20 December

Only 5 more days until christmas! Another year over, and what a great year it has been! Full of fun, excitement, creativity, investigations, excursions, laughter, water play, messy play and loads loads more! We will be closed from the 23rd December until the 4th January so we will see you all after a well deserved christmas break! Have a fantastic holiday and have heaps of fun with your wonderful children!

Sooty gets a loving pat from George and Georgia

Kat brought her dog Sky in for the Weka children to help give her a wash

The Weka room had a water day - the children LOVED it!

We built a rock wall

We made yummy biscuits for our christmas party

And santa came to our christmas party - He arrived on a digger!!!!

We have been making puppets

And using the new drill!

And making meringues!

And decorating our christmas tree

And we had a visit from some wonderful people, teaching us to use african drums!

We were really good at keeping the beat

We also had a Bob the builder day!

We built an awesome frame house

JoJo really looked the part!

And then we had late snack in the finished frame house!

last day of November!

 Great Balancing Millie!

 More science experiments in the Kahu room

Where is Jed hiding??

November 23

Water Play!

I'm a big girl now!

Come out, come out Jed!

Happy 3rd Birthday Summer!

carpentry queen

carpentry king

Concentrating very hard at making pom poms

The finished product

At last, the paper mache dinosaur is complete!

Thursday 17 Nov

Wow, it's been a while since the last update so here is a bunch of photos showing you what we have been doing here at Oanaka @ Riverside over the past few weeks!

The Kahu room got a new piano!

Painting paper mache dinosaurs

Cleaning paua shells

Making paua shell decorations

science experiements - using vinegar and baking soda to blow up a balloon!

Practicing number recognition and writing

making our own sandwiches for afternoon tea - with our own lettuce from the garden!

And helping our friends make theirs

some of the kahu children are helping a  kea kid accross the plank

Washing the boats

We said Happy 3rd birthday to William - who has now transitioned through to the Kahu room!

Catching bubbles!

Testing out the mud pit

What does it feel like Georgia?

Finding little hidey holes!

Yay! I can sit up now!!

The Weka children are great friends!

We said happy 1st birthday to Eli

Checking out our profile books!

We also said happy 1st birthday to Kaitlyn!

More Bubbles!!

Helping entertain the Weka children!