Learning ideas

Children learn through play. Learn more about play ideas and awareness days and weeks that can provide fun and educational experiences for children.

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Inform

Inform

  • All early learning services
  • Educators, teachers and kaiako
  • Parents, caregivers and whānau

Early learning services can use these play ideas and celebrate these awareness days and weeks with their children.

Play ideas

These play ideas have been developed for playgroups, though they can be used at other types of early learning services if you ensure that you are following the regulations and licensing criteria that apply to your service.

Parents and caregivers may also find these ideas useful.

The principles and strands of Te Whāriki are encompassed in the play ideas.

You may choose to view, save or print each individual play idea above, or download the complete collection of ideas:

Awareness days and weeks calendar

Celebrating awareness days and weeks supports the 'belonging' strand of Te Whāriki.

It supports 2 goals:

  1. Children and their families experience an environment where they can affirm and extend connecting links with the family and the wider world.
  2. Children and their families experience an environment where they feel comfortable with the routines, customs and regular events.

These are suggestions only, you can always reach out to your families and whānau to find out what other days might be good to celebrate.

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September

October

November

December

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