Joyus July

I started out the month with my Drama show - the Princess Slumber party disaster - debuting to the world my Elsa character. I had so much fun putting on the dress and performing as a pretty princess. The crowd was so warm and welcoming and it was a blast. I am going to miss drama this term but am excited that my new program shows me that I will be back on stage for the end of year performance.

 

While Drama was on a school holiday break I really enjoyed the karaoke day with my friends from Te Puke and Wilrose, I got up and had a dance with my friends, and enjoyed spinning the ladies around. We have also started working with AI tools to make our own play for the talent quest. I enjoyed talking about themes and character ideas and seeing my ideas come to like so quickly.

  

I have been out and about this month with my hunter gather sessions. I enjoyed collecting limes from the community and I enjoyed using them with some oranges to make some juice. I also had a great outing to Kulim park and had a walk along the waters edge looking for seaweed.

 

In cooking I also made rice pudding, however I wasn’t a massive fan of the texture of it, but it was still fun to make it with my friends. I enjoyed making guacamole and fresh crackers too, I didn’t realise they were so simple to create with panty staples

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I love my Friday afternoons in music, we have a great big group of friends and have a great time with themed discos, including a country music dance off and 70’s music disco! It was great fun with the dance moves. Even just sitting back and nodding my head to the music and enjoying the company was great.

June Journeys

This month has been great work in drama as we started our back stage practices, it is always so much fun hiding in the dark and popping out on my cue. I have been learning my lines and my frozen song. I am so excited to try on costumes and show off my character.

I enjoyed going and doing an Autumn hunt at the opshops, looking for red and orange colours to make a pumpkin. There were lots of fun things to sort through on those racks until we found the right one. 

I also enjoyed going out and going resource shopping to buy a new hot glue gun. We found a really cool cordless one that I was able to try because it is also heat resistant. It was great to try new technology and hopefully this one stays tidier.

I have really enjoyed helping set up for the ball this month and seeing the decorations come together and with all the fabric and stars. 

There is so much glitter in the crafts we have been making! The ball was on a Thursday and so it was great to be able to come in on a cheeky day off and hide amongst the crowd wearing my suit and my mask. The music and the lights were loads of fun, the professional DJ played some awesome dancing songs. 

I really enjoyed getting to do a slow dance with my friends as well. It was loads of fun and then just like that I was helping take the decorations back down again ready for more special days next month. 

We have been following the FIFA world cup this month, my team is Ghana and I am excited to see them play. I enjoy when we can put it on in the sensory room on the big screen. The crowds there get so excited. It is an awesome atmosphere. 

I am really excited by the production and the fun days we have coming up in July! 

May Update

 May has been a fun month with lots of fun creativity in acting and roleplay as we pretended to be different animals. It was great fun acting out a frog and jumping along the floor. Then I pretended to be the rock star Michela Jackson, using the moon walk to share with my friends who I was pretending to be. 

I really enjoy Drama at Detour theatre, we have been doing lots of pretending and imagination too. I enjoy the animals we create, but it is so much fun when we grab a hat and create the character that would be wearing it. I love the crowns and being royalty, practicing my royal wave like the Queen. My favorite game in drama is the party game when you have to bring a gift for the person and hope they like it, it always gets me thinking. 

I am also enjoying being Princess Elsa at the slumber party and practicing my lines for that. I am excited to see what costume I might get to wear next month.

Music is lots of fun, and I have enjoyed learning some sign language with the song, representing the words in Sweet Caroline. 

I have awesome outings gathering lots of cool bits and pieces from the park. While it is autumn we have so many different leaves and seeds just lying around that we can utilize different art at the centre. The next project will be seeing what we can create with clay. I really enjoyed exploring it and feeling it warm up in my hands so I could make snails and different leaf shapes with it. 

I am really excited with what June is going to bring.

Hunting gathering

 Today at hunting and gathering we collected little miniature trees for our mini marae project.

AN 

Drama

 

Do you need a hero, someone who is big and strong? I loved the song and doing my awesome poses

KB

Acting/roleplay

 

Today I had fun playing charades with my friends. We acted out different animals, everyday activities and even famous musicians. I acted out a frog and even did the moon walk as Michael Jackson! - TR

Drama

 

We had so much fun at drama and hearing all about our new story. It was great. We also tried on different hats to create new characters, I waved like the queen 

KB