Archive for category: Emerald

Welcome to another busy and fun week in Emerald!

Today our little ones had the opportunity to enjoy many fun and educational activities.

As usual, we started with dancing. The children enjoyed moving their little bodies along to familiar tunes. They also included props for ‘Wheels on the bus’.

Later, during the learning centre, they were invited to sit on the mat with their peers and teachers to sing and read their favourite books.

Using simple yoga breathing, poses, and relaxation techniques as a part of the children’s daily life, can help plant the seeds for a lifetime of health and wellness. Yoga can support your child’s development in five ways: physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, and cognitively. So, here in nursery we are encouraging our little ones to join in with yoga sessions every day.

As a part of the upcoming Australia Day activities, the children were busy making an Aboriginal flag. They were encouraged to do a collage with red, yellow and black paper.

In the other yard, as a part of Aboriginal culture, the children were enjoying painting with the sticks as well as making patterns in the sand with the sticks.

Our youngest ones were exploring our nursery room, where they were playing with the different toys, poking and rolling playdough, making sandcastles and making sounds with the dinosaurs.

It is so beautiful to see children so engaged in activities as well as having a fun.

PARENTS, CAN YOU HELP US WITH OUR FAMILY WALL?

Please could you send a lovely family photo to burnsbaycottageeelc@gmail.com with a little bit of information about your family’s background and culture for our new Family Wall World Map Display!

We can’t wait to learn more about you!

Many thanks,

The Emerald Team

Happy Thursday! We have had another busy day of learning in the Emerald room 😊

The children have had so much fun using their fine motor skills to scrunch the tissue paper to decorate a turtle today! They enjoyed talking about the different colours they could see as they stuck them down on the turtle’s shell!

We got stuck into our yoga session today! The children were super enthusiastic and excited to set up the mats and help each other with their shoes and socks! We jumped and stretched and moved our bodies with BIG gross motor movements to enhance our physical development.

The children got creative with a water bottle today! They used the bottom of the bottle as a flower stamp. The children decorated their paper with lots of beautiful, yellow flowers.

Bonker’s Beat is a music programme that we implement in the Emerald room and we use musical instruments like shakers, bells and drums to create music and sing along to songs. Today, the children used old formula tins and beaters to drum along to their favourite nursery rhymes!

We have very much enjoyed our day of fun activities and learning 😊

This morning, the children have started with their favourite song and dance, ‘Baby Shark’. The children like to sing and repeat actions after their teacher.

The babies are learning so much about the world around them that it’s hard to sit still! However, they love group time, and they always sit for their favourite song or story. Today during the group time, they had an opportunity to hear many stories such as ‘Where is the Green Sheep?’ and ‘The Very Cranky Bear’. Reading encourages children to make connections between the ‘heard’ word and the meaning ‘behind’ the word. With Cindy we had a chance to hear songs in Mandarin while introducing props with it.

Australia Day is next week so we are continuing with different activities. Today we painted Australian animals. The children had a chance to use different tools such as a sponge, paint brushes and even fingers. 😊

With Afroz, the children were invited to match the cards with different types of animals. Matching games improve language, concentration and memory. To learn new words, we have to remember each sound segment, put them together and remember what they look like for future use.

Playdough! What a beautiful and useful tool. Our little ones helped Bernice to make the playdough and play with it afterwards.  Playdough encourages creativity, develops fine motor skills and promotes playtime.

The children are always benefitting from yoga. Physically, it enhances their flexibility, strength, coordination, and body awareness. In addition, their concentration and sense of calmness and relaxation improves. Doing yoga, children exercise, play, connect more deeply with the inner self, and develop an intimate relationship with the natural world that surrounds them. Yoga brings that marvellous inner light that all children have to the surface. Today, they showed again how much they enjoy in practicing yoga poses. Well done babies! 😊

Later, we explored the sand, added some tools to make it even more fun, played with blocks and spent some time reading the books.

Happy Friday! Today has been a lovely way to end the week 😊 A warm day with lots of fun activities to join in with!

During group time, the children sat down with Afroz, Jasmine and Belma to listen to stories, read books and play games! Everyone wants to be a part of Jasmine’s group time as they love to spend time with her and share meaningful interactions with her!

 

Today, we exercised our gross motor skills in a different way! The children used their gross motor skills to reach up high and post coloured balls through the tube to and watched it come out the other end! The children loved to work out how the balls move and used the balance beam to roll the balls down. Together, we talked about the different colours and expanded our vocabulary too!

The play dough has been a big hit this week and the children have loved to manipulate and mould the dough into different shapes and pretended it was food! We made ice creams, cookies, pizzas and so much more!

We have been doing some shape recognition and shape matching today! The children sat down to look at the different shapes and matched them on the paper. We’ve been talking about circles, triangles, squares and other basic shapes for the children to start to recognise and they can add the words to their growing vocabularies!

We have enjoyed our day with some water play, cooking, sand play and block play 😊

It’s Wednesday! The children have had a lovely day and have enjoyed participating in lots of different activities throughout the day 😊

We like to begin each day with group time! A chance to sit down in a small group and share meaningful conversations and interactions with each other. The children love to read books with their educators and sing songs too!

With Australia Day fast approaching, the children have been learning about animals that are native to Australia and today we talked a lot about kangaroos! The children loved sitting down to join in with a painting activity to decorate a kangaroo!

We have also been learning about our Australian flag! Today the children were given the tools to create their own flags using blue paint, red pieces of paper and white stars!

The children had so much fun playing with our blue playdough today! They used their hands and fingers to mould and manipulate the dough. They explored it by poking, pressing and squeezing it and they enjoyed using different shaped cutters to make shapes!

We gave Marshmallow some lovely cuddles today and talked about the different food that she likes to eat!

What a lovely day! The children have enjoyed showing off their construction skills by building tall towers and digging in the sandpit 😊