How tall are you?

Measuring with ribbon, we were able to find out the different heights of each of our Phoenix House children...after recording with colourful ribbon we measured and wrote the initials and height of the child on the label. A fun way of introducing early mathematical concepts, children are able to revisit the activity and find out who they're taller or shorter than.

The Great Big Easter Egg Hunt!!

What excitement as the Easter bunny visited Kindy today and dropped yummy chocolate easter eggs all over the backyard!!!

Butterfly Garden Trip!!

We had the most amazing time going to visit such a special butterfly garden at

St Kentigern College.

Due to our current interest in butterflies and caterpillars this was a great way to extend the children's thoughts and ideas by learning new facts and new ways in which we can take care of our own swan plant at KCC.

We had lots of wonderful students from St Kents take us around the huge gardens and show us all the butterflies and caterpillars they had, we even saw a whole lot of chrysalis that will soon turn into some beautiful butterflies.

We even each had a turn of holding a real caterillar on our hands and inspect them up close, this was pretty special to experience.

Not only the excitement of the butterfly garden we began our trip by catching the public bus from Howick which we all thought was pretty cool and couldn’t wait to get on!

Butterfly Garden on PhotoPeach                                            

What an amazing trip we had Thank you to everyone who came and also our special helpers!

fishing Line

fishing Line on PhotoPeach

#BACKINGTHEBLACKCAPS SINCE 2009

It was a great experience  and wonderful opportunity to have fun with black caps in our neighborhood at my friend's place.  We had chat and kids had match with them. It was an unforgettable  moment for all of us. GO THE BLACK CAPS...................

Black out day - go the Black Caps!!

Black Out Day!! on PhotoPeach

Learning to Measure

Last week Bex made us a leap frog resource...You need to hold the frog and jump as far as you can, then we measure the distance and record each persons name and distance on our chart. This is a fun way of introducing basic maths concepts, learning about distance, measurement and building on our gross motor skills...You were all excellent little leaping frogs :)