Learning ideas

Find out more about play ideas for learning and awareness days and weeks that can provide fun and educational experiences for children.

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

Play ideas for learning

We have developed a kete | kit of play ideas for learning that offer suggestions for a wide variety of experiences and opportunities to support learning and development. Each card is grounded in Te Whāriki.

The kete was developed for playgroups but will be helpful to other early learning kaiako and to whānau as well.

Play ideas for learning

Awareness days and weeks

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

Celebrating awareness days supports children and their families to experience an environment where they:

  • can affirm and extend connecting links with the family and the wider world
  • 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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