February Meeting

Here is our first meeting of 2013! With the children getting so good at our Continents Game we decided to take a little trip to Wellington to visit Te Papa and learn a little bit more about the Continental Drift and how our planet used to look a few million years ago! It was great to see the children trying to find their own countries on the map which looked quite different from what they look like now. Thank you Te Papa for putting a presentation together for us and answering all our questions. Check out the pictures from the day below:

Meeting at the Hall for some games before going to Te Papa

"Match the Country with its Continent"!!

If we don't know where that country belongs we look at the map

 Great work guys!!

  

Where does this country go?

At Te Papa for a great presentation about Continental Drift and Tectonic Plates

Can we make an earthquake?

Are the Continents still moving?

Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Geothermal Activities are all caused by Tectonic Plates

A Giant World Puzzle!!

Nearly there....

All done!

Our March meeting will be loads of fun!! We are planning a Brazilian Carnival Party! Watch this space!

The International Children’s Group

invites you to a

    Brazilian Party

.Capoeira
(with Mestre Perere)
.Arts & Crafts
(with Craft Garden)
.Music
(with Wellington Batucada)
.Face Painting 
(with Daisy Design)
.Food

and a second hand stall with baby and children’s
clothes!!

Come dressed up for lots of fun!

Saturday, 2^nd March. 10am – 2pm
Uniting Church, Raumati Beach

Entry by Koha

December Meeting

Merry Christmas!!!!   Feliz Navidad!    Feliz Natal!    Froehliche Weihnachten! Nollaig Shona Dhuit!    Meri Kirihimete!   God Jul!    Nadolig Llawen! 

Our December meeting was packed with fun, activities and international food! Yum!

The families did a great job decorating the tables representing their countries. They were all amazing and we had a competition with a clear winner.... Norway!!!

Congratulations Rhianna and Victoria, your table was brilliant!! Check out the pictures below.

We also had our usual games: The Ball Game, The Continents and their Countries, The Flag Game plus a few games provided from the tables. 

We would like to wish you all a peaceful Xmas and a New Year filled with love, peace, health and friendship.

 Happy New Year!!!

The Continent Game

The beautiful decorated tables

The winning table!! Well done Norway!!!

The Flag Game

Dancing Around the Christmas Tree

A Norwegian tradition

November Meeting

In November we introduced a new game called "The Continents" where the children can identify countries belonging to that particular continent. It was great fun!! We had the name of the countries pinned on the walls and the children had to run and grab a country for the continent we were playing. 

The country we talked about in November was EGYPT. We had many books about Egypt with amazing pictures of the country, the people and, of course, the pyramids!!

For the games, we had the mummy game, building a pyramid with megablocks, building a human pyramid, roll a turban around your head, and also drawing your own hieroglyphs.

 The meeting finished with our usual snacks and coffee for the parents.

Enjoy the photos!

Checking out the pictures at the books

Make your own mummy!!!

Building a pyramid with megablocks. Great team work guys!!!!

Watch out.... it's a human pyramid!!!

A head turban