Welcome to 2011

Welcome back to 2011.
We hope you all had safe and happy holidays and look forward to hearing your news. A warm welcome to our new families and their whanau and we look forward to meeting you and getting to know you.
We are enjoying a quiet start to the term as our families return. This is a special time for us as we are building relationships with our new children and families and renewing our relationships with existing children and their whanau. As it is quieter it gives our new children time to really settle and get to know the routines and make new friends. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to talk to staff, we are always avaliable.
Thank you
Ally, Abby, Steph, Trina and Jo

FishnChip Evening

FishnChip Evening At Grasslands Kindergarten

We had a fantastic turn out from our families, extended whanau and children. It was a great evening just to relax and enjoy each others company. We were lucky with the weather and it was awesome to meet members of your family and make connections. Thanks to everyone for their donation and for taking the time to come and have dinner with us. A special thank you to Brendon for the blessing!

Dental Checks at Kindergarten

Today we had the lovely dental nurses come in and give us our fluoride treatment. It was so easy. We sat in the chair, they wiped our teeth dry and then painted on the fluoride. It tasted like bubble gum or so they said it wasn't quite as nice as they said! We couldn't eat our kai for half an hour afterwards, so when it was kai time we tucked in Yummy. The fluoride treatment is part of a dental programme to try and help prevent dental decay. The children all got to take home a toothbrush and toothpaste. Thank you to our lovely dental nurses.

They had lovely things to say about our kindergarten and the children too saying it was one of the best they had been into and had received wonderful support from the staff, children and families...we rock!!!!

Dinosaur Muffins

This morning Kaylee asked if we could make Dinosaur muffins. We discussed what might be in the recipe. Milk, flour, chocolate, sprinkles, a little bit of butter, sugar and dinosaur eggs.
We talked about where we would we get dinosaur eggs from. Not the lake, not the garden, not the museum and not the warehouse. We rung the supermarket and we were very lucky that the supermarket had dinosaur eggs in stock! Jo and several children got very busy making the dinosaur muffins. They were just delicious!

Dinosaurs

The children have had a growing interest in Dinosaurs over the past fortnight. This has been sparked by several children's visits to the Dinosaur exhibit at the Hamilton museum over the term break. At kindergarten we have been hunting for bones, hunting for dinosaur eggs, excuvating fossils, painting and drawing dinosaurs and using them in our dramatic play. We have also just had a request to make dinosaur muffins! We will let you know how they turn out!

Toasting Marshmallows

Today was one of our children's last days at kindergarten, he made a request to toast marshmallows so this afternoon we set up a fire pit in the sandpit to cook them. Its loads of fun plus a great hands on experience when it comes to learning about fire safety.
I think we were all marshmallowed out by the end of the day!

Bird Houses

Today the boys were busy building bird houses at the woodwork table then brought them into paint. At our end mat time we made some bird feeders out of the pine cones in the nature corner and put them in the tree. Hopefully the birds find them before the rain does....we will keep you posted!