Tinga tinga

To celebrate Purple Cake day last week we decided to try our hand at some traditional Kenyan tinga tinga art. Here are a few pictures of our master piece in progress, make sure you check back soon as we have nearly finished it!

You might be reading to them but are you doing the math?

Parents,

While perusing educational websites on my wet Sunday morning I stumbled across this we gem. It was set up by Laura Bilodeau Overdeck a mother who, while, having no formal teaching background is keen on enriching and developing a passion for numbers in all children. Bedtime Math is her brainchild and by signing up for free you will receive daily differentiated maths problems for all levels. It's about numbers and fun and making numeracy more relevant.

I feel that his could really support the ongoing classroom learning and be a great out of class extension that all you children would enjoy. The one small thing I do see as being an issue is that resource is based in the USA, so some questions might use ideas, concepts and measurements that might be foreign to us. With simple adaptation I believe you could easily make it work for you and you child.

Check it out and let me know what you think.

Bedtime Math

Fun with magic!

Wow! We had a real blast this week with El Grego the magician paying our school a visit. The children really enjoyed seeing all the amazing illusions with the many different animals. While El Grego performed his show he also shared an important anti-bullying message which we all took heed of.

Our Minstrel Messages - Check out these wise words! (and awesome pictures)

"Put the big and small fish back" - Grace

"Use salt water to wash your fish" - Bianca

"Always wear a lifejacket" - Ben

"Take lots of ice to keep your fish cool" - Sophia

The Minstrel

 Wow! We were so lucky last Friday to have the Minstrel come and visit us. He had lots of great messages for us about looking after New Zealand's fisheries and safety on the water.

Keep an eye out on our blog for some of those messages.