the best that it can.

Erin also talked to us about SLOW food. This is food that are treats and not everyday food. These foods tend to be high in either sugar or salt.

We are going to check our lunch boxes to see what kind of food we have. Whether we have GLOW, GO, or GROW food.

Metaphors

One of the activities that we had to complete for the NZ Writing Kit was to write a metaphor about ourselves. 

First of all we needed to learn about metaphors.

Mathew is a popcorn all alone under the chair slowly rotting away.
Caylee is a dirty black sock.
Jerome is a smooth racing car with golden wheels.
Josiah is a hungry dinosaur.
Imogen is a huge towering sky scraper.
Charlie is a zooming race car.
Kate is a cheeky monkey swinging from tree to tree.
Aaliyah is a fast zooming car.
Taine is a ripped Te Rapa shirt lying on the wet soggy grass.
Jasnoor is a shop selling food.
Kaya is a red, flowing dress waiting for someone to be interested.
Jackson is the Eiffel Tower.
Pepuere is a flaming red porsche.
Zoe is a a burger with double cheese, double lettuce, double tomato, double mayo, sort of like a big Mac but bigger and better.
Shanil is a flaming soccer ball.
Ava is a single chip going cold on the side of a lonely plate.
Troy is a drifting GTR Skyline.
Quartez is a little lonely cabin in a little forest.
Kredenz is a flat All Black shirt supporting Jonah Lomu. RIP
Maee is a yummy, delicious Big Mac burger with sauce.
Carmelo is a Big Mac Mcdee.
Cyrus is a delicious KFC fish combo.
Alexus is a flaming hot steak waiting to be demolished.
Jaskirat is a blue hockey tshirt that has a H.E.S logo on it.
Maria is a cat with super hearing ears ready to hunt!
Anika is a big white glitter house.
Subair is a zooming flash cheetah.
Jahquinia is a rainbow unicorn racing car.
Barney is a golden go-cart.
Andy is a fiery red car.
Max is a black panther.
Whaea Kat is an old worn handball hidden in the long grass on the nature trail.

Tuakana - Teina Buddy Reading

We are lucky enough to have Whaea Robyn and her class Akomanga Tahi as our buddy class. We are working on building our friendships with them. It is a lot of fun to read with our buddies. At the moment the weather is warm and sunny so we can read out in the playground too.

Did you know that there are 3 ways to read a book?
You can:
1. Read the pictures
2. Read the words.
3. Retell the story.