Christmas Party

We had an awesome Christmas Party. This is me getting a present from Santa! 

We also had entertainment and I got a mouse balloon. 

 

Mitre 10 & Julian Berry Farm

I went for a community walk and visited Mitre 10. I loved that they had their Christmas decor around the store. 

I went to Julian Berry farm in Whakatane. There I had a yummy strawberry ice cream and visited the cute farm animals. 

 

Jingle bells!

We had our drama production and I played Jingle. I loved grabbing all the presents under the tree. Great way to end the year,

 

Drama, Bowling & revamping🙂

Rehearsal day! One more week until our big production and I’m super excited. 

Ten Pin bowling at Bayfair. Love indoor sports and playing with my friends. 

I’m helping revamp our changing room with a cool bird theme. Here’s me organising the brown rope on fabric before applying it to the wall. 

 

Drama and Bowls

Here’s me after drama enjoying the sunny weather. 

Here’s me at Bayfair after playing some ten pin bowls. 

 

Complimenting & Sausage Sizzle

In lifeskills session we are learning about compliments and how they make us feel. It makes me feel happy when others say nice things and when I do it too. 

We had a sausage sizzle at the centre and got to have some special treats too. Due to the rainy weather we couldn’t have a bbq at Maketu beach however we worked a treat too. 

Life skills and thinking of all the nice things to say to others. 

 

Community donation

Here’s me at the local jeweller store collecting the beautiful gift they have donated to your centre for end of year raffle. 

 

Drama & strategising

We’re practising for our drama production. I’m excited for the end of year show. 

Indoor sports wasn’t only physical but also played some memory games. Here I am learning a strategy to build the highest cup tower. It’s not that easy but I’m so proud I gave it a go! 

 

Drama in Tauranga

 Here’s me at drama in Tauranga. We’re currently working on our final show of the year. 

Hikoi & Bowling

Here’s me after a hikoi around the community. The weather is getting warmer and sunny! 

Here’s me at Ten Pin. One of my favourite sports to play. 

 

Birthday Celebration & Christmas shop visit

Happy birthday to me! 

The Christmas shop is officially open and we got to visit it today. It was super fun! 

 

Cultural dancing

We had a cultural session with Eva & Princess. They performed a Cook Island dance with us and showed us how to hula. 

 

Lifeskills and Dance with Ella

Here’s me brushing my teeth in lifeskills. 

Ella came to visit us and we got to watch her beautiful dancing and she even showed us a few moves. 

 

The emperors new clothes

Here’s me playing in the production, The Emperors new clothes. I played as the Cheat and did an awesome job playing my role.  

 

Knock down & cupboard cleaning

Here’s me bowling at Timezone in Bayfair. I knocked most of pins down. 

In lifeskills group, we learned how to tidy our kitchen cupboard. I took all the cups and plated out, wiped down the surfaces and organised the cupboards tidily. 

 

Timezone & AIMS games

Here’s me at Timezone playing arcade games. 

Watched the school kids play basketball at Baypark, for AIMS game. 

 

Circability

 Here’s me in circability session. I’m learning to balance a stick on top of 2 sticks. Not an easy thing to do but it’s super fun

Ten pin bowling & Bayfair trip

I love going to ten pin bowling. I got some pins down and pretty happy about it. 

I went on the bus to Bayfair. Here’s me learning to take selfies. 

 

Bayfair & Shopping skills

Here’s me at Bayfair looking at the cool wearable art displays in the mall. 

This is me in life skills we learnt how to do shopping at the supermarket and how to identify individual products. 

 

Van wash & Peoples first

I washed the Noddy cos it needed some TLC 😁

I visited Yii and had an awesome time expressing myself. 

 

Bowling & Gardening

In lifeskills we learned how to safely get on the bus and get ourselves seated. 

In gardening we watered our pretty flowers that were planted a week ago. 

 

Bowling champs and community hikoi

Ten pin bowling is one of my favourite things to do. I think I’ve got pretty good over the year😎

Here’s us outside the pet groomers. Did a lovely hikoi (walk) around the community. 

 

Reno around the centre

Here’s me pinning up the birthday lights on the white board and our culture board on the exit door. It’s been a productive day! 

 

Arts and communication

I’ve been enjoying working in my personal books lately. I’ve been cutting up pieces of paper and making shapes out of them. 

We’ve just rolled out an awesome life skills session. I’ve been learning about how to build confidence and queues in communicating with people. We did different scenarios of good ways to socialise and how to build confidence when chatting in bigger groups. 

 

Driving & Kung Fu

Learning how to play video games with Ian. It’s a driving game. Driving doesn’t seem that difficult at all!

 

Little red riding hood with x3 king fu pigs was our drama production this term. As you can see, I’m a black belt in Kung Fu ✌️