speech sound development

We've had lots of families asking about speech sound development in children. Here's a chart that shows a range of 'normal' development in this area. If you have concerns or would like ideas about how to promote development of a particular sound ... just ask the team!

Fishy Thursday!

 A wet day is a great day for artists to hone their crafts! some investigations in two areas of the curriculum were expressed very eloquently by a group of artists around the idea of sketching fish. for some it was around representing what they knew... and looking at some reference material in teh ICT suite led to recreating the info they'd been discussing. For others it was about using art provocations on the drawing table.. a book where patterning was very evident in the fishy  illustrations. Tthis type of patchwork patterning engaged  these artists for long periods of time today.. .some framed them. A Lot of hard work and careful control of the art media was evident. All the players  were very proud! We were too my friends!

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.......

aidan - Jibidi 2010.MPG

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......