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From Donna Wrack
Deputy CEO
Kiwicare Pre School
You can discover more about a person
in an hour of play than in a year of
conversation
Plato
Engaging in messy play can be hugely
beneficial to babies' and young
children's cognitive and creative
development.
To mess about is to play with
something and it is through play -
which is part of the creative process
(Duffy 1998) - that children learn and
develop.
Children are being creative when they
use materials in new ways, combine
previously unconnected materials and
make discoveries that are new to them,
and messy play enables children to do
all these things.
Some people assume that by age 3,
children should have left messy play
behind and be doing something
constructive such as making things.
However, messy play continues to offer
older children many opportunities for
learning. Benefits include:
Social and emotional development
Self-confidence and self-esteem,
making relationships, and emotional
development including self-control.
Problem-solving skills
Concentrating, planning and seeing
things through to completion.
Self respect and other respect
It helps children to share, interact,
observe others and to understand that
there needs to be agreed values and
codes of behaviour for groups to work
together harmoniously.
Communication
Includes language for communicating
and listening, reading and writing.
Children use words and/or gestures to
communicate and the informal context
encourages confidence.
Understanding the process of
representation through making marks
with materials and ascribing meanings
to them leads to understanding the
symbolic nature of written language.
Maths learning
Calcul ati ng s hape a nd sp ace,
measuring while sorting, gaining
interest in shape and space.
Using everyday words to describe
position such as heavier or lighter to
compare quantities and methods to
solve practical problems.
Exploration
Investigation, observing, selecting and
manipulating objects and materials.
Identifying simple features, similarities
and differences.
Physical development
Developing body control, poise,
balance, co-ordination and control in
large and small movements.
Mint House (4.5 - 6 years)
Centre Supervisor Ritesh Bansal, Supervisors Sally Pugh, Usha Diwan
Eid Ul-Fitr is a 3-day celebratory
feast that marks the end of fasting of
the Islamic month of Ramadan.
Similar to Matariki, Eid celebrates the
sighting of the new moon and it is a
time of reflection, sharing with
others, and looking forward to the
future.
On Friday 19 th August, many of our
Muslim children and some of our
teachers arrived dressed in beautiful
new clothes.
Teacher Mohammed led a mat time
and we learnt how to greet each
other with Eid Mubarak Eid greetings.
We saw a mosque, and listened to a
call to prayer.
Usha decorated the girls’ hands with
mehndi (henna designs). Farah’s
Mum Loriza showed us how to
prepare Seviyan, a traditional Indian
sweet made with vermicelli, milk,
Orange House (3.5 - 4.5 years)
Centre Supervisor Avalina Cook, Supervisors Moses Holi, Tala Tupou
Our tamariki have been acting out
job-related scenarios during the past
few weeks and we invited parents to
come to tell us about their jobs.
What a great response we’ve had
and we’ve been able to learn so
much about what our parents do
each day.
Archiya’s mum Artee, is a nurse at
Middlemore Hospital and came in her
uniform to talk about her work.
Mustafaa’s dad, Mohammed Ali,
talked to us about being a retail
manager at Farmers.
Salesi’s dad Utura came and spoke
about playing for The Chiefs and
many other mums and dads
OSCAR (Up to 13 years)
Co ordinator Viv Manukau
The Olympic Games has given our
OSCAR children a chance to extend
their knowledge about the history of
the games and find out about some
of the events.
Apart from this children have been
learning to weave. We used some
recycled materials to make a
serviette ring which also can be used
as a bracelet.
As usual children are taking a lot of
interest in word finds and puzzles.
It’s encouraging to see older kids
helping the younger ones to solve
puzzles and play games.
By Mohammed
almonds and spices. It was
delicious! By Sally
Learning how to pray
Making sweets
participated in Māori Language week
and our Olympic Parade. By Avalina
Achiva’s mum Artee is a nurse
Look what we made out of cards!
Kiwicare Pre School, 48 Tennessee Ave, Mangere East, Manukau 2024—Phone
0800 550 014
www.kiwicarepreschool.co.nz