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Creativity
Kaiako always love to see and celebrate the amazing creativity of tamariki. A range of resources are provided each day for tamariki to explore, setting up opportunities for creative arts both indoors and outside to inspire different groups of children. Here are some of their recent beautiful creations.
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Swimming
We are so excited to be back swimming for term 4! Once a week we head down to Hilton Brown swimming pool in Hobsonville for our own small group swimming lessons. Tamariki have already been extending their swimming skills such as water-confidence, floating, kicking and arm-strokes. Tamariki feel so proud of themselves as they develop new skills and abilities. It is especially important to strengthen swimming skills as we head into summer and whānau are spending more time by the water. We are looking forward to seeing our swimmers progress though to further levels in the upcoming weeks.
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What wonderful parents and whānau we have in our learning community! We love to have parents come in to share their special talents with us. Amber (one of our learner’s mums) comes in each Friday to teach us dancing. We love learning about a range of movements, music, developing coordination and confidence with her.
Sophia, another one of our lovely mums, has come in twice this year to do amazing facepainting art for our tamariki. We are very grateful for these meaningful contributions to the centre. Children are building a sense of belonging and connection between home/centre life.
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Mid-Autumn Festival 2024
Recently we celebrated Mid Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival. Tamariki enjoyed hearing about the story of Chang E, the Moon Goddess. We used our imaginations to listen to the story and then made moon cake biscuits for afternoon tea. Many tamariki helped make the moon cakes. The moon cake moulds used were kindly donated by one of our HeadStart families.
Once baked, the biscuits needed to rest for a few days to soften. Tamariki learned to be very patient! It's not often we bake kai and have to wait a long time before enjoying it. The following week, we enjoyed the delicious honey flavoured biscuits for afternoon tea.
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Te Manawa Library (Westgate)
We are very lucky to have such an amazing library in our community! Our current centre project is: ‘The World of Literacy’. A visit to the library is a fantastic way to discover new books, different genres for tamariki and to connect with our local community. Our groups of tamariki choose many books to borrow and bring back to share with our friends.
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Father’s Day campfire
Thank you to all the dads and grandfathers who joined us for our Father’s Day celebration. Tamariki loved roasting marshmallows with their pāpā and devouring the delicious s’mores as the sun set over the playground. It was very special to hear the dads reminiscing on their own childhood experiences camping and cooking over campfires too!
Tamariki worked hard on creating photo frames for their dads and other special people in their life. We love to show our appreciation for all that they do!
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Headstart Childcare and Education Centre is proud to be locally owned and operated, HeadStart is an important part of the Hobsonville community, helping grow the hearts and minds of children for over 25 years.