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Celebrating language Weeks at BestStart Kenderdine
Language week fosters cultural connections and helps revive and preserve the spoken and written words. Language weeks are an opportunity for tamariki from different ethnicity to be proud about their cultural identities.
The month began, with the celebration of Father’s Day! In each room, children were busy making special tokens of love and thank you for their dad. We focused on our special celebration for our super Heroes- “Father’s Day”. Our children did lots of hard work to make their dad feels special and say thank you.
They were busy in doing making cards, decorating fancy ties, expressing their love through photo collages, and helping in baking muffins.
Tongan language week! Our tamariki learnt to paint tapa patterns. Here at BestStart Kenderdine, we celebrated 'Tongan Language week', by making tapa cloths, painting Tongan flags, learning to say 'Malo e lelei', and teaching Tongan numbers and alphabets. We would also like to express our heartfelt thanks and gratitude to Tevita Fonokalafi (Sian and Carla’s dad) for taking his precious time out to come and celebrate ‘Tongan Language Week’, with us. This is a great way to work in partnership with families and whanau and to acknowledge the importance of children's language, culture and identity.
Te wiki O Māori week! We sang lots of Maori songs and learnt new phrases, our Kaiako said a new phrase every morning, and we also focused on our Kaitiakitanga Te Taiao and made sure our garden was well looked after. We learnt the numbers and Colours in Te Reo which our Tamariki loved, we also made Koru out of play dough. Our Tamariki learnt a lot this week about the Maori culture.
Chinese Language week! Our children learnt to sing songs and rhymes in the Chinese language, next day they did colour on Fu good luck pattern in Chinese and on Friday we had cultural dress up day. Overall, our children had a great fun week while celebrating Chinese language week.
Children had the opportunity to learn about each other’s culture and also learn to love and respect each other’s uniqueness and diversity. Apart from this, children had the opportunity to develop their learning skills embedded with their parent’s aspirations through different activities to be creative and expressive.
Building on their existing knowledge and learning, our nga tamariki explore the 16 domains of play. Through a variety of learning opportunities that are provided in innovative ways, their natural curiosity and exploration are supported.