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Matariki with BestStart Mahora
We have been celebrating Matariki here at BestStart Mahora. Our tamariki have been really interested in the growing process here, so we decided to use our sustainability focus by recycling our yoghurt pots.
We hammered some nails into the bottom of them so the water could drain out and then filled the pots with soil.
We then labelled some ice block sticks with seed names and planted the seeds into the pots. Our tamariki loved watering the plants every day and watching them sprout.
We now have them growing nice and strong in our garden. Science and nature play helps children learn to observe things closely, explain their thinking and communicate their ideas.
They learn to classify, measure and predict. They create theories and try them out. They can experiment to see what happens if………. and explain their findings in their own way. All this enriches their understanding of the physical world around them.