Sunday 30 October 2016

Chocolates Reading - Rangoli


This week Chocolates Reading group read about Diwali which is the Hindu Festival of the Lights celebrated on October 30th.  Rangoli is an art form from India that is done during Diwali. Patterns are created on the floor of living rooms and courtyards using materials such as coloured rice, coloured sand and chalk. We had fun making our own Rangoli designs with chalk outside TKM! 






Monday 10 October 2016

Chocolates Reading - Cleaning up an oil spill

Today Chocolates Reading group read the journal article What a Disaster! about the Rena oil spill in 2011. We then created our own oil spill and used different methods (sponge, cornflour and cotton wool) to see which way would clean up an oil spill the best.


 



Our first few weeks

TKM is up and running and we are very impressed with our students! They are following their own task cards and attending daily workshops. H...