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We all know how much fun a carpentry area is for children! With lots of wood, real tools and equipment to work on, the children at Community Kindy Mount are reqular visitors to our carpentry area. This is a place for creativity, where it is much more about the process than the product. It is about learning to handle tools properly, hand-eye co-ordination, problem solving, sharing, exchanging ideas, cooperating, socialising and showing a sense of pride and achievement. The children can work on bikes and old electronic equipment with their screw drivers. They can hammer nails into wood and learn to build things both big and small. They can utilise all the recyclable resources we have around the table to make, create and get busy with. We also encourage them bringing in things from home like bottle tops, material and anything they can add to their masterpieces. Our carpentry area is a place to both play and learn.
In an empowering environment, children have an agency to create and act on their ideas, develop knowledge and skills in areas that interest them and, increasingly, to make decisions and judgements on matters that relate to them. (Te Whariki, MOE 2017)