Country Kids

Exploring Sounds with Kath Bee Today we had one of our regular visits from Kath Bee and her music. She has been coming for a few weeks now and we have had fun with songs, rhythm, actions, listening, and following instructions. Today she brought some different musical instruments for us to see, hear and even [...]

The children in Just Four Kids have been following with interest the life cycle of tadpoles. Have a look at our study of frogs. [View the pdf here]

The Nelson Mail reports on the peaceful protest held in Nelson on Saturday 6th November. Early childhood educators “should not be expected to run cake stalls” to keep their centres functioning, Nelson father Andy Williams says. “The mission of these teachers is to bring these kids up so they’re ready to go to school,” he [...]

This is a post by Clare Wells of the Kindergarten Association posted Friday 5th November. The reality of less funding to early childhood education services has hit home with the first decrease in funding coming through this week. Services receive funding from the Government four months in advance so the payment on Monday included the [...]

Country Kids has received $8,000 from The Canterbury Community Trust – towards the purchase of playground equipment for our two playgrounds. At Country Kids we are a moving, community based centre who has worked extremely hard over the last 5 years renovating our building and changing environment areas to cater for the ever increasing demands [...]