Room 15: "AMAZING AREWHANA"

Over the last couple of weeks, Amazing Arewhana and Clever Cookies have been meeting up. The kaupapa behind the meeting up was to encorporate the Tuakana/Teina status. This has helped the Clever Cookies feel that they had someone to come to if they were needing a big buddy to play with or just to share some time together.  Mrs Hawley-Simmonds and I created a list of names of our tamariki so that each tamaiti had their own personal buddy. The first meeting was when we sat in Room 5 and looked at each other, we were both smiling and giggling because we were meeting for the first time and didn't know how to react to each other. We then went outside for a few games of 'Cat & Mouse' and 'Goose goose duck'. Both games were great. Our tamariki were building their friendships with each other, and starting to trust each other. Our next visit was when Clever Cookies came to do some 'Art' with us. This Art was for their classroom. Us teachers agreed that they wou...

The hard work we put into our decorating of our duffy box. Here we thought we were in the running of being chosen to get our 'Duffy' books signed and with a photo of our celebrity.  'Brodie Kane'... No .. we didn't win but we did win by completing our Duffy box and getting to hear about 'Brodie Kane's' life story. Here are some photos capturing our moment of  'Are we the winners?'....

Amazing Arewhana got a visit from a friendly Giraffe named Harold. He shared with them some learning of 'Expression' and 'Healthy bodies'. Here are some photos that show their participation and excitement of Harold.