19/09/2024
🇨🇱 Felices Fiestas Patrias 🇨🇱
Today we celebrated another year of Chile's Independence Day! Izzy and Giara told us about their country this morning.
Izzy also came through with Chilean cultural dress and items. We danced, sung and had lots of fun ❤
14/08/2024
Today we had a super special visit from Little Bo Peeps Mobile Farm Ltd 🐑
Farmer Fleur came with a collection of farm animals to meet us - two goats (one of which was an enthusiastic kid), a chicken, a rabbit, a sheep, two ponies, a llama and an alpaca. Farmer Fleur reminded us that we had to use gentle hands to pet her animals' back and that they had already been fed so we didn't need to worry. Our tamariki were all ears!
We were able to gently pet all of the animals and even have a short ride on Cricket the Pony. Big special thanks to Farmer Fleur who had an engaging kōrero with our preschoolers beforehand, hauled a massive trailer filled with farm animals to see us and patiently led our tamariki around for Pony rides.
Our tamariki had a great time - please ask about it at home!
08/08/2024
Just as the Pukeko room has been busy with their Olympic celebrations the Tui (Toddlers) room has been, too.
Here they are completing the (3m) hurdles and getting into the spirit with painting the Olympic torch and Olympic rings.
07/08/2024
In the Pukeko (Preschool) Room we have been excited about the Olympics. We've been following NZ's athletes closely, talking about and watching different events in the classroom and reading books about the different athletes. To celebrate the 2024 Olympics in the Pukeko Room we decided to hold our own mini games.
We split ourselves into three different groups: Red Rangers, Yellow Stars and Green Butterflies. We made signs, wore our respective colours and made flags to march under. Our tamariki competed in three different events: Spoon Race, Sack Race and Tug-o-War. Everyone had a lot of fun taking part and (due to each team winning one event), everyone got a chocolate and a special sticker at the end.
Shout-out to the Assistant Coordinator, Daanbir, who was out of the games due to injury so helped out kaiako Judy.
22/07/2024
Happy Monday!
To kick the week off right in the Pukeko room we have morning yoga time. It's a simple session that focuses on breathing and stretching our bodies to ease us into the week.
Everyone knows the routine - the bell will go for yoga time and those who want to participate will grab a blue yoga mat. Shoes come off, mats are unraveled and tamariki find an open spot. This week Jaspreet took us through some moves - here's a couple snapshots of what that looks like 🧘♀️🧘♂️