Making Crunchie Ice Cream

Make a Smilebox recipe

Music,Music everywhere

Make a Smilebox slideshow

A toy piano was brought to share with friends and before you know it there is music every where. Sharing is always fun

Happy Birthday Ziggy

Make a Smilebox postcard

Some of the girls decided to throw Ziggy a birthday party they built him a wonderful house and inside they created a party with lots of yummy things to eat. Listen to them sing happy birthday to him as he blows out the candles on his cake.

Josh's amazing perseverance with his towers!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Petipeti moana for my Papa

Today Hannah wanted to paint a picture for her Papa. She used two colours to make a jellyfish (petipeti moana).

We didn't know the maori word for jellyfish and so Mandy looked it up on the internet and found petipeti moana.

Hannah wanted to send her papa an email of "a smiley face. HEAPS!"

Perhaps we can send your Papa HEAPS of smiley faces another day, Hannah.

By Mandy

ULearn Conference 2009

At the beginning of October, Marlise, Catherine (from our Kinross Street centre) and I went to Christchurch for the annual Ulearn conference which focusses on ICT (Information and Computer Technology) with new and exciting ways to use the technology with our young children. The conference is for all sectors in education and it is one of the only conferences in New Zealand that all sectors attend. We had a great time and learned lots of fun things, including new ways to use the blog, how to use Skype and stay in touch with friends all around the world and a multitude of other innovative ways to use technology. As always, parent support and feedback is important to us and valued and so please offer tips, advise or if you have any concerns.

Here we are at the conference dinner. The theme was 'let the sun shine in...' I think we did the Early Childhood sector proud with our costumes.

By Mandy

(With the help of Catherine from Kinross Street)

Olivia's mat time

Today Olivia brought two books to the centre 'Rocking horse Roger' and 'Jeremy Fisher.'At mat time Olivia took her books up to Jo-Anne and asked if she could read them to everyone.Olivia did a marvellous job showing her confidence as she read the first book and assisted Jo-Anne with the second one. Her audience showed their appreciation that words and books can amuse, delight and excite!

Our out of this world trip

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Happy birthday!

Today we know for sure

That Josh is turning 4

Happy birthday, Josh!

We're having a celebration

for a wonderful occasion!

Out And About In Our Community

Getting out and about in our community is a regular occurrence for the children at Learning Curves. "Circus Out Of Africa" was at a park near by and some of the children were interested in seeing more. We strolled up to the park to begin our adventure but Mandy forgot the camera and so she had to run all the way back to the centre to get it. Have a look at our photo story of our excursion.