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	<description>Quality private early childhood education and care</description>
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		<title>End of Year Concert &#8211; 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[﻿This year, the children chose ‘A Pukeko in a Ponga Tree’ to interpret and perform in front of their parents and whānau at our end of year concert. ‘A Pukeko in a Ponga Tree’ is the New Zealand version of the Twelve Days of Christmas, and replaces the different characters in the original story with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lumsdenkindergarten.co.nz/art-room/end-of-year-concert-2011</link>
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		<title>Morning Tea at Little Lumsden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of our up-coming opening we had a morning tea at Little Lumsden to give families and children an opportunity to have a look around our lovely new centre.  There were some familiar faces of parents whose older children attend Big Lumsden, as well as some new families. The children all had a wonderful time exploring [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lumsdenkindergarten.co.nz/special-events/morning-tea-at-little-lumsden</link>
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		<title>Lumsden Children meet John Key</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We happened to be at the markets this am, when all these flash polished black cars pulled up and tall men like CIA agnets hopped out with little gadgets in their ears.. and then John Key appeared! Due to their great teaching at Lumsden, Evie Phoebe, Rosa, Sammy and Zoe were off hand in hand [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lumsdenkindergarten.co.nz/countries/lumsden-children-meet-john-key</link>
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		<title>Hawkes Bay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have been learning about Hawkes Bay, and what an exciting place it is! We really enjoyed talking about all the fantastic attractions that we have locally, like Splash Planet, the National Aquarium, theFarmers Market, Cape Kidnappers and the Gannet colonies. We also enjoyed learning about the Magpies, and all the great fruit that we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lumsdenkindergarten.co.nz/countries/hawkes-bay</link>
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		<title>Ready to Go!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are all ready to go! Little Lumsden is now completed and we welcome families to come and view our purpose built centre for Under 2yr olds. Come and join us for morning tea on the 4th November at 10am.  You will get to preview the new centre, your child can have a play, as well as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lumsdenkindergarten.co.nz/new-centre/ready-to-go</link>
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		<title>Lunch at Little Lumsden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Little Lumsden is finally finished and we have all enjoyed watching the new centre take shape. As an extra special treat teachers decided that it would be a neat idea to go and have lunch on the deck of Little Lumsden. We all got our lunch boxes and followed the path to Little Lumsden. Before [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lumsdenkindergarten.co.nz/new-centre/lunch-at-little-lumsden</link>
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		<title>I Spy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have been very busy in the art room, making pictures inspired by one of our favourite stories at Lumsden: ‘I Spy’. There are many different books in this series with different themes and different objects to find, so we decided we would interpret them in our own way on cardboard!  This art activiity has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lumsdenkindergarten.co.nz/art-room/i-spy</link>
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		<title>Peter and Mary&#8217;s Visit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We had two very exciting visitors at Lumsden! Ella brought in her lambs, Peter and Mary. We all loved having a turn at feeding the lambs their milk. Peter and Mary were lots of fun to play with, they even joined in with our rippa rugby practice! We practiced our Gentleness—Huarika and our Respect—Whakaute for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lumsdenkindergarten.co.nz/special-events/peter-and-marys-visit</link>
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		<title>Becoming Firewise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have been learning how to be Firewise. Knowing about fire and the dangers of it, is an important part of learning how to keep yourself safe. During our study we have been learning about smoke alarms, fire extinguishers, fire fighters and what we need to do if we hear a smoke alarm or see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lumsdenkindergarten.co.nz/special-events/becoming-firewise</link>
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		<title>Rugby World Cup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The children have a very strong interest in the Rugby World Cup so to support this we decided that we would learn more about it. As part of this study we have been learning about the All Blacks, specifically, Richie MaCaw, Daniel Carter, Israel Dagg and Zac Guilford. We have also been learning about what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lumsdenkindergarten.co.nz/special-events/rugby-world-cup</link>
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