As it turns out, Fridays turns out to be rather interesting days here at Frankton Primary. Every Friday the school provides an opportunity called Maori Gate where students who desire to learn and/or retain the Maori native language can go to receive instruction. This however means that a lot of students are absent from their regular classes on Friday. So in order to keep them from falling too far behind, most teachers don't teach a lot of new material. Instead they review or extend current material, or they do fun activities.
This last Friday my class got to do something really fun with their younger "buddy" class. As you know, it's currently Summer here in New Zealand, and as the Sun was shining bright and hot we all went outside and played on Felicia's water slide!
We spent an hour outside playing. It was a really fun time and the kids absolutely loved it. It was really just a black sheet of tough plastic, some dish soap, and a hose, but man was it FUN!!!
Of course, the boys got really into it and decided to get a running start on their slides to see how far they could get...
others took it a little slower...
but everyone had a blast!!
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