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We welcomed back all of our happy, healthy bees recently, along with some new baby bees who patiently waited until the time was right to join their new preschool family! We are just so happy to all be buzzing around together once more, having fun is essential at Honeybees!   Level 1 - what a great milestone to reach! This team of 5 million have done a fantastic job, banding together to fight off the virus. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you to everyone in both our Honeybees hive and the Kiwi community, for your efforts, support and positive vibes over the past few months. We are so glad that we had a bubble filled with wonderful families to stand strong with!   Honeybees is thinking of our little friends and sending all our love from our hive to theirs!  Here's some ideas to keep your little bees busy too - www.pinterest.nz/kpettersen0843/bee-crafts-for-kids/  We hope you all have the chance to give your loved ones lots of hugs and kisses these holidays. Here's a beautiful little reminder of whats really important, today and every day - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7dLU6fk9QY  Four fabulous days back after a brief closure due to the Sky City Convention Centre fire, and then the lovely long Labour weekend! It was such a pleasure on Tuesday morning welcoming back our little bees (who were extra buzzy and happy to be back in the Honeybees hive)! The children must have brought lots of good luck to the Honeybees family - thankfully our happy home escaped virtually unscathed, with no smell of smoke or ash to be seen. It is so very lucky that the wind was blowing in the other direction for the duration of the fire last week. To be extra sure our centre was spick and span, we spent time thoroughly cleaning all surfaces inside and washing all surfaces outside. We cleaned all of our air con filters, and were very pleased to confirm that all air quality readings inside and outside at Honeybees were in the green! It was a fitting reminder to our parents that having their children at preschool nearby to their workplaces in the city is not just convenient but also very reassuring and a great peace of mind! This week some of the children made a thoughtful card for the brave firefighters they knew had worked so hard over at the Convention Centre. The children also had a super fun Halloween yesterday, and as usual, blew us away with their cool, cute, scary and fun costumes! We’d love to share some pictures of our Happy Halloween with you! We trust you’ve all had a great week, and we wish you a safe, happy and sunny weekend ahead! The Global Climate Strike in Auckland today was even bigger than we could have imagined! As far as you could see in either direction both up and down Queen Street, the road was packed with passionate people - young and old - ready for and demanding change! We've seen numbers in the media estimating that over 80,000 people attended the Auckland rally and march, and that countrywide the number is likely up around 170,000! That's 3.5% of our population! WOAH! We are so impressed that SO many people came out to represent their families, friends, workplaces and ALL humankind today, not just in our city but of course all over the country and world! These movements are heartwarming and give us hope, but we must remember that there is so much we can all do to help the current momentum lead to the action desperately needed. It's a long road ahead, but it's OUR road, and one we should all fight hard to stay on! A special thanks to our amazing parents who brought their little bees down with them. The kids definitely made a big impact - they were surrounded by people wanting photos of them constantly - and considering they are the face of the future, we couldn't think of better people to hold hands (and signs!) with <3    As many of you will be well aware, tomorrow is another vitally important day in the fight to protect our home, our future. Planet Earth needs us - desperately and urgently. We need to demand change to preserve the future world for children like these, and the many generations that follow. They too deserve a safe, healthy and happy world. Stand up for what is right and necessary, in any way that you can! We are all one and together we CAN make a difference.   It was such an honour to be presented with two awards at the ECE Managers and Owners Summit 2019 recently! Thank you so much to ChildForum Early Childhood National Organisation, NZ Childcare Finance and My ECE for both the awards, and such a fantastic day at the event! Providing the highest quality childcare is our passion and absolute pleasure, and we appreciate so deeply being recognised for this!💛💚   We love getting to know the families of our little bees - and in some cases, we're even lucky enough to have siblings attending preschool together! 🐝 We love seeing our bigger bees take care of their younger siblings here at Honeybees! 💗  We're so pleased to keep receiving such beautiful feedback from our Honeybees family - we love you all too, guys! https://www.myece.org.nz/find-ece/4672-honey-bees These little bees make all of our days so special and we feel very blessed to spend our time with them. Here are some snaps of our adventures over the past few months! In October it was Mental Health Awareness Week in New Zealand and this year’s theme was ‘Let nature in, strengthen your wellbeing’. 🌳🐝 The Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand suggest introducing five simple strategies into our everyday lives. Regardless of how much or little you interact with nature in your daily life, you can make the 'Five Ways to Wellbeing' work for you and your families! Yoga and meditation are amazing ways to help children and adults of all ages relax, focus and breathe deeply and think mindfully. We often run children’s yoga classes, and we spend time practicing simple meditation using principles and activities from the book ‘A Handful of Quiet’. 'A Handful of Quiet' presents one of the best known and most innovative meditation practices developed for practice with children. 🧘♀️🙏 During Mental Health Awareness Week we also placed a big emphasis on the importance of kindness and how it positively affects others. The children brainstormed ideas of things they thought represented kindness and five children were awarded Kindness Certificates last week for demonstrating especially kind behaviour towards their peers and teachers! We all felt the kind vibes and are so grateful to have so many lovely, kind children here with us at Honeybees! 💚💛🧡  🎄🎅🎄🎅🎄
This year Honeybees is taking part in Auckland's 'Shoebox Christmas'. *What on earth is a Shoebox Christmas you ask?* Shoebox Christmas is an amazing organisation and team of volunteers who deliver Christmas presents (kindly donated by lovely people like us and you!), wrapped in a shoebox, to kids who could do with an extra smile on Christmas Day. They do this by working alongside low decile schools and preschools, Women's Refuge, and community organisations. This year Honeybees Preschool has been allocated four year old Tania, and two year old Eric. We can't wait to make their Christmas Day really special. We hope to fill their shoeboxes at Honeybees with awesome little gifts, and welcome our families to pop something small in if they feel like it! It's almost Christmas Time everyone 🤗💕🙌 Check out the festivities, love and excitement shared during Shoebox Christmas last year! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCJ_85ONxCI&feature=player_embedded Some snaps from Halloween last week! Always such a fun day! 🦄 🐰 🦖 🦋 🎃  Last Friday we had a very special visit from a beekeeper! Jessie from BEES UP TOP visited Honeybees to introduce the children to the wide world of pollination, honey and beekeeping - and to remind us all just how incredibly important our busy, buzzy little friends are! Thank you so much for your time, Jessie (and for the delicious Bethells Valley Honey!) - we are so grateful for the work you are doing to rescue and re-home swarms of bees in Auckland City. You're showing that a few people can make a very big difference, and we are so excited to be supporting your efforts! 🐝🍇🐝🍉🐝🍋🐝🥦🐝 🐝🍐🐝🍑🐝🥝🐝🍓🐝 🐝🍅🐝🥑🐝🥕🐝🌶️🐝   In October it was Mental Health Awareness Week in New Zealand and this year’s theme was ‘Let nature in, strengthen your wellbeing’ 🌳🐝 The Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand suggest introducing five simple strategies into our everyday lives. Regardless of how much or little you interact with nature in your daily life, you can make the 'Five Ways to Wellbeing' work for you and your families! Yoga and meditation are amazing ways to help children and adults of all ages relax, focus and breathe deeply and think mindfully. We often run children’s yoga classes, and we spend time practicing simple meditation using principles and activities from the book ‘A Handful of Quiet’. 'A Handful of Quiet' presents one of the best known and most innovative meditation practices developed for practice with children 🙏 During Mental Health Awareness Week we also placed a big emphasis on the importance of kindness and how it positively affects others. The children brainstormed ideas of things they thought represented kindness and five children were awarded Kindness Certificates last week for demonstrating especially kind behaviour towards their peers and teachers! We all felt the kind vibes and are so grateful to have so many lovely, kind children here with us at Honeybees! 💚💛🧡  Honeybees Preschool recently reached out to our new friends at BEES UP TOP who are doing INCREDIBLE things right now! Jess and Luke are a young dynamic duo based out at Bethells Beach in West Auckland who are determined to save the bees!
🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 "We have been urban beekeepers for five years. In 2016 we travelled the world learning about bees from beekeepers all over the world. We visited as many countries as we could get our sticky, honey covered hands on learning about the prevention of disease, crop pollination and honey extraction. We aim to increase New Zealand’s bee population by supplying healthy, happy hives to urban areas and to educate our future generation on the importance of keeping our little workers around." 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Bees Up Top rescue swarms for free before the exterminator is called in, they run Beginners Beekeeping Courses, and they build hives which they will install and maintain on your property - and then at the end of the season, deliver your honey to you! They are running a PledgeMe campaign at the moment, as their aim is to rescue and re-home 100 bee colonies starting this Spring. The hives that the rescue bees go into are expensive and so is their medicine however, so they need our help to raise funds. A small pledge will allow them to increase the healthy beehive population in New Zealand! For pledges of $30+ you'll even get a jar of Bethells Valley honey with a slice of honeycomb inside! 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Honeybees Preschool just love what Jessie and Luke are doing and are very proud to support their project. Jess is popping in soon to have a chat with our little ones about our even littler friends out there keeping our world buzzing! If you have a moment, please check out their PledgeMe campaign and donate - every dollar helps! https://www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/5779-rescue-rehome-bees https://www.beesuptop.co.nz/our-roots/ |
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