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 * Think of fun activities to do with kids!
 * Go to Bucklands Beach Kindergarten
 * Collect any supplies we need
 * Figure out what time we need to go to BBK
 * Get extension from Mr.Read

Bucklands Beach Kindergarten: (09) 534 6212 New faces mean new chances to learn new things and meet new people. || Kayxx || -Bring old toys/books -Finger/face paintings -Baking and decorating cupcakes -Story time with picture books -Dancing and singing -HEAPS MORE!!!! || We have a lot of ideas to help us with entertaining the kids. We have decided that we are going to raise money by a cupcake stall and buy some toys to donate to the daycare. here are the things we will do for the kids: -Face painting -Cupcake decorating -Story time -Paintings -Songs and dances -Nap time -Drawings -Make some music/play with instruments -Ask for people to donate picture books -A lot more ideas! || Natalie ||
 * Type your question in here || Hypothesis || Factual answer || Who is responsible for this question ||
 * Do the kids enjoy us coming in and helping/Spending time with them? || I think that they will like us coming in because we can bring them new toys, teach them new things and we can really show them how to have fun. || Kids enjoy new things and people that can teach them things that they never knew before.
 * Why do some kindergartens do well in business and others don't? || I think it is because of the area that they live in and the programs that they can provide. || The area, what the kindergarten provides and the amount of kids that go to that daycare depends on how much money the kindergarten will get.If you have a kindergarten in a bad area that may not provide the best care and programs for the children may not do that well in business but kindergartens in a good area that provides better programs may do better in business. || Kayxx ||
 * What are some issues in kindergartens? || I think some issues in daycare centres could be there are not enough toys, games etc for them to play with. || An issue is that some parents have trouble trusting the teachers at the kindergarten. Also some kids have ADHD, Dyslexia or other attention disorders which makes them need extra help. || Anna ||
 * Do the children actually learn anything at kindergarten? || I think they possibly learn a few things like how to paint. But I don't really think they are learning anything like maths and writing. Also I think it depends on what kindergarten you send your kids too if you want them to learn stuff then send them to one but if you don't really mind just send them to where you think is suitable. || They learn that letters and sounds go together to form words. They start to learn how to count things like shapes, cookies and anything else they are interested in. They learn their abc's and how to count to ten. || Anna ||
 * What do kindergartens need help with? || I think that they need help with having new toys for the kids and things like money. I also think they need some help around the kindy and with the kids providing new and fun things. || Daycare centers mostly need help with providing fun new toys and games for the kids because after a while they will get bored of the same things. They also need supplies for doing art making food etc. Another thing that daycares need help with for providing are diapers, baby wipes and buying sanitary cleaning sprays. || Natalie ||
 * What can we do to entertain the kids? || We have a lot of ideas to fundraise for money and ways to entertain them like:
 * What can we do to entertain the kids? || We have a lot of ideas to fundraise for money and ways to entertain them like:
 * Do kids at kindy have to do homework? || I think they only get homework like ask there family some questions, and bring show and tell. || No, most daycare teachers do not give the children homework. || Jaime ||
 * Is it mainly female teachers that are kindy teachers and why? || I think it is mainly females and there are very rarely males. || Yes there are mainly females as daycare teachers as to male teachers. Most men believe in getting the best salary they can to support their family and they don't work for the low salary they the daycare provide. || Jaime ||
 * What does Bucklands Beach Kindergarten do to ensure the safety of the children? || I think that they show them how to wash their hands properly to protect them from dangerous germs and they have gates to keep them from going outside the Daycare or getting out and wandering out down the street and onto the road i also think that they do a roll like they do in school to see who is here and who is not and for the kids who aren't here they would find out why they aren't there. To do this they would have parents numbers and emerngcy numbers just in case something || My hypothesis was correct because Bucklands beach kindergarten insure their childrens saftey by putting up fences so the kids can't get out and weird people cant get in. They also have a roll that they do to see who is here and and who is not and then call their parents to find out why they are not there. and they also do all the stuff that i thought that they would do in my hypothesis. || Tyler ||
 * What do children enjoy most about their time at Day care? || I think that they enjoy it because they get to play with their friends and see their teachers. || My hypothesis was incorrect because when i asked them most of them said Matt time and the sand pit, painting and the cupcake song ,the swings, the blocks and playdough but the most popular one was mat time. || Tyler ||

=Daily reflection=

questions and got some fair ideas on what my answer is. || Today I looked on the internet for the phone number for gym kids. || Today I made posters for our bake sale that we are going to have I also thought about other kindergartens we could go to! || We are going to help fundraise for the daycare center by having a bake sale. So I made some posters to stick up around our stall. I also wrote down some ideas for what we can do at the daycare center. || today I wrote up a draft script. || into the questions that I asked. We have also changed our daycare to Bucklands Beach Kindergarten. || Today I got the script cheaked by Mr. Read and changed the script based on what he said. I have not yet completed the script but I will. || beach kindy and it was so much fun! when we first got there we said Hi and she told us where to put our bags and go and mingle with the little kids. I first went over to the playdough and i tryed to have a convosation but they wern't so sure about us but by the end of the day they toatly loved us. Next i went over to the sand pit with Jaime and we made sand castles with this litle girl who i cant't remember the name of she gave me and jaime a bucket and a spade and we started to make her a sand castel which se ended up squashing once we got out of the sand pit I was quite mucky so I got changed into my P.E gear and then I carried on playing with the kids i went out side and i saw Jaime giving piggi backs and I saw alot of them lining up for another one so i decided to help out i had givin 3 piggi backs when i heard this music going and all the children were running to the mat area it was mat time. At mat time we were introduced to the kids and then they read two books and sung a cupcake song. Once they finished the song they were free to go and play after being introduced the kids were really sure of us and we were playing tag, hide and seek, and also giving piggi backs for ages the time was 11 o'clock and i was tired after all of that running around so i decided to do some painting with this girl called leshia she helped me do most of my paintings. After that i saw some girls in the corner with Anna and Natalie playing dress up Me and jaime went along and got dressed up t it was loads of fun. I got undressed because someone wanted to wear the tings I was wearing and i went over to the swings and sung on the swings then some other music played which meant it was tidy up time i went over to the block area and helped clean up their blocks and put the music things away by the time we had finished it was 10 to 12 which meant we had to go back to school and tell the class all about our trip. All the kids were on the mat wile we go changed back into our uniform. Once we were changed we went to the mat area and played this post man game and a dog bone game once they had finished the game they said thank you and said good bye and so did we and then we grabed our bags and hit the foot path and sated walking back to school. I had loads of fun that day and i hope every one else had as much fun as i did. P.S THANK YOU MISS HOLDER for coming on the day. || Today it was very exciting. After finding adult help from Miss Holder and typing up permission slips we were ready to go. When we got there we said HI to the teacher and she just told us to look around and to introduce ourselves to the kids. After a while Tyler, Nat, Anna and I got changed into our PE gear and started to give the kids piggy backs, I had a lot of fun doing that. After a while they had mat time and read some storys. Then they went back out to play. For the rest of the time it was just mucking around, they could go inside and play with playdough or paint, or they could go outside and play in the sand, go o the swings, play on the playground or seeing we were there they could get a piggy back. They also had show and tell which I sat and watched cause I was a bit tired from all the piggy backs. Some of the girls were playing dress ups and Anna, Nat,Tyler and I decided to get dressed up to. At half past eleven it was time to pack up which ment putting away the toys, after that was done we all got changed back into our school uniform. We had one more story on the mat and then it was time for us to leave. || Yay the day FINALLY came! We went into BBK and we had the most fun ever! and heaps more! I had so much fin today and I felt like I had done something good! We helped the kids paint pictures, make beaded necklaces, put on dress ups, played hide and seek, played tag, gave them piggy back rides When we first got there none of the kids wanted us to talk to them or play with then and most of them were shy! After a little while some of the more confident ones cam and talked to us etc but they shy ones kept their distance! Most of the time we were outside playing tag, hide and seek, sand-pit and on the playground. Some of the time we were under a sun shelter playing families and dress ups, painting pictures,lego blocks, doll houses, making necklaces and they ate morning tea out there. And every wee while we went inside and played play-dough, drawing, painting pictures and we had mat time inside as well where we had story time, news (show and tell), games and where we introduced ourselves. I know the kids were really happy we came because they didn't want us to leave! I feel like I made a great difference! Even if it is just a small one! I am really happy we went and thank you Miss.Holder for supervising us and taking us! I hope everyone else had as much fun as I did! || Today we went to BBK!! It was sooo much fun and we all want to go back there again! Hmm where to start.. Well when we arrived there we said Hi to the little kids and they ran away from us hehe. After a while they started to come up to us and we went with them on the playground, dress ups, stories, mat time, rocket spaceshuttles, playhouse, swings, painting and playdo! It was really funny because you got tired after a while because they would cling onto you and ask you to give them piggy back rides and play hide and seek or tag! The kids were real fun to be around and happy and hyper! One little boy kept on trying to jump onto my back because he wanted a piggy back ride so then all the other kids came running over to get one so I gave them one and then more came so I told them to go and chase jaime!:p Some of the kids cried though because they kept falling over like when Ty and I were pushing the kids on the swing one of the boys was saying how he could touch the roof on his swing and then he just started to swing really high and he hit the roof and fell off his swing but he just starting laughing and ran away! I really liked going to BBK because we all had heaps of fun and I hope that we can go again some time!!! Thanks Miss Holder for coming along!!!! ||  ||
 * **Date** || ** Tyler ** || ** Jaime **  || ** Anna ** || ** Natalie ** || ** Caley ** ||
 * 17/9 || ​ Today researched my
 * 21/9 || Nothing today || nothing || Today I didn't really do anything! But tomorrow I will research! || Today I updated the wiki by putting one of my answers
 * 24/9 || Today i wrote up the action plan for our group || today i helped kay write a script || Today i was in the library doing reserach about my questions! I didn't find much but I hopw I eventually will! || At the moment Anna and I are in the library looking for information that will answer our questions. Not a lot of info is coming up so I will have to look again. || Today I answered my questions and wrote some of my script (Jaime helped with the rest of my script.) ||
 * 13/10 || I wrote up my answers but then they got deleted ||  || Today I honestly did nothing! I helped caley with a little of the script though! || Today I also wrote up my answers but they all deleted so I had to write them up again ||   ||
 * 14/10 || no inquiry || || Today we didn't do any inquiry! || Today I typed up my answers again and edited the page ||  ||
 * 15/10 || no inquiry ||  || Today we didn't do any inquiry! ||   ||   ||
 * 16/10 || we were at motat so i didn't do anything. ||  || We were at Motat today ! ||   ||   ||
 * 19/10 || i finished my questions ||  || Today I did research for my final question so now all my questions are done (YAY!) ||   ||   ||
 * 20/10 || Today me and anna went into bucklands beach kindy and sussed out the date and time that we are going to visit them || today caley and i tried to ring the kindy but couldn't get to a phone || Today Tyler and I went into Bucklands Beach Kindergarten on our way home from school and talked to the lady Caley had talked to on the phone. She sorted out a suitable date for us to come in! ||  ||   ||
 * 27/10 || Today i me and Natalie made some permission slips so that we could go on the trip ||  || Today Caley and I contacted BBK to confirm the date we were going in. We also found a WONDERFUL superviser to take us! (Thank you Miss.Holder!) || Today Tyler and I made some permission slips for our parents to sign to let us go to BBK. Tomorrow we are going there! ||   ||
 * 28/10 || Today we finaly went to bucklands
 * 31/10 || I was at Tennis on friday and the kids from tiny tots were comming off the court and this little girl came up to me and she said that she rembered me from the kindy trip that we did it was real cute. ||  || I am only writing this in because today Jaime, Natalie and I went trick or treating and when we kncoked on the door a grandma and her grandson came to the door! And the grandson was one of the little boys from kindy and he kind of remembered us! ||   ||   ||

=** Daily Group reflection (Write what progress you've made and how things are going) **=

E.g. Today we made our permission slip that will allow us to go and do our inquiry topic. We also answered all of our questions. Our next step is getting all of the materials that we need. ** ||
 * ** Da __t__ e ** || ** Reflection:
 * 16/9 || Today we made lots of posters for our group's bake sale and came up with some ideas for our action plan ||
 * 17/9 || Today we found the phone number for the gym kids day care centre and we prepared our script for when we are going to ring them to get permission to go and help out. We also made a few more posters for our bake sale. ||
 * 21/9 || Today Caley re-wrote the script Anna wrote. ||
 * 13/10 || Today Caley edited our script with at little help from the rest of us. ||
 * 14/10 || We didn't do inquiry today! ||
 * 15/10 || We didn't do inquiry today! ||
 * 16/10 || We were at Motat! ||
 * 19/10 || Today we went to the office to ring but sadly the phone was in use so Caley rung up when she got home. ||
 * 20/10 || Today Anna and Tyler went into Bucklands Beach Kindergarten after school. They sorted out when they could come and what they can bring to help. The kindergarten didn't need anything but they said we could plan a fun activity to do e.g face painting, story time etc. The date that she said we could come in was Wednesday of next week. ||
 * 27/10 || Today Natalie and Tyler made permission slips for us. Caley and Anna asked Miss.Holder if she would supervise us on the day. ||
 * 28/10 || Today we went into BBK and we helped out around the place, played with the children and it was really fun! We all enjoyed it 10/10 (Excpet Jaime 9.5/10) We really want to go back another day which we might possibly do on a half day or teachers only day! We all felt really good and we know the children enjoyed our company because they didn't want us to leave! Thank you Miss.Holder for supervising us (And putting up with snotty girl) Over all it was awesome! ||

=Teacher Feedack/Feed Forward=

comment ** || ** Jaime's comment ** || ** Anna's comment ** || ** Natalie's comment ** || ** Caleys Comment ** ||
 * ** Date ** || ** Mr Read's Feedback/ Feed Forward ** || ** Tyler's
 * ** 17/9

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2/11 ** || ** You've completed some good work so far. Where is your action plan? It needs to be on your Wiki. I hope that your contact with the Gym Kids centre works out. Please let me know what happens. Also, I'm looking forward to reading your factual answers. Remember that this task is part of your homework and needs to be worked on at home.

Not the most productive day that you've had as a group but hopefully some progress has been made. Well done for writing the phone script Caley. As I discussed with you, your script must follow the format. Please download that format from the Wiki (How to ring an organisation) It's not easy to write a script, so please be encouraged. I'd like to see your revised version tomorrow please. I'm still waiting for many of your questions to be answered group.

Congratulations for a successful trip to BBK. By all accounts you had a marvelous time there and made a positive difference to their lives. Kids that age just love it when older folk come in and show an interest in their lives. I was delighted to read that they didn't want you to leave; a very good sign indeed. I'm also pleased that you want to go back there again sometime. That would be a great thing to do; it would have to be organised in your own time though. I'm sure that won't deter you.**

. ............. I was very sad to leave and I think it would be very good to go in the holidays. ** || || ** Yeah, I agree, we still have to do our action plan and write in our answers.:P Yay I have now finished my answers!!!! I had a really fun time and I want to go back again because it was so fun. ** || ** We are no longer doing Gym Kids anymore so we are now doing BBK ** ||
 * Thanks for completing your wiki and for each of your reflective statements. (Caley- yours still isn't completed at the time of grading this task!!!!)** **Overall grade is a B. (Caley-I'm sorry but yours will be reduced as you haven't completed all the tasks yet)** ** If you complete them before the end of this week I will change it.) ** ||  || ** You missed out Tylers comment Mr. Read