Welcome to
Kidz Kindy @49
At Kidz Kindy @49 we provide an exciting, well balanced educational programme for children aged between 3-5 years.
Transition to school group – the ‘Owl Group’
Our Transition to School group meets daily. This small group’s focus is to develop skills to support our children with their transition to start school. We will be working on writing their names, holding their pencil correctly, identifying letter sounds and names, identifying numbers 1-10 counting in order, and enjoying books.
We understand that each child develops at their own pace, therefore our teachers plan the work carefully to incorporate all the different levels and abilities into the programme.
For more information about the programme we offer please do not hesitate to get in contact with us.
Activities include:
- Focus activity – based on children’s interests, includes cutting skills, writing skills, stories, completing an activity
- Art activities – painting, screen-printing, collage, finger painting, messy play, cutting, sticking, glass painting
- Manipulative activities – playdough, clay
- Individual, large/small group activities
- Baking
- Imaginative play
- Mat times – stories, finger rhymes., counting, numbers, movement, music, instruments, listening skills
- Fine motor skill activities – constructing, sorting, forming symbols, art creative activities, writing etc.
- Gross motor skill activities – climbing, pedaling trikes, ball skills etc
- Water play, sand pit
- Early literacy skills – nursery rhymes, singing, retelling stories, identifying and writing their name, forming symbols
- Early mathematical skills – nursery rhymes, counting in sequence, counting at mat time, shapes and colours, understanding mathematical concepts
- Reading and listening to stories and enjoying stories
Facebook Posts
The children at 75 had a lot of fun this week doing some Easter art. Art is a great way to explore with our senses, work on our hand, eye coordination and concentration. Lots of effort was put into transferring the glue to the eggs and bunnies. The most exciting bit was shaking glitter everywhere! Have a wonderful Easter everyone.
49 tamariki have been learning about the monarch caterpillars that we have been seeing in our gardens. Today we read a book that explained about the life cycle of the monarch butterfly. We learned new words such as chrysalis and swan plant. We gave meaning to the book we were reading by making links to what we see at Kindy. This is all part of literacy learning.
We went for a tiny little outing to the car park to look at the swan plants. We looked for caterpillars - big and small. We counted them. We talked about the life cycle. We even found one chrysalis! We look forward to checking again next week and seeing how big the caterpillars will be and if we have any more chrysalis! 🦋 🦋
Recently @49 had a special delivery of beautiful golden sand that was transported into the new sandpit through a huge team effort between the kaiako and tamariki. Everyone has absolutely loved using the new and improved sand to turn themselves into mermaid's burying their legs and feet, as well as making sandcastles and doing some baking in the trays and pots. As tamariki play in the sandpit they are developing their hand eye coordination and fine motor skills. Their tactile senses are also being stimulated as they touch, feel, scoop and pour the sand.
We had our last Ninja Line session today @49 (run through REAP Marlborough). Tamariki have become increasingly confident on the challenging ninja course over the term. Tamariki who have been having a good go on the ninja line will be coming home with their ninja certificates! What a fun way to develop confidence, balance, and perseverance and physical skills.
