The Puzzle Quest

by Sumaya and Farhiya

When you are doing a puzzle you get this kind of feeling. When you put 2 or more pieces together you feel excited and proud of yourself. One afternoon we were doing a small but tricky puzzle. It was a picture of an island and a tree with water and mountains in the background. It was a painting by the famous painter, Claude Monet.

Farhiya was going well at the beginning but Sumaya wanted to give up because it was really difficult. Then she found a couple of pieces and she kept going on and all of a sudden... she felt that special puzzle feeling - excited and pleased and wanting to keep working. Both girls kept going but had to pack up. The second day they started again, they persisted with the help of a friend called Hadya and what do you know, they finished it!! They were so happy and proud.

Sumaya wrote a little song:

The feeling, the feeling,

the feeling that you get when you put two pieces,

together.

The feeling!

What a Wonderful Year!

We ended the year with a whole lot of wonderful activities. We visited the zoo, made beautiful birds, we had an amazing open night when our parents came to look at our hard work, we played "which beak is best"  and we made our own beak books. We wrote heart-breakingly beautiful poppy poems for Remembrance day. We had a visit from a dog and a visit from a little bird called a 'greenfinch. We learnt about snow in summer, planted sunflowers AND a magic crystal garden. With Moya we made crocodiles and marvellous mosiacs. We watched an Italian puppet play and we presented posters on our favourite birds. We collected data on Beatles songs, we ate (breakfast cereal) crocodiles and we cooked roast potato chips and garden salad for our class party to celebrate the end of a fabulous year!

 

Sad to say, this is also the end of the blog for the moment. As everyone in this internet savvy day and age is aware, there's no point writing a blog if you can't keep it up regularly and unfortunately technological issues and personal demands mean that the blog won't be continuing next year. It's been lovely and who knows, maybe we'll be back someday...

Before we go, here are a whole lot of photos of our end of year fun. Enjoy!

 

 

 

 

Ciao Bella!