Working interdependently

This morning the children made the most of the sunshine playing outside in the sandpit, after a period of time Gael noticed a group of children working interdependently in the sandpit to achieve a common goal. Because the children looked so busy Gael was intregued to see what was happening so she went over to investigate a little further. 

As the children worked together they explained they were digging a big hole. James and Opal were very proud of the hard work they had been doing and they were very excited to show Gael how deep their hole was, James happily stood by the concrete measuring how deep the hole was on himself, wow up to his knee! After a short period of time Isaac noticed that because the hole was getting so large and so deep beside the concrete they needed to take precautions to keep the other children at kindergarten safe. Off he went to the shed, quickly returning with our bunch of cones, he then began lining them up on the edge of the concrete beside the sandpit to alert other children of the danger. This is great he rawe tēnā!

As the children work together to achieve a common goal, they use their large motor skills as the dig the sand, they showed the habit of mind perservering with difficulty as they continued to dig the wet heavy sand from the sandpit, taking them some time to get the big deep hole dug. Another skill that was shown as the children worked together was manaakitanga/ care and respect as they recognised that it was now unsafe and then worked to minimise the risk to the other children around them. Manaakitanga is a skill we value highly at Geraldine Kindergarten. Keep it up , kia kaha ki tāu Mahi.