Hahangia Time 2017

Here is our first post for Hahangia Time 2017. The following photos show you a bit about what we got up to. We explored with water, paint, materials, collage, stop motion and tires. We also made obstacles and extended the playground with added equipment. We played in the sandpit and molded clay. We had a great time wondering and problem solving. 

Room 17's Dance 2016 -Reflecting their research and learning pathway about our solar system

2016 ARRIVAL Dancing our Learning

After many weeks of creating and expressing our understanding of light, eyes, small organisms, animals, physics Egypt... we finally performed our dances to our community. The teachers and children felt very proud.

A Taste of Spring

Explorer time today was made extra special by  the lovely mild weather. Nearly all activities were outside and the water play and sand pit was particularly popular.




Creating a Dinosaur world in the sandpit. 
Children had rich discussion about what types of dinosaur they placed in the habitats they made. 

Starship Hospital
A very creative way to make use of the blocks. 

Nature Journalling
The weather was inviting enough to get out the water colour paints after a nature search around the school

Designing and testing Huts

The thrill of jumping as far as you can.

Will it slide or roll?

Water Play was extended today by a water wall and a vacuum cleaner hose.

Bucket Beats at Explorer Time

Bucket Beats!

Here we have made up some musical beats using buckets (sorry that the videos are not facing the right ways)

Explorer Time 1st March 2016 - Rain or Shine!

Here we are at our Explorer Time... testing theories, working together, creating camera obscures, creating masterpieces with clay, painting/dying with all the colours of the rainbow, figuring out how to draw 3D shapes on 2D paper, looking closely at feathers, playing with blocks and building cities with lego! What fun!

Whanau Whetu 2016

Welcome back everyone! It is so great to see everyone's smiling faces again. We had our first Explorer Time for the year this afternoon. There were lots of things going on, including construction with boxes, experimenting with rolling tyres, clay, scavenger hunts, weeding the garden and finding very interesting insects to look at with the discovery scopes. It was fun, even in the humid Auckland heat.