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23/10/2026

This week we had fun playing a French wild animals Bingo game. 😊
Two of my preschool tamariki have a parent whose homeland is France. 😊
Learning about the animals from our local land is linking to Mana whenua. 🥰

Home Grown Kids: Canterbury/Timaru Home Based Childcare
Janine's Home-base Service

20/10/2026

Last Friday, I decided not to plan a program or activities for the day as I recognised my Preschool tamariki were rather tired. I call it "Friday-itis". 🙃
What came out of that just blew me away! 🤩

The tamariki decided to complete a large foam Safari and rain forest animal puzzle. We have been learning about Mana Whenua together, one of my tamariki said "I think the animals come from Kenya 🇰🇪 where my mum comes from!". 🤩
So, we decided to look up what animals live in the wild in 🇰🇪 Kenya, we decided to make a matching animal game. 🤩
After replacing my laminater which decided not to work, my preschool tamariki learned how to laminate with supervision and guidance.
Next, they explored their creations, learning about Header, footer and sides of their matching game at the same time. 🤩

The conversation flowed to "what wild animals live in 🇫🇷 France where my dad comes from"?
Keep an eye out for the resources created from the curiosity and enquiry. 🤩

I love it when my preschool tamariki feel they can led the research and learning.
They also asked for images of the Kiwi because it is native to 🇳🇿 Aotearoa New Zealand
and wild animals from Kenya 🇰🇪 to colour.
The knowledge I am learning from my preschool tamariki alongside their curiosity and enquiry is massive! 🤩

Janine's Home-base Service
Home Grown Kids: Canterbury/Timaru Home Based Childcare

16/10/2026

On Monday we had an outing to the beach, our Christchurch City Council nature programme Educator came to guide us in knowing what creatures live in our oceans and at the beach. 🐧🐚
We learned about what rubbish is found at the beach and how our native creatures are affected by rubbish left on our shorelines. 🐬🦀

Learning about animals native to the countries we come from and how to look after our lands and native creatures is a part of our EFS and Mana Whenua curriculum programne. 🐟🐙
Our children are lapping up the opportunities to embrace our Mana Whenua, and they are curious to enquire about the links and connections they are making. 🫍🦐

We have spaces, funding applies, PM me for more details. 🕊🦭

Janine's Home-base Service
Home Grown Kids: Canterbury/Timaru Home Based Childcare

09/10/2026

We celebrated Space week today by making meteors, colouring images with thumb crayons, and matching up planets. 😊

02/10/2026

This week was Tuvalu and Fiji Language Celebration week.😍
We celebrated by colouring some images, Fish for Fiji and Tortoise for Tuvalu, and we watched , sang and practiced Sign Language from the Pacifika Beats Welcome songs. 🥰
Mire Language resources activities to come later. 😊
Feel free to learn these Pacfic Island Language waiata too. 🤩

https://youtu.be/QUtoqqE9D3A?feature=shared

https://youtu.be/GgQcktL2xpw?feature=shared

29/09/2026

Today, we had so much fun visiting Styx Mill Conservation Reserve. 🤩
We learnt about our local mana whenua, the creatures that live there and we made a new friend with Shelly the Paradise Sheldon female duck. 🥰
We saw Pukeko, black Swans, and ducklings. 😍

This is one of the ways we learn and explore our curriculum and local land through fun exploration. 🤩

Janine's Home-base Service
Home Grown Kids: Canterbury/Timaru Home Based Childcare

27/09/2026

Āhiāhi mārie, awesome whanau, as a part of the Bachelor of Teaching Degree ECE through Te Rito Maioha we have been learning about practicing Te Reo me onā Māori and Pacifica Languages with our tamariki. 🥰
One of the fun ways we practice this here is through fun matching activities. 😍
Our tamariki of all ages explore with these rauemi in their individual ways. 🤩

Janine's Home-base Service
Home Grown Kids: Canterbury/Timaru Home Based Childcare

24/09/2026

We have an awesome boy in our care who would like another boy to join us to become his friend, preferably ages 2-4 years old. 🤩
Attached are a few photographs of just some the activities that boys in my care have enjoyed exploring over time. 😊
We have outside activities not limited to the photographs of stepping blocks, ramps and blanks, trampoline, sandpit, balls, sports equipment, and bikes. 🥰
We have inside activities not just limited to vehicles, dinosaurs, insects, balls and music.
Play dough, science, painting, art and cooking also happen here. 😍
We have also visit real excavation vehicles and observed them in action. 🤩
We also visit music on a Tuesday morning where more slides, ball pits, free morning tea and playing with friends is found. 🥰
If you have an awesome boy who would love to join our homebase environment, we would be excited to hear from you. 😍😊

# Grown Kids: Canterbury/Timaru Home Based Childcare

22/09/2026

The voices of our tamariki are encouraged to be shared and heard. 🥰🧒👧
My tamariki noticed the sounds had changed in their favourite sounds resources. Together we learned how to resolve challenges by replacing batteries this time. 🤩
Next time, it could be a different strategy used to resolve the challenge. Whatever it is we work together as team to create shared opportunities and learning experiences. 😍🧒👧👶👩‍🦳

23/06/2026

At our Janine's Home-base Service through Home Grown Kids: Canterbury/Timaru Home Based Childcare we have started exploring our mana whenua and education for Sustainability to to become Kaitiakitanga guardians of our environment.

To achieve this we have learnt about the living creatures and plants in our natural environment and how to recycle to care for our environments.
We have visited the soft plastics recycling bin to drop of our soft plastics, supported our produce and naturally growing plants, read books. We have watched videos about hector dolphins and recycling, explored matching games, made natural art, and coloured images about our land and environments.

https://youtu.be/GniXeUdxpHk?si=NnpnvBn0vvUbE2sK

https://youtu.be/5b1hrWBSVDE?si=U83mpDb522l3vqAC

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