We did a lot of different fun science experiences, from rainbow experiments to oil painting experien...
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Here at BestStart Oamaru Kindy we love to build and create with blocks.
Celebrating different cultural festivals is an integral part of our team practice.
Our tamariki are encouraged to explore their interests and we extend on these interest through our l...
Children enjoyed the many activities setup for them at the centre
The children explored the natural materials collected such as woodblocks, pine cones, and leaves for...
This month the nursery celebrated Sea Week 2022 by participating in a variety of ocean experiences.
We took the opportunity to visit our local park where there are gorgeous gardens and beautiful birds...
We are a sustainable centre and as well as using cloth nappies, having compost and a worm farm, we r...
There was such delight as children discovered the veges that had grown such as, tomatoes, cucumber,...
In summer 2021 we were kindly approached by Abel Tutagalevao to work with him in his upcoming book s...
Here at BestStart Wolverton Street we embrace what makes each whānau and child unique; we cherish an...
Tamariki have really been challenging themselves to see how far they can jump, how high they can cli...
We read the story "Have you filled a bucket today?". We followed this story with an activity that he...
At Beststart Newmarket we value and acknowledge our diverse Whanau with a variety of cultural celeb...
During the month of March we extended the interest of sensory play from last month as our toddlers...
We plan weekly activities the align with the interests and development stages for nga tamariki to pa...
We recently installed a sound board in our outdoor space
Recently we had one of our playgrounds revamped at BestStart Napier Central to align with our centr...
We held a Red Heart Day to celebrate and learn about what we can do to keep ourselves healthy.
Learning about dinosaurs is our latest exciting class project!
Our tamariki had awesome fun experimenting with cornstarch, food colouring and water.
Our tamariki have been busy exploring their environments and all of the activities and experiences o...
A Volcanic Eruption! Our Preschool and Prep room worked together to build a huge volcano in the sa...
Seasons are changing and we are quickly approaching Autumn
Today we set out a wonderful obstacle course using the coloured stepping stones and ladder
What better way to learn about our local area than to use all our senses
Proud and respectful are a couple of the words that come to mind when taking these wonderful tamarik...
To celebrate all our tamariki transitioning to school, we put on a graduation ceremony to honour the...
Introducing our team
We've been focusing on animal science this week in the Matakauri class
Young children are naturally inquisitive, full of questions about the world around them and the driv...
Here in the over two environment we are making the most of the warm weather
We’ve been focusing on our indoor space and looking at ways to create an environment for our childre...
Sensory exploration can foster many learning outcomes such as brain development, moreover well-being...
We've been busy practicing gross motor, balance, hand eye coordination with a range of physical acti...
Gardening is a great hand-on experience that offers so many fun and interesting learning opportuniti...
We have had some beautiful summer days and have not wasted any of those days here in the Harakeke ro...
Our babies loved the feeling of the ice as they explored it with their hands and toes
Our tāmāriki love to participate in all our physical activities, whether it's song or dance or explo...
One of the many ways we nurture creativity is through block play.
Celebrating a day full of upbeat Bollywood music and getting covered in colour is something our tam...
Today we had a large group of children supported by their room teacher, create the world with colour...
Here at BestStart Raumati our tamariki have been hard at work on a revamp of our centre garden. Arme...
Surrounded by trees, animals and open spaces
Our recent learning focus has been Turangawaewae which in Maori culture means places where we feel e...
In the Fantail room our planning is based around Whanaugatanga where we are working on building stro...
In the Kiwi room we have been focusing on sensory play
We've been spending lots of time outdoors, we know winter is fast approaching so now it the time to...
We've been exploring using stickers
At BestStart Katikati we have been focusing our learning around Te Tiriti of Waitangi.
Slacklining is a perfect way for children of all ages to hone balancing skills while building core s...
Building relationships and learning to about empathy, care and love are important skills to learn fr...
On this festive day, people play with gulal/ coloured powder , meet and greet one another and create...
Holi is an Indian festival of colours
Have a look at how much fun and learning went on at BestStart Elles Road last week...
Our nursery tamariki love BUBBLES; catching, stomping, blowing and watching bubbles
Our garden has been a work in progress for quite a while!
We began this painting experience with a paintbrush and then extend to use the foam brush
What an exciting month it was for our tamariki at Murphy’s Park as the children explored different...
We incorporate Mathematics into our daily teaching to enable our children to become powerful and com...
Our teachers made a array of lemon essence water and froze it for the children to explore...
The tamariki are enjoying the new resources which encourage playing and learning with and alongside...
With our current preschool room focus around insects and bugs, we headed out to see what we could fi...
We celebrated ‘Little Heart Day’ at our centre we have two children in our centre that are heart chi...
At BestStart Marne Road Kindy the children have been learning to explore their creativity with clay...
We celebrated Saint Patrick's Day through arts and crafts, stories, discussions and dressing up
Tamariki are using lots of trial-and-error strategies to make discoveries and test their ideas
Fun, laughter and more fun, what better way to celebrate Te Rā o te tamariki
The Pikler Triangle is an activity which is part of the Montessori learning method.
We are privileged to have a specialist music teacher join us for one day a week
Today we got to do the first harvest of one of our apple trees
Our children’s culture and identity matters to us and we like to celebrate this diversity. We kicked...
We've been talking about shapes, patterns, numbers and quantities
The tamariki love to explore painting through different textures, consistency, tools, materials and...
Last week we used felt pens to draw pictures and express our imagination
Tamariki gain social skills through interacting with their peers and teachers, develop concepts of s...
We take the time to get to know each child and their whanau before they begin with us, this really h...
Over the month of February our two year old room ( ruma pihinga) got to experience the excitement of...
Our lovey cook Ellen collected all of the Countdown Lego bricks for nga tamariki (the children)...
This month there has been a big focus on exploration and science across all three rooms
What fun filled days our tamariki have been having these last few weeks - the enjoyment and laughte...
science and math skillsas they manipulate materials. Woods Sensory Play ...
Our children get really excited when they visit the Paua room as they love to challenge themselves
At BestStart Vivian Street tamariki are interested in learning about healthy foods and are excited...
Today we got out our parachute and instantly all of our tamariki/children gravitated towards it
With our growing rolls and while building a teaching team in our relatively newly opened centre, ens...
Through art tamariki of all abilities can find a place to be expressive helping them blossom and gro...
Our chlidren's interest in 'real life' play and nature continues...
Today we went adventuring into our local community to explore our environment