One-uku was out in the deck area for the tamariki to have unhurried exploration and fun with it. we often seen tamariki enjoying messy play especially exploring with paint and spent hours in the sandpit. Today was no different when …
Planting Carrots
Tamariki helped plant carrots seeds in the yogurt container and they were very responsible to take care of the plants. Tamariki even reminded the kaiako to help them water the plants. Once the carrot shoots had come out and were …
Chinese New Year celebration continues…..
Today we finished off our Chinese new year celebration by dressing in red and making yummy Chow Mein (in Manadrin “Ch’ao mein”), stir fried noodles, its a signature dish of Chinese cuisine. Our tamariki also tried to eat Chow mein …
Chinese New Year
Chinese New year, also know as the spring Festival is celebrated on the 25th of January this year. 2020 is the year of the Rat . Because the purpose was to scare off Nian and prevent it from returning, the …
Shapes
When children have numerous opportunities they see themselves as powerful and competent mathematical learners. Mathematics helps children to think logically, strategically, creativity, and critically- skills and knowledge which are particularly valuable in today’s information and digital age. Children also become …
Exploring and Discovering
Welcome to year 2020, hope everyone had a lovely break. Tamariki had an opportunity this week to get outdoors and enjoy challenging themselves physically, mentally and socially. Some of our children challenged themselves on the obstacle course and even tried …
Forest Walk
It was nice and sunny weather we decided to take children for a forest walk. Like any forest walk we talked about the safety rules and got ready by drinking water, going to wharepaku (toilet) and putting on sunscreen. This …
Nature Walk
This week we took children on a walk to the Owairaka Summit . We are so lucky to have the Mt Albert summit on our door step. Walking to the mountain was filled with lots of conversations building around what …
Worm Farm
These days tamariki have been showing lots of interest in earthworms so we thought it would be a great idea to extend on their learning experiences. This week our centre manager brought tiger worms into the centre to do warm …
Being Creative!!
We were unable to go to the forest this week because the weather did not permit, so we decided to take some tamariki to our front yard to give them opportunity to collect resources that is available there. They …