THE LATEST NEWS AND EVENTS
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HeadStart Childcare & Early Education Centre
We are a quality full-time daycare for 2 to 5 year olds. We provide stimulating and developmentally appropriate opportunities to interest and motivate each child's learning
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Through drawing, representing, playing, and exploring, tamariki are learning about diversity. What makes us different? What are our similarities? We are thinking about our whole self from our heads down to our toes, our brains to our heart. This is an opportunity to celebrate the beauty and uniqueness in everyone!
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Water play Splish Splosh Splash:
The children have enjoyed the various opportunities for water play as it has been a focus for summer. We have had the sprinkler out for children to enjoy feeling of gentle rain, and how it feels to get their whole body wet with friends, and children have been able to ‘splash or pour’ water on their friends and feel different volumes of water on their body. The river in our sandpit has been busy as our water tank was fuller after all the rain we had. The children enjoy using the pump to gain access to water.
Amanda bought in some tadpoles and the children love observing the changes and transformation from a tadpole, to growing back legs and now front legs!! It is amazing to see them grow and the children are learning respect for living things.
Swimming lessons are back this term, and children enjoy learning to be water safe and water confident as well as learning to play games, blow bubbles and look under the water, and of course developing their swimming skills too!
Exploration Mana aotūroa: They gain confidence in and control of their bodies » Moving confidently and challenging themselves physically | te wero ā-tinana.
» They learn strategies for active exploration, thinking and reasoning » Using a range of strategies for reasoning and problem solving | te hīraurau hopanga.
» They develop working theories for making sense of the natural, social, physical and material worlds.
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2023 – Year of the Rabbit
We have learnt more about rabbits and what they mean according to Chinese Zodiacs. Rabbits are said to be gentle, elegant, and alert as well as kind, patient and skilful. Amanda brought in her bunny called Blackie. He spent the day with us and we learnt how to be gentle looking after our animals. We have also had children bring in decorations and books from home to help make HeadStart feel festival during the celebrations. It was been such a wonderful start to the Luna New Year and has felt so special for the children at HeadStart!
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Celebrating the Luna New Year
At HeadStart we have been celebrating the Chinese and Korean New Year! 2023 is year of the rabbit! We invited families to join us to make some dumplings together. It has been so special to have families come in and share their time with us during the Luna New Year. And we also got to share a yummy banquet of food we made ourselves – thank you so much to the families who helped us.
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Water play
With the sun finally shinning bright, we have been enjoying water play again. Water play offers such a wide range of learning opportunities and is so much fun! Children love to make rivers in the sandpit and observe how water flows along the sand. Using the water pump to keep the water moving, the children also make waterfalls or they make dams with sand to stop the flow entirely. We have also been having sprinklers and water slides! The children can see how water pressure makes water shoot up into the air and then it falls back down like rain. The water slide is so much fun as we can go so fast down the slippery slide! We love having water as a natural resource to enjoy and learn with!
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Monkey Bars
At HeadStart we encourage children to grow their confidence in their own abilities and to create challenges for themselves. This really shows through when children practice the monkey bars. Monkey bars require a lot of upper body strength and co-ordination in order to swing from bar to bar. Children will revisit the monkey bars again and again while they are learning how to get all the way across. As they continue to practice, children will count how many bars they can make it to and celebrate together with their friends as they reach their goals. It can be a sense of pride for children when they make it all the way to the end for the first time. Cheering each other on and acknowledging the determination and perseverance to keep trying is what makes the monkey bars such a valuable learning experience!
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- 193 Hobsonville Road, Hobsonvlle, Auckland, 0618
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