Ngā mihinui ki a koutou katoa i haere mai ki te tautoko i te rā whakanui o te Kirihimete. Thank you to everyone who came along to support us during the Christmas parade, we really appreciate everyone who gave up time on their Saturday to come along. We sang our waiata to a huge crowd of people and the kids did a fantastic job. Tau kē!
During mindfulness with Erica this year we have covered a range of very useful mindfulness tools to help keep us calm and focussed in class. During our last session Erica talked about the survival brain which is centred in reacting quickly when we feel scared, threatened or upset. We then talked about times that we all might have gone into our survival brain and how we can come out of this mode in order to be calm and active learners in class. Erica then talked about our pre-frontal cortex or our calm brain and how it is responsible for higher level thinking like learning, planning and making good decisions. We used mirimiri or massage to bring us into a calm state, and we then looked at mindful eating and paying attention to the smells, sounds, texture and taste of our food. Thank you for an awesome year of mindfulness Erica!
Our kura has learned so much about what Kaitiakitanga means this year. We have wrapped up our learning with a day of action.
Our day was full of activities that demonstrate many different parts of kaitiakitanga. Like growing a sustainable mara, cleaning up our wahi, upcycling, repopulating our green spaces with native manu and creating chemical free products.
We ended our day with a market to raise money in support of many different causes.
Ata Hāpara sold some upcycled items, a recipe book with many chemical free household products, as well as some of the products we created.
It was such a fun day sharing our learning with whānau and learning what others are doing in their studios.
