Ainslee's First Day at KIDSPACE

Hi to all the parents and whanau

Today is my first day at KIDSPACE...

And what a day its been... learning and remembering names, getting to know your children, familiarising myself with the routines and day to day programme, and becoming part of the KIDSPACE teaching team. I love working outdoors, getting amongst nature, the worm farm, and any other hands on activities. I am passionate about noticing and recognising children's interests, strengths and abilities and working along side them to extend their skills and promote great learning outcomes. I look forward to meeting and chatting with you over the next few weeks.

Ainslee :)

Jasper turns five

The brothers turn five

Baby Reef for Taylah and Marley

Today Marley and Taylah's new baby brother Reef was born at 11.15am and at 3pm he arrived at KIDSPACE with mum and dad to meet his older brother and sister.

Marley squealed and danced around in huge excitement, while Taylah beamed only like an older sister can and closely studied his feet, skin, toes, ears and lips.

Jessie

Donnagh and Taylah's very own bus

Tamara

Our trip to the Library on the bus

On the 28th December Rie and I took Taylah, Marley, Laker, Elijah, Donnagh and Rionagh on the bus to the library. We got all the prams and trip bag ready, we also brought our lunch boxes too. Before we headed off Donnagh must have started thinking about the bus and he said " I don't wanna go on the bus", so I reaasured him and off we went to find the bus stop and wait for the bus to arrive. We hopped on the bus ( I would have loved to get some photos of the children on the bus but both Rie and I had our hands full, with one double pram etc). The older children were great and chose their seats. Donnagh then turned and said to me, "This is isn't scary, I like the bus, it's fun," so this was good learning for Donnagh. Once we got to the library the children had a little look around and Taylah and Donnagh particularly enjoyed the chalk board as you can see from the photos. Marley found a nice snuggly pillow to lie on while I read a story to Laker and Elijah. Rionagh enjoyed trying to eat the books and take some off the shelf. This was a great experience for our tamariki to get out into the community to experience a bus ride and visiting the library. On the way they saw so many things such as signs, especially being higher up on the bus, we saw police cars and ambulances. Just before we headed back to KIDSPACE we had one more stop, we went to my house for a picnic and on the way there we saw a train. The children enjoyed a bit of their lunch then it was time to go to the bus stop in Wellesley Rd and would you believe it, on the way to the bus stop the children got to see another train, they were all very excited. This was a fun trip and we all enjoyed ourselves.


Tamara

Picnic at the park

On the Christmas eve the teachers and children had lots of fun with water guns and water balloons most of the day trying to get each other I think Rie got soaked the most Taylah, Sarah, Laker, Elijah and Donnagh all got her with their water balloons. Later on in the day we all took a walk around to the Onekawa park for a picnic lunch. Laker and Elijah then continued to chase a few of us around with the water guns they had lots of fun, but were very sneaky (they giggled lots when the teachers tried to get them back). All of the other children explored the grass and had a run around.