The Pet Shop Trip

On Friday, the tamariki in the Koru group went for a walk into town to visit the pet shop.

We took some extra adults that the tamariki had to look after and hold their hands crossing the road, and make sure they went the right way.

Kase was one of the leaders and he had the map that Te Awhina had printed from the internet.

We went down the road and over the bridge to town.  The pet shop is at the end of town and we soon found it- we could tell it was the pet shop because there was a big dog in the window!

There were some very interesting fish in lots of different tanks of water, some budgies in a cage and some lorikeets.  One of the lorikeets was really friendly and sat on some of the children’s shoulders!!

We chose 2 little goldfish fish to buy for kindergarten and the pet shop lady gave us a water snail for free! 

It was a very pleasant walk back to kindy, and we even got to walk around on the reserve land which is soon going to be part of kindergarten’s land for us to plant and grow things on.

It was a great trip, so thank you Te Awhina for organising it, and to the adults who came too.

Clare, March 2013.