Archive for category: Aqua

What a wet start to the day but happy children loved playing in the our indoor space today.

We started off our morning doing some quiet and calm yoga as well as some stretching  following bonkers yoga cards .Then we moved to do free play where children engaged themselves making yummy cakes in the home corners sharing with their friends, some of them enjoyed making towers using magnetic connectors.

Children also did some reading in the book corner as well as sang song while ready books.

 After our morning tea children were encouraged to make circle holding each other hands for our lovely group time.

We started our group learning by greeting song followed by acknowledgment of the country as well as singing weather song.

Miss Nita read story of “Mrs. Honey hat “ to the children as well as sang different song according to the choice of children.

 Table activities, we made play dough together on the table and after we made we bravery medal of Anzac Day as well made Australian flag with Miss Sandra.

 We also played with sensory play dough where used different cutlers to make Anzac biscuits as well as pancakes for each other.

 In afternoon children keep busy themselves playing in home corner as well as building tower using wooden blocks.

In afternoon group we read the book brought by one of our friends Hazel and everyone loved reading “Scaredy bathtubs”.

Altogether-we had so much fun day.

We started our day exploring the outside environment and doing some stretching by running, jumping, playing football, as well as balancing our bodies on the steps.

Before we had our morning tea, the children were invited to make a lovely circle for group learning. We started our group time by singing multicultural greeting songs as well as the weather song.

We also had a really good time singing about beautiful farm animals as well as discussing ANZAC day.

After our group learning and table activities, the children were encouraged to get their hats on as well as help to put on their sunscreen.

Some of the Children chose to play in the construction corner where they used their fine and gross motor skills to build with the large wooden blocks, making hide outs and a farm for the animals.

Some of them started reading books on the mats using their verbal and non- verbal communication .

 Some engaged themselves playing with train tracks as well as sensory play using sand as their roads for the train.

 For the table activities, the children did painting with red and black colours to make poppies for Anzac Day.

The other children made play dough with Manju and used some cutters to make poppies.

Also, the children did yoga with Nita where they followed every pose and action of the Bonker’s Beat yoga cards.

In the afternoon, the children did some scooping and some made bubbles from soap and water.

We also danced to different songs.

Altogether we had a great fun day🤗🤗

Wednesday is here and we are creeping closer to Easter!

The children have enjoyed their day and have spent most of it outside in the garden! We love to play outside and enjoy the weather, especially since we have had quite a lot of rain recently. Today the children had fun running and jumping and climbing on the equipment – all big body movements that will help to develop gross motor skills!

After a spot of yoga and meditation, the children were ready to get back to playing!

We continued with our Easter basket craft by painting more paper with paintbrushes …

Everyone loved playing with the play dough today! They used the rolling pin to roll it out and the knife to chop the dough into little pieces!

We also spent some time building some wonderful and tall towers with the lego! The children were very proud of their creations and wanted to show them off to their educators! Well done everyone 😊

Welcome back to the Aqua room for a short week before Easter! The children have had a lovely day exploring the indoor and outdoor environments in the sunshine!

We sat down to have group time with Nita, where the children read books and sang songs! We spent some time talking about Easter and reading Easter books about egg hunts and bunnies! The children are excited to be celebrating this year 😊

In this lovely warm weather, the children had fun with water play! They used cups, bottles and funnels to scoop and pour the water between the two bowls. This is a fun way to develop motor skills, social interaction and early mathematics and science concepts!

We spent a lot of our time at the water station today and the children were engaged in exploring the water together!

The rest of our day was spent playing with the small world farm animals, building towers with the wooden blocks and houses with the magnetic connectors!

It’s Thursday! Unfortunately there has been no change in the weather so we have spent another day indoors. But that’s ok because we always have plenty of fun activities and learning experiences to do!

We started off our day with group time! Today the children really wanted to read our favourite Spot book and interact with the puppet! We always give him a cuddle, some high fives and sometimes even a kiss! We see if we can wave Hello like Spot, or clap our hands like Spot and touch our nose like Spot before tucking him into his house and singing ‘Twinkle, twinkle’ to help him sleep!

Puppets are a great way to encourage social interaction, empathy and care!

We continued with our Easter craft by using glue sticks and coloured paper to decorate an Easter egg!

We found a very big piece of cardboard and sat together to complete a big group drawing! The children had fun making marks on the paper and recognising different coloured crayons!

The children have also explored the play dough today! We used our hands to roll the dough into a long snake and then used the knives to chop it into smaller pieces! 😊