Fresh air, bare feet ad grubby hands = active learning! Fun, down-to-earth nature based ideas & educational resources for Grubby kids!
We filled our heart with twin footprints, but this template could just as easily be used as a frame for a photo, a picture or some writing. Don’t forget to check the captions on the bottom before printing—there are 6 different options!
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!
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….
Some awesome books by some amazing kiwi authors & illustrators! Have a peek below for a quick review and some specific reader response sheets that match the books…. have I missed your favourite? Flick me an e-mail or leave a comment below!
I loved the fresh layout of this book! The perfect hybrid of cartoon style illustrations, graphic details and unusual characters, it’s bound to hold appeal for upper primary children especially. I particularly enjoyed some of the language features included – a great example of onomatopoeia! You can order a copy of Waata the Weta here.
If you’re a Kiwi and you know it
