Hey guys, Wellingtonians will be turning off their lights and appliances for one hour – Earth Hour – on Saturday 28 March at 8.30pm to show their support for action on climate change. Wellington is a partner city for Earth Hour and is aiming to get 1 billion people in 1000 cities around the world to take part, which would make it the largest mass participation event in history. So we’re turning off the lights on our buildings and we’re encouraging the people of Wellington to get involved. So what can you do? First, turn off your lights and appliances (get mum or dad to help) at home for Earth Hour and encourage other children to get involved too! We’re the first capital city in the world to celebrate Earth Hour so let’s show them how it’s done. For more information or to register for Earth Hour, visit http://www.earthhour.org.nz/.
Hey guys, check out Children’s Day at Capital E, it’s free! Join Capital E with performances by The Plops, fun with bubbles, including making your own bubble wand, and much more at Illot Green, next to Capital E.
Sunday 1 March – 11am-2pm
For more information, visit www.capitale.org.nz or call 913 3740
This Sunday is the National Children’s Day Family Festival at Ben Burn Park. Head along to Ben Burn Park from 9am for lots of family fun and excitement.
Hey, if you think you know something about Waitangi Day then give the library Waitangi Day Quiz a go. Do the quiz before this Saturday (you’ve got two days) and you could win a prize! Do it now!
To celebrate Children’s Day on 1 March, this year Wellington Zoo has a special entry fee of $1 for all children. Enjoy a fun and entertaining day for the whole family, with live entertainment from Zappo the Magician and a high energy, interactive show from The Plops.
Come along to the animal talks, and jump around on the bouncy castle and have your face painted by the talented team from Body FX. Pack a picnic and enjoy this fun day out! For more information phone 381 6758, email zooevents@wellingtonzoo.com or visit www.wellingtonzoo.com
Explore one of Wellington’s best kept secrets and enjoy the spectacular views from this intriguing 1920s house and garden, once home to Truby King, founder of the Plunket Society. Bring a picnic, take a guided tour and enjoy activities for the whole family!
When: 1-4pm, Sunday 1 March
How to get there: Truby King Park is off Manchester Terrace in Melrose. There is parking on Manchester Street, Rodrigo Road and Sutherland Road. You could also take bus #23, or it’s a 10 minute uphill walk from Wellington Zoo.
Did you know that a really, really clever person in Britain decided to study jokes? He found out that our brain has a funnybone!! He used a special scanner, called an NMI scanner, to measure brain activity. While he was scanning their brain he read them some unfunny sentences. Then he read them some jokes. When people listened to a joke the brain would use the pre-frontal cortex to make sense of the punchline (the important or funny part of the joke). This showed that jokes are funny to people because they have a funnybone inside their noggin AND that jokes work when the punchline is completely different to what they expected. For example: Two fish were inside a tank and one says to the other: “How do you drive this thing?” Lol. Funny, huh?
Bring your family to the Ruth Gotlieb Kilbirnie Library on Thursday 26th February at 6:30pm for an exciting quiz night. There will be a special kids’ round and prizes! See how many questions you can answer. A fun night out for your entire family. Teams of up to 8. So bring along your family or friends or both! See you there.
Stories@7 returns next Friday, fresh for 2009! Make sure you’re @ the Central Library on Friday the 6th of March @ 7pm (of course)… there will be cool stories from last year, including some of the Stories@7 special favourites. Write it in your diaries now! Tell your parents to bring you! Don’t forget!
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The Children’s Digital Library is a website on the internet that lets you read books for free! You can choose the country where your story’s from and the language it’s written in. You can also select picture books, award winning books and check out the recently added books! They have almost 50 books from New Zealand in their collection including Kapai counts to ten (a smart little kiwi learns to count to ten in English & Maori). Check out this website by clicking here.
