Child's Choice

One of the Can Do activities on our Reading Activity Cards is 'Child's Choice'. Here are some of the things we choose to do...P.S. This is a telescope....

Soccer Coaching

Stuart from Football South has been doing soccer coaching with the Junior Team. Kindle 2 have their session from 9:30 - 10:00am on a Thursday. The children are developing great skills and having fun at the same time...

Play, Toys and Games: Then and Now

Today we visited Toitū Otago Settlers Museum and the Dunedin Chinese Garden with Kindle 1. We left school on the bus at 9.45am. Sara and Petra met us at the door opposite Queen's Gardens and we walked through the museum keeping our eyes open for toys in the display cases. We sat down in front of the settlers cottage and Petra talked to us about the kinds of games and toys that children played with in the early days of Dunedin. We did a toy treasure hunt in our groups, then we got to play with some toys and dress ups in the old bus station part of the museum. Next we went into the classroom and Sara showed us some toys we could make.....dragon shadow puppet, peg doll, thaumatrope (spinning disc with a different picture on each side), and a bilboquet (ball and cup game). Each group made a bilboquet. After that we visited the Chinese Garden and made a kind of Chinese hacky with feathers and had a try at kicking it. What a beautiful place to visit..... Then it was time to catch the bus back to school, just in time for lunch. Thanks to the parents that came to help on the trip, it was much appreciated.

Discovery

Children making the most of their Friday Discovery Time..

George Street Normal School Cross Country

Today we had the school cross country. The Year One girls raced at 11.10am and the Year One boys at 11.15am. All the children did their best and everyone finished the race. Thank you to the parents who came to support us. Here we are waiting for our buddies from the Senior Team to walk us down to the North Ground (Alhambra Rugby Ground).
and waiting for the races to start.

Year One & Two Poetry Gathering

Three children represented Kindle 2 at the annual George Street Normal School Year One and Two Poetry Gathering. Well Done!

Takeaway Tea Night

The Takeaway Tea Night was a great way for parents to get to know some new people and catch up with others. One of the children in Kindle 2 said it was 'the best night ever'. Amazing how the simple things can be the most fun..... coming to school to have dinner and then a play with classmates.