Today was the last day hosting our lovely 5 Korean students.  On our final day we learnt a new game, (thanks Raelene) - "Mahue (left), Matau (right), it was lots of fun.  

Then we made (and created) our own pizza's and Amadine helped us cook them in the pizza oven - they were delicious!

After lunch it was time to pack up our work we had done at Oropi School and then attend Assembly where we all had to say a farewell speech.  

 

Here are a few of our last goodbye's to Oropi School:

"It was last day at Oropi school.   It was so fun I like to made pizzas.   I like oropi school and friends
Good Bye my best friend and everyone!!!!(Harry)

Good bye oropi schools students and teacher
Bye (Alex)
I like Oropi school.  Good bye friends and Teacher (Min)
Thank friends and Teacher good bye every one (Ria)

I like oropi school. And friend, teacher, today is last day Good bye"
(Chaemin)
 

Mount Maunganui

Its the final week of having Harry, Min, Alex, Chaemin and Ria here with us at Oropi School.  We luckily picked a stunning day to take them for a walk around the Mount followed by an hours cruise on the Kewpie in the harbor.  We had worked up an appetite and thirst so picnic lunch at the park completed a lovely day with them.

Ruru Class time

Fun time maths time in Ms Heath's class with Min and Harry - Min was 'star' of the day in Ruru room today - so he had the privilege of sitting on the couch for the day and being able to choose who sits with him, after a long deliberation Aiden was the choice :) (with Harry of course!)

Arts and Crafts - Making Poi's

It was a wet day in Oropi today, so inside arts and crafts were on the agenda, we made Poi's and had lots of fun creating our own designs. 

Kiwi's

Today we found out interesting facts about our unique and curious Kiwi:

• they have tiny wings but cannot fly!
• they're the only bird in the world that have nostrils at the end of its beak!
• it doesn't have any tail feathers but does have whiskers like a cat!
• its sense of smell is second to none!
• they love eating worms & grubs!

After reading a few books and a chit chat we then made kiwi finger puppets. 

Cooking Tteokbokki

We had fun on Monday going to the Asian Supermarket and getting the ingredients for a traditional Korean dish called Tteokbokki.  We then came back to school and the students prepared (cutting, peeling, chopping, measuring) and cooked this for us.  They enjoyed giving each of their teachers a taste and then devouring it themselves - the verdict - delicious! 

First Day at Oropi School

Welcome to our 5 Korean International Students, Chaemin Lee, Haeun Kim, Minhyeok Lee, Chanhui Lee, Sungmin Choi

They are here for the first four weeks of Term 1.

Local Farm Visit - Hodge's farm on Hereford Road, Oropi

On our first day of school Whae Raelene and myself took the students to visit Peter Hodge, a local farmer, they have had 3 daughters complete their schooling at Oropi.  We gave the Korean students a 'kiwiana farm experince'.

They watched sheep being shorn

Harry and Alex "stomped wool" in a woolpress,  (the woolshed 'smelt really bad' they thought!),

Ross the puppy was pretty cute, he was only 4 months old

After morning tea, we hopped onto the transport trailer of the tractor and went down to the river for a bbq lunch.

Harry, Alex and Min were in charge of cooking us our sausages! They were good too!

After lunch we went and fed the eels - left over sausages and bread.  It was great fun, lots of eels came up as soon as we threw in food.  Some were very long and fat, Harry nearly found out how sharp their teeth are! They bit his gumboots!

We walked a little way up the river to see the waterfall

Then it was time to head back to school, on the back of the tractor - hold on Whae Raelene! We had a fantastic day.