AGM

Hi all. A reminder our AGM is on Monday here at kindergarten at 7.30pm, Hear all about the committee's year and the year from the teaching team's perspective too. Have a coffee and nibble and enjoy! Everyone is invited.

Fun with puppets!

You might have noticed lots of our tamariki very busy  using puppets as a way to tell a story of late, our puppet theatre has a busy schedule! To support this work we invited the Stringbean puppet company to come along and show us all about how a marionette puppet might work. It was so much fun! Keep on story telling ngā tamariki? I wonder if you might make your own puppets to try out?

Our upcoming AGM - you are warmly invited!

Come one, Come all to our annual general meeting here at Kindergarten.  The committee and the teachers will all be there to share what has happened over the last year in our Kindergarten community.  It's on the 14th of August at 7.30pm at Kindergarten. All are welcome.

There's something heartening about voting for policies funding our children's learning further.....

Oral Language.....

Language for Literacy – The Importance of Building Vocabulary in Preschool

This article is worth a read...... check it out!

http://notjustcute.com/2017/06/13/language-for-literacy-the-importance-of-building-vocabulary-in-preschool/

Tamariki caretakers of the environment

 Thanks to the Wellington Council for donating us lots of small native shrubs for planing on our bank....  Anne and Doug got busy helping a team of small and willing workers to spend the week getting them all planted.  the children were very interested and we'll  enjoy watching them grow and especially help them make the wooded area on the bank  look interesting.  Great work my friends... pai tō manaaki!

What do the teachers get up to in the term break? Here's one thing we do!

http://www.maoritelevision.com/news/education/whanau-manaaki-incorporate-maori-worldview-kindergartens

Part of being trained and registered teachers is undergoing a planned programme of continual professional development to ensure we know current professional research in the area of teaching young children. This term break was our conference for all the Whānāu Manaaki Kindergartens and associated services. Above is a link to the theme and association direction for this conference. Titiro atū!