Rosy Cheeks Early Learning Centre

📚🐻 Bringing "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" to Life 🦆🐴

Our tamariki have been loving the classic story Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Written by Bill Martin Jr., illustrated by Eric Carle. By adding felt animals, children can match each character to the story, making it a hands-on, engaging experience.

The repetitive language and predictable pattern help children build confidence as they begin to anticipate what comes next, strengthen their memory, develop vocabulary, and encourage early literacy skills. Using felt pieces also supports fine motor development, storytelling, and imaginative play as tamariki retell the story in their own way.

Experiences like these reflect Te Whāriki, fostering communication, exploration, and a love of books through meaningful, play based learning. 🌈

📚🦁 Bringing “Dear Zoo” to Life 🐒🐘

Our tamariki have been enjoying the much-loved story “Dear Zoo” by Rod Campbell. To make the story more interactive, we added felt animals for children to hold, explore and bring each character to life.

Using props alongside stories helps tamariki build language, imagination and confidence as they retell the story, make connections, and engage in meaningful conversations. This supports Te Whāriki by strengthening communication, creativity, and learning through play. 💛

🌊✨ Waitī River ✨🌊
For Matariki, some of our tamariki explored and learnt about Waitī, the Matariki star connected to freshwater. Together they created a river, using imagination, teamwork and problem solving.

✨ Magnetic Shape Tile Creations ✨

Our tamariki have been exploring their creativity and imagination through magnetic shape tiles. We have seen garages, roads, houses, rocket ships, and even dinosaurs come to life as children design, build, and experiment with different shapes.

This open-ended play supports problem-solving, spatial awareness, fine motor skills, and confidence as tamariki share their ideas and bring their creations to life. It encourages curiosity, teamwork and collaboration, and the joy of learning through exploration. 🌱