The Fragrant Herb Garden

Fantastic Day for Waterplay

Our Monarch Butterfly

Our Monarch butterfly emerging on Friday.
It has been sped up to x4...enjoy!

Art Deco Weekend Begins Here At Village Kids

Today we bought some Art Deco ideas into the centre to share with the children the events that occur in our community. For Morning tea Carolyn made some delicious club sandwiches with tomato, avocado, egg, lettuce and ham. And man they were good! Then throughout the day we Bex, Vanessa and Louise made Art Deco headbands with the children and they looked great. The children each had a turn making their own and were great at sprinkling the glitter everywhere.
For afternoon tea Carolyn baked another treat, we had cupcakes with pink coconut flakes on top just like the ladies will be having at the Art Deco picnic on Sunday. Hope you guys get over to Napier to check out the Art Deco over the weekend see you Monday.

Bouncing Moreporks!

Happy Birthday Scarlett!

Today we celebrated Scarlett's 2nd birthday! Mum bought in some beautiful muffins to share so we gathered around the tables and had a special morning tea. We all sung Happy Birthday to Scarlett. The children were so excited to sing and clap for Scarlett as she blew out her candles. Thank you for sharing your special day with us once again Happy Birthday from all your friends and the teachers in the Moreporks xox

Wheels day Wednesday....

The grass was a little wet this morning because of the overnight rain. So what did we do - we got the lawn mower out, the trolley out and the prams out! The children enjoyed running behind the trolley and pushing their friends around in the trolley. Liam and Logan loved pushing the lawn mower around Liam had a little game going where he filled the catcher with grass and pushed the mower around.



Logan watched what Liam did and played the same game...

What did you do on the weekend?

What did you do on the weekend? The Morepork Teachers had a fun-filled weekend! We got together and made canapes to share! They were yummy and it was great getting together and sharing all the yummy food.


Vanessa went to Taupo and did a sky dive! How awesome!

So what did you do? Share you fun-filled long weekend with us!

Free Play Friday...

Today the sun didn't come out for very long so we had a short play on the grass then we pulled the sides down again and set up different experiences on the deck.

Bez and Vanessa attempted to put together the bouncer that Callan gave us! Today was Callan's last day, he is transitioning into the Tuis.

We climbed, balanced and went sliding on the mini obstacle course.

The we danced and sang to the Bean Bag song, throwing them, catching them and putting them on our heads as we walked around the room...

The musical instruments were available all day for the children to play and create music with!

There was even time to sit down and chill out with a good book!
What a perfect way to end Callan's last day in the Morepork's!

Where has the sun gone?

This question we pondered today as we played inside...where has the sun gone? The sides on the deck were pulled down and activities were set up on the deck and inside to entice the children's interests. We did some painting, climbing across the plank and down the slide. We did puzzles, rolled playdough and played with the animals. We danced, we sang and we made pizza for afternoon tea.








I wonder if the sun will come out tomorrow? It will be cool to have some fun in the sun on the last day of the working/playing week!

What a Wednesday!!!!

Today is the first day of February and what a day it has been!!!

We spent some time watching the monarch butterfly lay some eggs on our swan plants. We saw the caterpillars eating the leaves and even spotted one chrysalis.
We danced to Mrs Bunny, The Bird Dance and Rock-a-bye Your Bear...


It was Jana's birthday yesterday so we had a party at Village Kids today. She brought in a yummy Miss Kitty cake and cupcakes for all the children...


Also a parent brought some plums in to share. There were so many of them we decided to make some plum jam!


I think we might have fresh scones with our fresh plum jam for afternoon tea today, yummy!!!!