Matariki Activities

We made beautiful, colourful, Matariki beaded stars to hang in and decorate our classroom with....

YOGA

As part of our 'Physical Active' focus...last week we had a special visit from Michelle a yoga teacher who came in to do some fun kids yoga with us. What an awesome experience!! Michelle did some breathing techniques with us and then took us on a pirate adventure. We did the yoga moves throughout the experience as we scrubbed the deck, climbed the ladder, set the sail and looked out for treasure island. We pretended to be like a still rock, a wobbling jellyfish, snappy crab and bubble blowing fishy's. Such a fun way of introducing yoga to our Phoenix House Children and trying out a new way of exercising and keeping ourselves healthy and fit!

Matariki Star Bickies

Scoop, Measure, Pour, Mix, Roll, Cut!!...we made Matariki star biscuits this week at kindy and they were delish, we had them with fruit for morning tea, yummmmy!

Bird feeder fun

We have so many birds in our backyard that live in the big tree in the middle of the playground..we decided it could be a fun idea to make some little bird feeders to give our bird friends a snack. 

KCC Wharf

There has been a big interest in fishing rods lately and lots of Phoenix house children have been making their own rods..today we made some fish to catch from the playground wharf, what a fun Friday game..the children absolutely loved it and used the resource for hours catching hundreds of fish, perhaps we could extend this interest and get a fisherman to bring in some real fish to show us, fillet and maybe even eat :) 

Spencer - "I haven't caught anything, just had a few bites and lost my bait" 

Adam - "Bex is cutting up some kahawai, I'm gonna go get some!" 

Cannon - "look I caught a whale and a pufferfish, pufferfish are yellow!" 

Brrrrrrrrr winters here!!

Look at all of the ice and frost on our playground...it's definitely scarf, hat and gloves season!!

Meet Master Splinter

This week we have had a new addition to the Phoenix House family....our new class pet rat!! He is so cute, fluffy and friendly. He needs cuddles everyday and lucky we have lots of little friends to show him lots of LOVE! 

He is brown and white with brown eyes and a cute little pink button nose. He loves to be held and loves pats from the Phoenix house children. He needs rat food and water and he cleans himself everyday.

We have named him Master Splinter after the Master rat in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles :)...We love our new class pet

Madison - "I love him!"

Maia - "He is quite little"

Kyla - "Hes got little ears and  a long tail and he is so fluffy!" 

Evan - "I love his name!"

Nathan J - "I like his cage because the rat is in there"