Grey Lynn Montessori

At Grey Lynn Montessori, we offer high quality Montessori early education and a tailored enrolment offer to suit your families needs. We invite you to come and see for yourself 🌟 Enquire today!

Montessori moments✨

Our tamariki have been deeply engaged with the Montessori materials, building focus, concentration, and accuracy through hands-on learning experiences. Each activity encourages children to slow down, think carefully, and take pride in completing tasks independently at their own pace.

As they repeat and refine their movements, children are developing perseverance, confidence, and a strong sense of responsibility for their learning environment. It’s wonderful to see the joy and satisfaction on their faces as they master new skills and challenge themselves in meaningful ways.

From carefully pinning objects to confidently making marks on paper.

Through daily Montessori-inspired pre-writing experiences, our tamariki are slowly strengthening the small muscles in their hands and fingers through focused pinning work. These simple but meaningful activities help develop the control, coordination, and concentration needed for writing readiness over time.

As children move from pinning activities to drawing and early writing, they are building confidence, independence, and persistence while learning that their marks, movements, and ideas have meaning. It’s amazing to see how these small daily experiences support such important learning journeys.

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So much fun in the sunshine today as the tamariki enjoyed playing badminton outside ☀️🏸

There was lots of running, reaching, swinging, and movement happening throughout the play space as children practised their gross motor skills in a fun and relaxed way. It was lovely to see their excitement as they worked together, took turns, and celebrated each other’s efforts 😊

Outdoor play experiences like this support coordination, confidence, and active exploration while also encouraging children to enjoy being physically active with their friends in the fresh air.

Tidy up time is all part of our learning.
After finishing our work, we carefully roll our mat, pack away our resources, and return everything to its place. These small routines help children build independence, responsibility, and respect for our environment and each other.

Through Montessori practices like this, children learn to care for the space around them, develop concentration, and take pride in completing a task from beginning to end.

We are feeling incredibly grateful for the kind words, encouragement, and positive feedback shared by our wonderful families 🤎

Montessori maths in action.
Tamariki explore counting and number recognition through hands-on learning, working independently and building confidence as they problem-solve at their own pace.
Beautiful to see their focus, persistence, and growing confidence as capable learners, developing strong foundations for school and beyond.

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Happy Mother’s Day! 💐 💮

To all the whaea, mums, step-mums, grandmas, nanas and mother figures in our lives - today is for you!

For the early starts, the big hugs, the long nights, and the endless love in so many different forms… we see it, and we appreciate it.

Sending love and aroha to you today.
We also hold space today, for those who may be missing someone, waiting for someone, or carrying their motherhood journey quietly. 💗 💜

April was full of creativity, kindness and connection 🌼

We got busy making Easter crafts, creating beautiful poppy flowers for ANZAC, and baking ANZAC biscuits to share with our preschool neighbours. It was a lovely way for our tamariki to show care, learn about giving, and be part of the wider community ❤️

We also had an exciting excursion to the big school playground next door! The children showed confidence, curiosity and teamwork as they explored a new space, took on challenges, and supported each other along the way

A special month of learning, remembering, sharing and growing together 🌿

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Our MOVE programme continued this month with a flying spinner toy, similar to a bamboo dragonfly 🌿🚁

The tamariki loved testing how to launch it, watching how high it could fly, and chasing after it as it spun through the air. Lots of outdoor fun, problem-solving, hand-eye coordination, and big body movement happening all at once!

It was a great chance for tamariki to build confidence, try again when it didn’t quite work, and share the excitement with friends ✨

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