a philosophy for life.... :)

Finding lots of ways to document our thoughts......

Huge thanks to Seren for sharing her book with our blogging community. We love the book she made building on her keen interest in stories, and also drawing spirals or koru. Here, after drawing the images and dictating the text to the kaiako scribe,  she gives us a voice over so all her friends who can't yet read can enjoy her story too. Tumeke! Ka pai tō mahi!

Looking at one of our current projects....

So many of our friends are using the physical challenge apparatus to think about how you learn a new skill, and to assess and evaluate and plan for their own learning. It's been so interesting to tease out their thinking in this area. Don't forget our planning story is up on the wall above the ICT space.
Huge thanks to our committee for spending some funds to purchase a new parallel bar set for the challenge course space. We've used it in many ways with our big blue boxes so far! Here's Marcus on Day one, finding out how his body can be used on them when they are on a slope....

Tangata whenua welcoming manuhiri.... greeting new friends at mat time!

Some of our families have commented on our welcome haka we use at out group mat time hui to greet new members of the community or visitors... the children are becoming experts. They asked us to post the song so we could all remember it or learn it.... Here's our association Kaitiaki o kupapa Maori singing it for us.

term dates.

Hi all.. we've had a request for dates for the upcoming break. the term finishes on the 2nd of April and we're back on the 20th of April.

Play as a way to unpack life events....

It's much excitement for us all when there is a new member of a household! Dramatic play helps us all to make sense of the change. We've got quite a few children discussing their ideas about what a new baby in the family means! Here Hugo and Campbell show us how we might look after a baby in the ICT suite - where we popped in a digital clip and play props as a provocation to explore our wonderings some more....