Making cheesy scones with carrots was a great hands-on experience for our tamariki this week. Before we started the baking process we all made sure wash our hands. Using a simple scone recipe we counted the scoops for our dry …
Maori Language week 2019!
Kia Kaha te reo Māori is the theme for this year’s Māori Language Week. Ngā mihi nui ki a koutou katoa. Greetings to you all. It was amazing to see how everyone joined their hands together to learn te reo and be part …
Tongan Language Week
Malo e lelei, The theme for Uike ‘O E Lea Tonga/ Tongan Language Week 2019 is Fakakoloa ‘O Aotearoa ‘Aki’A E Tauhi Fonua, A Tongan Perspective of Enriching Aotearoa , New Zealand. The children have been celebrating Tongan Culture and …
Le Siva Samoa a Tamaiti
Talaofa lava, Today tamaiti were excited to put on the hula skirt and flower ula (necklace) and join in dancing to a few Samoan songs. “Shari, can you help me” one of the children asked holding up the hula skirt. …
Mt Royal Supermarket (Pretendplay)
Our tamariki have recently been very interested in pretend play/ dramatic play especially the shopping game. This let kaiako to set up provocation to allow for this interest to continue. After discussions, it was decided that the tamariki wanted supermarket …
Making Dosa (pancake) !!
Food is one of a great vehicle for sharing culture with people from different backgrounds raising awareness and encouraging diversity. Thanks to the parent volunteer to come to the centre to introduce south Indian cuisine (dosa) to the children and …
Samoan Language Week
Talofa Lava “Lalaga le si’osi’omaga mo se lumana’i manuai. Weave an environment for a better future” is the theme for Samoan Language Week 2019. We at Mt Royal have been celebrating this through learning and practicing Samoan words, phrases, songs …
Trip to the Ambury Farm
What an excitement among our tamariki, kaiako and whanau to go for an excursion to the Ambury farm. The tamariki had heaps of fun at the farm, we got to see and feel the farm animals, run around in the …
Community walk/walk around the block
Our tamariki with great excitement wait for the day once or twice a week when we take them around the block for walk. Today we turned our walk to collecting rubbish around the footpath. The tamariki did not hesitate to …
Taking care of our Environment
In the past couple of weeks, we have been going for short walks around the block with the tamariki to collect rubbish, to educate our tamariki of different ways to take care of the community/environment, especially our papatuanuku. This morning …