More Triathlon snaps

Triathlon day

Our Triathlon was great fun with 3 different age group races. If you have pictures of your children you'd like to share please do bring them in to Kindergarten. A big thank you to our committee for all their effort and organistion and to the many kind sponsors and groups in our community who made it all possible.

Sea week Puppet show

Kathy Lawson from Animated soundz came in to present her latest puppet show about creatures from the sea. We'l be sure ot keep our own sea puppets out so our performers can do their own shows.

Do Crocodiles eat Grandmas?

Christmas is coming

Working Bee

Happy Birthday Bridget

CHB Dance Centre Visits

Children's day

Korowai

A big thank you to Nikki and her whānau for the beautiful Korowai.

Solar Eclipse

Music Term 4

New Slides

New Playground

The new playground build has started and Aaron has made huge progress over Easter. Unfortunately we lost many of our children's toys, thomas the tank engine, zoob, mobilio, duplo, paints, hammers, scissors, paper, two large boxes of puzzles, teachers books and even our old yellow vacuum cleaner and leaf blower when a shed got broken into, leaving us all feeling gutted when we should have been rejoicing. Now the long task of going through the inventory, to find all the missing items, finding replacements (and some where gifts that can never be replaced) starts and the expense of our now upgraded security.
Luckily we still have our beautiful new playground, some great weather and our joyful children to lift our spirits again.

Playground upgrade

The playground upgrade is getting into full swing so expect to see big changes when we get back from term break. We've also found a few interesting artifacts which we've used to strengthen our links with past children at St. Josephs. Meanwhile the children have been busy helping Aaron with the start of the build.

Bay Cities Symphonic band

With around 20 pieces the band played on despite the gusty breeze. The combination of band rotunda and playground made for a great day out for the families who went. So watch out in the CHB mail for your next opportunity to see them perform. I especially loved the three-four year old marching and dancing to song after song right up next to the band, obviously enjoying the music as much as I was.

Fire Engine Parade

Lots of familiar faces at the parade on Saturday, for those who missed it we videoed it and watched it again at kindergarten today.

Ukulele

We've hired a class set of ukulele for three weeks. Ngaire Shand (who used to teach Nadine) came and gave us our initial instruction and since then we've practised our c and f chords every day with even a sneak peek at G7.

We've been learning some names for our fingers, Thumb, pointer, tallman, ringman and pinkie, names for parts of the ukulele, head, neck, body, frets, strings, tuning keys, and how to play the c and the f chord. I noticed we were getting pretty quick at swapping so sometimes we even have a go at song were we have to swap from one chord to the other.

We've been learning to play fast and slow, loud and soft as well.

Since Ngaire made us up a song we've also been making up our own songs and have noticed the children have been creating their own songs as well. In addition to as our more formal session for everybody we also have less formal opportunities to play for those who are interested, with a few extra instruments and the option to dance as well.

Getting ready for the parade

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