Archive for category: Aqua

Happy Wednesday! What a beautiful sunny day, the children are all running around in the outdoor area enjoying the weather but staying safe with hats on and cream applied. The children even help the teacher’s to apply cream.
Early in the morning the children joined Alejandra on the mat to do some yoga. Yoga has many benefits some being, helps manage anxiety, improves emotional regulation, boost self-esteem and many more.
Outside in the sunshine, a group of children were enjoying the kitchen set in the cubby house. Adeline, Lily and Charlotte cooked some food for Celina, Elise and Nicolaus who came to the restaurant. Adeline spoke about the dish washer and cleaning the dishes. They used leaves form the tree as spaghetti. The children really enjoyed this area and played for a long time.
Dino land was a big hit also, Edward loved naming the Dinosaurs, he is super clever and could name them all. Oscar and Leonardo joined in and they had fun together making ‘’roarrrrr’’ noises. They spoke about putting the dino’s into their tent.
Charlie and Henry could be found inside building, a bridge they told me. The two boys are often found here as they really enjoy anything to do with builders and their vehicles.
Evan and Levi White enjoyed time at the construction site, moving the sand around with diggers.
After play time we joined our teachers in 3 different groups to welcome everyone to school, then we went into small groups to do different learning centre activities.
With Donna we continue learning about spring, this week is about the bee.
With Alejandra, we are learning to count in Spanish. We used the caterpillar and counted to 7, placing different colours and numbers onto his body.
With Liza we are making some yummy ice lollies to enjoy in the sun when we get to hot.
With Katherine, we are starting to learn about the importance of keeping our teeth healthy and clean. Today we used fine motor skills to stick teeth onto our mouths we made. We also used language skills and learnt new words, some today were, gum, enamel and root canal. The children were so focused on this activity.
What a super fun day we had today. We love when the sun is shining.

Happy Monday everyone! On this beautiful day, the Aqua explorers started their day off with relaxing yoga and self-selected activities. With Alejandra, the Explorers stretched and performed some of their favourite animal moves such the crocodile. Meanwhile, other children took interest in the self-selected activities such as pompom collection and outdoor activities. The children refined their fine motor skills by collecting different colour pom poms with containers and tongs. Outside, the Aqua explorers practiced their cognitive experiences through 3D shape making and pretended to dine at the outdoor home corner. The children expressed their creative movement through dancing.

Just before learning centre time, the Aqua explorers were invited to two literacy group times. With Nelson, the explorers revise days of the week through the days of the week song, they also practiced counting and animal recognition through a variety of stories such as ‘who’s driving’, and ‘Goldilocks and the three bears’. With Helena, the children read some of their favourite stories such as ‘Dirty Bertie’ and ‘the very Itchy bear’. They also pretended to be different Australian animals when reading ‘if you are happy and you know it.’

After the story group time, the children requested to look at educator’s book, they chose some of their favourite story and enjoyed looking at the stories by themselves. During Learning centre time, the children made birds with Helena as part of their interest in birds. With paper plate and collage materials, the children expressed their creativity in this experience. With Alejandra the children were introduce to numbers and were encouraged to trace the numbers with different colour textas. Due to hot weather, the children explored ice painting with Liza. Outside with Nelson, the children practiced their crawling, balancing and listening skills with the obstacle course. The children had so much fun today!

The children have had a fun filled day. They have been staying quiet safe and keeping sunscreen on and their hats. We will have new pockets with the children’s faces on them, where they will place their hat inside daily. This will hopefully help to not misplace them.

This morning we had some very little victors, Leonardo’s little brother MoMo,  joined us for a little few minutes and explored some paper with Leo. We were also very lucky and got a visit from James little brother Sammie. The boy’s where so proud to show off their little brothers.

Outside there was lots of fun happening, the children used yellow and green to make a daffodil, using their fine motor skills.

Water play was a big hit today as it was a great way for the children to cool down in this hot weather. They washed the dolls and cleaned all the soap of them. Water play is both enjoyable and educational, it helps develop hand and eye coordination as well as math and science concepts as they fill and empty the cups. It also enhances social skills and encourages cooperation.

Inside the children joined Alejandra on the mat for some yoga. Some of the children played at the kitchen area with Teacher Liza.

Evan tried to chop with the scissors, while Evelyn, Georgia Hope and Sara explored dolls and the bags. They said they were shopping.

At learning centre time some children used motor control to put elastic bands around the toilet rolls, Jack and Luca made their chic and roses with Donna. With Bambi the children made some flowers for the spring garden.

What a fun day we had today.

Welcome back to another wonderful sunny spring day. The children love to be outside playing in the sun, but please make sure your child has a hat with their name printed on it daily, so we can stay sun smart.
The children have being really busy today exploring many activities set up in the outdoor and indoor areas.
Henry, Isla, Saige and Levi sat at a small table together, they used their fine motor to manipulate the small Lego. They build towers, houses and cars and enjoyed the time together building on friendships.
Oscar also enjoyed time with the small Lego’s and cars.
Yoga was a full class this morning. The children relax and calm their bodies in preparation for the day of learning ahead.
Saige brushed up om some mathematics while counting the lids and placing them on the numbers.
Jake, Alexia and Evelyn enjoyed some time in the pit, building many nice cakes with the sand.
At group time with Alejandra the children sang old mc Donald had a farm and used cognitive and Language skills to remember what each animal says.
With Nelson the children read a book about Peppa Pig. They all used good listening skills throughout group times.
After in Learning Centre time, with Donna we continue to learn all about spring, we talk about baby animals being born, different types of flowers and have started to display our wonderful paintings on the wall as we make a spring garden. Please come have a look at my work.
With Kathrine children joined her to work on some puzzles.
While with Sylvia some of the children concentrated on cutting development.
Helena’s group made some amazing Cherrie blossoms for the spring wall.
Nelson’s group used all muscles today, they had to spider crawl over the stepping stones using large and fine motor skills. At the end they had to jump over the cones and aim for the goals.
It was a fun filled day and all children have had a wonderful day!