Tag: Kaitiakitanga

Day of Action

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.

Spead the Word

This week we have been learning about the importance of spreading the word and raising the awareness of conservation.

Our teina have done a great job to create different items to help share their message. Their creations range from heater Jibbitz to remind people to turn off the heater when they leave the room to washing mashing magnets to remind people to hang out their washing instead of using the dryer.

Check out some of our creations below.

 

Dioramas Galore

We have been learning all about how to be kaitiaki in our homes by conserving our natural resources.

As a create task, tamariki are making dioramas to show what they are going to be doing with their whānau. Our dioramas needed to be made with resources we could find around the kura. e.g old paper, paints that were almost all gone, popsicle sticks from another art project, we even found some leftover turf that we turned into grass for our parks.

On Friday we were super excited to share our creating with some of our tuākana and have them help us. Check out what they got up to.

Recycled Paper

Our teina have been learning about what products come from which natural resource. We were very shocked to find out how much of our everyday products come from trees.

We explored ways to cut down our use of tree to ensure that they are here for the next generation to enjoy.

One of our ideas was to create our own paper using scraps we have here in the studio.

We had so much fun making the paper and we are excited to create Matariki cards from the paper we have made.