Christmas Party 2018

Thank You to everyone who came along to our Children's Christmas Party for 2018. 

The Bouncy castle and Face Painter were yet again a hit with the children and of course we had a visit from Santa who gave out presents in the grotto. 

Thank you to our Committee and parent volunteers for helping to organize and set up the party with an extra special Thanks to Laura and Summer, our fundraisers!!

The raffles were a great success again this year and bring in a bit of excitement and fun. Thanks to everyone who donated items for the hampers. 

A HUGE thanks to Susannah (Sam's Mum) from Cockle Bay Cake shop for the generous donation of the gorgeous Rudolph cake (and mini cupcakes for morning tea) and to Natasa (Wolf and Roman's Mum) for her continued generosity with providing Hair Salon vouchers. 

Congratulation's To Our winner's:

1. Jess Kotushevski (Ollie's Mum)
2. Dailie Stephens (Lachlan and Ava's Mum)
3. Nicola Treanor (Caleb's Mum)
4. Mel Lucas (Cake winner) (Teacher) 

MERRY CHRISTMAS and WISHING YOU ALL A HAPPY AND SAFE START TO 2019

A pool in the sandpit

What better way is there to enjoy the sunshine than creating our very own pool in the sandpit.

Te Kakano Trip for Christmas

Today our four year olds went for a trip to the Marae, Arts Centre and Library. Each stage of the trip was planned around part of the New Zealand version of the Christmas carol "The 12 days of Christmas" 

Here we are waiting on the steps of the Marae to welcome our guests. We have our cards with the words the  "The Kiwi 12 Days of Christmas"in our hands. Our guests arrived and were formally welcomed on to the Marae and then we sang the first four verses of our carol together.

The Marae was set up with pictures showing the items from the different verses of the carol 

Then it was time for some morning tea under the pohutukawa  tree on the lawn.  Gabriel and Lachlan are enjoying their kai 

We then moved on to the Uxbridge Arts Centre for a craft experience. Alyssa is concentrating hard as she works on the Pohutukawa blossom craft.  

Kai and Louie are showing off their flowers in the making. 

The last stop was the library where we enjoyed listening to some stories and joining in with some action songs. Jack is enjoying listening the story - it has our old friend Little Kiwi in it!

Zoeya and Alyssa are joining in with one of the action songs at the library. 

Here we are with a very special visitor who just happened to arrive at the end of the Library Session.

Meri Kirihimete Everybody!!

Christmas Bookmarks

Today we made some Christmas bookmarks using coloured paper, pastels and stickers. Those tamariki who wished to participate chose the colour of their base and then decorated them. When the decoration was completed we laminated them so they will last and decorated them with ribbon.

Peeling carrots for our carrot juice

We have been learning all about the different types of fruits and vegetables we can use to make juice. We have made apple juice and lemon juice so far and our tamariki from that have given lots of suggestions about what we can make next.  With a big bag of carrots Deanne had brought at the supermarket, it was time to get juicing again.  We started by first washing our hands, then we had to peel the carrots.......

Peeling carrots can be tricky and we talked about how to hold the carrot and peeler safely and to peel away from our body.  It required a lot of concentration and co-ordination as both hands have a job to do. Well done everybody! I wonder what this juice will taste like?  I wonder what colour it is going to be? 

Apple Juice!

A visit from Andy at the local library!

When the phone rang, it was Andy from the Howick library asking if we would like a story time today?  Well, of course!!  We just love special visitors at Uxbridge!!  Andy has visited us before and we remember him from our Te Kakano trips.  He is a great story teller and once again he entertained us with stories, songs and bubbles - what fun!  Thanks Andy.

Two trees, how lucky are we!

With our Outdoor tree looking beautiful, it was time to set up one inside.  This one however was a new tree we had just brought, it came in a box with instructions and colour codes on all the branches!  What a puzzle!!  Lucky we had some great helpers to figure it out.  Piece by piece it came together!

Then for the decorations..... These have been individually made with our own special photo and we each found a special spot for it to hang on the tree.

Decorating our Christmas tree

With the anticipation of Christmas nearing, there was a lot of excitement as we pulled the tree out to decorate.  We found the perfect spot in our vege garden for it to go...... a little tinsel, some hanging balls and decorations, two guards on deck and a very important Santa Stop Here sign was carefully placed.  I wonder if he might come visit on party day?