Teddy Bears Picnic

On Friday the last day of term the Kiwi Hub had a Teddy Bears Picnic.  Unfortunately, the weather was against us, but we managed to have a great play with our special toys at Putkitiki, before having our lunch together in Room 5. 

Putikitiki Playground

The children love playing
on the monkey bars

Climbing and swinging

A special police dog

A very lucky grey bunny who
had been lost but then found

Elephant

Some tired toys resting 

Fun on the big slide

Talking about our toys

Investigating a rabbit hole!  

A very busy jungle gym!

We found a vacuum cleaner!

Some grandparents joined us which was special

Hurray!! Teddy Bears Picnic!

Kai Time...

...with our friends 

Butterflies, Butterflies

We have been so lucky to watch butterflies hatch this week.  Thank you to Zoe who brought in 5 chrysalis for us.
We managed to watch a butterfly hatch only after a few seconds of it starting to emerge.  

Look how big the abdomen is and how small the wings are when it first comes out.

Then another one hatched, and this time Edie came to tag it as part of our monarch butterfly tagging programme.

Holding the butterfly carefully to apply the tag

Tag on!

Edie talking to the children about why we tag the butterflies:

All ready to fly away!  I wonder where the butterfly will fly away to?

Harvest Festival

We had a lovely time this week preparing for and then holding our Harvest Festival.
First, we foraged in our Kitchen garden for yummy things to put on our pizza.

We found cucumber, silverbeet, lots of basil, tomatoes, purple peppers, and marjoram. 

Next we made our pizza!

Rolling the dough

Hmm? What shall we put on?

Spreading the delicious tomato sauce

Sprinkling the toppings

Ta da!  Our yummy pizza!

Then it was time for our shared kai and our Harvest Festival.

This experience allowed children to see food made from the beginning, and to use food from our garden - a garden to plate experience.  

Sharing food is a lovely thing to do, and there were conversations about how the food had been made, as well as how yummy it was.  

This links to our toolkit:

Curious: I am learning to think:

I use a range of thinking tools, am curious about the world around us, asks questions, and reflects on learning

Connected: I am learning to participate and contribute:

I learn in for and about the environment and celebrate cultural diversity.

Easter eggs

Some beautiful Easter craft.