Well it has been a busy month here at Play to Learn. We have had a change of owner ship. We welcome Jocelyn and her whānau to the Play to Learn family. We are looking forward to some new signage and some advertising of the centre in the local paper as well as a new look website. The teachers have also been very busy enhancing the children’s learning by incorporating the “letter of the week” as part of our Transition to School Programme. Every day we have different activities to help the children … [Read more...]
Programme Planning at Play to Learn
About a month ago we changed our programme planning from construction and expressive arts to just expressive arts. At Play to Learn children continue to show their developing interests in the expressive arts by partaking in learning experiences led by themselves but also ones that have been provided by teachers to extend on previous learning. We have set up a range of different painting and dye experiences using different mediums such as stamps, pipe cleaners and finger painting along with using … [Read more...]
Te Reo at Play to Learn continued
Te Reo at Play to Learn Pre School HamiltonOver the past few weeks we have introduced two new songs Poi E and Kotahitanga into the environment. The children at Play to Learn are absolutely loving it and are exploring new movements that can be done with the poi We have also introduced linked sign language and Te Reo Māori with the colour song along with continuing with the action songs such as paki, paki. We will continue with these aspects of Te Reo within the Play to Learn environment … [Read more...]
Carpentry Play… Continued
Kia OraFollowing on from Sahlee's blog on May 20th about carpentry, where she touched on how carpentry activities can offer rich, diverse and exciting opportunities for skill development, this blog post is intended to further your knowledge about why carpentry is important in Early Childhood and how Carpentry intertwines with Te Whariki, our Early childhood Curriculum.Carpentry is an activity that gives children an opportunity to build what they are interested in and, in doing so, … [Read more...]
World Mud Day!
As a child I have fond memories of making mud pies in the back yard with my siblings and cooking them in the play house we had in the back yard, I remember playing in mud as a joyous time and getting outside as often as we could. This year I was excited about Mud Day, because it fell on a weekend we decided to celebrate a few days early.We had a great time with the mud, celebrating using clay and even learning about the other properties of mud as a face mask and eating mud pie with … [Read more...]