Traditionally Māori used the Matariki stars to determine when to harvest winter crops and to plan for and prepare the ground for the spring garden, however in recent years planting has been seen as a great way to honour new life as we move forward into the new year.
Today at BeforeSix our tamariki ...
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Mangawhai Beach School Visit – 24th May 2022
This was an excellent opportunity for our older tamariki to join in at school. Our Taniwha group showed awesome listening skills and were able to line up and follow all the activities, balancing, coordination, gross motor skills and eye-tracking the ball. We aim to be regular visitors to the school ...
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Sharing High Tea
Giving tamariki the opportunity to experience real-life learning scenarios is invaluable as not only does it foster their language development and social competency skills, it also allows them to construct their own understanding of the wider world and make connections between the home and the ...
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Beeswax sandwich wraps
Here at BeforeSix we are constantly looking at ways to improve our sustainable practices, so for Mother's day our tamariki chose to make beeswax sandwich wraps 🐝🐝 It has been wonderful to see them being used in the children's lunchboxes 😁
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Closing the Loop waste minimisation
BeforeSix has been working closely to ‘Closing the Loop waste minimisation’ with Sustainable Kaipara.
Over the years we have been trying to reduce and recycle waste where we can such as:
Food scraps are taken away to feed local pigs and chickens
We collect our paper and recycle as part of ...
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Sea Week
This week is Sea week and as part of our celebrations, we took a group of our four-year-old tamariki on a hikoi down to the estuary to collect some natural resources and to pick up any litter that could make its way into our beautiful waterways. They had an absolute blast exploring the rocky ...
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