Archive for category: Emerald

We are all here ready to learn and play with our babies.

After having breakfast, it was time to dance!! Polly, was waiting to join her friends and show them some new moves! Thanks Polly! 🙂

After dancing and morning tea, it is time to get ready for Group time! Sushmita brought “Old MacDonald Had A Farm” song into a live experience by using puppets… look at our babies, they look so intrigued to see what’s inside that bag! Inside, our lovely Cindy read some stories with our babies. They are really interested in reading new books.

We then got ready for our activities. Between playing with playdough and painting they were all busy. With Sushmita, they were printing animal foot prints. We anmed the different animals, counted their legs and

As usual, our youngest babies got to explore the environment. Fox was so excited practicing his standing, in no time a few of our babies will be walking around! Adaline and Isabella look like they are bonding! 🙂 It is such a delight to see our babies playing together and building connections, it makes their day for sure.

Outside on the deck, the children were busy drawing on the black boards, or playing in the cubby house.

On the playdough table, Stella was using the shape cutters, and showing the young children how to use them!

While our older children were sleeping, our babies were having a lovely time exploring noise making toys and practicing rolling, reaching and crawling.

A lot of fun for all of us today, we are looking forward to see what tomorrow brings for us.

 

Have a lovely evening everyone, see you tomorrow  🙂

Oh, what a cold and frosty day was today? But that wouldn’t stop us to have fun.

We enjoyed our day exploring the indoors and outdoors including dancing.

With Jasmine, we polished our fine motor skills. We placed the pop-sticks into the tin holes. Children love this activity and feel very proud every time their pop-sticks goes into the tin. During this activity, we often name the colours and encourage them to repeat after us.

We also enjoyed playing in the home corner.

During the learning centre time, children enjoyed getting their feet into paint and loved doing feet printing on the cardboard. We named the colours and loved wriggling tiny toes.

Some of us also practiced brushing tooth using a pictre and toy tooth brush.

We practised drawing and mark making whilst polishing fine motor skills.

It was a wondeful day and hope everyone has a lovely weekend.

It was a wonderful start of the day in Emerald today with dancing together.

We danced on our favourite songs that included ‘wheels on the bus’, ‘sleepy bunnies’, ‘if you’re happy and you know it’, as well as ‘everybody clap’. We all warmed up for the day after dancing and moving our little bodies on our favourite music.

This was followed by attending the incursion- Street Sense. It was fun walking to the Crimson yard. We also got to see other parts of our child care. Before we sat for the incursion, we looked at chickens, walked into the big Crimson yard and played in the sand pit.

We then sat for the incursion. It was a fantastic to listen to and watch the story from a presenter who used so many colourful props as well as costumes. Towards teh end of the incursion, we also got to watch some circus tricks such as juggling balls and hoops as well as spinning plates. Some of us tried our hands on spinning the plate on a stick. Oh! that was so much fun!

It is Monday and we are all excited to see our little ones again.

No better way to start the day but to explore and greet friends. Forrest was ready to welcome everyone while playing with Bernice and singing “Row row row your boat”.

After a bit of free play, we all got ready to dance as per our morning routine. Nox and Raphael are great helpers and were helping their teachers to pack away toys and telling everybody it’s “dance time”. We love dancing to “Baby shark”, “Sleeping bunnies”, and “5 little monkeys” amongst others.  It’s such a fun time for everybody and a perfect way to develop their coordination and social skills.

After playing, dancing and having morning tea, we got ready for our traditional group time. Jasmine sang songs and did movements for every single toy! This time is so entertaining for children and is enjoyable. After each song everybody gets a turn with the toys, which help them to understand the concept of waiting for their turn and sharing with their friends.

Everybody is learning to wait so patiently, we are so proud of them!

 

Some children engaged in activities such as drawing and posting sticks with Jasmine. The aim of it was to insert the sticks through a little hole on a lid, which can be a bit of a challenge but is great for fine motor skills and hand eye coordination. Look at Jason, Elise, Chloe and Eli, well done everybody J

Olivia was so curious and engaged in drawing with crayons, she definitely nailed it, look at her master piece 😀  We celebrate every single achievement with children, to encourage them and make them feel proud of themselves and their creations.

Between playing with connectors with Hugh, building blocks, answering phones with Ahaan and making cakes in the sandpit with Ella, Nox, Oliver, Hugo, among others, the day goes by full of fun and learning.

Last but not least, some children had a wonderful time riding cars and bicycles. Hugh, Stella, Nox and Raphael, just to mention some, really enjoyed this time of the day. Once they finished playing, they “parked” their cars and we went off for afternoon tea.

 

Have a wonderful evening everybody, hope we could see you tomorrow again, lots of fun awaits for all of us!

 

Today we started by engaging in small group times. The children shared their ideas without hesitation. They have started responding to the open-ended questions during the group times. It absolutely amazing to see children learning something new each day.  We read our favourite stories, spoke about animals, sounds and place they live.

Exploring indoor and outdoor play spaces was fun and quite a happy moment for our little Emeralds!

Children also had an opportunity to polish their fine motor skills and problem-solving skills by pushing the balls through the holes on the box and getting them out of the box. Well done Emerald!

Our little ones had so much fun exploring. They showed off their sitting and crawling skills.

Also, children enjoyed playing in the sand pit and with the play dough. They are great ways of improving children’s sensory skills.

Wonderful day continued with effective involvement by children. We played with the ball, ride cars in the yard and played hide and seek in the cubby house.