Using our senses in the Ngahere (Bush)

At Uxbridge we are so lucky to have this bearuiful Ngahere right on our doorstep.  We often get the opportunity to go for a hikoi (walk).  Our children love getting out to explore, and are familiar and confident keeping themselves safe on outings. Because the children are relaxed on these walks they can take in everying they see, hear, and smell using our senses. 

I wonder what we are going to see – well not long into our adventure, we were able to see so many spiderwebs, and larvae crawling around under the deadwood. 

Some one in our community has kindly put up some plastic insects in the  bushwalk  for all of the children to spot, today we found weta, ladybugs and grasshoppers.  We also saw some of the birdhouses that we had placed on earlier walks.

"S" noticed a banana tree – because it looks like our one at kindy.

We noticed a little waterfall, a creek, a dove and a blackbird and a lizard.

We were interested to see what we would find on this adventure and our first find was a lizard ornament on the shed.  As we walked we were surprised by a group of colourful and noisy Rosellas flying in and out of the tree tops.

After navigating the stepping stones we discovered the goldfish darting in and out of each other, "A" counted 13 fish.

"J" thought the fish looked sad, we asked "J" why and he replied, because they want to go to a different place.  Then "J" showed up his fish lips.

"M" thought the fish made a ‘glub, glub’ sound.

"J" saw the Well and said ‘I know what that does, it pumps water into a bucket.

Look at these precious leaves – What makes them precious?  Cause they are special replied "J".

Then we looked under a log and discovered a small black spider and a black beetle.

On our return up the path, we saw a Tui taking a drink from the top fish pond.

"M" said she liked going for a walk.