Archive for category: Emerald

Happy Wednesday! Today the children have had a lovely day playing together and participating in lots of activities with their educators!

We love group time! Everyone enjoyed reading books with MeiTing, singing songs with Ekta and everyone loves Jasmine’s group time with her special toys! Group time is a great way to encourage conversation and language!

Yoga!! Our favourite way to exercise and keep healthy! Together we stretch our bodies and work on our gross motor movements to improve coordination and balance. Today the children practiced their downward dog and piggy poses! We like to be little pigs laying in the muddy puddles!

Continuing with our transportation project, the children had a great time painting planes! The children always point at the sky when they can hear a plane flying overhead and they were excited to paint their own using paintbrushes and blue paint!

Last week was Dental Health week and the children have learnt so much about teeth! Today we brushed the animal’s teeth with toothbrushes and ‘toothpaste’ (shaving foam)! This was a very fun activity that helped the children’s understanding of brushing teeth to keep them healthy and clean!

Today has been a wonderful Wednesday! We’ve built tall towers, kicked a ball around and played musical instruments 😊

Happy Monday! Welcome back to another week in the Emerald room 😊 We’ve got some lovely activities planned and look forward to a lovely week!

We love to start off each day with group time! It’s a wonderful part of the day where children can practice their listening skills and participate in stories, singing and conversations with their peers and educators!

Of course we also did yoga this morning! What a great way to warm up on a chilly day! We exercised our gross motor skills with big jumping movements, stretches and animal poses!

Our construction project has expanded based on the children’s interests! We’ve now moved into the wonderful world of transportation … and today we began by painting lovely red cars! The children used their fine motor skills to manipulate the paintbrushes to paint their cars! Well done everyone 😊

We’ve had a great time drawing pictures, tapping wooden blocks with a hammer and playing with the keyboards and phones!

Thanks for a marvelous Monday! 😊

Happy Thursday! We’ve had another sunny day in Emerald and the children have been very busy exploring together!

Of course we started our day with group time and yoga! What a fantastic combination!

Group time is a great way to engage the children in reading books, singing songs and conversation, followed by yoga – a lovely way to encourage a healthy lifestyle through exercise and physical development!

Bonker’s Beat! The children gathered round to join in with our Bonker’s Beat music programme that promotes language, physical and cognitive development through playing musical instruments and singing songs! The children love to beat their homemade drums together!

We have some animals with very clean teeth and minty fresh breath! The children have been working on their teeth brushing skills by practicing on our animal toys! They used toothbrushes and ‘toothpaste’ (shaving foam) to really scrub those teeth clean! Well done everyone 🙂

Today has been so much fun! The children have played with the trains, made cookies in the sand and enjoyed their garden areas outside in the sunshine!

See you tomorrow 🙂

Tuesday has arrived! The school photos are going well, and everyone’s outfits are beautiful!

Today we started our day off with group time! The children enjoyed singing with Ekta, stories with MeiTing and counting teeth with Robyn. Group time is always a fun way to engage the children in language and meaningful interactions!

Yoga was so much fun today! MeiTing led the children in a fabulous yoga session where they exercised their gross motor skills and practiced animal poses! Today the children became snappy crocodiles!

Continuing with our Dental Health Week, the children have been participating in activities that will help them to understand more about teeth and the importance of brushing every day!

The children painted some lovely teeth a bright white colour with paintbrushes and also used toothbrushes to brush some big teeth with ‘toothpaste’ (shaving foam)!

What fun activities to engage children in learning about dental health!

Today has been a wonderful day! The children enjoyed exploring the indoor and outdoor environments – they played in the ‘office’ typing emails and answering phones and drew lots of gorgeous pictures!

Thanks for a great day 😊

Happy Friday everyone! We’ve come to the end of another week in the Emerald room and we’ve had another fabulous day 😊

The children enjoyed reading books with Ekta, playing with Jasmine’s toys and singing lots of songs with Robyn. During these group times, the children are able to practice their listening skills, enhance speech and language and build meaningful relationships with educators and peers!

After group time, the children know it’s time for yoga! They always are extremely helpful and will collect the yoga mats, ready to go! We encourage the children to take off their own shoes and socks too! In today’s yoga session, we focused on our downward dog pose!

Today we have done painting! We used paintbrushes to make wonderful easel paintings – this is a great way to work on gross motor skills

We also used cotton wool to paint with – this is a great way to work on fine motor skills!

What a lovely way to finish off our week! We played with the diggers and dinosaurs in the sand, played with the colourful balls and the horses!

Thanks for a wonderful week, see you on Monday!