The Boessenkool family live and work on this farm about 2.5km outside of Wanganui - this photograph shows the view from their house where I did the first of three 'singing' workshops for children yesterday afternoon.
There were fourteen children aged between seven and eleven and a mixture of boys and girls. All of them are home schooled and so this was an opportunity to do something a bit different and enjoy an afternoon of music and fun. As you can see by the photographs, some of the mums (and one dad) stayed for the workshop and enjoyed the afternoon quite a bit too.
About half way through the afternoon we took a wee tea break - some of the mums provided plates of yummy things to eat and everyone's taste was apparently catered for! Fresh fruit, (including a big bowl of plums from our tree!) popcorn, crunchie biscuits and carrot cake. A veritable feast! Once the children had taken some time out to get to know one another a bit better too, we got back into singing and clapping and 'echoing' and laughing at some of the silly words in the nonsense songs we did!
Judging by the generally happy faces around me, I think they all really enjoyed the afternoon.
We have two more of these workshops planned - another 'junior ' one this week and one for teens early next week.
Dis al!
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