Upcoming Mini Olympics - Training Photos

Have you been training for the Mini Olympics??

We have!

Port Kindy Olympics

Kia Ora koutou!

What a great couple of weeks we have had! In preparation for the 'West Harbour Junior Olympics' the children are getting involved in lots of physical activity outside. We have had egg and spoon races, horse races and much more! All the children have been enjoying getting into the spirit of the games, and even won some gold medals!




Sack Racing!







Gymnastics!



We have been doing lots of baking with the children, and are continuing to make healthy foods that are quick and easy to pop into lunch boxes! We have seen some fantastic lunches coming with the children - here are a few examples!

                         Lets try to reduce, reuse and recycle!



The children made some yummy vegetable soup with the children - what a treat this was! The children loved being part of the process - grating, chopping, peeling! Most of all they loved eating it! It was all gone before the teachers could have some!

We are planning on making a recipe book of all the recipes we have made with the children - we would love for you to share any healthy, quick and easy lunch box ideas!

YUM YUM!



We're Back Online!!!

Kia Ora whaanau!

Term 3 has begun and we are working towards a 'Gold - Paa-Harakeke' Healthy Heart Award! This involves working with the children and encouraging healthy choices and foods. The children have been busy making lots of different healthy lunchbox foods, and this week have made Fruit Kebabs, Popcorn and Pinwheel Wraps. They have really enjoyed both making and eating these foods!! Let us know if you have any ideas or recipes for healthy and easy lunchbox snacks, we always value family contribution.

We have been sewing new beanbags this week with the children and are really looking forward to playing with them. Beanbags are a great way of encouraging physical movement and promote both spatial and body awareness. Most of all they are FUN!!

The new garden is beautiful and the children have enjoyed getting in and getting their hands dirty. Lots of seeds and seedlings have been planted and we are exploring different things you can plant in - check out the table next to the computer - we have seeds planted in different containers! The garden will promote lots of thinking about sustainability, recycling and reusing everyday things from around the Kindergarten.

With the London Olympics coming up we are getting out and doing lots of physical activity outside and are planning an 'Olypmics Day' - watch this space!

 Enjoy checking out the photos from this term so far!
 Julie, Sapph, Vicki and Rachel.

The beautiful new garden!

Planting the first seeds - Radishes!

Transplanting plants from around the Kindergarten.

The teachers healthy morning tea - we are working on this too!!

Making Fruit Kebabs with Sapp - the children loved them and so simple to make!

Yummy Popcorn - and healthy too!!

Making Pinwheel Wraps!

Spreading the cream cheese for the Pinwheel Wraps

Filling bean bags!

Working together to fill the bean bags.

Our reused/recycled products - seed raising!

What Can We Plant Into?

Together with the children, we thought about the types of things we could plant into. We cut things out of magazines and brainstormed ideas for our portable garden!

The call then went out to our whaanau for creative containers for our garden and WOW what a great response we have. Here are some of the things that our families brought to plant in!

One of the grandmother's brought this already made for us!

Next step:

Planting into those awesome containers!

The PORTable Garden Project

We have entered in the Tui School Garden Challenge by Tui and Mitre 10 Mega!

We are currently in a temporary kindergarten building as we are lucky enough to have a new building being built to replace our old one!



We decided to make a portable garden with the children because we will not be here long!

 

We can take our portable garden with us.

We use sustainable practises in our garden.

 We utilise our guinea pigs ‘output’ and our worm farm ‘juice’ as well, we in turn will be sharing our produce with them.

We will be watering with watering cans and will mulch where possible.


Watch this space for our progression of our portable garden!

New Kindergarten Building...here we come!

 Wow! The whole kindergarten building was demolished by one digger on July 7th 2011.

 We all went to watch with our hard hats on! It was loud!

 Now it is nearly all gone!

 We've had a lot of demolition play since the big event!

 Here we are with the roof on!

There will be a lot of windows. It is not two storied but is high at the front to catch the sun!

We are expecting to be into our new building around mid December.

We have travelled the solar system

As we explore planets and the universe around us, aliens visited

We also travelled the solar system on our flying saucers.

Off to Pluto we flew. It took us a real long time to get there because we know that Pluto is the furthest planet away from the Sun.

Then off we flew to Jupiter where we explored the hot planet and all the volcanoes.

WWWWW next it was to Jupiter’s neighbor Saturn.

What great fun we had but we started to miss our Mum’s and Dad’s so home to Earth we flew.

Afternoon at the Rugby Field

We had some great fun last week visiting the rugby field! We had rugby matches and relay races. Then we got to visit the playground!

Photo Gallery-Term One

Making 'Stone Soup'!

                                  A volcanic eruption in the sandpit.

                                     Best mates having fun on the swing!

'Filling' up the bikes.

Playing music with te rakau/sticks.

Playing in the pink goo is fun, fun, fun!

We purchased some cool new 'buildings of the world' blocks this term with the money raised from the chalk toy catalogues we fundraised from at the end of last year! They are a great addition to our block area-thanks everyone for your support- you make our kindy great! 

We look forward to another great term!