Exploring local pūrakau
Over the past few weeks, the children have been involved in an art project – creating the art for a book made by us.
Our local pūrākau (legend) is Te Pura the taniwha. The children love this story and we have a beautiful costume of Te Pura that was donated to the kindergarten by a whānau that used to attend. The children use this costume a lot, but the teaching team realised that we don’t have a storybook about Te Pura.
We looked and looked for a book, however, we couldn’t find one. As a few children were making storybooks about the holidays they had, we decided that making our own Te Pura the taniwha book would be a great resource to have.
We found the text, cut it onto ten different pages, then the children got busy listening to the words on the page. They then decided what needed to be drawn and designed. What a team we had!
Kurt had drawn the most amazing taniwha, so we used technology like the photocopier to make different sized taniwha for the pages in the book. We had a team of artists complete different sections using great concentration and attention to detail. In the end, we will have a beautiful book created by our kindergarten children, a resource for us to learn from and share with everyone.
Feel free to come and visit our amazing kindergarten where our teachers are all fully qualified. We are a rural kindergarten based at 17C Minden Road, Te Puna in a beautiful natural learning environment.
Our kindergarten promotes sustainability and we value our strong relationships with our local community. The ages of our children start at 2 ½ years to 5 years old. We are very whānau/family orientated and encourage your involvement. Come and visit us at 17C Minden Road, Te Puna. Ph 552 5736. The kettle is always on.