The children at Uxbridge are exploring, experimenting and testing out ideas about reading, writing and mathematics as part of their everyday experience at their ECE. Today a friend was very busy writing and making marks with the chalk. There was alot of chats about letters and the sounds they make, and learning about our upper and lower case letters. It is great to bring literacy outdoors where the children can use their gross motor skills to explore using the chalk.
Today we had lots of fun experimenting with mixing colours using the water paints and mini easel.
The sun was shining, it was so great to see the children painting with each other alongside. Drawing on a easel lets the children explore a different perspective as well as being able to hold their paint brush at a different angle as the make strokes with the paint. There was alot of conversation about colour and how to make secondary colours by mixing.
This morning as part of our learning about Matariki, we visited the Howick Library for some waiata and stories. We were very excited to see our friend Andy and Leanne who had lots of fun things ready for us. The pukapuka that we listened to were The little kiwi's Matariki and Twinkle twinkle Little eyes. We were very impressed with Andy's beautiful singing and his ukelele playing, we happily sung along as we knew some of the words, followed by some dancing and actions to the Matariki Macarena, a kindy favourite. At the end of the session Andy had organised a special treat, some Matariki star wands for us to take with us, what a lovely suprise. Thank you to the Howick library for having us, we always love being invited to these events, and gain so much learning and experience by being involved in the community.
