Go Bananas Childcare Hari Centre

Tamarikis are engaged in continuous exploration, creating and making sense of their world through play.

Highlights of this week’s activities and last week’s Eid celebration, including making delicious sweets and spending time with family.

Our tamariki engaged in a variety of activities both inside the playroom and outdoors. Through hands-on experiences and active play, they explored new ideas and learned together.

Librarian Visit Story Time🐇📖🎶

Today we had a wonderful visit from a librarian — and it was a real treat for our tamariki. With props in hand, the librarian told a vibrant story about a rabbit. The children were completely captivated — listening closely, singing songs with the librarian, moving their hands and even dancing along.
After the story finished, each child was excited to receive a little stamp on their hand — a fun souvenir to remind them of the special time.
The session was more than just a story: it sparked their imaginations, supported their listening and language skills, and brought smiles and joy as they shared the experience together.

This week our tamariki enjoyed lots of lively, hands-on play. They painted and scribbled with enthusiasm, and outdoors loved playing in the sandpit, riding bicycles, and having fun with hula hoops.
We also had a beautiful time of story time — children sat together and listened as kaiako read a book aloud, and you could see their imaginations come alive. As the story unfolded, many wandered off in their minds to magical places, imagining characters, adventures and far-off worlds. The storytime helped build their listening, language and creative thinking skills.

A favourite highlight was our playful game when kaiako asked them to pick up items like a toy dinosaur, a circle, or a square. This helped with their shape recognition, listening, and following instructions — all while having fun.
It truly was a joyful week of creativity, movement, imagination and learning.

Christmas celebration at Go Bananas Childcare Hari Centre Thank you to all the parents, children, teachers and our Area Manager Raveen Bajwa for their presence to make this event more special and beautiful. Have a merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2024 to everyone

We would love to thank the lady from Papatoetoe library for visiting and reading the Christmas books for our tamariki at Go Bananas Childcare Hari Centre .

What a best way to enhance Multiculture among our children by celebrating Diwali at Go Bananas Childcare Hari Centre. Glimpses of Diwali celebration

Glimpses from our Super Hero Dress up Day at Go Bananas Childcare Hari Centre