Cricket Fever on PhotoPeach

Busy Doctors Office

"At the doctors, the sick persons have a nap" (Kaide)

"I'm ringing their mummy" (Zane)

"Agents, calling all agents...I'm calling into the speaker" (Malikah)

"The injection takes something bad out and you have to wait for it to get better" (Kaide) 

"I'm just going to get you some strawberry medicine" (Kaide) 

"The doctor listens to your heart from the back too" (Kaide) 

"I'm signing out all the patients we've done" (Lachlan) 

Chalk Painting

This wonderful art experience is something that all children enjoy participating in..it is a fun way to bring art into the outdoors. All it take is a few sticks of chalk, crush them up and add some water and then away you go with your paintbrush :) 

Measuring volume

Measuring volume! We filled different household items with water and then measured out the water to see how much each item could hold. I questioned children, which do you think would hold more "The......" or "The.....?" We spoke about what other liquids we could measure out, "juice", "milk" were a few of the answers I received. Everyday activities and experimenting with real objects helps children to understand measurement concepts.

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!