Laughton Kindergarten Visit

Written By Kim Manunui

We've been having fun at Laughton Kindergarten doing something a bit different lately. The children were interested in making mountains and rivers in the sandpit, so we showed them how calderas, like Lake Taupo, are formed using a balloon as a magma chamber. See instructions for this cool experiment below. The foam on the water led to discussions around how bubbly lava turns into pumice and we experimented with floating and sinking pumice and obsidian. This play led to an interest in rocks and fossils, so last week we made our own fossils (using playdough and plaster of Paris) and broke rocks from Kiritehere beach open to find real fossils! The tamariki learnt so much through this fun play. Check out the links below to learn more.

How to make your own fossils:

https://www.kidsgreeningtaupo.org.nz/activities.../fossils

How to make a caldera in the sandpit:

https://www.kidsgreeningtaupo.org.nz/.../Volcano-and-caldera

Fossil hunting:

https://www.kidsgreeningtaupo.org.nz/activ.../fossil-hunting

Kim Manunui

Hi, I’m Kim and I work with a great team to help individuals, as well as small and not so small businesses get their message, product and services to the world using digital media and creating wonderful websites that don’t cost the earth.

I was born in Canada, and grew up around Vancouver and the mountains of British Columbia. My love of pristine environments led me to New Zealand and eventually to the mountains, lakes and rivers of the central North Island which is home. My family’s heritage is here, and it’s from here that Korio traverses the planet.

The digital world is never static and neither are we.

And I say ‘we’ because I work with an awesome group of talented people who I gather together as required to complete a project.  Whatever your business, not-for-profit or individual needs are we gather the best team to get the job done.

Collaboratively we are creative, share sustainable values and work hard for great outcomes because that’s the buzz of satisfaction that drives us.

If you have an audience and market to reach, we can make that happen. Creative design, words that work and smart behind the scenes stuff that cuts through the online noise. We’ll design your website and then build it. We’ll manage the content as well as all your hosting needs. We can handle your online advertising so you get noticed,
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