Hira Rural Kindergarten

Paukena nui! Giant Pumpkins!
Planting, tending, harvesting and celebrating... using and saving seeds, ready to start the cycle again. Thanks to the Nelson North Country club for the seedlings and the Competition. We won the most beautiful pumpkin :)

Another beautiful morning shared with our Bike Day at Hira School. Thanks to the amazing school tamariki for your manaakitanga. Thanks to whānau, we so value your help :)

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

Tamariki enjoyed a Wild Thing themed party on Tuesday inspired by the classic book by Maurice Sendak. We spent time preparing by sewing tails, making paper crowns, decorating collage masks and even cutting and painting claws!
Lots of fun was had with games, drama, music and kai.

Let the Wild Rumpus Start!

Celebrating our amazing new vege garden - māra kai!
Big thanks to parents Hayley and Damian Fernando from Atawhai 4 square for funding support via South Island Foodstuffs. Materials subsidised by Mitre 10, Awesome building by Nelson Menzshed, soil kindly donated by Millers Firewood and Landscape Supplies, filled and planted by our amazing parents and tamariki - This was a community effort indeed!
Our tamariki have been watering, watching and harvesting through the summer - So much rich learning.
Ngā mihi nui to everyone who has supported this wonderful project.

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Our new vegetable garden/mara kai is just bursting with life! Tamariki are harvesting vegetables for our shared morning teas, baking in the afternoons and enjoying the flowers. Kaiako carefully plan activities that follow child interests and promote new learning.
Tamariki have been enjoying making different colour dyes from plants and flowers as well as creating Japanese hapa zome artwork. Hapa zome involves first choosing leaves, flowers or petals and arranging them into a pattern on fabric. They are then pressed (with a hammer!) to release the dye.

So! Mrs Bunting sat on her eggs for 3 weeks and we counted down every day...
Nau mai haere mai ngā pīpī heihei! 🐣🐣🐣🐥🐥🐥

Rosemary's favourite place to lay her eggs............we were thinking of renaming her Bunting!

Buy your tickets friends! Only if you’re in NZ though! 🤣 It’s gonna be awesome 😎

Thank you to Aniva and Faavela for coming and sharing their weaving skills with our families and tamariki last week. And an extra special thank you for the beautiful Samoan outfit, called a Puletasi, that they gifted us.

Thank you Ruth McMillan, Clifton Terrace School teacher, for gifting us two of your beautiful chooks. They will be well loved and cared for. Come and visit them when ever you like!