Archive for category: Emerald

We started our day in the group time with Ting Ting, Jasmine and Afah. In the group time, Emerald children had opportunities to enhance their social skills by interacting with friends and teachers, as well as developed the language skills by singing and naming pictures.

Emerald children made Yoga poses for butterfly, dog, and crocodile in the yoga time. They demonstrated the age-appropriate gross-motor skills when they were doing different poses, jumping, and stretching.

This morning we danced with Afah. The Emerald children enjoyed dancing on ‘hot potato’, ‘walking walking’, ‘twinkle twinkle little star’ and ‘baby shark’. They are becoming confident with their body balance while moving on a dance beat.

During learning centre time, we continued to exted their knowledge on farm animals and winter project. Children showed their interests in painting horse and snowman.  They manipulated the paint brush and created their own masterpiece!

Moreover, we sat up the sensory tray with coloured sand and animals. Children loved to explore the colour sand with their little hands and played the animals and their friends happily!

During the self-select play time, the Emerald children enjoyed the interacting with their friends. They played on the slide, explored the environments, played with the sensory toys, baby dolls, sandpit and magnet toy etc.

It’s Wednesday today! The children have had a lovely day playing together and making beautiful artwork!

We kicked off our Wednesday with group time and learning centre! We love to sit down together with our educators to sing songs and read books. Today we learnt more about Australian animals by using visual aids and coloured counters. The children loved talking to each other about the animals 😊 What a great way to expand our vocabulary!

Yoga time! This was a great session where the children followed along to a yoga song and their educator’s instructions. Together, we warmed up our gross motor skills and meditated in ‘Happy Baby’ pose … Leah’s favourite!

The children had so much fun using their fine motor skills to glue and stick and decorate different animals today! We used coloured paper and feathers to decorate our chickens for the farm, and brown paper to decorate our Emus!

And for our Ocean display, we painted dolphins!

Thank you for a delightful day! 😊

It was a lovely day in the Emerald room!

Today there were lots of intentionally planned activities. To acknowledge the importance of the World Ocean Day, the teachers planned various activities that were related to the ocean, and its creatures.

We started with the yoga and stretching exercise. The children were encouraged to make yoga poses related to the ocean animals such as turtle, moving arms like an octopus, making star (fish) jumps, side walking like crabs and stretching arms above the head to make shark’s fin. It was fun to see how the children were excitedly following the instructions!

This was followed by the group time, where the children had opportunity to look at the pictures of the ocean animals as well as listen to the stories with underwater creatures in it. Such experiences facilitate their vocabulary and helps them learn so much about the world they live in!

After group time, some of the children spent time matching ocean creature figurines to the picture cards. That was fantastic!

Other children got engaged in painting using ball sponges. They adore the texture of the soft sponge and enjoyed interacting with the art materials.

Last but not the least, Jasmine walked around in the yard singing ‘wheels on the bus’ rhyme and some of the children followed her trail. It was so much fun to watch children following Jasmine’s words and do the actions.

Drawing, dancing, singing and playing in the home corner were all time favourites and most of the children enjoyed engaging in those activities.

Happy Wednesday! Today has been so much fun 😊 The children have enjoyed different activities throughout the day and even helped Ekta make more play dough!

This morning, the children read books with Affa and participated in songs and games with Jasmine. The children used the coloured circles as steering wheels to sing ‘The Wheels on the Bus’ and they turned them round and round!

The children have shown an interest in sea animals this week! They had so much fun learning what each animal is called and matching them to the correct paper. What a fun way to learn more about the world around them and develop their vocabulary!

We loved getting messy in the sensory tray! Today, the children explored cotton wool and shaving foam with their hands. Together we talked about the texture being soft and fluffy!

We had so much fun today playing in the sand pit, on the climbing equipment and making play dough! Thanks for a lovely day 😊

It’s Monday again! The start of another fantastic week in the Emerald room and the children have been getting messy with some arts and crafts.

The children settled into group time with Jasmine and Cindy! They love to spend time with their educators in the mornings and particularly enjoy participating in songs, books and games with Jasmine and Cindy! Such a fun way to enhance listening skills and support speech!

Time for yoga with Sandra and Carolina! Everyone had a lovely time shaking off the cobwebs from the weekend and waking up their bodies with some light exercise! During yoga, the children practice their animal poses and stretch their bodies to work on their gross motor skills and balance.

Today, the children experimented with foam and paint to decorate starfish! They dipped their paper into the foam with coloured paint and took it out to see what colours and patterns had been made. We couldn’t resist exploring the foam with our hands either …

It was a busy Monday in the office, so we put our finest team on the phones and emails …

Thanks for such a fun day! 😊