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Screen Time (FREE printable)

MOTHER’S DAY colouring sheet for your ‘special someone’

Karakia to Self-Regulate

NZ Easter eggs!

Brag Bracelets {FREE Resource}

Robot Server Box FREE printable!

Featured Products

Karaka {New Zealand Trees Make & Do Activity Pack} $5.90
Calm Kit for Kiwi Kids (Create an ice cream container Balance Box) $8.50
Kitchen Science {Activities to introduce basic science vocabulary and concepts} $6.50
Bookmarks for the year (Kiwi themed) $7.80

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🌿 New release - Karaka! 🌳 This is a tree of

🌿 New release - Karaka! 🌳 This is a tree of many extremes... historically one of the most important food sources cultivated by Māori, but also one of the most toxic! You can find this native tree 'make & do' resource (one of a growing series about NZ native trees) in our Green Grubs website store (*also on Tpt) #karaka #nznativetree #kiwiteachers #kiwiclassroom

Class a bit unsettled? Feeling a bit stressed or a

Class a bit unsettled? Feeling a bit stressed or anxious yourself?

Step 1) Eat a tub of ice cream – I’d recommend chocolate fudge
Step 2) Use the empty ice cream container to create a mini Balance Box/Calm Kit!

🤔🍦📦🚦💡🕊🔎🤯

This resource brings a variety of calming activities all together in one place, to create a little portable kit for children to keep at school, take home to share with family, or bring with them as they move around the school.

This resource includes:

🍦A selection of perfectly sized 'print & go' labels that a fit a standard square ice cream container (flip your ice cream container lid and choose from a selection of 50+ mini calming strategies to personalise your kit (these attach to the inside of your ice cream container lid)

🍦A 50 page mini booklet (designed to fit inside your ice cream container) that supports and compliments your teaching & learning around the topics of mindfulness, managing self, emotional regulation, Te whare tapa whā, Zones of Regulation & calm down strategies. Pick and choose from the pages to match the individual needs of each child or the focus of your class.

🍦25 different mindfulness colouring strip/bookmarks

🍦You can find out more about this resource for Kiwi kids on the Green Grubs website - link in my bio 🍨🍧🍦🚦💡🔎📦

#calmkit #balancebox #kiwikids #managingself #tewharetapawha #zonesofregulation #kiwiclassroom #mindfulness #icecreamcontainers

📬 Quick makeover of an old letter box for outsi

📬 Quick makeover of an old letter box for outside our 'Support Hub' offices! Our little Support Hub includes Family Support (me) LSC (Learning Support Coordinator) ESOL & Reading Recovery. This letter box is going to live in our little reception area with a pot of pencils & note paper on top! 🤗🌟📮 Anyone else have a letter box in their classroom? (Or kids that love writing you letters & leaving notes?) When I was teaching fulltime, letter writing used to be a regular part of our literacy block activities - we'd check the letter box once a day & being the postman or letter-box-checker was one of the most popular classroom jobs! #familysupport #letterwriting #classroomletterbox #leaveanote #rsvp #kiwikids #kiwiclassroom

🌏 It was a pleasure to create this set of 28 mi

🌏 It was a pleasure to create this set of 28 mini posters for a class of clever kids who have been investigating the rich theme of 'Kaitiakitanga' (guardianship) and what this means in their corner of Aotearoa. The class suggested the vocabulary and I created the graphics to match!

🌳 You can find this set of 28 Kaitiaki & Conservation mini posters by searching 'Kaitiaki' in both our Green Grubs website store and on Tpt 💚

#kiwikids #kaitiaki #kaitiakitanga #kiwiclassroom #classroomcolab #conservation

🎮 Screen time has been a bit of a hot topic amo

🎮 Screen time has been a bit of a hot topic amongst the parents I’ve been talking to this term.... so much so that I’ve compiled a little printable sheet of things for families to ponder and talk about together. I’m sure this is something that anyone with kids struggles with from time to time (my family included!!)

💻 You can find this free printable on the website - link in my bio

#screentimetips #kiwikids #techtime #digitalnatives #kiwiclassroom

📚 Bookmarks for the year! 🔖A set of 45+ colo

📚 Bookmarks for the year! 🔖A set of 45+ colouring bookmarks to celebrate and commemorate some of our most important annual events.... from Anzac & Waitangi day, through to Pink shirts and gumboots, we've got you covered! These are a fun & simple early finishers activity to acknowledge all the events that are special to the children in your class and their Whānau 🤩🌿

📚 Is there an annual event that I've missed? Please let me know. Also, can anyone think of a special annual event occurring in July? This is the only month without a special bookmark!

📚 You can find out more about the events included in this resource by clicking the link in our bio 👍

#bookmarks #nzbookmarks #nzannualevents #kiwiclassroom #kiwilibrary #earlyfinishers

🌊 Shout out to Waikuku 🌊 2 years ago this w

🌊 Shout out to Waikuku 🌊
2 years ago this week, my lovely friend @marleybiggins had the best idea for some new signage for her beautiful coastal Canterbury town of Waikuku, & I was more than happy to help bring her ideas to life! We're thinking of them (and the wider Canterbury community) as they embark on a massive flood clean up this month - thank goodness Waikuku is such a tight knit and resilient community who will pull together and get things sorted! Kia kaha guys💪🙌💗 #waikukudesign #waikukubeach #canterbury

There's a reason why this resource has been this m

There's a reason why this resource has been this month's best seller - right now in the Eastern US, 'Brood X' is emerging - the biggest emergence event since 2004! After living underground for 17 years, billions & billions of periodical cicadas are appearing 🤩 This unusual biological phenomena only occurs in the Eastern US - no where else in the world do cicadas emerge in such a set pattern (here in NZ we hear our 40 cicada species - tātarakihi - every summer) Brood X is the largest group of 17-year cicadas, there are other periodical cicadas on a 13-year cycle. Scientists don't yet fully understand the reasons behind their schedules, or why both have prime numbered life-spans, but I'm sure we can all agree that the kids love collecting the cast of pupa shells/ngengeti!

🌿 You can find this Cicada mini book on the Green Grubs website (and Tpt) under the 'Bugs & Creepy Crawlies' category

#cicadas #soundofsummer #tātarakihi #broodx

🔌🎧 You know times have changed when 'Tech-Un

🔌🎧 You know times have changed when 'Tech-Untangler' & 'Charger-Checker' are important classroom jobs 😂

🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️ Trace around your children's hands & forearms before personalising & adding to the banners & job labels (included) to create an eye catching wall display!

🙌 You can find this new release on the Green Grubs website and TPT, link in my bio 💚

#classroomjobs #manyhandsmakelightwork #teamworkmakesthedreamwork #wereallinthistogether #hewakaekenoa

Guys. This is it. My career has finally peaked, mi

Guys. This is it. My career has finally peaked, might as well retire now 😂

Check out this incredible hoodie, created by the talented seamstress at @thecraftycatnz featuring fabric of their own design that includes my graphics!!

Beautiful paua lined hood (just the right depth, nothing worse than a stingy hood!) Decently sized pockets, perfect bottom-covering length 👀 and long elasticated cuffs - all gorgeously rich and vibrant!

Shout out also to The Crafty Cat for their careful & respectful use of my copyright conditions which are a requirement if using my images in hard good items for commercial sale 🙌

Side note - how on earth do people manage all these flawless selfies?! Tried so hard to get a good shot of the whole thing, but the lighting was bad inside, and ain't nobody got time for taking 100s of photos in weird angles 🤔😅 I take so many photos of others, but rarely myself - my hubby and I have a running joke that if he dies first we're good (as there are lots of photos of him with the kids) if I go first there's a problem ha ha 🤣

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

#nofiltershere #thecraftycat #fabricdesign #smallkiwibuisness #selfiephobic #GrubbyGraphics #kiwiana

❤ I recently received a special request for a Mo

❤ I recently received a special request for a Mother's day activity to that also incorporates all those other amazing women who nurture and support our kids... they say it takes a village to raise a child right?! 🙌

🧡 As well as some mindful colouring, your class could draw an image of their 'special someone' in the middle, add a photo, some keywords or some writing! You can find this FREE colouring sheet on the blog, link in my bio!

💛 P.S - wishing you all a smooth and productive start to term 2 🤗

#ilovemum #ittakesavillage #mothersday #mothersdaycolouring #nzmums

🔥 Hot off the press - Kawakawa! 💚 This was

🔥 Hot off the press - Kawakawa! 💚

This was a special request from a devoted kaiako of rongoā at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa. Having one of these incredible plants in your garden is like having a full medicine cabinet! Just search 'Kawakawa' on Tpt or check it out the NZ Native plants category in our website store to find it (and many other native tree resources!)

#kawakawa #nznativetrees #rongoā #healingplants

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