Jigsaw puzzles
We played with musical instruments and marched around with them on the carpet and this became the rhythmn of our day. It was filled with singing and moving our bodies as well as sitting and listening to stories and disucssions.
We started off our day with a few activities at the table. We used our paintings from yesterday and attached a few 
coloured circles to them. We pasted two sets of circles on the paintings and these we learnt during our circle time on the mat, were eyes. We first pasted a large circle and then a smaller one and then another smaller one and then the tiniest circle was the last one that we used. We chose the colours of our circles really carefully sometimes selecting our favourite colour.
We did some drawings during the morning and then peeled off some stickers and stuck them onto our paper. Some of us have started to make specific forms in our drawings and add names to them. Today Iva said that her drawing was pink and then she said that it was a strawberry. 
We continued working on our Mother’s Day cards and will hopefully complete them all tomorrow. Then we will be all prepared for our Mother’s Day breakfast on Tuesday 13th May. We hope that all of our mums have diarised this date so that they can spend the early part of the morning with us.
We took a lot of photos when we were playing outside in the park and enjoyed the warmer weather and beautiful sunshine. Hisami sang some of our favourite Japanese songs. We sat 
together and looked at our art from yesterday while also looking at “Koi Nobori”. We looked at the art work that we had made using the bubble wrap and paint and we looked at the scales of the fish and thought that maybe our art work with the two big eyes on each side, could become a fish, just like the “Koi Nobori”. But how could we make the paper look like a fish? We looked and thought and we needed our teachers to guide us. They rolled the paper up and then we could see…….our very own “Koi Nobori”. Hisami spent time joining them together when we left school and they are now hanging in our classroom.
In free play time upstairs, we spent time doing jigsaw puzzles. These are puzzles that require us to pay attention as most of the pieces look the same however there are miniscule differences. We started off by separating the pieces into two piles. The one pile were pieces with straight edges and the other pile was center pieces. We made the frame of the puzzle and then filled in the picture in the middle. We worked on an ABC puzzle and then Allie, Ethan, Ryan, Tokutaro and Ava 
decided that they wanted to do something a little more challenging. So our teachers took out the Winnie the Pooh puzzle which had 48 pieces in it. After completing this one, we took out one with a picture of an airplane and this one had 100 pieces. Unfortunately we didn’t have enough time to completely is and will work on it tomorrow.
Arata, Noa and Olivia made a house with the large Lego blocks and added figurines to their construction. On the main table we worked on birthday hearts for Maryna’s birthday next month. We also painted some styrofoam eggs with coloured paint. When Allie tried making hers, we watched as the colours ran into one another and made a rainbow effect on the eggs.
Some of us want to make the eggs into little chickens and some of us just want to decorate them just like the beautiful “Faberge” eggs from long ago. We read “Miss. Nelson is missing” again. It is a funny story about a class that doesn’t listen to their teacher, so she leaves the room and dresses up as another person. 
The other person is really strict and the children don’t really like her. They want Miss. Nelson to come back so they decided that they will listen to her during their story time and have better manners.
Thanks for a fun day at Ohana. See you tomorrow.
Love always
Shelley, Darren, Christine, Maryna, Goh, Nanako, Sharee, Liezel,
Ayaka and Hisami