A little bit about our Skype programme

http://youtu.be/TRG2-acWkMQ

The show

Stars in their eyes

Our visit to Santa's Grotto in Howick

santa Grotto 2013 on PhotoPeach

The tallest helmet in town

Beautiful dressups

Yesterday Natalie, who used to come to Botany Downs Kindergarten, came in with a bag of dressup clothes she had grown out of. Natalie, thank you so much. They will be well used.

Saying goodbye to Sarah

Our student Sarah has been with us two days a week for three years during her teacher training.  Now that is complete she is leaving us to get a REAL (paid) teaching job.  Sarah, thank you for your contributions to our kindergarten ... and all the best for the future.

Tree Adventurers

Tree Adventurers on PhotoPeach

Bubble Cake

Celebrating Mickey's birthday

Mickey 2013 on PhotoPeach

Jayden shows his Nana (Popo) around kindergarten via SKype

Isla just skyped her Grandma in Texas and showed her around kindergarten

We love it when families stay at kindergarten

Making our own games

Our trip to Snow Planet

Now that's one way to clean out the wood bin!

Bungee play

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNhmDsUn65U&feature=youtu.be

A little block building

A little block building on PhotoPeach

Taking Franklin for a swim and a walk

More Halloween photos

More Halloween photos on PhotoPeach

Halloween 2013

Halloween 2013 on PhotoPeach

Boil cauldron boil

Amber serenades her friends

A snow day at kindergarten

Elena sings Twinkle Twinkle Little Moon

The chainsaw boys

Following our woodwork with Steve and the felling of trees in the street the boys were inspired to do some tree felling of their own

Perceptual motor programme

Our first Herman the German

There was great excitement as Tanya and the children prepared Herman the German for baking. There are so many flavours to be had ... we decided to have apple in our cake. After a long wait for it to come out of the oven it was cut ready for everyone to take a piece home complete with the QR code instructions on how to make a Herman the German.

Transporting the worm wee

With summer fast approaching ... and gardens being planted our worm wee has been in high demand. Mason and Dylan transported the freshly bootled wee to the top of the hill in the trolley. It's always good to have great help!!

Process cooking

We often use this book to do process cooking whereby the children make individual mixtures from the recipes to make their own product ... in this case ... cheese puffs.

A very cool baking idea

Thanks to Mel for sharing this. It is such a cool idea THANK YOU

Starting our creative wood designs with Steve

We feel lucky to be able to work with Steve, our rustic wood creative designer once again. Having accessed some logs it was time to think of some designs. The children took to their clipboards and pens to present Steve with some ideas. Some creative designs for outdoor seats emerged. You will have to watch this space to see how they develop.

The children learn a little about sawing with Steve

Kate accompanies our birthday singing

Making playdough for the week ahead

And I'm twinging, twinging, twinging

"We're making icecream, chocolate icecream"

A little bit of sand and an icecream scoop is all that is needed to start an icecream factory according to Benji and Mason.

Still busy making traps

Making the most of using the iPads

Franklin turns 8

Breakfast for lunch

Wacky Wednesday ... on Thursday!

Franklin's 8th birthday

Making & icing a birthday cake for our turtle Franklin's 8th birthday

Watching Cross Country races at Botany Downs School

Process cooking -making individual scones

2tbsp flour, a cube of butter, a spoonful of cheese, a little milk, mix, pop in a greased patty pan, write your name in the maths grid, cook for 10 minutes or so @ 400. YUM! I did it all myself

Oh, how we LOVE cardboard boxes

Showing our swinging abilities - Elena, Meleane and Veronique

Off we go!

Earthquake drill

Off to assembly at Botany Downs School