Our children did a fantastic job working on their masterpieces and group art for the art auction, K...
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We like to help our children to gain confidence and control over their own bodies
As part of our focus on 'Our Bodies', the children enjoyed having their feet painted and making art...
This month children were so excited for Plunket Week as well as the Holi Celebration. See what we di...
Today some of the children from BestStart Willowpark Rd went to the park to do a rock hunt.
At Home of the Brave, we believe in whakamanawa, manaakitanga and awhina
We are so excited to share photos of our new playground - tamariki are finally able to explore all n...
Our children enjoyed making koru patterns, poi dancing and also learning Te Reo words during Maori L...
We've spent many days this month engaging our tamariki minds, enjoying activities both inside or out...
We proudly showcased our incredible journey of collaboration, kotahitanga (unity) and strenghtening...
This year we decided to do something a little different for Plunket
Our children have been showing their creativity with the manipulative moblio blocks.
For us as a centre, it's not just about raising money for this amazing cause, it’s the aroha (love)...
At BestStart Kawaha Point our annual support week for Plunket is always a lot of fun
The children, teachers and community all enjoyed this fun filled week together as we did some fundra...
We explored 'Our Community' and made connections to our family, neighbourhood and the Meadowbank co...
Arts and craft activities like assembling a rocket ship foster communication, listening, attention,...
Keeping a clean, orderly classroom is important in a Montessori environment
Our babies enjoyed a full sensory experience creating artistic masterpieces!
March has been a busy time for us at BestStart Pipiwai Kindy with our Plunket Fundraiser to Sea Wee...
After lunch the children in our older classroom love to brush their teeth.
The children at BestStart Willowpark Rd headed over to the park to do some fun physical activity.
Young children at Montessori Bethlehem are encouraged to develop their own interests in counting and...
We focus on the child’s overall development, including the development of their body, mind and keepi...
Our tamariki (children) have been having so much fun exploring Pāpatuānuku and their environment thr...
Teaching children how to use utensils safely is a key component of our curriculum
The children have been busy outside keeping our environment clean and tidy
Holi is a popular, ancient Hindu festival, also know as the "Festival of Colours" and the "Festival...
Local events in our community are opportunities for our tamariki to make connections with others, w...
At BestStart Peachgrove we have been exploring Sea Week and showing our aroha for all things related...
All of our children enjoyed being creative as they had fun with arts and crafts experiences. during...
To support Plunket, every year we participate in fun activities to help fundraise for Plunket Appea...
What a great month it's been
The children had an absolute blast throwing powdered happiness at their friends and teachers, and th...
Each year we join to mark this event which celebrates the power of good choices and being positive!
So many great exploration opportunities have been experienced throughout this month through music an...
We celebrated Holi with the powdered colours, lots of dancing and Kaiako Swazi made some delicious I...
During our colour run, tamariki loved getting saturated with beautiful colours and spreading the lov...
'BestStart Wolverton Street, where we empower minds to think, hands to create and hearts to lov...
Our centre believes in supporting community and giving back so we organised some fundraising to sup...
We did a science experiment with our tamariki (children) involving white roses and different colour...
With raw materials such as sand, water, chalk, paint, play dough or paste, children’s imaginations c...
Today eight children and two teachers set off to Temuka Primary school for discovery time
March in the nursery has seen an explosion in role-play from shopping trips, baking birthday cakes...
To support our children's interest in music and movement we've been making musical instruments.
Bees are a real buzz with our whanau and today we made our own beehives out of egg cartons.
One of the things we pride ourselves at BestStart Girven Rd is our centre celebrations where we cel...
We are so proud to have raised $182 for Plunket during this week!
We celebrated St Patricks day in style this year. Teachers and children wore green for the day and w...
This month at Coast we celebrated receiving our Gold Healthy Heart Award after many months of hard w...
We were very proud that we more than doubled last year's efforts and raised a total of $260 for Plun...
Every year BestStart hold a Week and this year’s appeal marked an exceptionally busy tim...
Here are three activities you can try using tempera powder paint or Holi powder.
Have a look at this video of our Plunket Week celebrations...
We've been investigating and making discoveries about the human skeleton and organs
This month saw our Hometown Heroes take on a different role and watched some community Heroes help...
We've been hands-on with some exciting chemical reactions!
Today we got into the spirit of the Hindi festival of colours
Our tamariki have been absolutely loving the exciting developments
Some of our teachers swapped places to spend some quality time with different age groups, building n...
Mid February heralds a special time at BestStart Greenmeadows.
Children in the Moana Room explored coloured water and what happens when you mix the different colou...
To celebrate, we decided to use our special water drum that collects rain water to water our plants
Painting is a way for children to do many important things: explore ideas, express emotion, use thei...
Being School Ready and starting their learning journey in Primary is a big milestone! We want to ens...
We've been super busy and having heaps of fun while we are getting ready to get our winter gear on
Bells, sensory balls, cocoa husks, coffee grinds, sand, essence infused playdough or gloop and finge...
Tamariki and kaiako always enjoy Rose's sessions, moving to Maori music, listening and learning Maor...
We had a fantastic week supporting the Annual Plunket Appeal with lots of fun projects and activitie...
In the Nursery at BestStart Pukekohe West we love to learn through play and our experiences through...
Today our entire centre headed down to our local Gymnastics Club on a double decker bus to enjoy a...
Our pepi (babies) were given the opportunity to explore a range of environments, relationships and l...
Having the ability to look at a “wasted space” and turn it into something phenomenal for our tamari...
Our preproom tamariki (children) have been practising following instructions as part of their Be Sc...
We were lucky enough to have one of our neighbours pop in with some resources to make wooden cars!
Our children have thoroughly enjoyed exploring different textures and how these materials move and f...
Art plays a more important role in child development than you might thin
We had a wonderful day raising awareness and extra funds for plunket
This month, we were honoured to join the annual Plunket Appeal and raise funds and awareness to a ca...
To support the annual Plunket Appeal we had a messy play, teddy bears picnic, cupcake making, dress...
The infants room is a calm, caring environment where we focus on building relationships and followin...
Large, small, shinny, silky, tall, short, round, smooth, spikey, bright, flashing!
Children who become engaged in this area are able to learn more about the natural world around them
As part of our annual Plunket appeal, here at BestStart Omahu we have been working alongside some a...
Water and sand play are great parts of our learning here at BestStart Omokoroa - as well as being fu...
Through gardening, we see all our Kelvin Grove values in action – respect for our environment, exper...
Today we had our first BestStart Mums and Bubs Bootcamp led by Courtney who is a personal trainer.
We spent our final warm summer days enjoying our water play outside and of course our messy play.
Today we fundraised for Plunket by having a dress in blue day finished with sliming 2 of our teacher...
The children have been busy working together, taking turns and have been busy creating different cre...
It's the end of another week and the children and teachers have been working together to learn a lot...
It's been a busy week of fun with friends yoga, arts and crafts in the Bambini room
Today we held a Teddy Bears Picnic to raise funds for the annual Plunket Appeal
We've had a great time taking part in lots of activities to raise awareness and funds for Plunket
We started off our Plunket appreciation week with a Teddy Bear's picnic
Over the past few years our tamariki at BestStart Lynmore have been learing about the legend of Hat...
With such gifted artists, the array of art displayed was innovative, original, inventive, imaginativ...
Our tamariki have been very interested in identifying their own names and learning to write them.
The earthquakes and tsunami scare that we had recently has provided us with a wonderful opportunity...
Today we had our second Magical Wonders Group, so we headed over to the park for our Teddy Bears Pi...
Today our tamariki gathered the fruits of their labour and hard work in our vegetable garden
We've been engaging in lots of dramatic play activities, using our imaginations to make up fun games...
Our toddler's have been busy creating their own mud kitchen, mixing the water and sand in their pot...
We were lucky enough that one of our parents built us a new carpentry table!
We instill a love of caring for our environment by planting vegetables, learning to care for our ani...
We recently recieved a very special gift from a member of the community
This week the children learned about the Taupo Ironman Triathlon which usually takes place in March...
We took the opportunity to take a small group of our younger children to the gymnastics club playgr...
On Monday the 15th of March we were fortunate enough to have coach Tom from Playball come and do a...
The Prep Room tamariki enjoyed an exciting morning learning about chemical reactions through a volca...
What an awesome way to spend a wet day by getting creative with the Marble Run
The children got involved in making this delicious dish from India
The children have been using these different mediums to learn about what is inside our bodies, like...
With COVID-19 lockdown happening again, we made sure we followed the rules in keeping ourselves and...
Our teachers have also been working hard together on our Beststart@home programme to make sure we ha...
Our four year old tamariki at BestStart Omahu Rd went on a haerenga (trip) to the National Aquarium...
Tamariki are learning the value of using recycled material to create amazing artwork, see what they...
We have been amazed by the transformation of our garden into a giant array of Sunflowers cared for b...
Going out on the bus gives tamariki the opportunity to take ownership of their learning, encourage c...
At BestStart Foxton Beach we don't let bad weather get in our way!
Exploring with all of our senses
Tamariki are having lots of fun getting messy and exploring their senses through lots of sensory pl...
Sensorial experiences provide our tamariki with extensive learning opportunities
We've been exploring textures, from sticky, slimy messy play, to hot and cold water play, to texture...
The children worked together sharing space, ideas and actively learning through their play
Today we had our first Magical Wonders group at Queen Square Park.
Our tamariki have been apart of this learning journey as we have been planting vegetables, reading b...
We have been supporting children to learn what being kind means
We care for our natural environment and make all possible efforts to protect and look after it
The children absolutely loved this experience, they even got to be fire fighters themselves
With the sun beaming down on the Marne Street playground, we thought it was the perfect day to explo...
We've been exploreing different ways of painting as well as seeing how some colours are made
This week we've been learning new fruit and vegetables that they may not have seen or tried before
Constructive play has a rich capacity to teach children to problem solve, connect, understand and be...
Today kaiako Brooke set up a fire truck outside and there were a lot of excited tamariki ready to pl...
Through the month of February we have been creating a sense of belonging, building reciprocal relati...
A lot happens in a day at BestStart Paraparaumu
We've been exploring a wide range of activities that promote turn taking, fine motor development , c...
What amazing fun our tamariki at BestStart Clarence Street had with their latest learning focus
There has been wonderful to see children engaging in different mediums of arts and crafts, dramatic...
Today at BestStart Parton Road, we had one of our lovely parents come in and do tie-dying with our...
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We could see roses of many colours, bees, trees and many kinds of plants
Sensory and imaginative play have been key interests amongst the Explorers Room at BestStart Marne...
Freedom to play, to explore, to investigate, to learn, to discover and to create.
Capsicum, tomato, chilli, eggplant, coriander, celery, zucchini, and basil!
We've been working on our relationships with each other
What a delightful walk today into the community to discover things that start with the letter “Dd” -...
In our preschool and prep room, we have recently been learning about life cycles. Through this we ha...
Our tamariki have been learning all about their living world over the last few months. This has invo...
With spring comes the start of many life cycles and the prep room tamariki have developed a real int...
The preschool children and teachers have been working very hard together learning a lot of new and e...
Here at BestStart Hokowhitu, our tamariki had the opportunity to tautoko (support) their friend dur...
Creating close relationships with our children and whanau.
Friday marked the day that AmeriCARna visited town again.