Curriculum Design: Group Learning Focus: We should work together for the wellbeing of everyone.: Term 3 Week 5

Thursday, August 24, 2017

Term 3 Week 5

It has indeed been a week of successes ... on Friday night @ the Polyfest Art awards our Polyfest Art - He Taonga, No Te Whenua. Me Hoki Ano, Ki Te Whenua. What is given by the Land, should return to the Land - Received 1st place in the Early Childhood Painting & Print category.

Then onto our Polyfest Kapahaka performance on Tue @ ILT Stadium Southland.

This year we introduced our first Filipino song, in honour of all our fabulous Filipino families and our multicultural setting at Winton Kindergarten. “Tong Tong Tong” tells the story of the crab…so delicious to eat – but hard to catch – because he bites!

Our second waiata, “Purerehua” a soothing song about the Butterfly, continuing with our Life Cycle of the Butterfly Project at the beginning of the year and our ever growing Ecological Identity – watching and anticipating as the caterpillar changed before our eyes into the most beautiful butterfly.

We finish our on-stage debut with Tu Tirimai nga iwi – coming together – standing as one – as we learn to care for, protect, and uphold the Natural World around us.
The Performing Arts provides such an array of learning opportunites ... cultural awareness along with movement, gestures, memory, singing, emotion & expression supported within such a cohesive group.

Gosh we ALL felt soo proud. If you haven't already ... check out the live performance video on our Winton Kindergarten Closed Group Facebook page & also on the Winton Southland Facebook page.

We even managed to fit in a photo shoot with Robyn Edie from the Southland Times after our performance. Check out this weeks 'The Eye'!!!!

After all our sustained multicultural 'Performing Arts' performance it was off to Queens Park to enjoy the sun & share some much needed 'fuel' before heading to the museum to show & share our prize winning artwork with EVERYONE. Pop into the museum if you are in Invercargill - all Polyfest artwork will continue to be displayed in the museum until Nov 2017. A HUGE thanks to ALL our Parents who came along - those that took time off work, took time off from calving & lambing - those that made the time to come along & join us - THANK-YOU, THANK-YOU, THANK-YOU from The Teaching Team.

A BIG tks to Jess our official Polyfest photography

Nek minute ... What's this? We needed to celebrate & what better way than sharing some celebratory cupcakes ... kindly made by Karen (our gorgeous Admin Support person). They were DELICIOUS!!!

Wow ... how significant all our Polyfest contributions have been. This quote comes to mind ...

And we do.

We plan to invite EVERYONE along to a Celebration of Learning evening, @ Kindy, before the end of term - to share ALL the significance of ALL our Polyfest contributions. Watch this space ...

Winton Library storyteller 'Luke from the Library' popped in today (Thur 24 Aug). Luke even shared a Lion story with us - something Gus Tisdall could relate to sooo well after his visit to the Auckland Zoo last week .... ROAR!!!!!! What an awesome story!!! Tks Luke.

The Bean House continues on from last week. We've noticed something ... there's been NO rain for the beans to grow. Why do plants need water to grow? Hmmm ... what a provoking question. Share your thoughts with us in the comments! This resource below may help with answering our water problem & it even shares a scientific experiment to do @ home!

And just before the end of the day we got an opporutnity to create a 'special' Kindy All Black card - for Zara Mitchell's BIG brothers Cooper & Henry to share @ the All Blacks rugby breakfast in Dunedin tomorrow before the 2nd Bledisloe Cup game on Saturday.