AKO TIME

Writing to our Mum's and Dad's is always popular

Lots of team work going on here, working out the best way for the ping pong balls to get into the bucket.  

Loving the musical instruments

AKO TIME

AKO time presents many opportunities for our tamariki to learn through exploration of the world around them.  Teams Tahi, Rua, Toru and Wha provide a variety of activities which are purposefully designed to inspire our tamariki to learn through creativity.  ABC Mahora and Mahora Kindy recently joined us at AKO time and we look forward to further visits from our friends.

CARDS FOR OUR WHANAU

DESIGNING HATS

LEARNING WITH FRIENDS

CARDS ARE POPULAR

WHEELIE FUN

AKO TIME

Check us out at Ako Time  

Team Tahi joins Team Rua, Toru and Wha in Ako Time each Tuesday after lunch.  Ako Time is where we develop key competencies through activity-based, child-directed learning.  We paint, write, create, listen, use fine motor skills and gross motor skills.  We use our cooperative skills, engage in language with others, and explore our emotional selves through purpose set-up activity stations.  We are exploring how we learn by ourselves or with others.  The carefully thought through planning encourages tamariki to complete tasks, persist at tasks, make choices, cooperate, join in activities with others, and explore new learning. 

The creating table is always very popular

Making cards for friends and whanau

 

Creating landscapes for our dinosaur stamps proved to be very popular 

The farm animals and fences are always a hit

 

Boys and their toys

Working with shapes is fun 

Great story Olive!  You and Milly could write a story together!

Great sewing Kahn

 "This is how it works"

Great dinosaur mask - GRRRRRR

"Help my car has been in an

   accident - send the fire engine"

         

More scary dinosaur masks!

 Loving fences and animals.         

Shhhhhhh we're listening to reading!   In fact we listened to reading for the whole hour

"My puppets are ready for next weeks puppet show"

 

 

Thanks for threading all those needles

Mrs McEntee.  We love sewing!

We are so careful when painting our dinosaur stamps

The smiles say it all!