Special visitors at R.D.A

On the last day at riding, we had some extra people come along.
Meg accompanied Brittany, and as a surprise Thomas'classroom teacher Mr Brew and Poppy's classroom teacher Miss Monaghan came for a look to see how it all works.
Seeing Mr Brew's truck arrive really made Toms face light up as he was riding around the arena.
What a great way to finish up for the year.

Ukulele 13:06:19

Poppy bought her Ukulele to school today and Thomas really enjoyed having a turn at playing it.
They also were lucky to have Mr Brew come in and Tune the Ukulele and play a tune.
Lucky it got tuned because after lunch they were off to school singing, where they both had a chance to play.

Go the Highlanders

Mr Friend came and asked if we would like to get some photos to send to Josh Dickson.
He of course had props (flags)  and we loved getting photos taken.
Mr Friend can always have a great yarn with Thomas after a Highlanders weekend.

Go The Highlanders!!!!

Term 1 Week 9

Thomas  continues to enjoy his food technology classes.
This week he produced apple rhubarb crumble on Tuesday and on Thursday turned out a pretty good looking beef stir fry.


Thomas had the chance to accompany Poppy to collect and deliver some mail around the school.He really enjoys this job.

Chopping the apples

Mail duties

TURANGAWAEWAE PROJECT

We made a start on this this week and Toms ideas are coming through quite strongly.
I like how Tom is always open to ideas to strengthen his original plan.
He new he wanted a rugby type idea but we worked together to come up with ideas. Well done Tom.

First layer done

The ball.

working together.

Term 1 Week 8

Tom has had a few opportunities to play with his new talker and had a couple of simple chats with Poppy, also using her talker. While of course Tom still has his own voice and is more than capable of holding conversation, it is introducing another layer of communication and it is lovely to see these natural interactions.

Food Tech this week and Tom was thrilled with his lemon crunch muffins on Tuesday and his pizza on Thursday.

Makin' the muffins

Rolling the dough

End result