Fresh air, bare feet ad grubby hands = active learning! Fun, down-to-earth nature based ideas & educational resources for Grubby kids!
Time to fill your own cup guys! ☕💚🙏🎉
I hope you all have time to catch your breath during this ‘non-contact’ time (AKA school holidays…!😝) Tag that friend who’ll be in at school anyway – they might need a gentle nudge to take some time to refuel 😘🙌
….and because teachers love a free printable tick list 
you can find them here on google drive! (FREE download) Maybe pop a copy in your best bud’s cubby/on their desk – sometime we need some encouragement to switch off and take care of ourselves 
The perfect finishing touch to your kiwiana wall display – a bright printable pennant banner title that features some of our most well loved kiwiana objects! Each letter is A4 size – they look great pegged onto string, or just simply stapled to the wall.
Are you looking for other kiwiana resources to support your inquiry? You might want to check out the other Kiwiana themed resources in our Green Grubs TpT store here!
I shared the following post on social media last month and WHEW! It obviously touch a nerve with our teachers as it was shared over 1,300 times and viewed by nearly 150,000 people within the space of a week. As we head towards strike action later on this month, I’ve had a lot of requests for printable poster versions of the questions for our schools to share with their communities – Click here to grab your FREE download!
EARLY JULY 2018: “Urgh – I made the mistake of reading some comments on social media this morning in regards to our amazing kiwi teachers planning strike action, and I’m more than a little alarmed at how out of touch some people seem to be!! 😲 Maybe these commentators no longer have kids at school? Or maybe they’re reflecting on their own schooling experiences from years ago? Either way, times have changed & what is now expected from teachers is not compatible with a healthy work/life balance. I’ve got SO much respect for our full time teachers also juggling family and life – a whole lot would need to change before I’d consider going back to work full time with a young family. So… if you’re feeling out of touch with what’s going on, find a teacher and talk to them about the issues they’re dealing with daily! Kua tae te wā – it’s time (for change) and you’ve got my full support” 🙌🙏💕👊
Whew! What a roller coaster ride the past few months have been for our teachers…😥
The following images are a quick condensed version of the journey to date!! 😮🙈 Anyone else got a good feeling about positive changes coming to the profession?! 
💚 #itstime #loveourschools #gohugateacher
Well – I’ve got no idea where December suddenly popped up from, but here it is!
This resource contains 68 Christmas challenges for you to choose from to fill your Advent calendar – the mini task cards focus on spending time with family and friends during the holiday period – no sugar-laden-money-spending-commercial-Christmas activities here! Some of the cards have a Kiwi summer focus, but most of the activities will work no matter your location in the world.
“Ngā mihi o te Kirihimete me te Tau Hou!” (Season’s greetings for Christmas and the New year!)
68 Advent Calendar task cards ~ examples include:
• Find some Christmas songs to sing along with on YouTube
• Use some lego to build Santa’s sleigh
• Choose a toy you’ve outgrown to gift to charity
• Learn how to say ‘Merry Christmas’ in another language
• How did your grandparents celebrate Christmas when they wereyoung? What was their most memorable gift?
• Design & make a sleigh out of a cardboard box
• Find, photograph or sketch a Pohutukawa in bloom
• Find some photos of your parents celebrating Christmas when they were young
• Make up some actions to your favourite Christmas song. Share them with an audience
• Make some place names to go on the table for your big Christmas day meal
These speech bubbles are the perfect prompt to get your class engaging more deeply with your school gardens or classroom nature table… great for drawing attention to something new or special in your garden (in our case caterpillars, scented roses and fresh licoricey fennel seeds!)
Simply print, cut out and laminate your labels before attaching sticks to the back and displaying them alongside your prize garden specimens, or next to special treasures on your nature table.
Each of the 5 senses also comes with a vocabulary list to match, which can be used to support your class room discussions, and rich vocabulary in writing….