😀 The focus sound for last week was 'a'. We had got a little busy last week - but we didn't want the opportunity to make language connections go by!
We are sooo fortunate at Ōtaki Kura to have a maara kai - a food garden. Whaea Karen spends countless hours maintaining gardens in her own time for us all to enjoy. Ngā mihi Whaea Karen!
A number of apple trees are fruiting at the moment. Kei te whiti mai te rā - the sun was shining - so we went out on this gorgeous Monday to pick some apples and to return to class and make some fresh juice to drink.
First... we ran down to the maara kai!
Then we looked for some trees that had apples!
Not all of them did...
Then we picked some. We also looked for 'windfall' apples on the ground. There was some pretty intense dicussion about whether or not we could use an apple if it had a wee blemish. In the end they all went in the bag.
After lunch we were able to bring out the juicing machine and make some apple juice. Everyone had a turn. For some tamariki it was the first time. Ka nui te mihi ki a koutou, tamariki mā! It's good to try new things!
There was also a lot of discussion about the flavour - it probably wasn't as sweet as some were used to. One thing we all agreed on though was... we will make some more āpōpō!
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