Haedyn-Reeve brought a special friend in with her today. Here she is introducing Callulah to us at Whariki Time. She tells us that Callulah eats nuts and has lived at Haedyn-Reeves' house since she was a baby. Everyone took turns giving Callulah a hug.

Then, being a rainy day, we decided to use some of the lemons that we had gathered earlier on in the week, and do some cooking!

We got our lemon recipes from here, and we decided to make the lemon bars and lemon curd. Yum! Takarea, Riki and Tutepako enjoyed cracking 12 eggs into the bowl for our lemon curd. I'm thinking these three tamariki must help with cooking quite a lot at home, as they were all experts at egg cracking.

EVERYONE enjoyed squeezing the lemons.
Omaruhuatau "I was putting the juice in the sieve, to take out the pips. Then we had to measure the juice up to the line 350." Omaruhuatau is absolutely right, we needed 350 mls of lemon juice, and he measured so carefully.

Quite and few of the children tasted the lemon juice. Apparently it's quite nice but I'm not brave enough to try it!
Forsaith "I eated a lemon! It was sour!"

By the way Whanau, if you are reading the blog, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE click "comments" at the bottom of the post and let us know that you've visited. We will share the comments with the tamariki. This link between home and centre is so important to their learning. Thank You to those few who have left comments so far. Arohanui