Kindergarten Awareness week Day 1- Keeping Ambury Farm clean and rubbish free.

Today is the first day of Kindergarten Awareness Week and the focus is "Sustainable communities".
Ambury Farm is very much a part of our community  and today we took the rubbish bags and went through the areas where there had been enjoying the farm barbecue and play areas to make sure there was no rubbish left. Ambury Farm is a regional farm park and visitors must "Pack in and Pack out" i.e. take their rubbish with them but some hadn't and we found a big black bag of rubbish.

Early on we watched the truck come and take the lambs away to be food!!This is a working farm so sometimes the questions and events are hard to answer!!especially for city kids who think meat comes from the supermarket.

Then there was just time for  a juicie on the rocks before we walked back to kindergarten. 
We found after such a hot sunny day we really needed to water our garden too.

Ambury Farm Day: an annual community celebration

Each year the Mangere Bridge community comes together at the farm to celebrate this great regional farm park.
This year again we fed the volunteers as they came off their shifts and took time out to eat and relax. Our helpers from kindergarten were poised and ready to keep the volunteers watered and fed.

 Our team was co-ordinated by the teaching team (including Jemma) and the lovely Janine.

 We also had a sit-down tent for weary families where we sold Juicies.

We had a display too of the great things that happened at our kindergarten over the year.
It was a fun day attended by 38,000 people. It is a fab opportunity to show off our Mangere Bridge community at this amazing resource - the Ambury Regional Farm Park.

A visit to our mountain

There was much excitement as the bus arrived outside Kindergarten today. We quickly boarded and headed up to one of our favourite places - our mountain! We stopped for a quick snack under the trees where we talked about how our mountain used was a volcano along time ago. Then Carol told us the story of Hape and how he came all the way from Hawaiiki on the back of a stingray to live on our mountain. We set off on an adventure, keeping an eye out for signs of where Hape and his family used to live and plant their food. It was a lovely day for a long walk on our mountain. It was a challenge, but we made it all the way up, over, along and back down again. Well done - we know it was a long walk but it was great to see you persevering and having a lot of fun together. We finished up with another snack and some soccer fun on the field and then headed back to Kindergarten on the bus. 

The fire truck visits - Brown Watch Mangere

Out of the blue the crew from Brown Watch Mangere Station called and asked if we would like a visit. “Yes” we said and they came that morning, showed us how they put on their uniform, took us all out to the truck so we could climb in and then everone got to hold the hose and spray it at a bin in the cul-de-sac. It was great fun.