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Learning together with our parachute
Today we got out our parachute and instantly all of our tamariki/children gravitated towards it. First up we used it in the more traditional sense. We gathered around holding on to it and sang some action/waiata to help guide our movements with it. It was a lot of fun using gesture and movement to express ourselves/he kōrero ā-tinana. Both Luca and Ekkam enjoyed going underneath it as we shook it up high and then down low.
Next I attached it to the fence as Tawhirimatea (Maori God of Wind) was blowing and we had a big korero/talk about how he can make things move. This lead to some amazing opportunities of tuakana-teina as our older e hoa/friends demonstrated to our younger ones how we could interact with it. There was so many whakaaro/ideas flowing as everyone grouped together to try them out. Some of the tamariki chose to sit underneath it with there arms reached out to catch it, others enjoyed moving through it and feeling it land on their tinana/bodies. Our smaller babies enjoyed the chase of trying to capture it and watched on with great curiosity as it would come close and then fly up again.
Throughout our time here there were many giggles shared as well as a lot of collaboration as we used a range of strategies and skills to play and learn with others/'te ngākau aroha.