Gallery

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Ephemeral art – temporary art made with natural resources.

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Supporting children’s interest in fairies.

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A group art project.

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Messy play.

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August 2017 – Pyjama /Onesie Day!

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Everyone dressed in Pyjamas and onesies for the whole day!

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Carpentry in pyjamas.

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Painting in pyjamas.

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A Tiger Onesie for the special day!

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Bathing the baby dolls.

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We harvested our corn.

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And then roasted it, delicious!!

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We harvested our carrots.

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They were quite small…

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Looking after our garden.

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Exploring the paints.

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A Graduation Ceremony.

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Creating a self portrait.

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After sketching the face, colour is applied.

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A masterpiece for our portrait wall.

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Our Portrait Gallery.

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An engineer at work!

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Planting our herbs.

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Preparing the pot.

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Designing a fairy garden.

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Putting the fairy garden together.

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The children’s creation – a fairy garden.

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Sharing news at mat time.

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Water play and colour mixing.

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Making roads in the sandpit.

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Celebrating children’s contributions, with beautiful gallery walls.

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Painting leaves for our winter tree.

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June 2017 Grandparents Day – Celebrating Matariki with whanau.

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Grandparents shared the morning with us playing and exploring the kindergarten together.

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We made a feast for morning tea.

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The children showed off their learning journals.

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Quiet time with a book.

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Creativity at the carpentry table.

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Special moments together.

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Everyone goes for a ride in the makeshift car….

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Friends.

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A provocation table, providing inspiration to draw and paint bugs and little creatures.

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Muffins for morning tea.

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The glue guns are a useful tool at the carpentry table.

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Making literacy visible.

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A birthday at mat time.

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Learning about life cycles

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Gloop – a sensory experience.

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Gloop with friends!!

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A picnic with friends

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Looking at our worms up close

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Feeding our worms

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Our wormery

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Celebrating Diwali

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Diwali

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October 2016. I was invited to speak at several early learning schools in Japan.

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I spoke about the New Zealand Early Childhood Curriculum – Te Whariki which is the foundation on which our teaching and learning philosophy is based.

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Visiting the New Zealand Embassy.

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Speaking to educators and parents about the New Zealand education system.

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The play grounds in some centres provided many challenges!.

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Meeting wonderful teachers in Japan.