Hangi at Rototuna

Taimi cooked us a reka (delicious) hangi today at Rototuna. We had chicken, kumera, potatoes, and pumpkin with gravy and mixed veges. Yum!
Thank you Taimi for our hangi!

Photos of your child at play

Here is a collation of photos from the Infants and Toddler room. Please leave a comment. Enjoy!

We have experienced some technical difficulties with the time frame of the names in this slideshow. Please bare with us as we try to problem solve. Thanks!

Matariki pyjama day

Rototuna Early Education Centre in their P.J's.

Infants and Toddlers looking awesome in their pyjamas

 We celebrated Matariki today by wearing our pyjamas and having breakfast at the centre. It was great to see all the children (and teachers) dressed in their p.j's.

The Wheels on the bus

Today we went for a ride on the Rototuna bus!
We saw the babies crying, the wipers swishing, and heard the horn going beep, beep, beep!
 Everybody joined in and we had a lovely trip all around the town.

Dress up day 2012

The whole centre dressed up including staff!



Infants and Toddlers looked amazing in their dress up costumes!

What a great day we had dressing up as our favourite characters. We had everything from princesses and pumpkins, to elves and pirates. Let's not forget the two Bob the builders and the gorgeous ladybirds. It was a great day enjoyed by all!

Magical Music

We are crazy about music in Infants and Toddlers at the moment! We are having a great time exploring different instruments and making music!

 This is our new Piano Mat. We just stand on it and it makes music! We can choose from 8 different instruments and it plays the corresponding sound when we stand or press on the keys.

The Infant and Toddler drummer band! What lovely music you made this morning tamariki! Drums are awesome instruments to play and can be easily played by all children.

Music



Our focus for this term is Music. We will have this as our underlying interest throughout the entire term. we have already done a lot of really exciting musical activities with the children. Here are some photos of what the tamariki have been up to. Music is a great way for the children to learn and have fun at the same time. They can experiment with different ways of making music, use different instruments, learn about cause and effect, for example, how drums make sounds and they experience the joy of movement and dance.

Inthu brought in her piano accordion. The children played along with her using our instruments. The children really enjoyed listening, and in some cases dancing, to Inthus music.



We love getting our scarves out! We have a song called 'make your scarf fly high' and this is becoming very popular with our Infants and Toddlers.