Indigo's storying

We are great at creating stories based on visual prompts... as well as making them up ourselves. The team generated prompts in our every day programme are showing as we work in every day learning.......

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We've had a lot of families ask us about our dance repertoire..as the keen dancers are bringing the language and moves home with them! We explore this idea of social dance moves in our daily Kūpapa group experience... where a kaiako member facilitates a group of group games and/or music so we find a whole range of ways to develop  social understandings and musical concepts. Here's a clip of a french folk dance from You tube ( not us obviously) that we sometimes use to help teach the moves and the way we should respond to instrumental musical cues. We have a lot of keen Jibidi dancers at present!  We're sure you will all be folk dancing at home too......:) should we apologise in advance?

Maddy the Author and Illustrator

Well done to Maddy... making a book and being brave enough to share it at our mat time hui. You might have noticed that lots of friends are very keen to explore the notion of the mechanics and content of books... we've had lots of fun with the character and plots!

Association invitation to a meeting......

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....