Category Archives: Tauranga Childcare

We are celebrating Matariki; the Maori new year. Matariki is recognised widely in the pacific as an important astronomical sign to sailors. Matariki was both a navigational aid and a sign that the weather was safe for long voyages with … Continue reading →

The children in the whanau room have been busy growing vegetables so they can sell them to our families and use the money for a special outing to the cafe for a fluffly. After a few months we had enough … Continue reading →

We have a soccor coach that comes to the centre once a week to introduce our preschool tamariki some soccor skills and to extend their balls skills and interests. What awesome fun we all had. Each child has their own … Continue reading →

We had a wonderful day visiting the farm animals with our under two year old children. We love getting out into the community to explore and further extend our learning interest and today we did just that. We saw baby … Continue reading →

Mia and Odette are discovering all of the wonderful books we have at the Ark and I often see the girls sitting down and quietly reading  and pointing out their favourite picture of the story. Today Mia asked Odette if … Continue reading →

Our student teacher Courtenay has been doing some wonderful activities with the children as we are currently celebrating all the different cultures within our centre. Today the children learned how to make fried bread.It was delicious.We all shared some together, … Continue reading →

How long is our sari?   We are using a sari on our ceiling to be the sky in our ‘7 days of creation project’. The children wanted to know how long it was so we lay it on the … Continue reading →

  We are creating the 7 days of creation on our walls within the centre.  On day 2 he made the sky so big and blue. We have made some fluffy clouds, a big beautiful sun and now an enormous … Continue reading →

We loaded the cars up put our bags in and set off to the beach. Our destination is Papamoa surf Club were Hayley patrols in the summer. Having access to the surf club gives our children the opportunity to look … Continue reading →

February is bike wise month and we are going to learn about bike safety and have fun while being active using our bikes and scooters. Some of the safety tips about biking and scooting that we will learn during February … Continue reading →