New friends for Cookie and Biscuit

Hi 

Today the teachers went to lunch at Manukau to celebrate the imminent arrival of Raelene's baby. Raelene is the teacher at Botany Downs Kindergarten and we wanted to give her a baby present. As well, we have been working out a breeding calendar for our guinea pigs and so Cookie had to come to lunch too ( she didn't seem to mind sitting under the table in her basket) and  in the carpark we swapped our female guinea pig, Cookie for Coke, a shiny black fur guinea pig from Botany Downs Kindergarten. Now we have a breeding pair and they have a breeding pair. What fun, we wonder what will happen.

A new life for our babies

Hi 

We have been investigating the breeding habits of guinea pigs and were rather concerned to find that our white baby ( as yet un-named) could be a daddy at about 4 weeks or so and so we have had to find him a new home. One of our children offered to have him as the household pet and mum went off and bought a new cage (and was told he could even be a pet you take out walking in the garden, so who knows what adventures he may have). So "Oscar", now so named by the family, has gone to live at their house and the other little female has gone live with a recently bereaved bunny as a new companion. She has been named 'Gumdrop'.

We are sad to see both babies go but know they will have great new homes - and we do not need to worry about close breeding relationships.

It has been wonderful to have the babies, they are so charming and the children have been very pro-active in keeping them fed and carefully giving them a cuddle.

Biscuit and Cookie Clowning Around

Biscuit and Cookie checking out their cuddle sack...

Just right for winter so snuggly and warm!

More adventures of our babies

Our babies are getting more adventurous now... 

look at them hopping around... 

Look at our adventurous new baby...

Look at our adventurous new baby... the other one is still a little camera shy!

Our surprise new additions

Imagine our surprise when we popped into kindergarten at the weekend and found we had TWO new additions to our guinea pig family!  When we got the guinea pigs six weeks ago we were assured they were both females - and we think they are. One of them must have been pregnant when we got them. Now Cookie and Biscuit have two babies to look after - and we have to think of two new names.           

 They are very cute, and their arrival caused  great excitement with the children today. We look forward to being able to cuddle the new babies when they get a bit older.  

Celebrating Red Socks Day - Afternoon Children

Today we all turned up at Afternoon Kindergarten wearing red to celebrate red socks day. There were lots of really great outfits. 

We had red water, red paintings, red streamers and red clothes as well as all of fun things we usually do at Kindergarten.

We stuck coins to a big cardboard red sock - thanks to Sophie’s mum Anna for making it for us. When we finish red socks week we are going to collect up the money and send it to the Sir Peter Blake Trust so they can use it to care for our coast because that’s what red sock day is all about.

We decided it was so fun we could make the whole week a special red socks week. Thank you to everyone who joined in and took part.

It was such fun! 

What a fun way to end Term 1.