Lemon and Garlic Butter

We googled lemons and discovered loads of delicious recipes. One of them was for garlic and lemon butter. As we were planning to make bread rolls for our soup day we thought this would go perfectly.

Our first job was to grate some lemon zest, then grate some garlic and then mix it with the butter. We had some fantastic helpers; the Morepork children are becoming experts at grating and mixing, and the garlic and lemon butter smelled amazing.

Our Lemon Tree

We have a lemon tree in our garden that is full of yummy looking lemons. We are going to make it our mission to find as many uses for the lemon as we can. Please feel free to share any favourite family recipes with us. Watch this space...

The Morepork Sports Day

Today was our very first Moreporks Sports Day. We set about getting all the equipment ready for the children, then it was time for action. The children and whanau were ready to go so Gemma did a trail demo for everyone. With teachers and whanau placed around the course the children set off round the circuit. After a few times around the course the children all managed to find their favourite station and stayed put taking turn after turn.
After lots of running around it was time for a rest and a drink. The children all recieved medals and certificates for their efforts, and the adults had a hot drink, a muffin and a well deserved rest.
The morning was a huge success thanks to all the help from the families who came to help: The children did an awesome job and we now plan to make this an annual event.

Enjoying our Roast Lunch

After all the preparation and cooking it was time to eat our yummy lunch: we all sat down to share lunch together as a group. We served our chicken and veges with gravy and cheese sauce, it was delicious: the younger children tried mashed vegetables which looked pretty yum. The children tried a bit of everything, with some of them coming back for seconds.

Thanks for all your help every one, and i'm sure we are all looking forward to our soup day, and we hope to have lots of visitors next time.

Preparing our Roast Lunch

Thursday was our roast day. The children started the morning by helping to prepare the vegetables. We had carrots, kumura, potato, pumpkin, parsnip, silverbeet, onion and broccoli. We had lots of wonderful helpers. Well done everybody.

Village Kids Artist's

Last Wednesday we decided to get painting and the children created an amazing masterpiece. It was great to see all of the children working together to create this fantastic piece of art.

Make sure you come in and check out our masterpiece.

Little Red Riding Banana by Richard Tulloch. Story: "Munchy Honey Cakes".