Archive for category: Emerald

Thursday is here! We’ve had another busy day in the Emerald room and the children went on a very special adventure!

This morning the children enjoyed their group times with their educators! They enjoyed reading books, singing songs and talking about the incursion they were going on!

The incursion this morning – Wild Homes – was a lovely was to show the children where animals live! The children got to experience a hands on and interactive way of learning! Together we explored the the habitats such as a bear’s cave, cocoon, hollow of a tree, nest, kangaroo’s pouch, snail and turtle’s shells, long wavy grass!

We had such a lovely time!

In preparation for our Royal Tea Party tomorrow … the children have been practicing their fine motor skills by using felt tip pens to decorate a teapot!

We’ve had such a lovely day playing with the phones and keyboards, burying Robyn’s feet in the sand and reading books!

Today we also celebrated Sara’s Birthday! We all enjoyed singing Happy Birthday and sharing your Birthday with you!! Happy Birthday Sara 🙂

Don’t forget to dress up tomorrow and wear your fanciest outfit for our Royal Tea Party!

Tuesday is here and we’ve been busy once again! The children have had a great day playing with each other and participating in lots of activities!

The children enjoyed their group times this morning with their educators! They read so many of their favourite story books and sang lots of nursery rhymes! Singing nursery rhymes is always a lovely way to engage children and encourage speech and language development!

The children had a wonderful yoga session this morning! We used our gross motor skills to stretch our bodies up high to the sky and down low to touch our toes! The girls had lots of fun doing this together, whilst holding hands! We worked on our favourite pose this week … the pig!

Continuing with our ‘Very Hungry Caterpillar’ project, the children loved decorating a leaf with green paper and then sticking on the caterpillar egg, just like in the book!

We also continued making a Zebra from our favourite ‘Cranky Bear’ book!

The decorations for the Queen’s Birthday this Friday are well underway! The children have enjoyed decorating more bunting today by gluing and sticking coloured paper onto their triangles! It’s going to look fantastic!

What a great day we’ve had, playing with trains, toy snakes and building in the sand pit on this chilly day!

See you tomorrow 🙂

Friday is here again and we are at the end of another month! Where has this year gone!?

The children kicked off their day with group time with their educators! We read books and sang songs and the children all listened and participated fantastically! The children have really been enjoying the book ‘Owl Babies’ during group time and always ask to read it together.

Yoga was lots of fun, as always, and the children were great at helping pack the mats away after their session! Today, the children really wanted to show off their jumping and tree poses. What a fun way to engage our big, gross motor movements!

Because the children have been enjoying ‘Owl Babies’ … today we practiced our fine motor skills by playing with a bird house! The children were invited to push coloured pompoms through the small hole on the bird house and put the baby birds back in their nest!

Things got messy with the shaving foam this afternoon! We used the shaving foam in the big sensory tray to draw pictures in … and naturally we got carried away! Shaving foam is so much fun to play with! This type of sensory play is great for fine motor skills and cognitive development!

And the children all helped to clean up when we had finished!

This Friday has been lovely! We’ve built tall towers with wooden blocks and used coloured pens to create beautiful drawings!

Have a fabulous weekend and we’ll see you in June! 🙂

Happy Wednesday from all of us in Emerald! We’ve had another lovely day, with plenty of exciting activities and games to play!

This morning the children enjoyed group times with their educators! We love reading books, singing songs and playing games in the morning. It’s a lovely way to allow the children to feel safe and secure in their community, whilst promoting listening and language skills!

We had a lot of fun together this morning during our yoga session! The children did a fantastic job at showing off the animal poses that they have been learning and today everyone’s favourite pose was the pig in the mud! We all had so much fun being little muddy pigs together in the mud!

We love making collages in Emerald! Today the children made a fantastic collage of a mitten! Coming into the colder months we encourage the children to stay warm by wearing different clothes, like jackets and hats! Using arts and crafts is a great way to help the children understand!

Today the children have been using their fine motor skills to practice their drawing on the clip boards! We enjoyed playing with play dough and reading books!

Thanks for a lovely day 🙂

It’s Monday! Welcome back to the start of a brand-new week! We have all kinds of activities planned and lots of fun to be had!

This morning the children enjoyed participating in group time! We love group time in Emerald room and will have many group times throughout the day. Today we have been reading books, singing songs, talking about the weather and playing games!

It’s been another chilly day today … and what better way to get warmed up than … yoga!! The children are always excited to collect a mat and sit down to take off their shoes! Today we worked on our tree poses and pretended to be slithering snakes on the floor! Yoga is always a fun and energetic way to promote physical development, balance and coordination. Great job everyone!

Today the children made play dough with MeiTing! But not just any play dough … this play dough was green and red, just like the very hungry caterpillar!! Together the children mixed the ingredients needed for play dough and then had a great time using their fine motor skills to roll, poke and squeeze the dough! What fun 🙂

The children have become increasingly interested in the building work in the car park and love to watch the ‘diggers’! Today we added water to make the sand wet and more fun for digging and building castles! The children loved using the diggers in the sand, just like in the car park! We even buried Robyn’s feet!

The children have had a wonderful time today, eating ‘lunch’ in the home corner, playing with the play dough and balancing bean bags on their heads!

Thank you for a lovely start to the week! See you tomorrow 🙂