Chicken Love - Goldie, Suzy and Nugget

Our chickens are growing at a rapid pace and getting bigger every day. Over the past couple of weeks we have enjoyed many cuddles - for some this is something they have done many times before and lots of children show confidence with our new baby pets - for others it is something new. Some children prefer just to watch and some are a bit unsure but try it anyway. Their fluff is so soft buy their little feet are a bit tickly so it can be a weird feeling. Our chickens are already getting feathers and growing a bit to big for too many cuddles - We love to watch them when they have a run around though. 

Many children put name suggestions forward for our chickens and we pulled them out of a hat....Goldie, Suzy and Nugget were the winners and everyone thought these names were great!

 

Glorious paint

It was a big mess, no paper required kind of afternoon! Many friends have a big interest in the feeling of paint on their hands and arms so what better way to do it then to just rub the paint all over the table. What a great sensation. We wrote our name and drew pictures and then scribbled them away and made some more. We made the sounds and patterns of the wild weather outside. 

Kind Faces

 Look in the mirror and what do you see - do you see someone kind?....hey it's me. 

With our Kindness tree in play with our thoughts and ideas at the moment we are talking a lot about how we can look after ourselves, after each other and after our kindy. 

We took the time to look at our kind faces and our kind smiles and to think about who we are kind to and what we do that is kind. Creating a positive learner identity is an important way for the tamariki to view themselves and taking the time to reflect on how we are and can be kind was a warm and fuzzy way to do this. 

We also thought about our friends and family and reflected on some of the kind things they do for us. 

" I am kind to Penelope - I play babies with her" - Lucy

"I am kind to my Dad and give him cuddles" - Rylee

                                                 " I am kind to baby Alice with hugs" - Penelope

Claudia ad Maddie painted each other - "We are kind to each other because we play together" they both said. 

"I am kind to my Mum and Dad because I go to bed good" - Scottie

"I am kind to my brother because I feed him food" - Claudia

"My Mum is kind to me because she brought me a Magazine" - Maddie

" I am kind to my teachers because I hug them" - Zoe

"I am kind to all of my friends and to Aria because I hug people" Gemma

Magical Unicorns

 Today Gemma and Aria were on the monkey bars and Laura asked if they were monkey's. "No" Came the reply "We are unicorns" and then after a moments thought "We need horns"

This led to lots of friends deciding that they wanted to have unicorn horns too. 

We made our horns by choosing a piece of colored paper and decorating it using paint, crayons, glue an glitter. Once our horns were dry we rolled them into a cone shape a secured them with sellotape. Finally Nikki punched holes in each side and threaded through elastic to keep them on. 

Everybody had lots of fun being magical unicorns both in the playground and dancing to music downstairs. 

The kindness tree

 Acts of Kindness, watch me bloom!

A Kindness Tree is a creative and beautiful way to encourage acts of kindness. This week we have started to talk with the tamariki about what it means to be kind, how we can look after one another, ourselves and our lovely kindy.  Each act of kindness is going to earn a special leaf, that will be placed on the tree.  The more acts of kindness, the more our tree will grow!

The team got to work to create our wonderful tree.  Nikki drew the outline and then we painted it brown.

We then gained the children's idea's on what they thought it meant to be kind

Our tree is starting to grow already, we have some wonderful children showing acts of kindness.  Our first recipients have been, Sidney, Leyla, Cohen, Claudia and Chloe A.  Well done friends xx

We can't wait to see over the coming weeks how big it will get.

Celebrating Holi - the Festival of colours!

Holi is Hindu festival known as the "Festival of Colours” and we celebrate Holi in March. It marks the end of winter in India and welcomes the spring season. In addition to marking the arrival of spring, Holi also celebrates fertility, colour, love, and the triumph of good over evil.  Holi is the most vibrant of all Hindu festivals and is celebrated with the utmost joy and enthusiasm!

 Here at  Uxbridge we wore bright colours to mark this event. We also explored colours by using water guns and spray bottles to colour mix on a white sheet! What wonderful patterns it made as the colours mixed! We enjoyed face painting, rainbow play dough creations, bubble blowing art, splat art, music and dancing to traditional Holi music.