Challenging Carpenters!

When we get new pieces of wood from the sawmill the children are like bees to a honey pot! Little groups are madly industrious with independent projects. Today we were surprised to watch Caylin come scooting around the path and take a jump over a wooden ramp that was made by Reuben and Alex! The ramp had strength and safely raised for Caylin to have a wide grin and state, "Did you see that! That was great fun!" Boys in play! They love to try new ideas and we were amazed at the ingenuity of Reuben and Alex's idea and the skills that Caylin had to successfully ride up and allow the wheels to fly and land safely again on the other side (on concrete too!) We had an idea too! The skatepark! Could we possibly organise a trip to the skatepark! Reuben, Alex, Caylin and I got together and listed what we needed if we follow through with a trip to Kennedy Park;

We need; scooters, hekmets, roller skates, roller blades, shin pads, socks, knee pads, elbow pads, skate boards, and water!

We may need bandaids too!!!!

So look out for a notice in the near future! Ka mutu pea- how great and wonderful!

Welcome Back to Term 3 2013

We hope that everyone had a fantastic break away. Last term we sadly said ka kite to Gael which mean there are changes in the teaching team for Term 3 Sandra is relieving and will be full time until a permanent teacher is appointed. It is so great to have Sandra with us because she knows the children already and she is quite excited to document the stories that was in Gael's group of children. So keep picking up your child's book to read any new stories and please feel free to add any comments, pictures or even talk about how your child is doing with any of us. As a consequence of 3 full time teachers Liz joins us on a Tuesday and Friday. Many thanks for supporting the Kindergarten and it was great to see everyone again today. Don't forget our facebook page is up and running! It is with the most enormous gratitude to the Tilsley family for caring for our heihei(hens) over the term break. We heard the 'cock-a doodle-do' from the rooster today and the 3 of them all preening their feathers in the warm sunshine! They were happy! Kia ora!

Winter Lights Festival

Just a reminder of the Winter Lights on Friday night at 5pm. The Home&Kindergarten group will have hot soup and sausages available as we gather together to walk around the town to look at the wonderful lights around the town. If you are around please come down and enjoy the evening with us - if you haven't already had a peek look at the Kindergarten at night come and see! It is amazing! Ka kite -see you there! Louise

Trialing Facebook

At this stage we are not going to put children photos on (this may happen further down the track, but permission will be requested prior). At this stage we are just trialing it for the use of information to pass on messages. Please search us on facebook - Geraldine Kindergarten, be sure not to select the 2012 Scarecrow Trail. We look forward to updating this to keep in touch with you next term

Last day treat

What a treat it was on the last day of term two to take all of the children to the movies as part of our Nohonga Tahitanga Iwa-establishing a sense community friday walks. The children had been counting down the sleeps until they could watch Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin. We all snuggled up with blankets and the children were quickly engrossed in the movie. They could be heard with peels of laughter which quickly became infectious.

Farewell luncheon to Gael

I have to say a huge thank you to all the families of the kindergarten for the wonderful luncheon that you all turned out for today. I was absolutely blown away by today and especially the recipe book that I will treasure and I know it will become one of my favourites.

Pizza making

There was great excitment beause yesterday the children had made cheese and today it was time to make the pizza using that cheese. Ashleigh had a recipe for a pizza base using yeast and it was quite a procees for it to raise and be kneaded twice. Omnce it was ready the children spread some sauce on and then added, pine apple, ham and cheese. There was a de

licous fragrance comimg from the kitchen as they cooked. And the best thing was they tasted just as yummy.