Road Safety

We have been learning about Road Safety. It is very handy for when we have to cross the road to visit the library or go to assembly. This week we will be walking to swimming - we will walk on the house side of the footpath and watch out for sneaky driveways. Children in Kindle 2 only cross the road with an adult. This poem helps us remember what to do:

Discovery Time

At Discovery Time on Friday, these Kindle 2 children were very busy.

Welcome to Kindle 2 for 2014

Hello from Kindle 2. We have started the year with 11 children who are learning to be fantastic school boys and girls.

2014

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

Thursday 19th December was the last day of school for 2013. I hope everyone has a great holiday! See you on the 3rd of February 2014.

Our Visit to the Dunedin Botanic Gardens

Today we went to the Botanic Gardens. We left school at 10.30am and walked to the Gardens - it was a long walk for some of us. When we got there we had morning tea and a little play. Next, we got into groups and went with staff members from the Botanic Gardens to do some jobs. Kindle 2 went along a path and pulled out seedlings from Sycamore trees that shouldn't be growing in the Gardens. We got nearly a whole bucketful each. After that we went back to the information centre and bagged some food for the ducks. Mrs Dakers saw several children sampling the duck food for themselves, she suggested that it was probably more suitable for ducks than children! We went and fed the ducks with some of the food we had bagged. Some children got quite close to the edge of the pond. It wasn't deep, but we had no spare clothes with us - so children were asked to stay one large step back from the edge! The last thing we did was go back to the big tree near the band rotunda and have a picnic lunch and another play. Some children found the walk back to school absolutely exhausting. What a great day!

Production Practise

We have been practising hard for our end of year production - "Past - Present - Future: A night in the museum." It is a celebration of some of the learning related to our schoolwide overarching concept for the year. The Junior Team part of the show is about Dinosaurs. Teacher aide - Marie Hansen and Lucy's grandma - Mavis Turnbull made 120 dinosaur tails. Ellis Fibre donated the dacron to stuff the tails. Thank you so much for that!! Here are some photos of the Junior Team children practising with their tails on, so we could see how they would be on the night!