Our Yellow Day celebrations

On Thursday 22^nd of August we celebrated our ‘Yellow Day’ to show our support to the Cancer Society’s annual Daffodil day.  Daffodil day is a fundraising event that helps New Zealanders affected by cancer.  We believe it is important for our tamariki to learn through raising awareness and supporting a wonderful organisation like the Cancer Society. 

 At kindergarten there is no better way than having a fun dress up, crazy yellow day to show our support and fundraise money to go towards the Cancer Society for all the great work they do.

When the children arrived to discover that kindergarten had been decorated with lots and lots of yellow.  I heard some children say “Wow everything is yellow, even the windows are yellow!”  There was yellow Lego, yellow play dough, different shades of yellow paint, yellow gluing resources, our fire day bread was yellow, face paint and even the sign in sheets were yellow.

It was wonderful to see all the effort our children put into dressing up in yellow, finding yellow strips on a top, some wore yellow socks, yellow shoes, yellow dresses or yellow hats.

It certainly turned out to be a very yellow day, here are some of the children’s comments about what was their favourite part of the day:

Sharlee-Bea: “Dressing up with the yellow hair and skirt”.

William:  “Building with yellow rocks”.

Tristan:  “I liked the face paint”.

Teddie:  “Zair painting my nails”.

Millar-Rose: “Getting my face painted and playing a running game”.

Xavier: “Making yellow bread”.

Ashleigh:  “When I first got here me and Finlay put this yellow blanket on and when I got a yellow face paint”.

Fern:  “The pineapples and popcorn and the bananas”.

Ziggy “Cooking yellow bread”.

Theo:  “Batman face paint”.

From all the smiles on our children’s faces I could tell that it was so much fun and a successful day.  Thank you to all our kindergarten whānau for supporting our ‘yellow day’ and the Cancer Society.

Mā te wā, Susie