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BestStart Rangiora's weekly trip to our local Library
BestStart Rangiora is looking at our local curriculum and what that looks like within our centre. When we look at our local curriculum, we also look at our community. We all know that all of us are a part of our local community but who else is in our community? There is no better way to investigate and learn than getting out into our community.
Kaiako Beverley arranged for our local librarians to visit our centre. They were amazing, they read us some stories (Pūrākau Pānui Pukapuka). They told us all about the library and invited us to join them on a Thursday morning for story time. What a beautiful opportunity to extend our learning. Kaiako Vicky got busy organising everything so we could do weekly trips to the local library, we all take turns at going so turn taking, and patience is practiced. It is a privilege to go on trips so we show the Kaiako what Rangatira’s (leaders) we are, and we all get very excited You may ask what learning is happening here (He aha te akoranga e puta ana i konei?) So much AKO (learning) is happening here I’m not sure where to start.
Firstly, we are all experiencing a rewarding community experience, meeting people in our community and friends. For example, our friend Arielle was at the library with her mummy, what a nice surprise. Every week we meet new people in our community. We make sense of what we see and relate it to our home lives and whānau. We talked about safety and keeping ourselves safe, we followed instructions, and whakarongo (listen) to our Kaiako. We see and practice lots of literacy and numeracy (Pangārau) and practiced our language skills. We see our local Fire Station and fire trucks, that is a highlight. We have mana and are always polite when we are in the library. We tūhura (investigate), ask questions and stretch our legs doing korikori tinana (exercise) walking and then running and climbing in the park if we are lucky to have spare time on the way back. Most importantly we all had fun while learning and can’t wait for our next turn to do it again.
Our New Zealand curriculum Te Whāriki tells us that the wider world of family and community is an integral part of early childhood curriculum. Keeping this in mind our next step to extend our learning is to add month visits starting next term to our local Rest Home. We will spread some aroha, sing some waiata (songs), we will make another person smile and happy because at Rangiora BestStart “Relationships Thrive”.