Our Trip to Howick Auto!!

We are off to Howick Auto and are all pretty excited about what we might see on our adventure out today.  As we have been discussing people and jobs in the neighbourhood, what better place to visit.  Mechanics are very important in keeping our community safe by fixing and servicing our vehicles and making them safe for us to drive and travel in.  Thanks to Dion, Mishaela's dad we got the grand tour of the workshop and we saw close up just how important their job is and did you know girls can do it too!!  We were shown how to check a cars brakes, take the wheels off (using a special nifty tool), how to use the special machine to lift the cars up of the ground to check underneath them, how to take an engine out, we got to see some dirty bad oil that needed to be changed and got a good look up close under the bonnet of the car and at the machine that reads the cars computer.  How cool is that!!  It's not often you get an opportunity to see what happens at a mechanics workshop or have a go at using their tools, we were very lucky people.  Lucky indeed, when we said a big "Thank you" to Dion at the end of our visit, he gave us all a goody bag to take away.  Back at Kindy their was lots of talk about the trip and we noticed in the playground, children were playing out what they had just seen and learnt, our kindy vehicles were getting their first full service and lots of wheels were being changed!!  Now they are totally safe for us to drive in, thank you Phoenix House,  I think we may just have some mechanics in the making!!!  What an awesome trip and learning experience today to extend our learning on jobs in the community.

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