What a fun but very busy week.
We hope you all had a great night at the Mother’s special afternoon and loved your little gift and card.
Special mum’s gifts
Not only were the gift and card making fun for the children it also provided a opportunity for the children to build their fine motor skills, drawing and writing development, hand-eye coordination, colour knowledge and concentration skills. This experience also provided an opportunity for the children to build their sense of belonging and identity. It was beautiful to see how excited the children were to make something special for their mum but to also tell Amber all about their mum. We definitely had some very funny responses and it seems that a lot of mum’s like to eat Oates for breakfast.
Identity, community, wellbeing, learning, communication
Areas of interest inside
- Cats and dogs imaginative area was very popular- The children were able to build a shelter for the animals using the kinetic sand and bamboo construction set. Identity, community, communication
- Construction sets that were used this week- Toolo, Train set, Magna tiles and widgets. community, wellbeing, communication
- The children were able to help Jess make yummy cupcakes to celebrate Amber’s birthday on Friday. We also celebrated Sam’s birthday on Friday. Identity, community, learning, communication
- Water colour painting- On Friday we extended this experience and asked the children if they could draw and paint a picture of them and their mum to go in their art/recipe folio. community, wellbeing, communication
- Pasting table- every week the children are so busy and creative at the pasting table, their ideas and imagination blows us away every session. wellbeing, communication
- Puzzles- we have started to put out some harder puzzles to build the children’s problem solving skills and confidence to persist at a task when it may be a little harder. learning
Areas of interest outside
It wasn’t the best weather last week but we are super lucky to have a under cover area outside for the children to still be able to play outside when it is raining. The children enjoyed-
- Pasting collage materials on a long piece of wood. community, wellbeing, communication
- Raking up leaves and moving the leaves around the yard in wheelbarrows. community, wellbeing
- Sand pit- Some of the children have been enjoying using the water pump and making a damn/pool for the dinosaurs at the end of the pump. Other children are using the cubby house as a cafe and serving yummy food and drinks. community, wellbeing, communication
- We have a very active group that love to run around the yard and climb the equipment and obstacle courses. wellbeing
- Playing in the barbie imaginative area. Identity, community, communication
- Building with the large wooden blocks. community, wellbeing
Group time
- The children practiced and practiced singing ‘Mr Clicketty Cane’ and ‘Skidamarink’ and dancing in pairs to ‘Hey give me 5’ ready for our special night with our mums
- We had a few children bring in show n tell last week which has sparked other children wanting to bring in show n tell. I will be doing a roster again for show n tell.
- Friday Yoga- Cracker the dragon of wonder- Thank you to Sam for picking last weeks Yoga
Community, wellbeing, learning, communication
Happy Birthday Sam!!
Last weeks photo link- https://photos.app.goo.gl/uoY64NSsrhUUwbsg9
What’s happening this week-
We had such a busy week last week that we didn’t get to do some of the experiences that I had planned, therefore we will be implementing them this week.
- We will be exploring shapes- the children will be able to make a shape collage at the easel, we will be going on a shape scavenger hunt inside and outside and playing a shape bingo game at mat time.
- We will exploring and learning more about Penguins, building the children love for our Mascot Pedro the Penguin.
- Waterfall Gully shop has been set up in the dramatic area.
- Construction play that is available in the room- Train set, magna tiles
- Threading- the children enjoyed threading the beads onto the string to make their mum’s special gift that we added a threading experience in the room.
- Autumn leaves spray painting experience
- Group time- Shape musical game
- Shape bingo
- Learning more about penguins
- Friday Yoga
- Outside- (The weather isn’t suppose to be greatest at the end of the week- fingers crossed the rains stays away during the session)
- Pasting on wood
- Foam obstacle course
- We will be focusing on catching and throwing outside this week- Using our under arm and over arm techniques.