Visiting our friends at Tuakau Playcentre

On Tuesday we were invited to visit our friends at Tuakau Playcentre, we were excited to be once again getting out and about in our local community. These walking adventures we go on also help our tamariki become more aware of traffic, sneaky driveways and road crossings.



 The start of our journey took us through Tuakau Primary where we said hello to a group of Nanas arriving at school to help tamariki with their reading. They were excited to see us and gave us all a cheery hello. We then bumped into Armani's family who were busy shifting, we were all excited to be able to see Amarni's new home and have a chat to her whanau.

 

The walk was a bit longer than usual today but once got to the fire station we new we weren't far from our destination, every one was on the look out for the blue Playcentre building.

 

Our children were eager to begin playing as soon as we got in the gate and pleased to see their kindergarten friends Emmett, Grayson and Selby there. The parents were so welcoming of us into their special place it really did feel like a home away from home.

 

Our tamariki enjoyed all the different equipment that was on offer giving everything a go, the tramp was so popular and Georgina did a great job singing to each child who was jumping asking them to show us their moves.

 Ava and Kobie had a go at making paper bricks out of shredded paper, Grayson was able to demonstrate to his friends what to do, this was a real hit and we will look into trying to get a press for kindergarten, what a fantastic way to reuse paper.

 

Near the end of our visit we were shown playcentres pet weta Willy, he was hiding tucked up in his weta hotel and looked so big and healthy.

 

All too quickly it was time to say good bye, we were farewelled in style with a waiata and aroha and also a gift of a paper brick to try on our fire at Nature Discovery.

Tuakau Playcentre this was a special visit for me as I have been wanting to see your great centre for quite sometime, I had heard wonderful things about your special place from Georgina. Thank you for sharing your ideas, vision, passion and dreams with us and for welcoming us with open arms. We are looking forward to seeing you all at kindergarten really soon and hope this new friendship is the start of something great. 

Written by Cassandra